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He came back from holidays for a day or two and then Derek Davis took over (out of retirement I think), where is the Duffy fellow ?
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I'm wondering that myself. Derek Davies appeared on a midweek day saying that he was standing in for Joe and "theres noone more surprised than myself". I can only surmise it is something personal that has caused this because if it was something else he'd surely have signposted his absence. And you're right he'd only just come back from holidays.
That sounds very begrudging. If he is good at presenting the show and generates the viewers (and therefore the revenue) then he deserves what he gets paid. I think he is excellent at current affairs but useless at interviewing the lighter guests who are doing the circuit to plug their latest film/ album.
Then again I rarely watch the Late Late as the guests are rubbish.
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Purple you probably should be posting this in the other thread ? This thread was set up to ask where Joe Duffy was and not to batter/discuss Pat Kenny !!
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Doh!Purple you probably should be posting this in the other thread ? This thread was set up to ask where Joe Duffy was and not to batter/discuss Pat Kenny !!
If I was a moderator I could just delete the last few posts...
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Ah sure easy to make a mistake between Joe Duffy and Pat Kenny, they both work for RTE and get paid loadsa money, see no difference, easy !!
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Anyone know what the story is ?
I don't know, but ..
- when DD started he made some reference to JD being tired of the bad Summer and heading off to the sun
- JD's kids are around the age where they'll be starting secondary school. So if they haven't already, the 3 of them will have started last week.
- sure if you can bunk off, why wouldn't you
- when DD started he made some reference to JD being tired of the bad Summer and heading off to the sun
- JD's kids are around the age where they'll be starting secondary school. So if they haven't already, the 3 of them will have started last week.
- sure if you can bunk off, why wouldn't you
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But did he not already have summer holidays from RTE and he is usually always back on the radio at the start of Sept.
The same happened last year, Joe came back on the second week of August, then went off for a couple more weeks.
My guess is that he does this so that he can use the week he worked to take off the mid term school week. He'll have an old RTE contract with near teacher style holidays, which they're clamping down on for more recent recruits like Tubridy.
These contracts would have been fine in the old days when "lack of FM broadcasting space and safety considerations" meant only RTE could legally broadcast, now it risks loosing listnership for a popular program to competition.
My guess is that he does this so that he can use the week he worked to take off the mid term school week. He'll have an old RTE contract with near teacher style holidays, which they're clamping down on for more recent recruits like Tubridy.
These contracts would have been fine in the old days when "lack of FM broadcasting space and safety considerations" meant only RTE could legally broadcast, now it risks loosing listnership for a popular program to competition.
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The fact that he went midweek and without announcing he'd be off suggests to me that there is more to this than holidays - family circumstances perhaps. the fact that this has generated this thread as well as one on Boards.ie suggests that it is unusual. I can't remember anything similar on here last year
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Isn't he a contractor now (as are all the big name starts) and not an employee, in which case his old RTE contract would be long gone?