Who Has The Most Irritating Voice on Irish Radio?
Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008When the news presenter says … and now, Emma McNamara with the business news … I jump up from whatever I’m doing and run to switch off the radio. I can’t listen to that woman’s awful, strangulated fake accent and robotic, monotone, staccato delivery. It ts my brain.
Am I alone in this?
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UPDATE
Right. We’ve had quite a bit of feedback on this so I’m going to give you the nominations so far.
Michael McMullen
Philip I’ll make a bollix of your afternoon Cauley.
Paul Collins
George Hook
Ciaran Mulooley
Éanna Ní Lamhna
Ian Dempsey
Des Cahill
Marian Finucane
Joe Duffy
Ray D’Arcy
Ryle Nugent
Joe O’Connor and his whiney bad rap/poems
Gerry Ryan. Condescending windbag
Pat Kenny, horrible little land grabber
Brenda Donoghue
Brian Carty
The Roadwatch Clones
Who the fuck are they???
John Duggan
Declan Copus
Mark and Caitriona on the Breakfast Shooooooooooow
Ed Myers
Steve Hayes
Paul Prenderville
For stupid fake DJ accents, the entire station.
For the same reasons, all of it.
Stumble it!
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November 25th, 2008
Michael McMullen & John Duggan on Today FM are the male equivalents of Omma MocNomawra
November 25th, 2008
Oh yeah. Mmmmoihhll Mhhhmmhhhmooolllnnn. Forgot about him. Dunno the other fucker.
November 25th, 2008
All the squeaky voiced lads working for spin south west. I don’t listen enough to know their names, just that they ruin the ending of just about everysong they play, sounding like they just swallowed a helium baloon.
November 25th, 2008
John Duggan is another sports reporter with a dreary South Dublin drawl. I can’t listen to either of them.
November 25th, 2008
what about the RTE midlands correspondant? don’t know his name but he makes my ears bleed…
November 25th, 2008
The MOST annoying voice and whingeist, know it fucking all about spiders and every other bloody thing, voice in the history of broadcasting in this and every other universe is that fecking Eanna ni Lamhna (or whatever the silly arrogant cow is called).
Aaaaaaah! been wanting to have that rant for a long time. Thanks, Bock.
November 25th, 2008
Artyeva — That would be Ciaran Mulooley. An awful ape. Now look what you did, reminding me of that fuckin eejit.
November 25th, 2008
I think eanna is great. At least she’s not some d4 poser. I don’t care about spiders either but her accent is kind of relaxing to me, she doesn’t bullshit.
Dont hate someone for being a know it all.
November 25th, 2008
The woman singing in the Garmen ad…
if anyone should get lost..etc
Ian Dempsey..90% of Radio ads by Law must have his Voice in them…he even advertises while he is presenting (listen out for these little mini-ad(libs)..
November 25th, 2008
Bill,
I dont hate her for being a know-all….i hate her for being an arrogant, whingey, irritating, interrupting…..know-all. In fact, she is a multi=tasking, multi-skilled, multi-media……fucking know-all.
Aaaah! This is free therapy! Feelin GOOD
November 25th, 2008
Reach for yer gun , Sheriff, you low-down whingey, irritatin’, interruptin’ no-account hound-dog!
November 25th, 2008
Continuing on the sports presenter theme, special mention must be made of Des Cahill. Not so much that he has an annoying voice, but just that he is such a dreadful broadcaster.
Ciaran Mullooly - whenever I hear him, the word “devastation” comes to mind, only for the way he says it whenever a factory in Athlone or Longford closes down - “Divith-tayyyshin for the workforthe.”
November 26th, 2008
I find Marian Finucane’s voice quite irritating.. or maybe its the way she doesnt finish sentences before starting new ones….
November 26th, 2008
When you say …
Do you mean …? Or maybe it’s just …
November 26th, 2008
Joe Duffy wins the title of most irritating voice and person all round actually!
November 26th, 2008
Dempsey’s voice has always pissed me off. He’s got this tone, especially when he has to plug something, that sounds like he’s doing an impression of what he thinks a DJ should sound like.
(edit - You know what it is? He’s doing Larry Gogan! I bet Larry took him aside back in the day and gave him down-with-the-kids-disc-jockey elocution lessons!)
And Ray D’arcy reads-aloud-like-a-ten-year-old.
November 26th, 2008
I actually tune in to Keearran Mulllooolly for a laugh, he has such a preposterous way of talking - and I’m from Cork!
Speaking of which , anyone who ever had to endure Cork 96 FM’s Steve Hayes would never forget the experience. Unfeasible, strong mid-atlantic accent, with the worst smashey and nicey delivery - loud and way too cheerful. And the others on that station werent much better.
Joe Duffy is really in a different league to these people though. Everything about him makes my skin crawl. A creeping jesus fuck if ever there was one. If I only had one jerry can of petrol ……this is good therapy alright Bock.
November 26th, 2008
What about that prick Ryle Nugent he drives me to BBC/UTV for all rugby matches. Pitched flooded= Ryle ”A lot of moisture on pitch” Bring back Fred Cogley/ Jim Sherwin
November 26th, 2008
RTE (ORE TEEE EEE) newsreader’s pronunciation of Gardai (GOREDEE) really winds me up.
November 26th, 2008
Declan Copous… Copious… Cowpuss???
Putting “th”s Where they shouldn’t be…
And he’s just too “happy” … all the time!
November 26th, 2008
Des Cahill has the ultimate “come back to bed” voice. Gorgeous voice.
Most annoying sound on radio is author Joe O’Connor and his whiney bad rap/poems on Drivetime.
November 26th, 2008
Gerry Ryan. Condescending windbag. Now there’s a real vile lump of shite. I have to lunge for the tuning dial on the radio as soon as that fucker opens his smarmy gob.
November 26th, 2008
God but i can’t stand that pat kenny , horrible little land grabber that he is !
November 26th, 2008
about 1.5 million a year spent on pat kenny and gerry ryan. . . . it’d make you sick.
November 26th, 2008
Boc, I’m so glad you brought up this subject. The worst radio preseneters’ accents have to be on Live 95fm (it should be “Dead 95fm”.
Alright, it’s nice to know what station one is listening to, but to be reminded every 2 two fucking seconds beats all.
“You know you’re listening to live95 because we tell you all the fucking time”
“I’m such and such a presenter”. no, you’re not such and such a fucking “presenter”. “Such and such” is your fucking name (big difference) It reminds me of TV3 news readers. ” your watching tv3 news and I’m Alan Cantwell” or some other fuckin’ ape. Alan Cantwell is his name, but he is not Alan Cantwell. He’s a big loudmouth know it all fuckin’ ape, he also does voice overs in lots of comercials. As for Ray D’arcy?
November 26th, 2008
They are all a shower of talentless cunts. God be with the days of Michaél O Hehir, Charles Mitchell, Maurice O Doherty (who’s epitaph reads “Sorry, I’ll read that again”)….. all well daaaycent.
November 26th, 2008
Any fuckin eejit on Irish Radio (especially local radio) that thinks that an American accent makes them more credible on the radio. I knew a girl years ago that got a job as a radio dj because she was from Australia!! Didn’t count that she was as thick as a bucket of Shite. Also Limerick 95fm late night DJ Paul Prenderville, what a langer.
November 26th, 2008
What about that eejit that gives the weather forecasts on tv3. Reminds me of d’Unbelievables skit years ago.
Mapstew.. talking about putting “th”s in the wrong place I remember an IFA leader telling the nation that “the Government doesn’t know what makes us farmers thick”…
November 26th, 2008
What about Pat K tearing up the most “precious tickets in town” last fri night, then on mon at 10 saying everyone supported him ….eh
November 26th, 2008
Irritating voice. The question is who has the most irritating voice, not who’s the most self-important prick, but I know where you’re coming from.
November 26th, 2008
what about yea yea funky yea/ put your hands in the air like ya just don’t caare, did you forget him bock?
November 26th, 2008
Not sure who you mean, Mr TheLaw. Can you identify this individual?
November 26th, 2008
Philip”I’ll make a bollix of your afternoon” Cauley.Today FM.Fake laugh,the whole works.
November 26th, 2008
If I’m ever unfortunate enough to be in the same room as a radio set with “The Mooney Show” on a cringe can’t be far off . He’s bad enough, and boy is he one fucking awful pain…….but his side-kick, whose full name I don’t know because as soon as she opens her tinkers trap I pull the fuse-board apart if I can’t reach the plug or switch in time. She wins hands down for the Deafen Me Now Award.
So here’s to….Brenda What-the-fucks-her-name….as the loudest, brashest, most highly irritating owner of any voice ever to have graced Irelands airwaves.
November 26th, 2008
Hoof,
I’m in love with you. Already, we agree on something. Will ya marry me?
November 26th, 2008
I have a list
Mark and Katrina on the Breakfast Shooooooooooow what a pair of cunts
That prick who’s on after them Ed Myers. Oh my God, oh my god how the fuck does anyone listen to him.
Paul Prenderville. Although to be fair his shows format is shit. The love letters are hilarious. They musn’t be punctuated because Paul never reads them out coherently.
Those fuckwits with Ray Darcy, they’re terrible. Oh and Ray Darcy himself is so annoying.
That tipperary fucker that does the sports on Today fm with his pidgin Irish. Paul Collins (I had to look it up).
Ian Dempsey is an iritating cunt too.
To be honest I listen to very little radio, If I did I’m sure my list would be longer.
November 26th, 2008
I’d probably agree with Moicheal MoicMoillen being a (the) leading contender with that awful D4 twang.
But special mention has to be given to the elongated nasal tones of RTE’s GAA “correspondent” Brian Carty.
And what’s more he’s a complete tool ..
November 27th, 2008
You mean the fella who talks about the Gee Eeee Aaaaayyy?
November 27th, 2008
don’t be coy now bock, you know his name, in a very roundabout name sounds like dripping penis backwards, yea yea funky yea, lets get into the groove, spin that record baby, ahhh yea and other top class shit like that
November 27th, 2008
Irritating voice?
Who? In. YOUR. oPINion. Has. the. MOST: IRRITATING: VOICE. on IRISH. RAAAAAdio?
Why, GEORGE. HOOK
and
ANNA. NOLAN (bit of a stretch - she turns up on radio too).
They do the same thing: they lard every. single. word. with more emphasis than it can possibly take. He may be a rubby fan and full of horse sense, but I can’t listen to him. She kills me, and in a bad way.
November 27th, 2008
@flamingred
Of course I will, name the day. Saturdays are out though, interfere with my religions: rugby & drink, but a small civil ceremony and a massive piss up can get us around that! Sandwiches optional.
For some reason another major irritant of the airwaves hasn’t yet been mentioned, no particular individuals’ name comes to mind as they probably all went to the same Clone Radio School as that jokeshop 95 Eff Emm mob went to (Tom O’Sullivan excepted).
I give you, in a Rahnd-a-baht way….the ladies of AA Roadwatch.
November 27th, 2008
Hoof — Now you’ve touched on an entire social phenomenon. The Roadwatch Clones.
There’s a PhD in that for some enterprising little swot, but if you like you can have my theory, free gratis.
By the way, I think they say Rain Debate.
November 28th, 2008
They’ve even expanded into Met Eireann in the form of Nuala “Noarth & Sythe” Carey.
November 28th, 2008
Cian Murtagh on Newstalk Sport. He can’t pronounce foreign names for shit and he prefixes every noun with ‘thee’ instead of only before nouns that start with a vowel.E.g., ‘Thee FAI last night announced thee launch of thee new fund etc etc et bloody cetera. Aaaaarrrrgh!!!
November 28th, 2008
Depends on the which Saht-soide DORT Station they were cloned in Bock. Little vagaries in the ock-sint just to throw us off, I’d imagine Rain Debate AA clones would have been produced at either the Kill-oi-knee or DAW-key outlet for instance, while the more common sounding (Mark ll probably) Rahnd-a-baht ones were probably made in the Sandyford factory.
Anyway, I’m all for taking a 5 year thesis on the subject. Which FAS Office do I apply to? Mallow Street or Cape Canaveral?
November 30th, 2008
Spin southwest is a crap radio station. The two on sunday mornings would want to grow a brain between them. They think they are funny but they are not if you want a funny pair on radio tune c103 mon-fri 7-9am.
November 30th, 2008
Ok Hoof it’s a deal,
I’ll make the sangwijes. Hang? Or would you prefer something exotic ……say Oysters.,
We can ask the Mooney show if we can do a guest appearance. See who can whinge, interrupt, screech or irritate in time to the sound of crickets shitting on a cowpat. There is only one slight problem with this idea.
If I once hit Eanna ni whatshername, I KNOW I would NEVER get tired of hitting her!
You will have to wait a couple of weeks as I am off to India tomorrow. I’m done with the Cowboys now bring on the Indians!!!
Yes, two weeks in Goa and further afield. We had a hotel in Mumbai booked for the week after next but in view of recent events decided to change plan.
See you all soon,
FR
January 1st, 2009
SPIN SOUTH WEST IS THE BEST STATION IN IRELAND
ALL OTHER STATIONS ARE SH*T
INCLUDING
RED FM
95(SHITY)FM
CLARE(BOGGER)FM
ALL RTE RADIO STATIONS
January 1st, 2009
Are all the nominations in for this award. How in gods name was David Norris ommitted. Is it because it is humanly impossible to listen long enough to determine what is making that frightful screech. And another one is Twink, and doesn’t.
that guy who does the weather on TV3 have a Radio show or stand-in slot somewhere - I think he does. It’s Martin King I’m told. Is it only an RTE phenomenon? I could have listened to John Peel (god rest him) reading the telephone directory. Now that I think of it Terry Wogan has an obnoxious semi-Brit tone (and manner) about him.
Here is my top 10 (is there a prize for getting these right?)
1. David Norris - by a screech
2. “Moikal” Mac Mullin
3. Eanna ni lamhna
4. Martin King
5. AA roadwatch clones (it sounds more like “rindabite”)
6. Twink
7. Gerry Royan
8. George Hook (but only when he is interviewing certain women)
9. Carol Coleman (newstalk)
10. Pat Kenny.
Now that I think of it why isn’t Ryan Tubridy in there also. I think I’ll put him above George Hook there - but I’m not re-editing my list.