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RADIO 1′S CURRENT AFFAIRS shows are the main winners in the most recent JNLR radio listenership statistics, with Morning Ireland, Drivetime, the News at One and Pat Kenny all picking up listeners.
Morning Ireland remains Ireland’s most popular radio show, recorded an average listenership of 449,000 for the twelve months to December 2010 in the new figures published this evening, picking up 23,000 listeners on the most recent figures for the year ending September 2010.
Mary Wilson’s Drivetime picks up 5,000 listeners to boast an average listenership of 234,000 – putting further distance between the show and Today FM’s Matt Cooper, whose Last Word loses 1,000 listeners to sit at 158,000.
Today with Pat Kenny gains 4,000 listeners to stand at 324,000 – reversing a string of moderate losses in Kenny’s listenership – while the News at One gained 2,000 listeners to stand at 335,000.
2fm’s performance is also strong, cementing its status as Ireland’s second-most popular station ahead of Today FM. Ryan Tubridy’s 9am shot boasted an average listenership of 216,000, only 3,000 behind Today FM rival Ray D’Arcy whose programme is an hour longer, and who gains 1,000 listeners.
Today FM’s Ian Dempsey loses 10,000 listeners to stand at 166,000, while The Ray Foley Show stands at 152,000 and Tony Fenton 115,000.
Newstalk’s Breakfast Show has also lost listeners at the expense of RTÉ, falling by 2,000 to 71,000; Tom Dunne, however, gains 2,000 to stand at 73,000.
Damien Kiberd’s Lunchtime show picks up 3,000 listeners to give a new daily average of 64,000, while George Hook’s The Right Hook programme falls by 5,000 to 115,000.
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Glad he making a good recovery remember nobody is perfect
@Chris Whelan: remember the Tuam babies and victims of sexual abuse by ‘religious’ men, always men
@Chris Whelan: some of us are more perfect than others
@Housing Hunger Games: the nuns weren’t innocent in Tuam
@nollaig o cellaigh: influenced by men
@Chris Whelan: So there’s Pope for us all?!
I’m imagining Luigi Carbone by his side – ‘Don Papa’…“You probably don’t even hear it when it happens” ;)
@qffaffaf affrafrfraf: that’s what Nixon said look what happened him!!!
@Chris Whelan: Allah akbur
@Phillip Smyth: I’m actually surprised I said that look at what this maniac is doing now.
@derek long: that is what Lawerence of Arabia said look what happened him.
Amen
@John Paul Long: eamonn
Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone! Great to see so many purer than pure commenters here!!
Always remember… When you point a finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing at yourself!!!
I’m always amazed at the amount of men, women and children that have been slaughtered in the name of religion. I’d wonder is there any such thing as a God no matter what name you call him.
@Jp Cleary: if there is he gave up on humanity a long time ago
@Jp Cleary: let’s take as a hypothèse that religions are litterature taken seriously. Observations reveal that nature is fairly nasty and has many really horrible ways of getting rid of us.
Whether god, the universe, or life itself is good or bad ; is actually a matter of perspective.
Observations also reveal that knowledge should not be shared with pigs. As we have always seen, it ends badly.
The kingdom is within. If one person wakes up and changes, then the universe itself changes !
@Jp Cleary: some people use religion as a tool for bad , some as a tool for good, regardless, people have been killing since the beginning of time, thou shall not kill seems like a very good starting point from my perspective
@offside again: the only easy day was yesterday what do you think tomorrow will bring, when Donald trump says in God we Trust, and God saved him from the assassin, so he would be president and thus he done, I think some evil force saved him because he is not sane.
@Phillip Smyth: some say that man invented the devil because we can’t accept that god created everything both good and evil.
Recognising this demands that we accept personnal responsability for our own behaviour.
And the choices we make.
There are so many possible reasons and explanations for our existence that I’ve lost track of them. From god to aliens, neither of which exclude evolution ; anything is possible !
@Phillip Smyth: amen
@offside again: you cannot invent a devil its not a device that you test on man or beast, its incarnate.
@Phillip Smyth: Everything is within. You could even say that all that is outside is a fabrication of our own invention. Evil is Live spelt backwards.
Hardy out, fair play to him.
Some terrible comments on here,I’m not a believer in religion but as a human being I say the best of luck to this chap
@Jb Walshe: everyone knows now.
Lovely news, our prayers for our Father have been answered
@Mary Linton: have your prayers for the sexually abused by Catholic priests been answered or did you not pray for them?
Hunger Games: Forty-one professional perpetrators, who sexually abused the children with whom they worked, were questioned about the nature of their offending. Some of their demographic information was compared with a sample of non-work-based child abusers to identify any significant differences between the two groups.It was found that the professional perpetrators were more likely to be sexually interested in same-sex children. Of the study group,92.5% said that they were aware of their sexual arousal to children by 21 years old and a further 67.5% said that they had already committed a contact sexual offence against a child by age 21.Perhaps the most interesting findings related to the stated motivation of the professional perpetrators in obtaining their employment working with children.
@thomas molloy: A comparative study of demographic data relating to intra- and extra-familial child sexual abusers and professional perpetrators
Joe Sullivan & Anthony Beech
Great news , my grand uncle met him when was a young man called Jorge Bergoglio training for the priesthood.
@Frank Foley: and?
Great, now we won’t have to listen to the constant blow-by-blow updates every time he takes a breath
Inshallah
@Housing Hunger Games: may jesus bless you in your humble journey
@Electro Box: thank you and may Allah bless you
@Housing Hunger Games: Jesus loves you
@Buster Lawless: thank you is he real
@Housing Hunger Games: how goes the story of prophet peado?
Everybody needs Catholic faith, bring along the bitter anti Catholic multiple accounts Setanta Dermot Blaine, weirdo
@Mr. Biggins: like this to let this Jonny 40 accounts know you hate him. Pedo
@Mr. Biggins: Says the fella promoting the use of artificial contraception in the HRT thread, about as Catholic as Ian Paisley.
@Mr. Biggins: but our Lord & the Holy Father love those too…… As saint Gabriel said ” there are none so blind they cannot see”
@Mr. Biggins: forgive us our sins and bless you and the holy father.
@Buster Lawless: bless all Mohammeds
@Buster Lawless: jaysus Buster, haven’t heard from you in a while. There have been other lads spouting the same shit while you have been away. Everything ok cutie ?
@Mr. Biggins: do you see how many people hate you/mary/buster? Pathetic life, sooo many
Are we just supposed to take God’s word about Satan? The whole story just seems a bit one sided. Like we know the bloke can be biased because he will literally cast you out for eternity if you don’t go along with him. Calling someone a snake might just be the first ever ad hominum attack and everything after that is in the same fallacious vain maybe. I hope the Pope has a nice sleep in his own bed now.
@Darth O’Leary: well there is definitely good and evil, the world is experiencing that now, it’s hard to know which side of the fence to be on, some say they are fighting for their land back and that’s a moral right, both sides commit atrocities for their evil gain, other fanatics do it for God and he’s on their side.Both sides of gods time and memorial land wars are based on religion and died with god on their side.
@Phillip Smyth: God is a great excuse for barbarity alright. Have a nice weekend!
@Darth O’Leary: you to sir and where ever go may (your) God go with you.
@Darth O’Leary: What IF Satan IS the Good Guy? Maybe the religious have it all wrong and have pulled off the greatest scam in the history of the world?
@Mick Hanna: satan doesn’t exist. Our evil is all our own.
@Phillip Smyth: Thanks Philip. I appreciate that. Same to you!
@Mick Hanna: Let’s hear him out is all I’m saying
@offside again: some people are the devil personified and evil.
@Phillip Smyth: thou shall not judge. God works in mysterieus ways. I dislike religion but I respect the search for the meaning of life.
@offside again: Nice vibes going on this thread. Can I get a hail Satan?
Mad he needed to go to hospital what with “god” on his side
Hallelujah!
Amazing what modern medicine can do when you have a team of doctors treating one man. That been said, I do wish Pope Franco a speady recovery and I hope he’s enjoying those sponge baths!
Absolutely milking it at this point, either die or shut up about it
Who actually cares ???
Open up the comments sections on your other news stories…. Then you’ll get proper feedback…. Seriously.. Censorship at its best with you guys ..
@Blue Moon: Snow White is open lol
All the angry atheists up early today ! Must be a horrible life to wake up filled with hate and anger.
Amen
Firstly not a follower of any religion.
Secondly would the journal allow such comments on a Muslim related article? Cowards
Good man Frannie. Suckin’ diesel. Only a week to go to the half marathon but you’ll be grand.
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