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IT IS SET to be another hot, dry week as Ireland’s extended heatwave continues. There will be some scattered showers, however, with more rain breaking through later on in the week.
Ireland is in the midst of a historic heatwave with record-breaking temperatures and sunshine being a feature of the country over the last few weeks.
According to Met Éireann, today will be mostly dry, with some misty and cloudy periods and even some drizzle in areas early on. This will clear away later with good sunny spells developing.
Top temperatures are set to reach 22 to 26 degrees, but it will be slightly cooler on the coast. Tonight is set to be dry, with some mist developing towards morning and temperatures dropping to between nine and 14 degrees.
Tomorrow will be much the same as today, with cloud forming later and some rain forecast later on in the day.
In general the high pressure that has been dominating the weather will gradually weaken, allowing some showers to break out.
By the weekend, a mix of scattered showers and sunny spells are expected.
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I have found Newstalk and LyricFM great sources od entertainment ans education.
@Injustice Cop: must agree, i find Newstalk a great channel. Majority of shows and hosts are very interesting, entertaining and have fairly balanced views.
If I’m in the car most definitely, but at home the only station I listen to is Absolute 80s or 90s Internet radio from the UK. Irish radio is shocking, just non stop talking
@The Firestarter: yeah I find myself listening to sunshine radio Hertfordshire (no dj or ads after 6) and plays lots of good music. It’s all about the music not the presenter – Ireland radio bosses seem to think that “the personality” is what counts
@The Firestarter: oh sounds great is that on alexa?
@The Firestarter: classic hits is 80s and 90s music all day
@The Firestarter: I enjoy Newstalk in the house, but when I’m driving I use TuneIn and listen to Retro Radio Ireland. Despite it’s name, I think it’s broadcast from Spain. It plays a bizarre range of oldies, akin to What John Clarke used to play on Sunday afternoons on the old Radio Nova in the early 1980s.
@The Firestarter: those Absolute stations are fantastic
@Eileen Hennessy: nova is much better
I stopped listening to the radio after the start of the pandemic as I couldn’t cope with the talking heads interminably going on about cases and numbers, and I haven’t got back into listening to it.
I listen to hear the lies and disinformation from government ministers and the mainstream Media so then I can
@Deadman Walking: You’re probably more into the lies and disinformation you want to believe over on Breitbart and Joe Rogan etc.
Only in the car, I rarely drive now since I moved to Spain, I get about on my electric bike.
@Brianan briananb@hotmail.co.uk: what about a real bike.
@james rowan: Maybe you should walk to work. Save the planet. You’ve heard about the impending environmental crisis?
@John Fagan: my electric bike is less damaging to the environment than an electric car. Would you have spouted the same nonscense if I said I travel by electric car?
@Brianan briananb@hotmail.co.uk: nonsense
@Brianan briananb@hotmail.co.uk: Are you gone for good?
@Pat Barry: Yes.
@Brianan briananb@hotmail.co.uk: I wouldn’t say there’s a lot you miss (although dunno if you’re ex UK or ROI by your email).
@Pat Barry: Dundalk. I have that email years, when I set it up I didn’t know how to get the .com. We had enough of Ireland, we moved to Spain 2nd January. My husband suggested the move last October and I agreed. It was the best decision we ever made.
@Brianan briananb@hotmail.co.uk: Spain has the best car prices in Europe, I was there recently and rented a Fiat 500 Abarth for €78 for a week, super little car, I note these are available as an electric option now.
@Brianan briananb@hotmail.co.uk: Coincidenatlly I do live in Dundalk and aspire to the same!
rte radio 1 and 2 have been taken over by the woke lot of so called journalists ranting about their “issues and opinions”..lyric is left alone thankfully but no doubt they’ll destroy that too.
@William O leary: Like “politically correct” before it, the word “woke” has come to connote the opposite of what it means. Technically, going by the Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition, woke means “aware of and actively attentive to important facts and issues (especially issues of racial and social justice)”, but today we are more likely to see it being used as a stick with which to beat people who aspire to such values, often wielded by those who don’t recognise how un-woke they are, or are proud of the fact.
I’ve started listening a lot more to my local station lately. Mostly in the morning. Relevant stories, people come on who are relatable, and an annoying mid atlantic accent is a rarity.
@brendan hackett: Sefton Delmer?
I listen to hear the lies and disinformation from government ministers and mainstream media so then I can do the opposite to what they pander
@Deadman Walking: ah ye should have listened to yer man Lord Haw Haw during the war … now there was a DJ
@Deadman Walking: What non ‘main stream’ media do you listen to?
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: He gets the “truth” off YouTube.
@Sal Paradise: There’s plenty of actual ‘truth’ on YT tbf. I wonder if it’s simply down to emotional preference as to which particular truths are attractive?
I highly recommend people like Grace Blakely, Daniel Schmachtenberger, Yannis Varoufakis and Gary Stevenson as true voices, of and for the people. Do you though!
@Chutes: Very true….it is what you want to believe as the truth.
Newstalk and LBC London
RTÉ Gold, Capital (UK), Heart (UK) and Virgin (UK). Not a fan of mainstream Irish radio
Lyric FM….John Kelly in the evenings is excellent albeit a bit hit and miss at times. I am partial to a bit of Sunday miscellany while relaxing with a morning coffee.
@Sal Paradise: I was telling a friend that Lyric FM are great. We sat down to eat and Lyric suddenly played some experimental thing that sounded like a pigeon stuck in a fan. It’s always the way when you’re recommending something!
BBC 6 for new music. RTE Gold has a few good shows, as does Lyric FM in the evening. Couldn’t stand listening to cackling ninnies on daytime commercial radio.
THE BEST PICTURES ARE ON RADIO
@RIP: RTE used to have a program of Irish dancing.
On the radio.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: “Take the floor” it was called , presented by Dinjo…… it was great!!!
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: Yea, we could all hear the clickity-click, clickity-clop.
And imagine…
‘Course, it could have been a guy with some sticks hitting a table.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: It was a staple in our house growing up! There again so was radio. We didn’t have a TV then and most others too.
We lived with the radio , no inane pollution of our minds!!
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: ‘Take The Floor’ was a programme of dance music.
@Ollie Fitzpatrick: Ah, yes.
Tolka Row.
The School Around the Corner.
@ItWasLikeThatWhenIGotHere: Still do , it’s called ceili house
@Sean O’Dhubhghaill: 2fm sessions tour!! Used to love the late night live broadcasts
This survey makes me think a gov announcement is on the way on how the licence fee will be collected in future.
@bruce banner: Do you check under your bed every night?
@bruce banner: having Revenue collect it is the obvious answer
Do the opposite to what they pander
Made a spotify playlist a year ago with over 100 hours of songs I like.Best thing I ever did.Will never go back to the radio.Same few awful songs on every station.Annoying mundane talk from annoying d.j.s pretending to have banter.Ads,ads and more ads.Same news word for word every hour.Never again.
Only in the car and the selection is pure muck. It would be great if there was a nationwide 80′s station aswell as a classic rock radio station because 2fm, todayfm and iradio are usually dirt.
@Derek Lyster: plenty on the Internet try absolute 80s brilliant station and no djs
Only the uk stations, good music and old style djs that are not all scripted with fake humour and not ridiculously pc. Ken Bruce On Greatest Hits Radio be my go to morning routine.
I like Radio 1 in the morning up to the one o clock news. It goes off once I hear Joe Duffy come on. Other than that Midwest radio is great entertainment particularly in the mornings. Mad tunes, mad listener requests and general good craic.
Yep,Capitol Gold, great music and no shite DJ’s who think they’re comedians.
Contrast LBC with RTÉ. I don’t ever listen to the radio, seems mostly ads and talking Irish heads. I’d rather they fulfilled their public broadcaster role than mind numbing so called ‘entertainment’! They broadcast to the lowest common denominator! It’s a bloody disgrace and we deserve better.
Joe Duffy is enough to put you off people for life, that not entertainment it’s sensationalism and it disgusts me!!
BBC Radio (decent music, professional presenters and decent guests, and no ads – once you’ve had that, you’ll never go back), or Spotify/Apple Music. I gave up on Irish radio almost a decade ago – the BAI rules mean 7-10 mins of the same news and the same sport every hour, on the hour, book-ended by endless ads, inane chatter and the same 10 songs slotted in between.
Haven’t listened to the wireless in years
A physical radio? No.
Through my phone or via Alexa? Yes.
Archaic poll questioning, like actual radio waves Radio? internet versions of radio i can receive here?
Love listening to the radio. Most of my friends do. I’m beginning to think some people in this country will winge over anything. Moan moan moan. Glass half empty.
I used to listen to phantom fm. after that the slightly worse tx fm. when they stopped I tried liking Nova but just couldn’t. now I only listen to 8 radio online. never to the actual radio unless I’m looking for traffic updates. just can’t hack it.
I use spotify in the car and at home for podcasts and playlists, I want music or a topic that interests me not some DJ rambling on or trying to get me to enter a competition, with premium it’s ad free too which is a big bonus in my book.
Shannonside radio or Midlands 103 are good stations to listen to.
I listened to a match on the radio and burnt my ear
Local radio in the morning as my other half has it on.
I listen to programmes like Pat Kenny and Matt Cooper where there’s a chance you will hear interesting topics being discussed. The only decent music seems to be heard only on Lyric or R na G.
Haven’t listened since Ryan Tubridy left
Newstalk, Today FM for talk shows at home or in the car, and Poweron FM Lanzarote on the phone while out walking for a bit of music.
No matter how technology changes listening to the radio will always remain popular.
WFMU, NTS, DubLab, KPFK, Mixcloud, Soundcloud, its a long list until maybe Lyric (on playback) John Kelly, etc.
A discussion about radio and no one mentions Tipp Midwest Radio? We’re feckin doomed. If you can listen to radio via an app (I like Radio Garden) Try 60 Noth Radio out of the Shetlands and Radio Caroline on of Bradwell on Sea in Uk
Newstalk
Radio 1
Rte Gold
Open Tempo
Only in the car
Rte1- the best for up to date information . And a bit of entertainment too. Otherwise it’s BBCworld service for me.
I think 2FM lost in the market.
Doesn’t give the opportunity to advise what country radio I listen too though… Considering it shows a picture of an Internet radio which I use.. News talk in the car, Radio Berlin at home and Polish channels too along with Norwegian Jazz etc… Irish radio has not got much to offer sadly.. it’s good but not good enough. Same stuff I’ve been listening to since I was born in the 80s
Rte gold and lyric in the morning for me,but thanks to the folks on here for the tip off for other similar stations to gold in the UK!
I enjoy Classic FM while commuting to work in the car for the 80s/90s music along with the humorous chat between the hosts in the mornings.
I’d rather stick me bits in a microwave
Ye every day but not rte pure rubbish run by our so called government
Nope, never. I listen to Spotify
Radio nova one best station s great music. Listening to Music better than staring at screen s .
@martin finnegan: I listen to Nova Classic quite a lot.
Listen to Sunshine or Gold but turn it off for the news..
I listen to mainly podcasts for my news and sport content these days. You get more honest and unfiltered opinions on podcasts. Mainstream radio filter their content too much.
I listen to online radio because what’s available on FM is rubbish
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