The RTÉ Radio 1 presenter on filling Ronan Collins's slot, parenting with Paul Galvin and the music she can’t play
The RTÉ Radio 1 presenter on taking over the slot previously presented by Ronan Collins, parenting with Paul Galvin and the music she can’t playRadio 1′s afternoon music show, she received an eight-page letter from one listener. It contained lists of songs she should play and suggestions about exactly what point in the hour-long show she might play them.
Patrick Freyne’s favourite TV shows of 2024: An Irish national treasure, bickering hitfolk and the best actor of her generationJean-Georges at The Leinster review: A swanky new restaurant already filled with the D4 and south Co Dublin set What does she think of Belfast-based hip-hop artists Kneecap? “I think they’re brilliant.” Would she play them on her show? “Maybe. There are certain artists that I’m graduating towards. I can appreciate artists in my own time that I won’t be able to play on the radio.” Why not? “Because they might be too divisive,” she says, and I can’t help but admire her honesty in tackling that question. She mentions Bambi Thug, the nonbinary singer ofDoomsday Blue.
She talks about how, at the height of her time at Today FM, she had difficulty separating herself from her shows, knowing where “the job ended and I began”. She was always keenly aware of the precariousness of radio, and, when her time at Today FM ended after a stint on maternity leave and a change of management, she was stoic. She had started off with Today FM in the early morning show; then was moved to the lunchtime slot; then, as she puts it, “it was afternoon, evening and out the door.
She turns 40 in a couple of months. “I’m a lot more philosophical about my career now. I mean, I’ll be working for another 25 years, there’ll be ups and downs. There’s no linear path any more. We need to normalise the fact that there will be something different coming maybe every decade, if we can be hopeful about it. And maybe because the decades are adding up, I’m a lot more content with that.”
She was offered fill-in slots on Rising Time and Late Date and The Ronan Collins Show. Eventually, with Collin’s retirement imminent, she was offered the gig to replace the veteran broadcaster. She was thrilled. As Woods put it at the time: “Louise is the first woman to present the lunchtime music programme on RTÉ Radio 1 ... She will bring to it integrity, both as a presenter and with her musical choices.
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