Radio: The new presenters get off to the good start the station needs after the calamity of its biggest stars leaving in a single week
is set to be a triumph. “We all made it in on day two,” Aisling Bonner boasts on Tuesday morning, marvelling at the landmark that she and her cohosts,
It’s a decent snapshot of the dynamic already taking shape among the trio. Bonner – recruited from the Dublin station Spin1038 – acts as the merrily provocative newbie, Purcell casts herself as a “dry shite” and Mullan, a veteran of the 2FM morning shift since 2021, plays the irreverent joker.
But a pleasing curveball rescues the lame premise. After one caller graphically describes scenes of calving in his farmyard barn, Purcell recounts how, as a child growing up on a horse farm, she had to single-handedly help a mare give birth to a foal. Mullan sounds humbled: he meekly recalls fainting when his wife got an epidural during childbirth.
“The wheels have come off the bus and it’s only day three,” their 2FM colleague Laura Fox comments, witnessing the trio’s helpless mirth. But, on the vibrant evidence so far, Mullan, Purcell and Bonner should be rolling on for some time yet. But, judging by the evidence so far, it mightn’t be a rapid turnaround in fortunes. Though the star of the show, Garrihy is accompanied throughout by her wingpeople Taran O’Sullivan and Hugh Carr, the better to maintain patter and merriment over three hours of airtime. In contrast to the 2FM Breakfast crew, the host and her new companions haven’t quite gelled in their time together. If they sound suitably enthusiastic, their rapport sounds uncertain and hesitant at times.
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