Radio review: Breakfast host Ciara Kelly seems to court listeners who once complained about the PC brigade but now prefer to decry the woke mob
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Well, quite. On the face of it, Kelly’s fulminations appear to be aimed at those evolved listeners who once complained about the PC brigade but now prefer to decry the woke mob. To her credit, she good-naturedly stresses it’s only her opinion, adding that, when working as a GP, she didn’t stand on ceremony. “I referred to myself as Ciara to my patients,” she says, “But I wasn’t trying to maintain discipline.
If nothing else, the duo’s various bugbears give the lie to Generation X-ers’ self-image as the chill guys caught between shouty boomers and enraged millennials. Given Coleman’s frequent bickering with Kelly, this characterisation might seem a bit rich, but it speaks of a welcome scepticism of absolutist positions. For all the Newstalk Breakfast pair’s grouching, they’re more pantomime bark than poisonous bite., is for once absent, as they take turns as solo hosts early in the week. But a knockabout air still reigns when Ó hEadhra frames the festive season in oddly antagonistic terms.
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