Schedule
Today FM airs a mixture of popular music and news and current affairs programming. The station broadcasts 24-hours a day; however, from around 0200 until 0500 on weekdays and 0100 until 0600/0700 on weekends, the station just broadcasts back-to-back music overnight with no presenters or programmes. This is done by many Irish radio stations, usually to save costs in employing overnight presenters and technicians.
The flagship current affairs programme on Today FM is The Last Word, currently presented (most of the time anyway) by Matt Cooper. The latest JNLR figures revealed that this programme enjoyed a listenership of 215,000, over-taking rival Drivetime on RTÉ Radio 1 for the first time ever. The Last Word is precded from Monday until Thursday by Tony Fenton's self-titled afternoon show and followed by Paul McLoone's self-titled evening music programme.
Of note is the station's satirical slot, Gift Grub, a feature broadcast during The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show (presented by Ian Dempsey from 0700 until 0900 each weekday morning), which is performed by Mario Rosenstock and includes popular caricatures of former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, politician Joan Burton and singers Daniel O'Donnell and Keith Duffy. The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show is followed by the "Two Rays": D'Arcy and Foley, both of whom have each won three Meteor Music Awards. The Ray D'Arcy Show has more listeners than its RTÉ rivals as of 2011. Ray Foley is originally from rural County Mayo, a NUTS Level III region in the West of Ireland, and his presence is particularly novel at a Dublin radio station.
Some other less important, but nonetheless worth mentioning, DJs at the station include Phil Cawley, KC, Dave Couse (also the singer with A House), Donal Dineen, Derek Flood and Tim Kelly. Bob Conway is a "swing jock". Declan Meehan and Martin King are two weekend-only presenters, with Declan Meehan having been involved with the station from its inception.
Former presenters of Radio Ireland/Today FM include Philip Boucher-Hayes, Mark Byrne, Mark Cagney, Enda Caldwell, Breffni Clack, Alison Curtis (The Last Splash and The Alison Curtis Show featuring Mister Ed Smith), Tom Dunne (Pet Sounds), Eamon Dunphy (original presenter of The Last Word), Bob Gallico, Tommy Greene, Anne-Marie Hourihan (originally Eamon Dunphy's co-host), Bill Hughes, Robbie Irwin (weekend sports programs presenter), Mark Kavanagh (dance show), Ann Marie Kelly, John Kelly, Stephen Keogh, Tracey Lee, Nails Mahoney (briefly), Marty Miller (now rockin' out on Radio Nova 100FM) the late Dermot Morgan, Paddy Murray and Liam Mackey (Murray and Mackey), Ian Noctor (newsreader who also for a period presented Dad Rock) Ed Myers, Paul Power, Ita Ryan (The Celtic Reel), John Ryan (original presenter of The Sunday Supplement), Donal Scannell, Jon Troy (Between The Sheets - love songs), and Karl Tsigdinos (The River of Soul).
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