Radio needs to remember that internet streaming from all around the globe and iPods et al are real competition. Me? I get sick of the advertisements so listen elsewhere.

Do these figures include “other radio” and by that I mean the BBC? I listen to 6music for most of the day. I walked into a shop in Dublin playing 6music. I’ve been in cabs playing badly tuned in 5live. Plenty of people I know stream BBC radio’s 1/2/4 or listen to it via UPC / freesat / Sky etc. In the border counties it’s easy to pick up ad free radio – so are these numbers credible? Also with regards to RTE’s share outside of Dublin – listened to an hour of RTE R1 the other day and no mention of anywhere other than Dublin was made so it’s no surprise the Tipp FM’s and Highland radio’s clean up!

The quality of Irish radio itself seems to have plummeted drastically in the last few years. Trash radio gets more listeners, but that doesn’t mean it’s good radio.

Doesn’t suprise me…RTE’s formulaic style is worn and tired..they’re seen as a mouth piece for the government and seem to rejoice in spreading bad news. Lost their position years ago and have been treading water since..

Hookey’s listeners increased?!
Well that’s surprising because he’s an absolute dose!!

Hugh – are there not any Stations outside of Dublin City worth mentioning?
Radio Kerry has three times the listenership of all the RTE stations combines in the South West – surely that’s the real story ?

I’m not surprised Newstalk’s “Breakfast” show has lost listeners since Ivan Yates left. The new guy Coleman is just beyond dull.

So it’s true then, many more people are not listening to morning news. Fed up with constant bad news I suppose.

I listen to long wave radio atlantic 252.

Why can’t rte 1 stick to “talk” radio and rte 2 play adult music like bbc2 . 2fm have no youth following worth talking about . We don’t hear any arts on daytime radio , the music on daytime is so bad . Ronan Collins plugging some gig he is involved in spare us from that crap . Surely it’s time for a change .

I listen BBC Radio 1 all day in work because it’s way better than the Irish radio stations. More new music, more banter and no ads. That’s because the BBC use the licence fees the way it was intended.

Glad to see off the ball show increasing, they are a bit annoying but do brilliant interviews. And how’s that cretin ray foley doing? Anyone who listens to that dick singing his own jingles and laughing at his own jokes….words fail me.

Confused, Hooks listenership was reported to be down by 5,000 ? only surprised this amount actually tuned into this dreadful crap, as hard as i have tried, i can make out a word this chap speaks, mumbling, incoherent drible and WTF is this Ingird? As for drivetime, the patronising, arrogant, condesending fill in “Philip Boucher were above the rest of you Hayes” takes the biscuit, then again he has a suitable face for radio. He’s just nasty to listen to, heard a recent article on a house agencies purchase of a ghost estate in Tullow, he asked will the majority of these houses be filled with people on Social Welfare? what kind of question is that to ask, I have a fair idea what he was suggesting, just amazed there was no backlash. Turdbidies increase is a surprise also, another pile of BS.

Clare FM

I like Morning Ireland :D

Got meself a lovely new digital wifi radio so I can listen to UK radio instead of the tripe on the radio here, although I do listen to FM104 every now and then

to be fair, RTE and all their stations are broadcast in every single county in Ireland, how can say a radio station that only broadcasts in Dublin or elsewhere compete numbers-wise when their total audience is smaller?