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<\/a><\/p>\nGiven that both presenters are unavailable to talk to us on the day of this Banter \u2013 both will be at home making their sandwiches and preparing their opening lines when we take to the stage \u2013 we\u2019ve gathered a panel of other interested parties to look at the state of the Irish talk radio nation and the national obsession with people talking about stuff on the wireless. Who\u2019s going to win this much touted match-up? Where\u2019s local radio in all of this? And why do Irish people love talk radio so much?<\/p>\n
The radioheads:\u00a0Miriam O\u2019Callaghan<\/a>\u00a0(RTE Radio One),\u00a0Caroline Clarke<\/a>\u00a0(producer of the Moncrieff show on Newstalk) John Purcell<\/a>\u00a0(chairman of Independent Broadcasters of Ireland, CEO KCLR 96FM and director of Newstalk) and Yvonne Judge<\/a> (broadcaster, \u00a0radio producer with RTE Radio One and 2fm and former editor and deputy head of 2fm). Banter\u2019s Joe Duffy: myself<\/p>\n Radio Ireland takes place on the Leviathan stage at Mindfield at the Electric Picnic<\/a> on Sunday September 1 at 5.30pm.<\/p>\n Big thanks to Mindfield big kahoona\u00a0Naoise Nunn<\/a>\u00a0for the invite.<\/p>\n