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temporarily until another replacement could be found. Management agreed, and McLoone stepped down from his role as a producer and became an official radio presenter. Although McLoone's tenure as Dunne's replacement was originally intended to last for three months, McLoone became the permanent replacement for Dunne due to the increasing popularity of his own radio show, later named "The Paul McLoone Show" and becoming the permanent replacement for "Pet Sounds". A month after Dunne's official departure from Today FM, McLoone made his own on-air debut as a radio presenter, during
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