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Donncha Ó'Dúlaing to retire in April

  • 28-03-2015 11:32am
    #1
    Nokia 2630
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20 ✭


    One of RTE Radio 1s longest running shows, Fáilte Isteach ends on april 25th, as Donncha Ó'Dúlaing retires after 50 years on air.


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  • #2
    twinklerunner
    Registered Users Posts: 902 ✭✭✭twinklerunner


    Nokia 2630 wrote: »
    One of RTE Radio 1s longest running shows, Fáilte Isteach ends on april 25th, as Donncha Ó'Dúlaing retires after 50 years on air.

    I didn't know he was still on the radio. I remember Highways and Byways (with a Horslips tune as its title music) from the late 70s or thereabouts.


  • #3
    Oops69
    Registered Users Posts: 5,477 ✭✭✭Oops69


    Donnachas a legend but what will the nuns of the country listen to now ?


  • #4
    conorh91
    Registered Users Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    Oops69 wrote: »
    Donnachas a legend but what will the nuns of the country listen to now ?
    That was my first thought when I heard about Donncha's retirement.

    Why did so many nuns listen to his show? They couldn't get enough of him.

    Hope Donncha has a lovely retirement.

    He was to Charleville what Joe Duffy is to Clontarf.

    Pull out the door after you Donncha and for God's sake turn off the electric fire.


  • #5
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,308 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    twinklerunner wrote: »
    I didn't know he was still on the radio. I remember Highways and Byways (with a Horslips tune as its title music) from the late 70s or thereabouts.

    That was a Donncha program right enough but it was called 'three o one' and the theme tune was 'Flower among them all' by Horslips.

    Here's a video of them playing it in front of a noisy audience, Barry Devlin introduces it and mentions the fact that it was the theme tune to 'three o one'...

    Jump straight to 00:25 (25 seconds) .....

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO8EOZv1HVU


  • #6
    dinny_byrne
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 21 ✭dinny_byrne


    conorh91 wrote: »
    That was my first thought when I heard about Donncha's retirement.

    Why did so many nuns listen to his show? They couldn't get enough of him.

    Hope Donncha has a lovely retirement.

    He was to Charleville what Joe Duffy is to Clontarf.

    Pull out the door after you Donncha and for God's sake turn off the electric fire.

    and think you meant to say ballyfermot rather than clontarf


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  • #7
    John Joe Jones
    Closed Accounts Posts: 297 ✭✭John Joe Jones


    Donnacha recently read out a letter from a listener who wrote that he was happy that RTE gave longwave a reprieve, To which Donnacha said "im glad something around here got a reprieve" So maybe his Retirement isn't voluntary ?


  • #8
    Expunge
    Registered Users Posts: 1,927 ✭✭✭Expunge


    John Joe Jones wrote: »
    Donnacha recently read out a letter from a listener who wrote that he was happy that RTE gave longwave a reprieve, To which Donnacha said "im glad something around here got a reprieve" So maybe his Retirement isn't voluntary ?

    He's had a very, very good run by anyone's standards. Maybe he's jealous of Gay Byrne? Donnacha must be in his eighties?


  • #9
    coylemj
    Registered Users Posts: 25,308 ✭✭✭✭coylemj


    John Joe Jones wrote: »
    Donnacha recently read out a letter from a listener who wrote that he was happy that RTE gave longwave a reprieve, To which Donnacha said "im glad something around here got a reprieve" So maybe his Retirement isn't voluntary ?

    It's a sad fact of life but some people have to be pushed. A recent example of a veteran broadcaster whistling past the graveyard was David Jacobs over on BBC R2. He was given a last slot as a swansong, I listened to it and felt very sad for him and at the same time angry that he was allowed to go out with a programme where the poor guy could barely talk. Despite that, he wrapped up the programme with a defiant 'I'll be back from time to time'. He died four weeks later.

    For their own dignity, someone has to tell them when it's time to hang up the headphones and spare them the ignominy of practically falling down dead in the studio.


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