RTE Weather Presenters of the past

force eleven

Was in conversation the other day, and the odd subject of long gone from our screens weather presenters on RTE came up.

I can remember when the presenter had a white pointer stick and 2 manually drawn charts to use a reference to present the weather

Does anyone remember Paddy McHugh and Michael Gilligan for instance? I guess they are long since retired now.

And there were others, some now only on the radio like Micheal Cleary and Gerry Scully.

I'm trying to remember some more - and who was the first female weather presenter on RTE ?:)

Thoughts and rememberances please :rolleyes:

Danno

Evelyn Cusack was the first, or Jean Byrne...?

Snowbie

Dr Aidan McNulty. I remember him around the 1982 January snowstorm but he fizzled himself out of presenting in the early '90s after doing the Live at 3 with Derek Davis saying about heavy snow just off the coast moving into the Dublin area soon.

And soon it was,it pelted down in a blizzard on the thursday 7th feb 91, and for sat 9th was just brillo with 6 inches in calm conditions ,the flakes where huge and the size of saurcers.He kinda pettered out after that in the following years.

His mate was my Maths and Science teacher in early seconday school, and got i to meet Aidan a few times. Nice bloke but i think he is a director in the met today.?

Evelyn Cusak is there a long while too.

Paddy.1

Yeah I met Michael Cleary once in a nightclub in Tuam, the town he is from.
A really quite, gentle fella. Can't say I remember the forecaster's mentioned above. One of the classic statements I remember is from Jean Byrne when she was doing a forecast on TV a few years ago. She was forecasing heavy, thundery showers and came out with this gem "hopefully they will stay in the west".

I never quite got over that...:)

squonk

Pretty sure Evelyn was the first lady presenter. The only one I remember going back is Dr. Nulty, he and, of course, Gerard Fleming.

nacho libre

Dr Aidan McNulty, i always associated him with good forecasts- anytime we had a decent amount of snow he was the bearer of the good news!!

CrowdedHouse

squonk wrote: »

Pretty sure Evelyn was the first lady presenter. The only one I remember going back is Dr. Nulty, he and, of course, Gerard Fleming.

Was Joan Blackburn not the first ?

I also seem to recall a tall giggley woman.

I went to college many many years ago with Vincent O'Shea,he was on TV for a couple of years but now only does radio.

democrates

Can anyone remember the guy who's hair was way up on his head, I think he was with RTE in the 70's?

Jpmarn

Vincent O'Shea still presents the weather on TV. He is good to explain the sability of the atmosphere especially when thunder is forecasted.

Redsunset

Caption Meteorologist Evelyn Murphy (1983) Personalities/Groups Murphy, Evelyn
Description Meteorologist Evelyn Murphy works on a weather chart in Met Éireann's headquarters in Glasnevin, Dublin, in June 1983. A still from this shoot was published in a very brief article in the RTÉ Guide of 17 June 1983. Evelyn Murphy was the first woman to forecast the weather on RTÉ Television.
Met Éireann is the Irish National Meteorological Service. Collection RTÉ Guide Photographer Holmes, Eve Date of photograph 01/Jun/1983

Deep Easterly

Paddy.1 wrote: »

Yeah I met Michael Cleary once in a nightclub in Tuam, the town he is from.
A really quite, gentle fella. Can't say I remember the forecaster's mentioned above. One of the classic statements I remember is from Jean Byrne when she was doing a forecast on TV a few years ago. She was forecasing heavy, thundery showers and came out with this gem "hopefully they will stay in the west".

I never quite got over that...:)

My old persona! . Might start using it again!

force eleven

CrowdedHouse wrote: »

Was Joan Blackburn not the first ?

I also seem to recall a tall giggley woman.

I went to college many many years ago with Vincent O'Shea,he was on TV for a couple of years but now only does radio.

Tall giggly woman must have been the aforementioned Evelyn Murphy - from what I remember.

I remember that back before 1988, they used to have manual charts and use a stick to show the synoptics. 2 charts, one for current and one for the next day. And I can only remember one forecast a day on RTE - after the nine o clock news...though I could be wrong about that.

Su Campu

I remember John Doyle from the 80s. He gave me a tour of the Glasnevin Headquarters after school one day.

nacho libre

Is Paddy McHugh still alive? Was John Doyle the genial- looking guy with glasses? also what happened to Jerry Scully? so many questions:pac:

JanuarySnowstor

Yes I remember them all too John Doyle, Evelyn Murphy.
She was quite young whatever happened her and yes she was very giggly.
It looks like winking Ger Fleming has disappeared too of late.
Michael Cleary was/is also a great forecaster, in fact the best of them are confined to radio - why i dunno?
As for Aiden Nulty, he was the best ever and it's a shame that he doesn't get tv coverage.

By the way I remember the white stick too, they were the days

Redsunset

A very young Jean Byrne in 1981




Meteorologist Jean Byrne (1981), Jean
Description Jean Byrne, a Meteorological Officer with Met Éireann, plotting weather changes on a map in Met Éireann's headquarters in Glasnevin, Dublin, in February 1981

Deep Easterly

nacho libre wrote: »

Is Paddy McHugh still alive? Was John Doyle the genial- looking guy with glasses? also what happened to Jerry Scully? so many questions:pac:

I don't remember the McHugh or Doyle lads, but I do vaguely recall Gerry Scully presenting the weather. He was quite intense looking if I remember correctly, but he had a nice voice.

Redsunset

Meteorologist Paddy McHugh (1986) Personalities/Groups McHugh, Paddy
Description Former RTÉ weather forecaster and Senior Meteorologist with Met Éireann Paddy McHugh, preparing to deliver the forecast in RTÉ Television's Studio 3, in July 1986. He is standing in front of boards on which weather charts are displayed, holding a pointer in his hands. He is looking into a television camera which occupies the left foreground of shot

Deep Easterly

redsunset wrote: »

Meteorologist Paddy McHugh (1986) Personalities/Groups McHugh, Paddy
Description Former RTÉ weather forecaster and Senior Meteorologist with Met Éireann Paddy McHugh, preparing to deliver the forecast in RTÉ Television's Studio 3, in July 1986. He is standing in front of boards on which weather charts are displayed, holding a pointer in his hands. He is looking into a television camera which occupies the left foreground of shot

I see the distinctive map of Ireland the met uses with temp balls and arrows was around in that day too!

Redsunset

These are all from the RTE archive website,

https://stillslibrary.rte.ie/indexplus/result.html?%24+with+rte_occupations_th_h+from+1.ZZZX%404%3F+to+1.ZZZX%404%3F~=.&_IXACTION_=query&_IXFIRST_=1&_IXSPFX_=templates%2Fb&_IXFPFX_=templates%2Ft&with+image_sort=.


Scully and Doyle and more are there too

DOCARCH

redsunset wrote: »

Meteorologist Jean Byrne (1981)

How old is Jean! :eek: All I'll say is she looks very well for her age!

Speak Now

DOCARCH wrote: »

How old is Jean! :eek: All I'll say is she looks very well for her age!

Always assumed she was around the 50 mark, that 29 year old pic would make it about right.

K-9

I'd forgotten about the little TV screen ones.

fryup

aaah brings back memories,

the map and the skinny stick, oh we were so simple back in those days

who was that culchie guy with the glasses and the sly smile back in those days

Speak Now

fryup wrote: »

aaah brings back memories,

the map and the skinny stick, oh we were so simple back in those days

who was that culchie guy with the glasses and the sly smile back in those days

I guess you mean John Doyle.

piuswal

Evelyn Murphy was the first female TV Broadcast Meteorologist.

Gerry Fleming has become Head of Forecasting in Met Eireann and hence no longer in operational forecasting.

DOCARCH

Jean Byrne on RTE Radio 1 now.

ian_m

Forecasting a bad hair-do wasn't easy back then. :pac:

shoegirl

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Always assumed she was around the 50 mark, that 29 year old pic would make it about right.

Indeed! She does look very young in that photo - barely 18 or 19 and certainly not more than 20. The country shirt and dungarees are well - no indication of her later shift to a more fashionable style!!

shoegirl

...although on 2nd thoughts 1981 was the height of the Dexy midnight runners dirty dungarees brigade - no doubt she was too much of a lady for a bit of oul dirt.

Ally Dick

ian_m wrote: »

Forecasting a bad hair-do wasn't easy back then. :pac:

She was a bit of a fox in her day, I have to say

spurious

I remember both Paddy McHugh and Michael Gilligan. I was at school with both thier daughters.

danslevent

Anyone see the RTE weather report at seven? The presenter looked like she was in a biking outfit or something

Kippure

danslevent wrote: »

Anyone see the RTE weather report at seven? The presenter looked like she was in a biking outfit or something

Respect;)

jd

danslevent wrote: »

Anyone see the RTE weather report at seven? The presenter looked like she was in a biking outfit or something

nacho libre

What a great humanist Jean is!

jd

And now in white for the summer...




Volcanic upper levels, jeburs!

Loveless

redsunset wrote: »

A very young Jean Byrne in 1981




Meteorologist Jean Byrne (1981)

She reminds me of a young Caroline Morahan........

danslevent

Haha! I haven't gone on this in awhile. I have to say, I prefer the white version of the biker outfit, but the black does have a more biker feel to it.

Big Tone

BTW what happened to "winking" weatheman Gerard Fleming and his colleague John Eagleton...haven't seen them doing the RTE TV weather forecast in many many months!

Have RTE replaced them?

Speak Now

Big Tone wrote: »

BTW what happened to "winking" weatheman Gerard Fleming and his colleague John Eagleton...haven't seen them doing the RTE TV weather forecast in many many months!

Have RTE replaced them?

Gerard is now Head of Forecasting in Met Éireann so you now only see him on TV when he's being interviewed on a big weather event.

The eagle has quit the TV work to spend more time on his meteorological work at Met Eireann.

Big Tone

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

Gerard is now Head of Forecasting in Met Éireann so you now only see him on TV when he's being interviewed on a big weather event.

The eagle has quit the TV work to spend more time on his meteorological work at Met Eireann.

Interesting, thanks for that Jerry, very rapid response too!

I thought both those guys were very good at presenting and knew their stuff, must be a daunting job though presenting the weather on RTE TV, bet they both dont miss it. But I feel some of the new crop are not so good, there's a couple of girls there who usually have scant and bare looking graphics....

Aidan Nulty is another guy who's been missing a lot from the TV screens, has Gerard replaced him in ME?

jd

Gerry gave the forecast a few weeks ago - I think it was when the Tall Ships were in Waterford (he still lives in Wexford)

JanuarySnowstor

Big Tone wrote: »

Interesting, thanks for that Jerry, very rapid response too!

I thought both those guys were very good at presenting and knew their stuff, must be a daunting job though presenting the weather on RTE TV, bet they both dont miss it. But I feel some of the new crop are not so good, there's a couple of girls there who usually have scant and bare looking graphics....

Aidan Nulty is another guy who's been missing a lot from the TV screens, has Gerard replaced him in ME?

Aidan Nulty retired, I think around December last year
Gerald replaced him

inabina

Eagle was on Radio 1 17.57 forecast this evening in fine fettle....miss him dearly on the tele

nacho libre

Speaking of past presenters, Gerald Fleming was on the radio at few minutes ago. Talking about the history of Met Eireann.

He mentioned during the course of a very interesting interview that Paddy McHugh is still alive!

Deep Easterly

News report coming up on the 6 one news on the 75th Anniversary of Met Eireann.

Jackanackanory

Vere Wynn Jones - another blast from the past. Fondly known as Very Windy Jones

nacho libre

Jackanackanory wrote: »

Vere Wynn Jones - another blast from the past. Fondly known as Very Windy Jones

He died four or five year ago. He had a great voice for TV.

Speak Now

Jackanackanory wrote: »

Vere Wynn Jones - another blast from the past. Fondly known as Very Windy Jones

I never knew Vere Wynne Jones presented the weather.

dexter647

Jerry Seinfeld wrote: »

I never knew Vere Wynne Jones presented the weather.

Yea just a news reader as far as i was aware. Didn't realise he had passed either..Rip