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Radio presenters real name thread

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    #32
    Birneybau
    Registered Users Posts: 10,230 ✭✭✭✭Birneybau


    Joe Duffy-Joseph Duffy.


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    #33
    Trick of the Tail
    Registered Users Posts: 1,319 ✭✭✭Trick of the Tail


    Ha, Batman Gomez! Marvellous!

    Bring back those days!


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    #34
    colinod0806
    Closed Accounts Posts: 614 ✭✭✭colinod0806


    Trick of the Tail wrote: »
    Ha, Batman Gomez! Marvellous!

    Bring back those days!

    What am I missing here?


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    #35
    Fuzzy Clam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    I am assured that my old radio friends, Ulick McGee and Nick McGuinness are indeed their real names. They may have been one and the same person though.....


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    #36
    hufpc8w3adnk65
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,158 ✭✭✭✭hufpc8w3adnk65


    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    Also: Dickie Bow, Wayne Scales, Nails Mahoney, Cliff Walker, Jo King, Batman Gomez, Hollywood Haze, Cousin Brucie and not forgetting Rick O'Shea. It should be pointed out that over the years it also had relatively normal deejay-sounding names too!

    Q102's Gerry Stevens is a brother of former radio presenter Barry Lang. I would hazard a guess that his real name is Gerry Lang!

    Hollywood haze is like Steve Hayes alter ego after turning heel ha ha


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    #37
    Patty O Furniture
    Registered Users Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭Patty O Furniture


    Radio5 wrote: »
    John Blake on pirate radio in Cork long time ago - now better known as his real name, John Creedon.

    I never knew for ages, that he done the voice of Terence the Hairdresser on GerryRyan's show :)
    total former wrote: »
    The Atlantic 252 schedule was hilarious. Dusty Rhodes, Robin Banks, Sandy Beech...

    Totally hilarious craic they were, i even remember Dusty one time saying one time playing a track & dedicating it to his mum in Dublin.


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    #38
    thesandeman
    Registered Users Posts: 9,955 ✭✭✭thesandeman


    Birneybau wrote: »
    Joe Duffy-Joseph Duffy.

    Nah!
    Joe Duffy-Ray Darcy
    and
    Ray Darcy-Joe Duffy




    Seems like it these days anyway.


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    #39
    radioland
    Closed Accounts Posts: 103 ✭✭radioland


    Robin Banks & Marty McFly Atlantic 252 are in fact Christian (Chris) Richardson and Jim Sweney


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    #40
    fussyonion
    Registered Users Posts: 7,818 ✭✭✭fussyonion


    Declan A Walsh wrote: »
    Also: Dickie Bow, Wayne Scales, Nails Mahoney, Cliff Walker, Jo King, Batman Gomez, Hollywood Haze, Cousin Brucie and not forgetting Rick O'Shea. It should be pointed out that over the years it also had relatively normal deejay-sounding names too!

    Q102's Gerry Stevens is a brother of former radio presenter Barry Lang. I would hazard a guess that his real name is Gerry Lang!

    Real name Gavin McKenna.


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    #41
    Greenman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭Greenman


    Jason Maine = Pat Long


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    #42
    ONE THOUGHT PER LINK
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    Greenman wrote: »
    Jason Maine = Pat Long

    The Boy Jase before becoming a radio legend was a postman! So for a time he was actually Postman Pat!


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    #43
    Greenman
    Registered Users Posts: 2,962 ✭✭✭Greenman


    I stand corrected.


    Was Marty Hall = Marty Whelen?


    Declan Matthews = Declan Meehan.


    I know Tony Garret = Gareth O Callaghan, the former being a real DJ's name with jingles etc.


    Paul Nicholas = Andy Ruane, not a fan BTW.


    Alan Hilton = Mark Bolan


    Does anyone remember???


    Was Kevin Barret really Kevin Barret?


    What what DJ Lee's name?


    Very interesting thread.


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    #44
    Fuzzy Clam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,293 ✭✭✭Fuzzy Clam


    Greenman wrote: »


    What what DJ Lee's name?

    Liam Tuohy.

    See Titanic cast list on Imdb.


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    #45
    Trebor176
    Registered Users Posts: 3,409 ✭✭✭Trebor176


    Nails Mahoney = Brian McColl.


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    #46
    chilloutrelax
    Registered Users Posts: 268 ✭✭chilloutrelax


    Andy Preston = Ian Moore (I think)


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    #47
    Max Headroom
    Registered Users Posts: 7,101 ✭✭✭Max Headroom


    Terry Wogan= Sir Terry Wogan.....:rolleyes:


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    #48
    Bard
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    Trebor176 wrote: »
    Nails Mahoney = Brian McColl.

    Brian McColl isn't his real name either!


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    #49
    Tommy Kelly
    Closed Accounts Posts: 416 ✭✭Tommy Kelly


    Niall Boylan - Anto Ward a brother of the duo Deco & Beyonce who appeared on Irelands got Talent years ago.


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    #50
    Trebor176
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    Bard wrote: »
    Brian McColl isn't his real name either!

    Really? I never knew that. You learn something new everyday, as they say :)


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    #51
    [Deleted User]
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    Matt Dempsy=Matt Flanagan..Dickie Bow from Atlantic 252= Mark Whelan,limericks live 95 breakfast presenter.


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    #52
    Blaise Bambury
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 7 ✭Blaise Bambury


    Fred Swanson wrote: »
    This post has been deleted.

    Might also be for ..ahem...tax avoidance issues ..though probably not !


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    #53
    TheLonelyOne
    Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭TheLonelyOne


    worried parent Marie wrote: »
    Rick O'shea - Paul Crossan, Chris Barry - Ciaran Gaffney, Colm Hayes - Colm Caffery. Larry Gogan - Lorcan Gogan, Ruth Scott- Mary McDonagh, Simon Young - Thomas Meade, Martin King - Martin Boyle, Nikki Hayes- Eimear O' Keeffe, Bob Conway - Martin Cullinan. Dusty Rhodes-Ivan Nolan.

    Am I the only person on here who finds this somewhat an invasion of privacy?


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    #54
    conorh91
    Registered Users Posts: 3,328 ✭✭✭conorh91


    TheLonelyOne wrote: »
    Am I the only person on here who finds this somewhat an invasion of privacy?
    I'd feel the same if my name were Mary McDonagh… Poor Ruth!

    In fairness, if their names are published here, I'd imagine they're already in the public domain.

    Plus, this is a small island, after all. Changing your name will probably draw even more attention to it.


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    #55
    Yuri Checkov
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭Yuri Checkov


    I am sure the tax man/Social welfare is taking notes.

    As for an invasion of privacy, if these people have nothing to hide then why are they using false names?


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    #56
    TheLonelyOne
    Registered Users Posts: 141 ✭✭TheLonelyOne


    Yuri Checkov wrote: »
    I am sure the tax man/Social welfare is taking notes.

    As for an invasion of privacy, if these people have nothing to hide then why are they using false names?

    I am sure they would like to have their privacy when they are finished tthe workday. Especially when it comes to doing normal run of the mill, everyday things... Like sitting in a doctors surgery and having the comfort of being like everyone else in the room and not in the public eye.

    If these presenters choose to use false names, why is it anyone elses business?


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    #57
    real rocker
    Registered Users Posts: 640 ✭✭✭real rocker


    TheLonelyOne wrote: »
    I am sure they would like to have their privacy when they are finished tthe workday. Especially when it comes to doing normal run of the mill, everyday things... Like sitting in a doctors surgery and having the comfort of being like everyone else in the room and not in the public eye.

    If these presenters choose to use false names, why is it anyone elses business?

    The Lonely One is correct in regard to it being the business of the presenters as to the name used. In some cases of course names were assigned by the original radio serviced they were engaged by meaning that a change to another name would have made their previous work pretty anonymous. Other name changers probably figured that a name change brought increased coolness to their craft. Horses for courses.


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    #58
    Patty O Furniture
    Registered Users Posts: 5,133 ✭✭✭Patty O Furniture


    I'd say for official use, probably used their own names, like passports i assume & going to the doctors?


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    #59
    A Teddy bear
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28 ✭A Teddy bear


    I recently found out on Facebook that Tim Kelly's real name is Brendan Dowling 😳😳😳


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    #60
    DUBLINBUSGUY
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    chilloutrelax wrote: »
    Andy Preston = Ian Moore (I think)

    I think he's actually Andy Preston.


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    #61
    California Dreamer
    Registered Users Posts: 2,511 ✭✭✭California Dreamer


    DUBLINBUSGUY wrote: »
    I think he's actually Andy Preston.

    He’s not!


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