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What if Ian Dempsey had stayed with RTÉ?

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  • #32
    Ash.J.Williams
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    Ian dempsey and gift grub was a real game changer, celtic tiger , pre 9/11 , great craic



  • #33
    Tork
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    If Ian hadn't left RTE, I think he'd have ended up on Radio 1. He has been a household name since the 1980s and is a safe pair of hands. If timelines had been different, I could see him presenting that lunchtime show Louise Duffy has now, or John Creedon's evening one. Or maybe he could even have ended up with what's now the Ray D'Arcy show. I don't remember him ever presenting a magazine show but I think it'd be a nice change from the forced fun breakfast radio he has been doing forever. And god knows, he'd have to be better than D'Arcy.

    As things are now, moving to Today FM was a terrific move for his long-term career. I doubt that was in anybody's thinking back in 1998. Since then, 2FM has moved on everyone who was there in Ian's time. I don't think he'd have been any different, though he could've survived as long as Dave Fanning. Because he was proactively poached by Today FM when they were relaunching, he became one of the biggest names on the station. He has featured prominently in their advertising ever since. Their big-name presenters are older than the 2FM ones, so he's in a good place.



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