Most obscure TodayFM DJ (post 1998 rebrand only)

Micheal Varadkar

A thread just like the 2fm one but on Today FM. I am excluding the Radio Ireland era because 99% of that entire schedule would be obscure. My picks are "AK" a Galway man with a made up? Jamaican accent who did Saturday night 11pm to 2am around 2003, very very hard to find any information on this individual, was he even real? My second more recent pick is Doireann Garrihy, obviously very well known now as 2fm breakfast co-host but I think it's forgotten that she filled in for the premier League on Saturday afternoon on Today FM before joining 2fm.

its_steve116

Jessica de Burca is the most obscure one I can think of.

Declan A Walsh

Music journalist and former LMFM presenter Tony Clayton Lea presented a rock show mid-mornings Saturdays for one summer. I think it might have been a U2 special, but the memory fails me on that!

Stephen Keogh, later to be associated particularly with KFM, used to be a presenter on Today FM.

GSF

Enda Caldwell

RINO87

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121305692#Comment_121305692

"Creid é, nó ná chreid é"

Declan A Walsh

Obscure in relation to Today FM: Jim McCabe - he did a few fillers.

Enda Caldwell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121306113#Comment_121306113

Thanks!!

GSF

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121564613#Comment_121564613

🤣 joking . You were great on todayfm!

Enda Caldwell

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121564654#Comment_121564654

Tell the bosses at News UK and Virgin that!! Haha

Chip Whitley

Does anyone else remember when Teresanne O'Reilly was on early breakfast

its_steve116

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121580591#Comment_121580591

I do. I think she's quit radio altogether now.

ford fiesta

BP Fallon used to fill in for Donal Dineen and also do some specials during the christmas/New Year around the early - mid 00s

Ian OB

Bob Dylan with his "Theme Time Radio Hour"

Also used to have a slot with Alice Cooper.

I know these were syndicated, but golly were they different

supereurope

Breffni Clack, who used to do "Late Night Love" on Friday and Saturday nights (or was it Saturday and Sunday nights?) around the year 2000.

A male/female duo who presented the second incarnation of "Friday Night 90s" circa 2015. I can't remember their names!

EDIT: as soon as I'd posted the above, I remembered that Breffni actually took over the "Late Night Love" strand from someone else, a man, but I can't recall his name.

ford fiesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121584185#Comment_121584185

John Troy initially did late night love

The "Nothin' but 90s" before it finally ended, was presented by a male/female duo, the male was northern irish as far as I remember

swampy353

It was definitely Northy Eoin from the Ray Foley show and I think it may have been Ann Gleeson, Foleys producer.

supereurope

There they are, no names given though...

supereurope

Shauna and Eoghan!

Trebor176

Tracey Lee used to do Nothing But 90s on a Friday before moving to Malta.

Declan A Walsh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121584158#Comment_121584158

I know that Bob Dylan's "Theme Time Radio Hour" was on the now defunct Phantom FM, but was it on Today FM?

supereurope

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058320367/most-obscure-todayfm-dj-post-1998-rebrand-only

Can't recall him at all, but think I can remember a show called "The Bashment."

amlinopta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121584185#Comment_121584185

Breffni heard reading the news on East Coast in the recent past at least

Chip Whitley

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121584495#Comment_121584495

Ah they were great! Loved Eoghan as a contributor to Foleys show and Shauna is just lovely. Still a producer on Ian Dempseys show.

ford fiesta

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121587864#Comment_121587864

what is it with the female names within today FM over the past 10 years ? pamela, paula, shauna etc etc - for some reason they are the one person to me.

maybe they all sound the same.

bop1977

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dont forget shelly

supereurope

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They were, I wasn't living in Ireland at the time they were on, but I used to tune in or listen back on the app. They often played less-remembered hits from the decade, so full credit for not just sticking to Alannah Myles, Oasis and ATB (covering the early, mid and late 90s there.)

Glen Hansard filling in for Donal Dineen (2001)

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supereurope

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121587864#Comment_121587864

Yes - I just realised it's the same Shauna who does the school run on Ian Dempsey's show.

Shan Doras

Gavin Lambe Murphy, I remember him filling in for Tim Kelly on The Saturday show

Declan A Walsh

Brendan Murphy of The Four of Us was a stand-in presenter for a few times on weekday evenings, either for Tom Dunne or Paul McLoone.

ford fiesta

not an obscure presenter, though how long was mark cagney on Today FM for?

I remember him starting in around summer 1998 (re-launch time ??) on mid mornings. Did Tim Kelly replace him?.

Mark also had a sunday evening show "Sunday shining" which tried to re-create his late night Radio 2 shows. I am not sure if this show ran along with his weekday show or was he demoted to just doing sunday nights, and him leaving the station around late 1999 ???

Declan A Walsh

The relaunch of Radio Ireland to Today FM took place during the first week in January 1998. I seem to remember that it was early in 1998 (possibly spring) that Mark Cagney came to Today FM. Tim Kelly was on board since January. Both had come from 98FM. The Sunday Shining show was an extra programme that Mark presented on top of his weekday show. As far as I can recall, Mark left Today FM in August or September 1999 just ahead of his new job presenting Ireland AM on TV3.

Bellbottoms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122406818#Comment_122406818

Jesus. There is a name I thought I would never hear of again.

padd b1975

Alice Cooper..

Isthisthingon?

Karl Tsigdinos did river of soul for an hour on sunday nights

Isthisthingon?

Anne Marie Kelly did the very early morning slot before Ian Dempsey in the 2000s too

Trebor176

Derek Flood (Floody) did Planet Hits, and also filled in here and there. I think he has long left radio.

Declan A Walsh

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122421207#Comment_122421207

Originally Karl's River of Soul started off mid-mornings on what was then called Radio Ireland. His slot was moved a couple of times, ending up on Sunday evenings. Eventually during 2003 that show was dropped and replaced by an alternative rock show called The Last Blast presented by Alison Curtis. Karl Tsigdinos also did a stint one year on weekday mid-mornings standing in for someone on holidays. The show had a name, which I can't quite recall, but I seem to remember he had a nice mix of music that seemed to be a bit more adventurous.

flazio

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/121584495#Comment_121584495

Isn't that Ian's producer Shauna O Reilly?

thejuggler

Mark Byrne did breakfast before Ian Dempsey joined. For non Dublin listeners this was their first time hearing him since the demise of Century radio in November 1991. I think he may also have been at Atlantic 252 before this (as well as the Dublin local stations)