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Don Cockburn

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  • 18-01-2005 10:57pm
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    Ray777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 350 ✭✭


    Is he still alive, I wonder? (elderly RTÉ newsreader, last seen in the early '90s)

    Help me - I need to know.

    :confused:


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    Always in black
    Closed Accounts Posts: 38 ✭Always in black


    Yes...office conversation recently! he was the really stern looking one wasnt he?


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    Ray777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 350 ✭✭Ray777


    Yes, very stern and serious looking. Looked a bit like Mister Burns.


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    billy the squid
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    He was on the 40th aniversary of RTE television if i am not mistaken back in 2002 which means ihe was alive then (unless it was pre recorded like the new year special of course)


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    monster_fighter
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭monster_fighter


    Cockburn?!?

    Don Cockburn???

    RTE made porno's in the 90's???


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    Ray777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 350 ✭✭Ray777


    Pronounced 'Coburn'.

    'Cockburn' sounds like a sexual injury.
    He was on the 40th aniversary of RTE television if i am not mistaken back in 2002 which means ihe was alive then (unless it was pre recorded like the new year special of course)

    Oh, thank God for that - I was getting worried for a while.

    Thanks :)


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    deedee lepoopoo
    Registered Users Posts: 424 ✭✭deedee lepoopoo


    His name was Don Coleburn.His wife taught typing in Ballsbridge. She was mad as a brush. He is like a rich mad old uncle that you never had. :eek:


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    Ray777
    Closed Accounts Posts: 350 ✭✭Ray777


    Not Coleburn!!!!

    Cockburn!!!

    :mad:


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    billy the squid
    Registered Users Posts: 12,811 ✭✭✭✭billy the squid


    Ray777 wrote:
    Not Coleburn!!!!

    Cockburn!!!

    :mad:

    http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla%3Aen-US%3Aofficial&q=don+cockburn&btnG=Search&meta=


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    nlgbbbblth
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    deedee lepoopoo wrote:
    His name was Don Coleburn.His wife taught typing in Ballsbridge. She was mad as a brush. He is like a rich mad old uncle that you never had. :eek:

    His name was Don Cockburn

    also remember

    Maurice O'Doherty
    Charles Mitchell


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    deedee lepoopoo
    Registered Users Posts: 424 ✭✭deedee lepoopoo


    Sorry! Pronounced 'Coleburn', nevertheless! :D


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    eggshapedfred
    Closed Accounts Posts: 294 ✭✭eggshapedfred


    The late Don Cockburn, RTE Newsreader, reports on the closedown of Radio Nova and Sunshine.

    from here

    don't know how accurate it is, but it seems like don is no longer with us...


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    Degsy
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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DGoakb8jYE


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    Phoenix3
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    As far as I know Don's daughter Evelyn did or still does work in RTE,She also did a spell on |Lyric FM.If you need any info why not try her through RTE.


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    stovelid
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    Degsy wrote: »
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DGoakb8jYE

    Damn.

    Following that link led me on to all the other RTE closedown and ad-break clips. Now I'll never get to bed.


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    Thargor
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    What about the Don from Draw With Don? Whats he up to these days does anyone know? I used to really like him.


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    bonerm
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,595 ✭✭✭bonerm


    Bump.

    This guy popped into my head just today. I actually remember him leaving/retiring from RTE as it was possibly my first introduction to the concept that "things change" in life.

    Anyone know what year he left?


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    nlgbbbblth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,668 ✭✭✭nlgbbbblth


    He was still reading the News in 1990.

    Retired in 1992.


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    stoneill
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    Phoenix3 wrote: »
    As far as I know Don's daughter Evelyn did or still does work in RTE,She also did a spell on |Lyric FM.If you need any info why not try her through RTE.

    heh heh heh Evelyn Cockburn.


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    the purple tin
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    The really old white haired man?
    I remember him reading the news, he used to keep his eyes on his notes for the whole broadcast, he only glanced up at the camera a few times throughout.


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    cml387
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    the purple tin wrote: »
    The really old white haired man?
    I remember him reading the news, he used to keep his eyes on his notes for the whole broadcast, he only glanced up at the camera a few times throughout.

    No autocue in those days.
    Used to see him cycling to work through Belfield in the mid 70's.
    (Yes I know,I'm that old).


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    jasonb
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    Just to bump this for the hell of it, I was at the Ballsbridge College Graduation Ceremony last night and Don was there, presenting an award that they do every year in memory of his late wife who used to work there.

    I heard him talking to someone after the ceremony and the voice brought back a lot of memories!

    So, he's still going strong...

    J.


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    johngalway
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    Remember seeing him on the news, looks like an older Mick McCarthy.


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    Monkeybonkers
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    Always used to look like he was going to burst out laughing at the very end when he was saying good night.
    Also, remember Charles Mitchells jacket? It was all these mad colours that looked like it might give you an epileptic fit if you looked at it for too long


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    Mike 1972
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    Monkeybonkers wrote: »
    Also, remember Charles Mitchells jacket? It was all these mad colours that looked like it might give you an epileptic fit if you looked at it for too long

    It down to was an engineering defect in the system used in early colour television that showed up on some fine patterns. The development of digital comb filtering in the 1990's largely resolved the problem.

    Prior to that most broadcasters discouraged the use of tweed jackets by anyone appearing on television but nobody told RTE


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    cml387
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    Mike 1972 wrote: »
    It down to was an engineering defect in the system used in early colour television that showed up on some fine patterns. The development of digital comb filtering in the 1990's largely resolved the problem.

    Prior to that most broadcasters discouraged the use of tweed jackets by anyone appearing on television but nobody told RTE


    When RTE introduced CSO in the seventies it was even more exciting (Self confessed tv technology nerd).


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    bonerm
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    johngalway wrote: »
    Remember seeing him on the news, looks like an older Mick McCarthy.

    A certain similarity there alright

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoUNrjrRXw8


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    Donkey Oaty
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    Does anyone remember Don Cockburn's appearance on the Live Mike?

    Mike Murphy had a kind of celebrity Jim'll Fix It item where stars (by RTE standards) did stuff other than that for which they were famous.

    Don had always wanted to be a stand-up comedian, and for one night only he was.

    His delivery was exactly the same as when he read the news.


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    WASP0
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    AFAIK he was mad into the cycling and used to cycle into RTE from Dalkey/Killiney everyday.


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    snubbleste
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    Does anyone remember the weather presenter Aidan something? Was watching the news once and the camera switched to the weather studio in error where the guy was standing by a weather chart about to drink some whiskey before going on air. Can't remember if this this when they used flipcharts or a screen.


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    Persiancowboy
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    snubbleste wrote: »
    Does anyone remember the weather presenter Aidan something? Was watching the news once and the camera switched to the weather studio in error where the guy was standing by a weather chart about to drink some whiskey before going on air. Can't remember if this this when they used flipcharts or a screen.

    that would be Dr. Aidan Nulty i think. He is still very much with Met Eireann but occupies a senior position there now so no longer does tv work but can occasionally be heard on radio.

    Long ago i lived briefly on Botanic Avenue and drank in the Gravediggers....he and his Met colleagues were REGULAR customers of said establishment!!!


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