Simon Young RIP

The beatbox is a great memory from my childhood. RIP.

RIP Simon

Great memories of him when I was growing up, I found out some years ago he was one of my work colleagues Uncle's and he had filled me in on his health issues, so sad.

RIP Simon, another good memory from the childhoods of my generation is gone.

He was great on 2FM in its heyday of the mid 90’s. I remember hearing his weekend breakfast show a lot in those mid 90’s summers.

he appeared on the Brendan O’Connor show on RTE1 about 10 years ago looking in pretty poor shape, he had a rough time of it.

part of the classic 2FM line up of the mid 80s to late 90s.

He presented, what was not meant to be his final 2FM show, just over 20 years ago (Ireland's Biggest Jukebox) and never returned due to health issues.

Ryan Tubridy mentioned him just now and apparently Will Leahy did something on RTE Gold earlier. Nothing on the news site from what I can see.

great slagging between himself and Dustin on the Den

RIP

Very sad to hear of Simon's passing. I was a fan all through his pirate days and on to RTE Radio 2 and then TV. A nice guy that I always hoped would make a return to air.

"Get ourra dat gardan" (or words to that effect)

RIP Simon.

Very sad news.

A true gent, always friendly and funny, he had a really rough run over the last few years.

"hey Simon!...wha' time is it?"😀

Simon played Jimmy on the Ian Dempsey breakfast show.

He presented a lot of regular weekend programmes on 2FM (Poporama, Simon's Saturday Choice, Weekend Breakfast, Jimmy on Sunday, Ireland Biggest Jukebox and The Dance Show, (the first ever Dance show on 2FM in 1989) including the Beatbox on Sunday's on TV with Peter Collins... but I don't think had a permanent 2FM weekday slot, though he filled in a lot on the weekday schedule (for Ian and Larry for example).

One of his final shows on 2FM was in Spring 2001, filling in for Larry which I have recorded/

Some reports today are saying Simon lived in Washington DC, I don't think this is accurate and could be a final wind up by Simon on his location, from his social media pages !!

Also sad to hear this, I was only a kid when he was on but as others have said, have great memories of the Beatbox and Weekend Breakfast. He was good fun, and weekend breakfast on the radio usually meant you were up early for a day out, or something else exciting which added to it - for me anyway!

Loved his appearances on the Den too, he was like a fun relative that you used to enjoy coming over. Also remember he had a jokes page in the "Den" Magazine.

RIP

I don't know what year this photo was taken but it's from Brendan O'Carroll's "Hot Milk and Pepper" which ran from 1996-1999. It's startling to think that three of the men sitting on that sofa are no longer with us.

Was thinking that was incorrect all right, early 60s at the most.

Yeah about same age as Ian / Tony I'd have guessed. Ian turned 60 recently I think.

Lovely little piece actually.

there is a piece on rte.ie about Simon

We hope to archive another one with Simon featured tomorrow.

BTW this is a good place to go if you're looking for something on The Anorak Hour.

http://radiowaves.fm/ire/radio-retro-anorak-hour-index/

With Ger's help we're adding more episodes all the time, especially earlier editions.

I'm finding it hard to believe he was 70. With the standard of journalism that's out there now, it makes me wonder are they all just using Google and getting the 70 from the one source? Looking at that photo of him on the sofa with Tony Fenton, Gerry Ryan and Dave Fanning, he doesn't look any older than them. They're all in the 60-65 age range.

Simon was not living in washington DC, some inaccurate reporting out there !!

Simon took sick leave from 2FM in 2001 and never returned