RTE 1970s presenters currently on RTE

Yes. Lyric is growing it's audience by not being Lyric.

The classical content in his and other shows is pitiful for those who want to listen to a publicly funded classical/specialist and arts service.

Fair play to Whelan (and the rest) for their endurance but everyone on that list is being paid from public/licence fee money.

Regardless of their talent, it looks like a well funded retirement gig for those on the 'inside'.

It's wrong, in my view.

Assuming the likes of Marty Ronan and Micky Mac were not RTÉ staff / so they can stay on the payroll forever as they do not have an RTÉ pension.??

I have been reading this thread with interest. Many of the 1970s voices have retired and/or (sadly) passed away.

Some from the 1970s are still broadcasting, but are attached to the commercial sector, e.g. Pat Kenny - Newstalk, Jim O'Neill - East Coast FM and * Declan Meehan - East Coast FM. Sean Bán Breathnach left Raidió na Gaeltachta as recently as 2022 but has continued with tv work.

As far as I can see, the listed people are the only remaining RTE 1970s presenters currently on RTE radio. I don't think Philip King's radio career goes back to the 1970s, but I could be wrong.

*Declan Meehan first left Radio 2, as it was then, about a year after its launch and re-joined the pirates! He did later turn up on Millennium Radio and briefly 2FM.

The legendary Judge and DJ, Conor Maguire is the man you're thinking of….

He attended the Nuremburg War Trials as young man, with his father, according to this:

Successful barrister, judge, Europhile and RTÉ radio DJ – The Irish Times

Sadly, you're right about all these perfectly fine specialist programmes being retired along with the presenter and replaced with something different or inferior. I suspect that Bowman's will go the same way.

There are a few exceptions - Ceili House, Country Time and Playback survived the "getting rid" of Treasa Davison.

Pat Kenny!!

How did we not mention Pat?

Not only was he on air in the 70's, he was probably a household name even back then.

There's a guy with a voice still in pristine condition.

I mentioned Pat Kenny in my first post! I gave him as an example of someone from the 1970s that is still on the radio but is no longer with RTE - namely Newstalk.

I see in the Lyric FM thread that presenter Evelyn Grant will no longer be a regular presenter, but will turn up from time to time. I am not familiar with her, but I looked her up out of curiosity and found that her radio career started with RTE's Cork Local Radio. I cannot find when she started with the latter. Is it possible that she goes back to the 1970s and that we have another name for the current list?

Peadar Ó Riada has been broadcasting his show 'Cuireadh chun Ceoil' on RnaG since the 1970's and still broadcasts every Friday evening.

Ditto. Another sponsored segment in the case of the big run of them.

Would have been something like a radio play serial or a few songs wrapped with sponsor names. Died off in the 70s/80s albeit radio shows still often have sponsors; but for multi-hour shows.

That's him ya! His son Conor does Prem League commentary for BBC 5 radio, sometimes crops up on match of the day, and the international feed