2fm - New schedule coming

He did "Fame and Fortune" too for a few summers before winning streak....there was another "lotto scratch card" summer filler too, something tells me it was called "millionaire" but I can't remember if that was before or after fame and fortune

i remember them being on the bus drivers radio going to college in 88 or 89 so they were a long term fixture on 2FM breakfast if you heard them in 92

Zig and Zag only had a 5-10 minute slot on the 2FM breakfast show, they were not co-presenters.

They moved off the breakfast show in around 1990, when Ian finished Dempsey's Den on Network 2 (Ray D'Arcy taking over at that stage).

It was great radio, with Zig and Zag. One of the ones they did was Starship, “Nothing is gonna stop us now”.

The lyric went “They say we’re crazy” and Zig and Zag claimed it was “Dempsey went crazy” and said it told the story of Ian getting cross over something.

36 years later when I hear the song all I can hear is the Zig and Zag version!!

I remember clearly on the breakfast show when I was a child around 1989. zig and zag are telling the story that michael hutchence and andrew farris from INXS were sharing a room. andrew was snoring and with michael trying to get sleep he kicked andrew with his knee and wakes him up, michael then says to andrew "I kneed you tonight, cause I'm not sleeping" and according to zig and zag that's how they came up with the lines in the song 😀

another one I remember was olivia newton john "physical" they turned into "fizzy coke, fizzy coke, I want to get fizzy coke…."

"Tommy used to work on The Dart" to the tune of Bon Jovi's Living on a Prayer. You're correct about how clever it was, as evidenced by all the posters remembering the songs so many years later. So much better than most of today's content

Strange to say but youd miss clock blocker now, They do a A to Z answers in 90 seconds that sounds even harder to do but perhaps RTE was giving away to many €10,000's before.

Remembered another Zig and Zag version..... they did U2's Desire....

"Oh sister, in Lego" instead of "oh sister, can't let you go"...

Can't remember the back story.

And you can't pass. You essentially need to be incredibly lucky to get all the way. You should be allowed pass but get another question on the same letter.

Assuming you mean Emma and Dave? Yes I believe it's just the pair of them.

How do you get around the idea that 2FM will probably never gain a bigger audience… you present the smaller audience as niche and a required audience that RTÉ must reach!

https://www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/03/15/can-a-new-schedule-re-energise-2fm/

That shouldn’t heap undue pressure on the young people, both on-air and off-air, who work at the station. It may be the case that no combination of presenters exists that can “re-energise” 2FM, and that this is simply the modest status it commands now.

So keep spending big money on presenters that you know won't bring in an audience… RnaG and Lyric FM presenters will be delight on the pay rises coming their way.

trimming the fat of rte has gone well so far - in a few years there will be 6 on air staff for breakfast