Newsreaders overnight Rte Radio One

would help I’d you could tell us where the emphasis was - did he say EYE-ran or eh-RAHN?

Can you be a bit more clear in your communication?

The graveyard shift are where the new interns start out. They are learning on the job. Be nice!

This is true, and everyone deserves a chance on live radio, but I dont recall any of the night shift newsreaders from the past few years making the step up to prime time.

Ray cuddihy just announced there will be no news on the hour overnight tonight and it will resume at 6am at Rising Time.

Can you imagine this happening on BBC Radio 4 or any other state broadcaster !!?

I'm actually quite surprised hourly news is still on overnights !!.

It remains the only piece of live overnight radio in Ireland.

And yes the current batch of newsreaders are only terrible. what happened Peter ferris who seemed to be the only good one who sounded experienced. Noel fogarty was another one in recent years. Both vanished from overnight Radio 1 news (am aware of some trouble Noel got into), but had a great news delivery.

If that is the reason for last nights news absence on Radio 1, they should have a replacement on stand by like any other professional radio news service. It isn't local community radio.

Last night "RTE Gold on Radio 1" was programmed fine, with no back up tape needed to kick in at the top of each hour due to any gap in output, so they must have known in advance there'd be no news.

Barry Lenihan is one that started off as an overnight reader. Arguably the best reporter Radio 1 has.

many others still involved in radio and tv did no doubt, if you went back over the names since the overnight news started on RTE radio around the mid to late 80s.

the northern sounding lad reading the overnight news this morning is brutal, how are these newsreaders given the go ahead, or even considered, to broadcast on our national station ?

I am not being cruel but standards need to be met and kept up in RTE, no matter what time of the day or night it is, or how many are listening.

There was a news bulletin presented early on Sunday morning, the lines of which you wouldn't hear the likes of on a community radio station.

Dere's a lot of dat kind of ting.

Funnily enough I remarked on the same thing yesterday on the RTE news at 6pm. Guy called Howth "Hoat" at least twice. There's another guy with an Irish name I can't remember (Fergal?) and someone else called Barry ? who are as bad on RTE regularly. I cannot listen to them. Not a "th" between them! Don Cockburn would be spinning in his grave.

Peter Ferris had been doing the odd shift recently.