Don Cockburn

Ray777 · 18-01-2005 09:57PM #1

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

Help me - I need to know.

Always in black · 27-01-2005 12:14PM

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

Ray777 · 28-01-2005 12:03AM

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

billy the squid · 28-01-2005 12:27AM

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)

monster_fighter · 28-01-2005 12:33AM

Cockburn?!?

Don Cockburn???

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

Ray777 · 28-01-2005 12:56AM

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

deedee lepoopoo · 03-02-2005 11:17AM

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:

Ray777 · 08-02-2005 09:27PM

Not Coleburn!!!!

Cockburn!!!

:mad:

billy the squid · 08-02-2005 09:40PM

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=

nlgbbbblth · 11-02-2005 11:00PM

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

deedee lepoopoo · 14-02-2005 11:54AM

Sorry! Pronounced 'Coleburn', nevertheless!

eggshapedfred · 18-02-2005 09:37AM

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...

Degsy · 20-05-2009 05:06PM

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

Phoenix3 · 20-05-2009 05:11PM

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.

stovelid · 21-05-2009 11:09PM

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.

Thargor · 23-05-2009 02:16AM

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

bonerm · 14-02-2011 03:45PM

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?

nlgbbbblth · 14-02-2011 10:33PM

He was still reading the News in 1990.

Retired in 1992.

stoneill · 14-02-2011 10:35PM

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.

the purple tin · 15-02-2011 08:00PM

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.

cml387 · 17-02-2011 11:44AM

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).

jasonb · 27-05-2011 09:42AM

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.

johngalway · 29-05-2011 10:11AM

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

Monkeybonkers · 03-06-2011 05:03PM

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

Mike 1972 · 03-06-2011 07:59PM

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

cml387 · 04-06-2011 05:28PM

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).

bonerm · 04-06-2011 05:31PM

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

Donkey Oaty · 09-06-2011 11:45AM

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.

WASP0 · 09-06-2011 11:51AM

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

snubbleste · 10-06-2011 10:42AM

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.

Persiancowboy · 10-06-2011 01:03PM

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!!!

Don Cockburn

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