RTE randomness

[Peanuts20]

Hadn’t heard of this chap until now.

Answer: yes; nothing absurd or detracting about him.

Do you have any idea how old you just made some of us feel?

 

[Purple]

Do you have any idea how old you just made some of us feel?

In fairness he retired in 1984. That's 38 years ago. If you remember him well then you are old.

 

[Deiseblue]

An excellent enunciator and probably the most popular and well known figure in RTE in the 60’s , apparently he had a legion of female admirers who used to put on their finery before sitting down to watch him on the news !
And his surname was Mitchel not the more common Mitchell.

 

[Purple]

An excellent enunciator and probably the most popular and well known figure in RTE in the 60’s , apparently he had a legion of female admirers who used to put on their finery before sitting down to watch him on the news !
And his surname was Mitchel not the more common Mitchell.

He was a college drop-out actor, quite to rule breaker for his time.

 

[Peanuts20]

In fairness he retired in 1984. That's 38 years ago. If you remember him well then you are old.

I was very advanced for my young year, Also, I lived in single channel land back in the 70's so he, Don Cockborn, Gardai Patrol and Mart and Market are engrained in my brain, along with the "proper" Angelus, the Riordans and Trom agus Eadrom.

I do sometimes find it entertaining to dig out a video on You Tube of old RTE to see the kids reaction

 

[Purple]

I was very advanced for my young year, Also, I lived in single channel land back in the 70's so he, Don Cockborn, Gardai Patrol and Mart and Market are engrained in my brain, along with the "proper" Angelus, the Riordans and Trom agus Eadrom.

I do sometimes find it entertaining to dig out a video on You Tube of old RTE to see the kids reaction

Yea, you're old. You're older then me by the sounds of it and I'm nearly 50.

 

[odyssey06]

Speaking of randomness...

As this is Letting Off Steam, I'll put on my tinfoil hat and predict we'll never hear of it again.

Investigation after man's body found on RTÉ campus

An investigation is under way into the death of a man whose body was discovered on the grounds of RTÉ in Dublin last night.

www.rte.ie

 

[Peanuts20]

Yea, you're old. You're older then me by the sounds of it and I'm nearly 50.

Age is but a number at the end of the day you young whipper-snapper

 

[Salvadore]

I was very advanced for my young year, Also, I lived in single channel land back in the 70's so he, Don Cockborn, Gardai Patrol and Mart and Market are engrained in my brain, along with the "proper" Angelus, the Riordans and Trom agus Eadrom.

I do sometimes find it entertaining to dig out a video on You Tube of old RTE to see the kids reaction

No doubt then you’ll remember Maurice O’Doherty - perhaps the best of them all.

The occasional newsflashes used to scare the bejaysus out of me as a child - invariably about some horrific bombing or shooting in the north.

 

[odyssey06]

For a random trip down memory lane, check out the RTE archive.

Drunken depravity at the Fleadh Cheoil in Cashel 1969.

https://www.rte.ie/archives/2019/0621/1056694-fleadh-cheoil-cashel