The Late Date RTÉ Radio 1

Cathal Murray has been consistently great on Late Date imo

Lovely manner, voice, interesting playlists and tempo to the show he does

I very much agree that the show with Fiachna is a different thing, and I completely think the same thing about the 'mates of mine' thingy. He seems to be always blowing his own trumpet somehow and thus irritates me, but mainly I don't listen to his nights because the music tends towards boring for me

FOB has family connections in RTE? That would explain a lot. Who are they?

In the interest of fairness.. Cathal Murray is the nephew of the late RTE presenter Colm Murray

It's RTE, par for the course but I don't think that's an issue in and of itself. Some people are insufferable with or without family connections in life

FOB is just both, connected and an absolute bore to listen to

Alf McCarthy, an RTE employee was forced to retire at 65.

On the other hand, FO'B, the son of another RTE employee, who presumably was also forced to retire at 65 at least 25 years ago, was able to use that family connection to hold on to his Late Date role. Now that his father has died will FO'B's contract be terminated? After all there must be many offspring of people currently working in RTE who would covet the Late Date gig.

as announced today, after 14 years Fiachna's final show is tonight.

why would he leave a cushy few nights of radio each weekend (when he wasnt playing with the hothouse flowers) and also filling in for john creedon? was his contract not renewed?

no doubt they've a female lined up to replace him. those who have covered for him in recent years have been terrible, so lets hope it's a "real DJ", the ones we used to listen to back in the day.

The same producer, so dont give the presenter credit for the music. those days are sadly gone.

I am guessing he was axed from Radio 1, Fiachna doesn't seem like a person who would give up such a high profile gig.

or maybe being a member of Hothouse Flowers was creating problems in relation to the RTE payments scandal, similar to the social media 2FM presenters who recently left

with the RTE nixers register in the news today, i'm sure fiachna earns a fair bit as a member hothouse flowers. I'm assuming this is why he had to leave ??

Then again is brendan o'connor still editor of the sunday indo?