Career

RTÉ Community Radio, Drogheda. My first radio show.

Radio Carousel, Dundalk. On air in its first few weeks, as Dick Newman.

Local Radio Drogheda, then Boyneside Radio. Breakfast, as David Browne, because nobody on a pirate station used their own name. A tape from that August survives, with me reading the ten o’clock news on the Fastnet race.

Boyneside Radio, 31 December. The second-last voice on the station’s closing programme.

LMFM. On the launch team.

Navan Community Television. NCTV, later Province 5. My start in local television.

Cablelink. Three seasons as main anchor and reporter on Dublin Week-End, alongside NCTV.

RTÉ One and Network 2. Television announcer, until 1997, with reports for Nationwide from the regional studios.

Tara Television and NTL. The only voice on Tara Television for its first year, and City Arts on NTL.

RTÉ Radio 1. Announcer from 1995 to 1999, and presenter of Risin’ Time, Playback, Late Date and Ireland Tonight.

RTÉ FM3 Classical Radio. Presenter of Notturno, and twelve weeks of Classical Plus, the pilot for what became Lyric FM.

RTÉ Lyric FM. I put the station on air from Limerick at midday on 1 May 1999, and stayed as its first breakfast presenter until May 2000.

Iarnród Éireann. The station announcements on the trains and the DART. Just another job at the time.

102.2 Lite FM. Produced and presented the Weekend Supplement for three years. Legends on Lite won the 2001 PPI Radio Award for best weekly music programme. Nominated for Best Speech Radio in 2002.

Late Date and Weekend on One. On and off through the 2000s on RTÉ Radio 1.

4FM. A four-hour weekend breakfast, and fill-in on the lunchtime news and current affairs programme.

RTÉ One and RTÉ2. Back in television continuity, introducing the programmes.

Sunday Spirit. Ten till one on Sundays, built around the broadcast of Mass and services, with guests and music.

The Leap of Faith. I got to interview my hero, Gay Byrne.

The Gold Lounge. Sunday mornings on RTÉ Gold.

Lyric Breakfast and Marty in the Morning. Bank holiday cover, and regular fill-ins.

Mind the Gap. My own show.

Live95 Limerick. Sounds Easy.

Air show commentary. The commentary position at Bray and Rush, and at Sligo.