Yep Don Coburn (if I spelt his name rightly?) and Charles Mitchell. I remember their newsreels well. I also remember when Don retired in the late 80s or early 90s I think? I remember he said he always used to cycle into RTE studios to clear his head.
From a time when news readers were professional. Thanks Don . How times have changed. Now we get opinions from "journalists" . We were better served then.
Tv gold,Glenroe followed by Don Cockburn reading the late evening news and up for school in the morning! We didn't know we were living. God bless and r.i.p. man.
I left ireland in 1988, it was raining. I've returned various times since then but it's always been raining except one time I flew into Dublin and it was sunny. I rented a car and headed to Galway. As I got near Mullingar it started raining and continued for a week. I'm hoping global warming can sort this out!😁
Totally different weather. Global warming. Climate change. Orange snow. Yellow wind. Acid rain Don't make unnecessary journeys. Don't go swim in the sea Don't burn smokey turf. Don't buy Russian oil All changing the weather
Good question. At the time, Aer Lingus was the only Irish airline operating flights between Dublin and London -- and the government owned 85% of the company. It was a cash cow, a cosy little monopoly while it lasted.
Don Cockburn and Charles Mitchel. Memories of Dublin winters, getting egg and chips for tea, the fire on and the RTE News on a 14 inch television. A great clip of Charles here and an example of what a gentleman he was: th-cam.com/video/dFHOB866kDc/w-d-xo.html
While the summer of 1985 was not a good one, weather wise, it was still a lot better than the crap summers we get nowadays, tgat pass as summers, like everything else, we have everything today but weve nothing, back then, we had nithing, but we had everything, meaning, we had no fancy lifestyle, no big houses, nor money, but we had better hearts, better memories as life was simpler. Don was a legend. Look how short the daily programme was on tv, so that meant with only 2 channels back then, no netflix crap, we got out more, less obesity too. We had problems in Ireland back then, but if i had a time i had a time machine, i wouldn't be staying in 2024 or going into 2024. I'd be going back to 1984 or 1985. Life today is absolute shit compared to back then. Golden Age of Music was the 1980’s, we had better values and better summer weather, but that wouldn't be hard, would it, and im only 48!!
headdlines suggested anything but pleasent times, truth is this country has come on leaps and bounds from those dark times, .sure we all have happy memories of childhood and youth but a deeper analysis shows a dreary conservative country. We have made great strides
Does anyone out there know the name of the font RTÉ News used for its logo at the time? It was also used elsewhere on TV in the early 1980s, like the chart rundown numbers on Top of the Pops and the mechanical clock shown before ITV programmes for Schools and Colleges. Anyone who can name the elusive font is a legend.
Could it in fact be July 10, 1986? I tried to find the name of the man shot at the building site. According to the CAIN Web Service, a twenty-year-old man, Brian Leonard, died on July 12, 1986, two days after being shot by the PAF at a building site in Snugville St, Belfast. The New York Times also records that Geoffrey Howe planned a diplomatic visit to South Africa in July 1986. www.nytimes.com/1986/07/08/world/british-diplomat-postpones-visit-to-south-africa.html
I still don't understand the ways to pronounce of some English surnames (Villiers sounding "Villers", St. John -> "Sinjin", Mainwaring -> "Mannering") & even among Irish surnames?! How come Cockburn sounds "Coburn" (James Coburn???)? Are there any other Irish surnames in such similar difficulties?
Then the news was about the news Nowadays it is about the news reader The older format had a lot of merit. The reader sat down and read the news Now... Standing awkwardly around and of course the need for 2 readers. I step out and the other steps in
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Rest in Peace Donald a voice never forgotten when a child.
Rashers and sausages on the table, and Don on the telly.. One of my earliest childhood memories.. A lifetime ago
You've got serious issues Turf Boy. Get help!
Ya posh fecker ya
You ejit.
R.i.p. Don. You were a stable feature of Irish tv for so many years. Would recognise that voice any day. Rest in peace.
Yep Don Coburn (if I spelt his name rightly?) and Charles Mitchell. I remember their newsreels well. I also remember when Don retired in the late 80s or early 90s I think? I remember he said he always used to cycle into RTE studios to clear his head.
From a time when news readers were professional. Thanks Don . How times have changed. Now we get opinions from "journalists" . We were better served then.
Tv gold,Glenroe followed by Don Cockburn reading the late evening news and up for school in the morning! We didn't know we were living. God bless and r.i.p. man.
Hard to believe the weather is still the same after all these years!
Ha
I left ireland in 1988, it was raining. I've returned various times since then but it's always been raining except one time I flew into Dublin and it was sunny. I rented a car and headed to Galway. As I got near Mullingar it started raining and continued for a week. I'm hoping global warming can sort this out!😁
Raining , raining , raining.
Totally different weather.
Global warming. Climate change. Orange snow. Yellow wind. Acid rain Don't make unnecessary journeys.
Don't go swim in the sea
Don't burn smokey turf. Don't buy Russian oil
All changing the weather
😂😂What about the global boiling?
Loved him ..i use to babysit his grandchild in london RIP
Jesus don Coburn .breaks my heart to watch this now.bring back memories of my childhood
It's spelt Cockburn not Coburn.
Rip
The sound of my child hood
You are home now Don
e mu home where
Don Cockburn .. an absolute legend ... RIP
R.I.P Don. You had such a pleasant way of reading the news.
£208 to fly to London in 1985 What a robbery..How things have changed is unbelievable
I will fly Ryan Air Dublin to Marrakech on 13 December costing €29 one way. And about 4 hours flight. . How we were robbed by Aer Lingus back then.
@@jaspjody-wb9ef Michael O Leary's approach to air transport will bite him on the ass one day!
2021 and now you can't fly to London
I remember him reading the news when I was growing up, he looked exactly like my grandad at the time
After reading the news he'd cycle home on his bike. Sound man, rest in peace Don.
Good question. At the time, Aer Lingus was the only Irish airline operating flights between Dublin and London -- and the government owned 85% of the company. It was a cash cow, a cosy little monopoly while it lasted.
RTE2 was on air for 7 years and was still opening at 7pm at night!
He was a regular sight peddling into and out of work on the Stillorgin Dual Carriageway! ;-)
These were much better times definitely from were I form so many place are close down and gone my town is much darker place loved the voice of Don
A genuinely good man. Compare with the cesspool that is RTE today.
I remember dis man.we used ta watch 6 o clock news every evening. Dem wer da days
Don Cockburn..my mam loved him. Such a calming voice.
back when RTE actually meant something in Ireland
Well the weather hasn't changed,rain and drizzle
Rest in Peace Don Cockburn 🙏🙏
1:51 sounds early until you realise RTÉ 2 opened at 7PM not AM.
R. I. P. Don
Rest in Peace Don.
Don Cockburn and Charles Mitchel.
Memories of Dublin winters, getting egg and chips for tea, the fire on and the RTE News on a 14 inch television.
A great clip of Charles here and an example of what a gentleman he was:
th-cam.com/video/dFHOB866kDc/w-d-xo.html
I remember the 14inch T.Vs well 😂😂
They are a classic.
R.I.P Don Cockburn.
Cockburn lmao
That's the great Don Cockburn.
The day starting at 7pm then rather like bbc four here does now then i guess too.
if an airline , or a bus company for that matter, wants to raise or reduce its fares, why does it have to be "approved of" by the government?
Blondie McKenzie The government is supposed to be protecting people from unscrupulous business practices.
I think it was state owned then. Aer Lingus. Ryanair was in infancy.
This is how the news should be presented.
Not like some sort of entertainment piece, with sound effects.
While the summer of 1985 was not a good one, weather wise, it was still a lot better than the crap summers we get nowadays, tgat pass as summers, like everything else, we have everything today but weve nothing, back then, we had nithing, but we had everything, meaning, we had no fancy lifestyle, no big houses, nor money, but we had better hearts, better memories as life was simpler.
Don was a legend. Look how short the daily programme was on tv, so that meant with only 2 channels back then, no netflix crap, we got out more, less obesity too.
We had problems in Ireland back then, but if i had a time i had a time machine, i wouldn't be staying in 2024 or going into 2024. I'd be going back to 1984 or 1985. Life today is absolute shit compared to back then. Golden Age of Music was the 1980’s, we had better values and better summer weather, but that wouldn't be hard, would it, and im only 48!!
Funny to see Don looking down and back up to read the news. No such thing as having it immediately in front of him on a large screen
Simpler days. Good times, good times.
+Lungsy1988 Simpler days? really? I doubt people up north would agree with you there.
headdlines suggested anything but pleasent times, truth is this country has come on leaps and bounds from those dark times, .sure we all have happy memories of childhood and youth but a deeper analysis shows a dreary conservative country. We have made great strides
25 thousand million.
So 25 billion.
They obvs never heard of a billion back in the day - couldn’t even imagine it!
A blast from the past news readers were almost family,we say tham every day
Does anyone out there know the name of the font RTÉ News used for its logo at the time? It was also used elsewhere on TV in the early 1980s, like the chart rundown numbers on Top of the Pops and the mechanical clock shown before ITV programmes for Schools and Colleges. Anyone who can name the elusive font is a legend.
did you ever find out? I'd be interested to know too :)
@@carolinedoyle3044 He needs a Knowledge of Font))
Sorry. No.
Don Cockburn R.I.P
This is from Friday 11th October 1985.
Could it in fact be July 10, 1986?
I tried to find the name of the man shot at the building site. According to the CAIN Web Service, a twenty-year-old man, Brian Leonard, died on July 12, 1986, two days after being shot by the PAF at a building site in Snugville St, Belfast. The New York Times also records that Geoffrey Howe planned a diplomatic visit to South Africa in July 1986.
www.nytimes.com/1986/07/08/world/british-diplomat-postpones-visit-to-south-africa.html
@@BovineCat: Excellent my dear Holmes!
My 19th birthday
Cloudy and close sounds like July than October
And that all from me and it's over to you Una in the met office..
He has a very long head. It's very elongated.
Elongate your statement.
@@jimmymcjimmyvich9052 what?
Its the great Don Cockburn.
Good man Don
I still don't understand the ways to pronounce of some English surnames (Villiers sounding "Villers", St. John -> "Sinjin", Mainwaring -> "Mannering") & even among Irish surnames?! How come Cockburn sounds "Coburn" (James Coburn???)? Are there any other Irish surnames in such similar difficulties?
Coburn is originally a Scottish surname.
Yours.
Only TWO Channels back then
BOG 1 and BOG 2
If you told that the Teens now they would not believe you
Who was this newscaster?.
+cautious dinny The news caster is Don Cockburn.
Paul Allen is the announcer
News readers in Ireland have some sort of hero status and don't do much , and are vastly overpaid like a lot of clowns in RTE .
Rip Don
Sadly missed . He read the news well.
Then the news was about the news
Nowadays it is about the news reader
The older format had a lot of merit. The reader sat down and read the news
Now... Standing awkwardly around and of course the need for 2 readers. I step out and the other steps in
Twenty five thousand million pounds...
25 thousand million, 😂 only the irish
25 thousand million pounds only in Ireland lol 😆 😂 🤣
Or Tea E.
The leaving of a white impression having a link to any atomatic science just kicked the bucket... I choose this piece of... Footage to indicate my complete and utter lack of empathy with the so called techos and phone creators... The music industry the advisers and the on air personal... Should I wish to take Lsd or detach myself from reality I would do so.. But I have as you can see... Not
Whi pocket got the millions
In a nutshell
2million to be welcomed in Ireland refugee package EU German agreement
What?! F*ck no!!
And likely to be delivered before time but over budget