Above from top: Jamie Carroll Comiskey from Homeless Mobile Run; Garda Eimear Cantwell; Ann Birney from Inner City Helping Homeless; performer Paul Ryder and (bottom pic) the four nominees with 98FM presenters Adrian Kennedy and Jeremy Dixon.
This morning.
Sandymount Strand, Dublin 4.
Nominees in 98FM’s Best of Dublin 2019 – unsung heroes who are “the ultimate celebration of the best our city has to offer”.
In fairness.
Vote here
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Save Poolbeg
The late 98FM Sports Editor Johnny Lyons
One last memory. Back in the early 1990s, Johnny did a Saturday night shift in the Tribune, collecting basketball results…
— Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (@RossOCK) August 19, 2015
It meant phoning around the club PROs between 9pm and 10pm, collecting the results. Johnny’s personality turned it into a performance. — Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (@RossOCK) August 19, 2015
One day, Elaine Geraghty of 98fm was in the building and she said, “Who’s that on the radio?” She was told, “That’s not the radio.”
— Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (@RossOCK) August 19, 2015
Elaine said, “He needs to be on the radio.” Anyway, the following week, he was on 98fm. — Ross O’Carroll-Kelly (@RossOCK) August 19, 2015
Last night: Kind Champ
H/T: Balls.ie
Johnny Lyons, the sports desk stalwart at Dublin’s 98fm has died.
A statement released by 98fm this evening reads:
The entire station is devastated with the sudden passing of a beloved colleague. Johnny, with his larger than life personality, was loved by all listeners and colleagues alike. He was a huge part of the 98FM family and will be dearly missed, we would like to extend our deepest sympathies to his family at this time. May he rest in peace”.
Oh.
Damn you Cullen syndicate.
Thanks Dan Crawford.
98FM reports:
Dublin city could be set for a make over if plans to put up billboards which double as seats, get the go ahead. Cities in Europe already have billboards with curled up bottoms that are used for public seating.
Curled up bottoms.
Oh go on then.
98FM are looking for people to nominate themselves, other people, places and things in what they’re calling the ultimate Best of Dublin list….
Kathryn Ryan of the station writes:
“Categories include ‘Food and Drink’ , ‘Culture’ and ‘Shops’ but we will also celebrate individual Dubliners which will include best bus driver, bartender, best quintessential ‘dub’, morning person, street artist and trade person. We will then select a shortlist and put it to a public vote. Balloting closes on June 27t, with our Awards Ceremony in Smock Alley On July 2…”
FIGHT!
Vote here
How does someone casually get stuck up a pole? via @98FM #Dublin pic.twitter.com/vk4uwnJHDU
— Alan Curley (@CurleyAL) May 19, 2014
Thanks Laura Holland
Ryan Seacrest?
Thanks Barry H
A Katie Taylor/98fm/Newstalk kapowster.
(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)
Meanwhile, call that pressure?
“The hopes of a billion people…”. The current cover of The Economist’s Intelligent Life magazine featuring flyweight Mary Kom, from India. She’s in a different division to Taylor. (wipes brow).
Via Commenter Conski (see below)