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Cloch le Carn.

On Monday at 7.30pm on RTÉ One.

Sarah Neville writes:

On Monday, RTÉ One series Cloch le Carn will look back at the life of legendary broadcaster Bill O’Herlihy. Check out this archive footage from Italia 90 (above) and Euro 88 which will be included in the programme.

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Bill O’Herlihy, RTÉ broadcaster, much loved host of the station’s football and Olympics coverage and public relations executive has died aged 76.

More as we get it.

Broadcaster Bill O’Herlihy dies aged 76 (RTE News)

(Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland)

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Bill O’Herlihy and Frank Flannery

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The first instalment of the Flannery Files has arrived.

28 minutes of Frank Flannery’s thoughts on the State of the Nation.

Fightzzzzzzzzz

Previously: Outside The Tent

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Bill O’Herlihy signed off last night from RTÉ Sport.

He’ll leave it there so, live.

Meanwhile….

Bill O’Herlihy defends role as lobbyist for tobacco industry (Ronan McGreevy, Irish Times June 11 2014)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=QdF8SzTkzsc

Eamon Dunphy drops the F-bomb twice in discusssion with Bill O’Herlihy on live TV ahead of Brazil vs Mexico and later apologises at half-time.

Contains NSFW language.

Thanks Andrew Sheridan and Niall O’Connor

90279472(Above: Bill and Enda Enda Kenny at the Merrion Hotel last October at the launch of Bill’s autobiography “We’ll Leave It There So”.)

Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan said Mr O’Herlihy would prove to be an “excellent chairman” of the board and has been tasked with increasing indigenous audiences for Irish film.

Mr O’Herlihy had been one of former Fine Gael Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald’s media “handlers” in the 1980s, but Mr Deenihan stressed that he had no involvement in politics in recent decades.

“He was never an adviser in my time for the last 30 years. I’ve never seen Bill at any Fine Gael function. I have never met Bill in any other context other than sport and television.”

We’ll leave it there, so.

O’Herlihy to chair Irish Film Board (Ronan McGreevy, Irish Times)

(Sasko Lazarov/Photocall Ireland)