Newsletter 2nd October 2016

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Jennifer Smith's family send the following acknowledgement to all..

Adrienne Gough , Jennifer's sister has sent the following for our attention.

The Smith family are extremely touched by the turnout of Jennifer's former

colleagues in RTE who travelled the length and breadth of the country
to attend her funeral. Their kind words and funny stories about
Jennifer were a source of comfort to her son David, to me and her four
brothers. It gave us much comfort during a very difficult time.

Kind regards,

Adrienne Gough.

( Many thanks Adrienne to you and David and the family for those kind thoughts...CB)

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Funeral arrangements for Gaye Grant sister of colleague Laurie Cearr.. (Formerly Music Dept.)

Our deepest sympathy to Laurie Cearr and the Cearr, McWeeney and Grant families on the death of her sister Gaye.

I understand that Gaye died in the UK after a short illness.

The Funeral arrangements are as follows.. Private family committal at Weeley Crematorium at 11.45, followed by Service of Thanksgiving at 1p.m at St. Mary's church, Wivenhoe, Essex on Wednesday 5th October

Many thanks to colleague Jo Wheatley for informing me of this sad news and the funeral arrangments ) CB

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RTÉ Alumni... " First Tuesday" 4th October 2016

at the Tara Towers Hotel from 13.00Hrs..

Reminder to colleagues and those recently retired ...to be aware that the RTÉ Alumni meet every first Tuesday of the month from 13.00 Hrs in the Tara Tower Hotel.. Very informal gathering of colleagues having a snack and a chat....give it a try....next meeting is on Tuesday 4th October 2016 - you will be very welcome....CB

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Cumann Rioga Teilifis

Royal Television Society

Republic of Ireland Centre

A Presentation on the

“Benzodiazepine Medical Disaster”

(Documentary by Shane Kenny)

Shane Kenny

(RTÉ & BBC Broadcaster – First Editor Morning Ireland - Irish Government Press Secretary – Spokesman for EU Presidency 1996 )

Tuesday 11^th October 2016

at 8 p.m.

Studio 4 Audience Reception – RTÉ Television Centre

Contact Number for invitation to attend 087 251 3092

“ There is no abstract art. You must always start with something”. Picasso

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RTÉ Credit Union September Draw Results 2016

RTÉ Credit Union Draw Results.. September 2016

September Cash Draw Results
€7,000 – Eimear Shaw
€2,000 – Maura Fitzgerald
€1,000 – Ana Ni Lideadha
€500 – Ann Curran
€500 – Gabriel Egan

Congratulations to all!

To be in with a chance to win you must be a member of the RTÉ Credit Union and part of the Cash Draw for as little as €3 a fortnight.

Become a member today and enjoy all the benefits!
Simply click here to download a membership form or call into us on campus (behind the Oasis Café in the Stage 7 Building). Any questions? Call us on 01 2082628.

Welcome back to Karen from maternity leave. CB

Karen Tiernan
Marketing Executive
RTÉ Credit Union

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Warm Tributes to colleague Terry Wogan at Memorial Service in Westminster Abbey

Warm tributes were paid to the late broadcaster and presenter Terry Wogan at a memorial service in London's Westminster Abbey on Tuesday.

The service was on the 50th anniversary of Wogan's first BBC radio broadcast, and took place alongside a series of tribute programmes on radio and television looking back at Wogan's decades-long career.

Dee Forbes , RTÉ Directoir General represented RTÉ at the Memorial.

The 77-year-old Limerick man passed away in January this year, after what

his family described as "a short but brave battle with cancer".

Tony Allen (Foster & Allen), Imelda May, Ryan Tubridy & Peter Cassidy at the service

Chris Evans, who took over Wogan's hugely popular BBC Radio 2 Breakfast show, led the tributes and said Wogan "wasn't the best. He is the best and he will always be the best."

During a speech to the congregation he also shared some humorous anecdotes about his late friend.

He explained that Wogan invited him for lunch when he landed the job hosting the rival BBC Radio 1 breakfast show. After a marathon day of food, wine, golf and more wine, Evans inquired around midnight whether his host had to do any preparation for the following day's breakfast show.

Wogan replied: "It's very simple. They either like you or they don't."

Ryan Tubridy, Joanna Lumley, Ken Bruce, Jimmy Carr, Katie Melua and Peter Gabriel were also among the well-known names who joined Wogan's family, friends and fans at the service.

Lumley read a poem specially commissioned for the event, entitled For The Former Greatest Living Irishman. "I think he was the tops, the cat's miaow," she said.

Before the service began there were also warm tributes from fellow Irish broadcaster Eamonn Holmes. He praised Wogan as someone who was "mischievous, he was intelligent... he was a poet and he loved a good old gossip as well" and he also saluted the late broadcaster's support for emerging Irish talent. Wogan's children, Alan, Mark and Katherine, also paid tribute to their father's "love of our mother, his children and grandchildren", "his true understanding of charity", his "empathy and selfless wisdom", his gentleness and "his love of people".

Terry's children Katherine, Alan and Mark alongside wife Helen

I was in London on Tuesday last and am very grateful to colleagues Jeremy Swan, Stuart Holmes and Dinah Garrett for securing an invitation for me to attend the Memorial to Terry in Westminster Abbey.. Having like so many of our colleagues worked with Terry in RTÉ Radio and Television, it was an honour to be present at the Memorial.. CB

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Archives Weekly www.rte.ie/archives www.twitter.com/rtearchives www.facebook.com/rtearchives

My thanks to colleagues Liam Wylie and Colm Talbot for adapting the content and links they send us each week for us for the RTÉ Archive site..

I am only getting my head around the links this week but hope to have them more organised next week..

They should make it easier for you to get into the extensive RTÉ Archive site.. CB

RTÉ Archives Daily Stories are available at www.rte.ie/archives

Coming up onwww.rte.ie/archives…

Dickie Rock, Bachelors Walk, Jim Fitzpatrick, Shirley Temple Bar, The Men of Aran and much more…

View now onwww.rte.ie/archives…

1956

Mayo Junior Football Final St Comans v Ballyhaunis
http://www.rte.ie/archives/category/sports/2016/0928/819894-gaa-mayo-junior-football-final/

1966

Newsbeat visits a Beat Club in Dublin
http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0926/819288-beat-generation-at-club-arthur/

1971

‘We the Irish’ a look at the history of Ireland
http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0922/818418-who-are-the-irish/

1976

The RTÉ Singers visit Cape Clear
http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0920/817829-rte-singers-visit-oilean-chleire/

1986

Billy Ryan a member of the Tipperary football team in Croke Park on Bloody Sunday 1920 was a guest on ‘Talk of Times Past’.
http://www.rte.ie/archives/2016/0921/818128-bloody-sunday-croke-park/