Rest in Peace Donald a voice never forgotten when a child.
@vobyrne10 жыл бұрын
Rashers and sausages on the table, and Don on the telly.. One of my earliest childhood memories.. A lifetime ago
@rinnin6 жыл бұрын
You've got serious issues Turf Boy. Get help!
@thebaldingsparrow53924 жыл бұрын
Ya posh fecker ya
@johnjohns81662 жыл бұрын
You ejit.
@gearoiddom5 жыл бұрын
Hard to believe the weather is still the same after all these years!
@bubbasmoleyay97995 жыл бұрын
Ha
@hugostiglitz69144 жыл бұрын
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!😁
@spmoran47032 жыл бұрын
Raining , raining , raining.
@themadfarmer5207 Жыл бұрын
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
@bellabell7376 ай бұрын
😂😂What about the global boiling?
@joemclaughlin995 Жыл бұрын
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.
@mjlawlor406 жыл бұрын
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.
@soeffingwhat6 жыл бұрын
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.
@googleaccount79864 жыл бұрын
Jesus don Coburn .breaks my heart to watch this now.bring back memories of my childhood
@alanslevin82234 жыл бұрын
It's spelt Cockburn not Coburn.
@1111sage4 жыл бұрын
Loved him ..i use to babysit his grandchild in london RIP
@praisebewibble6 жыл бұрын
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.
@johnoshea4705 жыл бұрын
Don Cockburn .. an absolute legend ... RIP
@defiantsmash93363 жыл бұрын
I remember him reading the news when I was growing up, he looked exactly like my grandad at the time
@thoskel16 жыл бұрын
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
@jameswalsh24275 жыл бұрын
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.
@hugostiglitz69143 жыл бұрын
@@jaspjody-wb9ef Michael O Leary's approach to air transport will bite him on the ass one day!
@johnbyrne4743 жыл бұрын
2021 and now you can't fly to London
@emu95206 жыл бұрын
Rip The sound of my child hood You are home now Don
@bernarddover14425 жыл бұрын
e mu home where
@ON8EI2 жыл бұрын
After reading the news he'd cycle home on his bike. Sound man, rest in peace Don.
@MrDeaconJack10 жыл бұрын
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.
@robertcomer2767 Жыл бұрын
RTE2 was on air for 7 years and was still opening at 7pm at night!
@irishfightingmen74216 жыл бұрын
I remember dis man.we used ta watch 6 o clock news every evening. Dem wer da days
@andy2401906 жыл бұрын
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
@sharona19813 жыл бұрын
Don Cockburn..my mam loved him. Such a calming voice.
@keltiquewood Жыл бұрын
He was a regular sight peddling into and out of work on the Stillorgin Dual Carriageway! ;-)
@bobbyhanly3466 Жыл бұрын
A genuinely good man. Compare with the cesspool that is RTE today.
@ciaranclancy32963 жыл бұрын
Rest in Peace Don Cockburn 🙏🙏
@andrewhayes3055 жыл бұрын
R. I. P. Don
@justin336316 жыл бұрын
Rest in Peace Don.
@liamfoley96145 жыл бұрын
1:51 sounds early until you realise RTÉ 2 opened at 7PM not AM.
@MrDeaconJack10 жыл бұрын
That's the great Don Cockburn.
@seanbonella Жыл бұрын
back when RTE actually meant something in Ireland
@waynefarrellvoiceovers4 жыл бұрын
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: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mqx4gqVpm5zPdJc.html
@noellegunning33012 ай бұрын
I remember the 14inch T.Vs well 😂😂
@waynefarrellvoiceovers2 ай бұрын
They are a classic.
@darrenbelton25236 жыл бұрын
R.I.P Don Cockburn.
@bubbasmoleyay97995 жыл бұрын
Cockburn lmao
@nedfarrell7 ай бұрын
Well the weather hasn't changed,rain and drizzle
@Lungsy198810 жыл бұрын
Simpler days. Good times, good times.
@soeffingwhat6 жыл бұрын
+Lungsy1988 Simpler days? really? I doubt people up north would agree with you there.
@albertmccready4786 жыл бұрын
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
@John-ke6mt6 жыл бұрын
Good man Don
@Gilloringsend3 жыл бұрын
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
@ColmORourke198111 жыл бұрын
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.
@carolinedoyle30447 жыл бұрын
did you ever find out? I'd be interested to know too :)
@jimmymcjimmyvich90523 жыл бұрын
@@carolinedoyle3044 He needs a Knowledge of Font))
@jimmymcjimmyvich9052 Жыл бұрын
Sorry. No.
@Fcutdlady3 жыл бұрын
Don Cockburn R.I.P
@chrisclark17612 ай бұрын
This is how the news should be presented. Not like some sort of entertainment piece, with sound effects.
@1948DESMOND10 жыл бұрын
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?
@EricNorton6276 жыл бұрын
Blondie McKenzie The government is supposed to be protecting people from unscrupulous business practices.
@jimmymcjimmyvich9052 Жыл бұрын
I think it was state owned then. Aer Lingus. Ryanair was in infancy.
@aliceobrien8390 Жыл бұрын
A blast from the past news readers were almost family,we say tham every day
@darrenbelton25236 жыл бұрын
Its the great Don Cockburn.
@DJSwezzleMusic3 жыл бұрын
He has a very long head. It's very elongated.
@jimmymcjimmyvich9052 Жыл бұрын
Elongate your statement.
@DJSwezzleMusic Жыл бұрын
@@jimmymcjimmyvich9052 what?
@Marlondurran4 жыл бұрын
And that all from me and it's over to you Una in the met office..
@user-ht8pn6dv9j6 жыл бұрын
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?
@mango20056 жыл бұрын
Coburn is originally a Scottish surname.
@jimmymcjimmyvich9052 Жыл бұрын
Yours.
@irishfiona11 жыл бұрын
This is from Friday 11th October 1985.
@BovineCat6 жыл бұрын
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
@crossman205 жыл бұрын
@@BovineCat: Excellent my dear Holmes!
@neilstack41945 жыл бұрын
My 19th birthday
@JohnnyTubeNYC4 жыл бұрын
Cloudy and close sounds like July than October
@tb8123 жыл бұрын
Paul Allen is the announcer
@michealkelliher8428Ай бұрын
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!!
@BruceDanton-xw6eg2 ай бұрын
The day starting at 7pm then rather like bbc four here does now then i guess too.
@mickdunne981 Жыл бұрын
Rip Don
@damienocallaghan2648 Жыл бұрын
Only TWO Channels back then BOG 1 and BOG 2 If you told that the Teens now they would not believe you
@wayneleone Жыл бұрын
25 thousand million. So 25 billion.
@firstcommenter013 ай бұрын
They obvs never heard of a billion back in the day - couldn’t even imagine it!
@vobyrne11 жыл бұрын
Who was this newscaster?.
@cormacdoheny4707 жыл бұрын
+cautious dinny The news caster is Don Cockburn.
@spmoran47032 жыл бұрын
Sadly missed . He read the news well.
@themadfarmer5207 Жыл бұрын
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
@jimmymcjimmyvich90523 жыл бұрын
Twenty five thousand million pounds...
@michaelkilcourse60713 жыл бұрын
25 thousand million, 😂 only the irish
@sanchoodell6789 Жыл бұрын
Or Tea E.
@kevinkealy15766 жыл бұрын
Whi pocket got the millions
@johnjonjohn4133 жыл бұрын
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 .
@user-lx5ue4wm5k2 жыл бұрын
25 thousand million pounds only in Ireland lol 😆 😂 🤣
@gabouriousgabourious13187 жыл бұрын
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
@daviesp036 жыл бұрын
In a nutshell
@chrisobrien90397 жыл бұрын
2million to be welcomed in Ireland refugee package EU German agreement
@3108dd3 жыл бұрын
What?! F*ck no!!
@themadfarmer5207 Жыл бұрын
And likely to be delivered before time but over budget