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

Hard to believe the weather is still the same after all these years!

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.

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.

Jesus don Coburn .breaks my heart to watch this now.bring back memories of my childhood

Loved him ..i use to babysit his grandchild in london RIP

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.

Don Cockburn .. an absolute legend ... RIP

I remember him reading the news when I was growing up, he looked exactly like my grandad at the time

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

Rip The sound of my child hood You are home now Don

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!

I remember dis man.we used ta watch 6 o clock news every evening. Dem wer da days

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

Don Cockburn..my mam loved him. Such a calming voice.

He was a regular sight peddling into and out of work on the Stillorgin Dual Carriageway! ;-)

A genuinely good man. Compare with the cesspool that is RTE today.

Rest in Peace Don Cockburn 🙏🙏

R. I. P. Don

Rest in Peace Don.

1:51 sounds early until you realise RTÉ 2 opened at 7PM not AM.

That's the great Don Cockburn.

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

back when RTE actually meant something in Ireland

R.I.P Don Cockburn.

Well the weather hasn't changed,rain and drizzle

Simpler days. Good times, good times.

Good man Don

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

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.

Don Cockburn R.I.P

This is how the news should be presented. Not like some sort of entertainment piece, with sound effects.

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?

A blast from the past news readers were almost family,we say tham every day

Its the great Don Cockburn.

He has a very long head. It's very elongated.

And that all from me and it's over to you Una in the met office..

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?

This is from Friday 11th October 1985.

Paul Allen is the announcer

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!!

The day starting at 7pm then rather like bbc four here does now then i guess too.

Rip Don

Only TWO Channels back then BOG 1 and BOG 2 If you told that the Teens now they would not believe you

25 thousand million. So 25 billion.

Who was this newscaster?.

Sadly missed . He read the news well.

Twenty five thousand million pounds...

25 thousand million, 😂 only the irish

Or Tea E.

Whi pocket got the millions

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 .

25 thousand million pounds only in Ireland lol 😆 😂 🤣

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

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