{"id":12318,"date":"2025-09-10T14:22:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/12318\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T14:22:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T14:22:09","slug":"darragh-mcmanus-forget-the-radio-rinse-and-repeat-why-rte-should-be-casting-wider-net-for-fresh-blood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/12318\/","title":{"rendered":"Darragh McManus: Forget the radio rinse and repeat &#8211; why RT\u00c9 should be casting wider net for fresh blood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Broadcaster has thought outside the envelope before and it hasn\u2019t turned out badly\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Dubliner Nuala McGovern presents 'Woman\u2019s Hour' on BBC Radio 4. Photo: Steve Bright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Nuala.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Dubliner Nuala McGovern presents &#8216;Woman\u2019s Hour&#8217; on BBC Radio 4. Photo: Steve Bright<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Like Clockwork by The Boomtown Rats was the first song ever played on 2FM, then Radio 2, way back in 1979.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">How things have changed since then. The legendary figure who introduced the song, the peerless Larry Gogan, has gone to his well-earned rest in that great DJ booth in the sky. The Boomtown Rats lead singer has transformed from punk provocateur Bob \u2018The Gob\u2019 Geldof to a potential presidential candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadcaster has thought outside the envelope before and it hasn\u2019t turned out badly Dubliner Nuala McGovern presents &#8216;Woman\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12319,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[6130,12207,93,61,60,6132,6133,6131,6085,6129],"class_list":{"0":"post-12318","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-claire-byrne","9":"tag-darragh-mcmanus","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-joe-duffy-broadcaster","14":"tag-newstalk","15":"tag-pat-kenny","16":"tag-rte","17":"tag-rte-radio-1"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12318\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}