Join Simon K on this weeks episode as he speaks to Pat O'Mahony about working as a DJ with RTE for many years and being a producer/director and presenter, and sometimes stand-in priest!
Pat O'Mahonyis an award-winning, Dublin-based freelance TV/
radioproducer/director and presenter
with over 30 years full-time broadcasting experience in Ireland and the UK.
Pat has worked with RTE,
the BBC.ITV,Discovery as well as many others.
He is also a blogger and podcaster at the award-winning Off Message podcast covering the media in all it’s entirety.
In his almost 30 years in broadcasting there have been many highlights:
Such producing the Emmy-winning Reporters At War series for Discovery in 2003 on the history of war journalism;
Producing in RTÉ Radio 1 and RTÉ 2fm since 2010 on the likes of Liveline, Late Debate, the Dave Fanning Show, Game On, Mooney, the John Murray Show, Weekenders with Ruth & Paddy, the Marty Morrissey Show, Songwriters, the Brendan O’Connor Show, Rick O’Shea in the Afternoon and the Ryan Tubridy Show;
Co-producing and hosting You Couldn’t Make It Up, a 10-part weekly radio comedy news panel show for Newstalk in 2019 and 2013-2014;
Directing his first television documentary, Sleep With Me, in 2007 for Channel 4’s First Cut strand;
Producing RTÉ Radio 1’s winning 2015 PPI Station of the Year Award entry;
Presenting and producing the weekly Access All Areas on RTÉ Radio 1 between 1996 and 1998 on the workings of the music industry;
Producing and directing Now That’s What You Called News 2011, an end of year news-review television programme for RTÉ that focused on our internet news searches;
Producing five radio documentaries for RTÉ Radio 1’s Documentary On One strand between 2009 and 2012, including The Forgotten Visit on Nixon’s 1970 visit to Ireland and the GAA McNamee Award-winning A Silver Lining on emigration and the Stockholm Gaels;
Filling in for Dave Fanning for eight years from 1990 on his nightly RTÉ 2fm music show;
and of course, what most people of a certain age remember him for, his first full time broadcasting gig, co-presenting RTÉ Television’s Head 2 Toe, their then weekly fashion show (I know. Me? Fashion? for five years from autumn 1989.
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