Derek Davis was only on the Marian Finucane show on Sunday talking about his weight loss and the obesity problem in Ireland, which Iāve been meaning to listen back to. I thought he was a fine broadcaster with a lot of empathy, who was badly under used by RTE over the years.
RIP Derek Davis a good man
Poor Derek Davis. RIP
Agreed, infinitely better broadcaster than most of the hacks they shuffle around.
Rip Derek Davis. He was great on Live at 3 and Play The Game. A great showhost.
A good man.
"Madam, ā I may have been the only journalist on a Dublin street when the bombs went off and ran to alert my then employers RTĆ and BBC. My reactions were certainly a lot less courageous than those of Vincent Browne and others who ran to help the injured. That was the difference between Belfast and Dublin. Experience in the North taught people to run away from the scene of a bomb blast. Soon afterwards that day with cameraman Dave OāConnor from Bray I was in Monaghan to cover the aftermath of the bomb there. The butcherās bill for that dreadful day was worse than anything that any of us had encountered before . . . surely the story would run and run? It didnāt.
The Garda investigation was wound down after just six weeks. That investigation was not led by the Garda Special Branch, but by the detective unit, which was less well-equipped to deal with terrorist offences. Forensic evidence was sent to a lab in England for assessment and the Garda files are now āmissingā. Certainly the British authorities have questions to answer and files to produce that were withheld from the Barron inquiry; but there are others with questions to answer.
There are those who sat in cabinet at that time and others in the Department of Justice who owe it to the dead and bereaved to say what they know . . . to explain the desultory nature of what passed for an investigation.
It took only a few weeks for some journalists to get what seems to be a plausible picture of what happened that day. A loyalist murder gang from Market Hill in Co Armagh planted the bombs in Dublin. The Monaghan bomb was a diversion to draw Irish security forces away from the main Dublin Belfast road. But who made the bombs? Allegations persist that the killers were controlled by two British army officers based in Lisburn. Were those allegations ever investigated?
The royal visit has served to remind people of an atrocity that might otherwise be allowed to pass almost unnoticed. I for one would like to know who tried to kill me and anyone else who happened to be passing that day.I donāt seek an explanation to score any kind of political point or to try in some way to explain IRA atrocities.
It is for me and for most of the others personal. We are entitled to know. ā Yours, etc,
DEREK DAVIS,
Church Road,
Killiney,
Co Dublin."
Very sorry to hear of Derek Davisā passing. He was a very good broadcaster.
A very good angler as well, he campaigned for the SOS (Save our Sea Trout) movement.
Live at Three, yeah, my mother would have it on just as I was coming from school. I always thought Play The Game was just pure loopy, they even let Tom & Paschal on it one time.
What has 100 legs and smells of piss.
The audience at Live at 3.
Ah happy childhood memories.
Arrive home and the grandparents would be engrossed in Live at 3. Youād have your dinner and and an hour or two off before being sent to do your homework just as the music from A Country Practice started.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqxSfYMb4NQ
Al Hayes gave 600 pound to Live Aid in 1985 
I taught myself the music from that out of almost sheer necessity a couple of years ago
A beautiful melody mate or perhaps Iām a sentimentalist.
Youāre probably right on both counts. Like myself.
[QUOTE=āKinvaraās Passion, post: 1140354, member: 686ā] sent to do your homework just as the music from A Country Practice started.
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Christ, I used to hate when that music came on
[QUOTE=āKinvaraās Passion, post: 1140409, member: 686ā]Here you palā¦
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY1EnLD4XjE
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Fucking hell, I can still feel the pain
[QUOTE=āBandage, post: 1140210, member: 9ā]A good man.
"Madam, ā I may have been the only journalist on a Dublin street when the bombs went off and ran to alert my then employers RTĆ and BBC. My reactions were certainly a lot less courageous than those of Vincent Browne and others who ran to help the injured. That was the difference between Belfast and Dublin. Experience in the North taught people to run away from the scene of a bomb blast. Soon afterwards that day with cameraman Dave OāConnor from Bray I was in Monaghan to cover the aftermath of the bomb there. The butcherās bill for that dreadful day was worse than anything that any of us had encountered before . . . surely the story would run and run? It didnāt.
The Garda investigation was wound down after just six weeks. That investigation was not led by the Garda Special Branch, but by the detective unit, which was less well-equipped to deal with terrorist offences. Forensic evidence was sent to a lab in England for assessment and the Garda files are now āmissingā. Certainly the British authorities have questions to answer and files to produce that were withheld from the Barron inquiry; but there are others with questions to answer.
There are those who sat in cabinet at that time and others in the Department of Justice who owe it to the dead and bereaved to say what they know . . . to explain the desultory nature of what passed for an investigation.
It took only a few weeks for some journalists to get what seems to be a plausible picture of what happened that day. A loyalist murder gang from Market Hill in Co Armagh planted the bombs in Dublin. The Monaghan bomb was a diversion to draw Irish security forces away from the main Dublin Belfast road. But who made the bombs? Allegations persist that the killers were controlled by two British army officers based in Lisburn. Were those allegations ever investigated?
The royal visit has served to remind people of an atrocity that might otherwise be allowed to pass almost unnoticed. I for one would like to know who tried to kill me and anyone else who happened to be passing that day.I donāt seek an explanation to score any kind of political point or to try in some way to explain IRA atrocities.
It is for me and for most of the others personal. We are entitled to know. ā Yours, etc,
DEREK DAVIS,
Church Road,
Killiney,
Co Dublin."[/QUOTE]
Thanks for that post Bandage, I had not seen this piece before.
Fair play to Derek.
āLive at 3. Dead at 67ā was a headline on the front page of one of the papers I saw in the shop today. A bit crass I thought.
[QUOTE=āKinvaraās Passion, post: 1140409, member: 686ā]Here you palā¦
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IY1EnLD4XjE
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Christ but they were simple times