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EAT YOUR HEART Joe Duffy. Irish online radio station Radiomade.ie have smashed the Guinness World record for the longest ever marathon radio talk show by a team.
The radio DJs set a target to chat on air for 60 hours over two and a half days.
They started their discussions at 9am on Friday and carried on through to Sunday night ending at about midnight.
In total the talk show lasted 63 hours. That’s a lot of talking.
Record breakers
For over three years, a group of American DJs in Christian station in the US held the world record for the longest marathon radio talk show. They held the record at 57 hours, however, the Irish DJs, beat their record by six hours.
This wasn’t done for just the glory. The DJs talked for over two days all in aid of men’s health, raising just over €3,400 for Movember.
Speaking to TheJournal.ie, Dan Murphy said they were delighted with their achievement, though, understandably, he was very tired.
“We finished up around midnight, after 63 hours on air, so we’ve beaten the previous record holders, a Christian station, who had prayers to keep them going,” said Murphy.
Discussions
So what do you talk about for over 6o hours?
We had good conversation and bit of craic. We had a topic per hour, so the guys prioritised what they wanted to talk about. We narrowed it down to about 60 topics. We talked about everything from religion to music to politics – a little bit of everything. Some things ran out of steam though.
The radio programme also had guest speakers involved, which Murphy said was good to break things up. “A few DJs came in too, owners of local restaurants and we also had a live cooking demo,” said Murphy.
Murphy and his Radiomade colleague, Jack Olohan, say this event was just kicking off their initiative to fundraise for men’s health as they are off to the US in a couple of months to run the New York City marathon.
We all know the Irish are great talkers, but this achievement deserves a medal.
To donate to their cause, which is Movember, you can click here.
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Going to be a huge waste in tax payer money on this.
Reminds me of the 100ks euro being spent on reports getting them translated to Irish , yet time and time again nobody ever requests the Irish reports.
Having 20% being Irish is out of step with Irish population, no where near 20% of this country’s population chooses Irish as their first language
@Barry Somers: maybe have them 100% available in Irish only. English translation by request only. Maybe that would encourage people to improve their Irish. What’s your plan? Just give up on your country’s beautiful indigenous language..?
@Diaspora’d: oh I see, you are trying the same tactic as the education system when it comes to Irish by forcing it on people.
Remind me again just how much its failed for decades where people leave school with hardly a word of Irish.
It’s failed utterly in our education system but it seems that doesn’t stop you.
@Barry Somers: Actually it’s because it’s never been properly implemented. Still can’t understand why kids in Ireland are not all educated in all-Irish primary and secondary schools. All-Irish schools are an excellent way to give kids the ability to be bilingual and then be able to pick up other languages too. It’s no hindrance to their overall education and I also can’t understand why Irish people who are proud of their identity would be so willing to let their indigenous language die.
Faoi dheireadh! Dea nuacht don Ghaeilge.
Before any of the nay sayers comment here. This won’t actually cost anything. Asking that a proportion of the messages already sent out by departments be done as Gaeilge makes sense. It’s a shame to see government departments putting out English only messaging on social media
20% employment will be a great encouragement for young people to engage with the language more in school and college.
@Aodhán Ó Deá: Aontaím go hiomlán
Visit the so-called Irish-speaking areas (Dingle is a prime example) and listen to the languages spoken. English, of course, and, depending on the time of year, Polish is next and then German and French. The pretence is embarrassing. The only place I know of that comes remotely close to being a Gaeltacht is Carraroe, Co Galway but it’s nowhere near what it was when I lived there years ago. We didn’t need Gaeltacht signs back then; the predominant language was Irish. Today is quite a different story. Time to face reality. Sad but true.
Ar feabhas!
Irish is Marbh.
Waste of money
More people speak polish than Irish
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