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No comment from RTÉ after Late Late Show 'doesn't give Tony Fenton even 30 seconds'

Ian Dempsey called the state broadcaster out on the omission.

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RTÉ HAS DECIDED not to comment after Today FM breakfast host Ian Dempsey pointed out that last night’s Late Late Show featured no mention of, or tribute to Tony Fenton.

Dempsey tweeted his surprise at the omission last night, noting that he’d received a call from Ryan Tubridy earlier in the day.

A spokesperson for RTÉ told DailyEdge.ie that the broadcaster has no comment to make on the issue.

Tony Fenton worked at 2FM for 18 years before moving to Today FM in 2003.

He passed away last Thursday morning at St Vincent’s Hospital.

Ian Dempsey was among many fans and colleagues paying tribute to Fenton in recent days.

Originally published on DailyEdge.ie

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:10 PM

    Rte are rotten to the core!

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:13 PM

    There was massive coverage on rte at every opportunity yesterday. Give it a rest.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:15 PM

    Our next agenda after the water charges should be to get rid of RTE, I’d honestly rather pay the water than have RTE or any of their rubbish on my TV, radio or the internet.

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    Mute Tony Pagel
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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:17 PM

    A fellow presenter on our small isle and he didn’t so much as give Fenton so much as a mention. You reap what you sow.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:28 PM

    Obviously must of come from the top not to mention Tony Fenton last night. Cold to the bone if u ask me.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:40 PM

    It was strange that they didn’t mention Tony Fenton.

    Instead we had to listen to Heather Mills giving her ex husband Paul McCartney dirty digs at every chance.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:40 PM

    All credibility as a professional broadcasting company long gone. Looking after their buddies and squandering licence payers money.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:48 PM

    Rte and late late r a joke, they spend tax payers money bring a convicted secterian serial killer in Michael stone on to plug his book, Wtf and uncle gaybo wouldn’t even shake Gerry Adams hand

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    Mar 14th 2015, 5:01 PM

    “must of” who says that?

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    Mar 14th 2015, 5:05 PM

    A lot of people !!!!! Sad sat afternoon for you if all you have to do is nit pick

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    Mar 14th 2015, 5:13 PM

    Even more sad that you seem to think it’s ok

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    Mar 14th 2015, 5:37 PM

    Sorry @ Paul lanigan I just answered a comment I thought was from you . Hands up I apologise ✋

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    Mar 14th 2015, 5:38 PM

    Tom can you point out in my comment where I said I thought it was ok ??????

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    Mar 14th 2015, 5:42 PM

    Afaik, Tony Fenton had no association with the Late Late so I don’t see why there would be any mention of him on last night’s show. RTE’s “no comment” response seems appropriate.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 5:43 PM

    There their they’re Paul, it must be great been u

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    Mar 14th 2015, 6:17 PM

    *being you

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    Mar 14th 2015, 6:22 PM

    ;-) I no,

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    Mar 14th 2015, 6:50 PM

    Lots of english speaking people! !!!Language is always changing. Don’t you know that, or do you think we speak the same english as they did 200 years ago.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 6:53 PM

    That was a reply to you paul lanigan

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    Mar 14th 2015, 11:27 PM

    @sinead. I am glad i am not the only one who disliked this woman. What a cold hearted two faced bitch. She was and still is a money grabber. Paul Mcmust have been out of his folking mind, when he met her. What i cant understand is, how and why do people call her a celebrity.? What has she ever done to make her a celeb, and there never seems to be any home grown people of interest on the late late show. I am afraid it is the too late show now.

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    Mar 15th 2015, 1:45 AM

    Because he worked for RTE for 18 years , and if you know anything about the late late it’s that it drags up about 50% of its guests from Rte canteen over those years – Ryan mentioned yesterday that it was tony Fenton who took him under his wing and helped Turbidy during his early days in RTE , the same Ryan that presents The Late late show , they regularly push b list guests from the UK down our throat on Friday nights so it was a but of a surprise that there wasn’t even a mention , it’s very likely that it’s because he had left RTE and moved to independent radio – RTE can be funny that way – but you can bet your life that ( god forbid) if an existing RTE Dj died of cancer not only would it not get mentioned but they’d dedicate half the show to pay tribute .

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    Mar 15th 2015, 1:56 AM

    @sinlacasa, give your neo-communist bs a rest and don’t hijack a completely unrelated thread. RIP Tony

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    Mar 16th 2015, 10:05 AM

    She has support. RTE have no morals, and do not reflect the feeling or opinion of the majority of this country. By turning off rte and 2fm at 2:30 today will send a msg to those running rte, ie Enda.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:18 PM

    Tony Fenton wouldn’t be too pushed that he wasn’t mentioned on the Shit box which is RTE and the Late Late show…

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    Mar 16th 2015, 1:07 PM

    I’m sure he would be happy not to be mentioned by that little weasel Turdidy !

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:13 PM

    Ryan Tubridy is a w@nker of the highest order.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:29 PM

    Too busy asking soft questions to the Halawa clan. “and you we’re just protesting a democratically elected President getting removed by a coup” ( Well Tubridy that President was breaking the constitution and trying to impose Sharia law but skip over the details sure Journalistic integrity isn’t important )

    Nothing about their links to the Muslim brotherhood like their Father and their position on the extremists.

    Nothing about the riots and bloodshed that we’re incited by their side resulting in deaths of Police and civilians.

    As for Shatter that fellow always going on about the antisemitism he receives has he any idea of the Muslim brotherhood position on Jews?

    The Halawa clan certainly done a PR job everything bar Halo’s above their heads and poor little “Irish” Ibrahim innocent little fellow(my arse).Their father recorded at a DCU debate stating he didn’t approve of integration!

    Had to laugh at the Sisters going on about humanity, will they have the same humanity for the people condemned to death under Sharia law?

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    Mar 14th 2015, 4:37 PM

    Very soft interview alright with no hard questions asked. I don’t think the young lad should should still be in jail over a year and a half later though.

    http://markhumphrys.com/halawa.html

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    Mar 14th 2015, 6:20 PM

    @ Atticus. Thought you hated the Late Late!

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:15 PM

    They were too busy giving air time to Islamic extremists.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:26 PM

    Very bad form. A legend he was. Deserved a tribute of some kind. Tubs should comment if not RTE,

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    Mar 14th 2015, 4:42 PM

    Tony was a legend and you know what if turbridy didnt give him the time to mention his passing it just shows how classless he is . But a lot of people knew that anyway so no big surprise. We dont need turbridy feigning condolences on air

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    Mar 14th 2015, 4:44 PM

    agree, very bad form from RTE. Compared to all the fanfare and eulogies, from them when Gerry Ryan died.
    Tony Fenton was a gentleman. He was not part of the clique at RTE.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 6:18 PM

    Ryan Tubridy was a very good friend of Tony Fenton and they were only out for lunch 4 weeks ago. Ryan thought he did not look great and felt it would be the last time he would see him. He spoke very lovingly about him the other morning on his show. He said how helpful and nice Tony was to him when he(Ryan) was the tea Guy in RTE. So i dont know what you are all moaning about as you all hate Ryan and dont watch the Late Late anyway or am I missing something!!!

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    Mar 14th 2015, 8:24 PM

    Potty , I’m with you on this one .

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    Mar 14th 2015, 8:42 PM

    Jaysus potty fair play to ya. That’s some talent being able to see into everyone’s sitting room on a fri night to see who is watching the late late AND mind read to know who hates Ryan Tubridy . AGAIN this topic is nothing to do with Ryan Tubridy it’s to do with the late late show no matter who presents it not paying tribute to someone who worked in RTE for 18 yrs on that show . If Ryan did it on his radio show fair play to him but I would guess not everyone that watches the late late listens to radio 1 .

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    Mar 14th 2015, 10:07 PM

    Gwen Tubridy is on 2FM now

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:25 PM

    I actually tuned in last night especially to see a tribute to the Gentleman of Irish radio.
    Shame on these cretins.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:32 PM

    tony didn’t need rte to mention him we all remember him and will long after some of the clowns rte 2fm have on the air their only claim to fame is swearing and and being dirty minded tony was a gent rest in peace tony keep spinning the disce up there tony

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:57 PM

    Are we really surprised that government inc/rte didn’t give a tribute to Tony Fenton. Tony was above all that crap. It just goes to show rte doesn’t know it’s people. Shame on them. It’s high time the license money was distributed to other far better media sources. Rte your days are numbered.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 4:10 PM

    They’d rather give airtime to foreign family and supporters of islamic terrorism. God Bless Tony Fenton.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 5:01 PM

    For the record Sean they are an Irish family.

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    Mar 15th 2015, 12:57 AM

    Irish your arse
    If they were irish what were they doing in Egypt
    They are only using the irish state

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    Mar 15th 2015, 8:39 AM

    Well John as far as I know if you are born in Ireland that makes you Irish. Yes they were over there protesting, their version of events that they went on holidays and then went to the protests “to check things out” is a load of crap and they are taking us for fools if they thinks we’re swallowing that.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:17 PM

    Tony , God rest him , wasn’t probably a supporter of Labour, or FG ?

    So no mention then by them .

    They have become so corrupt, it’s preposterous !

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:57 PM

    Christ, Eddie Barrett (Kerryman)…Give it a rest, what has Tony Fentons passing got to do with politics…..

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    Mar 14th 2015, 4:41 PM

    As opposed to Sinn Fein /IRA? Covering up rape and sexual abuse? You have no right to call any party corrupt.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:16 PM

    I am after losing count of the tributes to this man,no doubt deserved but what about the countless men and women who get no tributes for the great work they do,seems if you work in media you get all the plaudits

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    Mar 14th 2015, 10:11 PM

    Yeah, it’s almost as if people in the media are more well known and therefore their deaths would get more coverage. Funny that.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 4:01 PM

    Too busy entertaining the likes of them triplet muslims

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:40 PM

    It would have been nice for his passing to have been mentioned. I hope that no idiots make remarks here in order to make political points.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 4:07 PM

    Surprised it wasn’t mentioned on the LLS, but know that Ryan Tubridy gave a heartfelt tribute to Tony at the start of his radio show yesterday morning so it didn’t appear to be an omission as a lack of respect or love for Tony.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 6:33 PM

    Well said Sinead I heard it too and it was very heart felt..

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    Mar 14th 2015, 8:46 PM

    Exactly Sinead I was surprised too and I know from listening to Ryan he is very sympathetic and I like him and it might not have been down to him that it was not mentioned but I think it was disgraceful

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    Mar 14th 2015, 3:40 PM

    Wan$er$

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    Mar 14th 2015, 4:56 PM

    RTE are just pathetic

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    Mar 14th 2015, 5:27 PM

    They’d rather give airtime to foreign supporters of muslim terrorism. Outrageous of the national broadcaster to give these people airtime.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 5:44 PM

    Not surprised what lovely man beautiful tone to his voice will be missed greatly by his friends colleagues rip

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    Mar 14th 2015, 4:39 PM

    There is very little between RTE and the BBC, ITV,C4.
    One of the things they have in common, is talk shows and celebrity programming based around celebrities talking about other celebrities.

    In my opinion There is little to much of it. At the moment.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 4:42 PM

    It would have been fitting for the producers if the LLS to mention a great presenter Tony Fenton.

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    Mar 16th 2015, 2:32 PM

    Couldn’t disagree more, Channel 4 is the best terrestrial TV station by a country mile on these Islands.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 5:22 PM

    RTE are a direct reflection of whats wrong with certain things in this country

    Guaranteed money huge pots of money to feather the pockets of there own

    Absolutely no accountability to the public

    Report or more so fail to report news that should be out there for the public

    Time to get rid of the outdated c r a p

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    Mar 14th 2015, 8:48 PM

    Tom Dunne will present a tribute show to Tony Fenton on Monday night on Newstalk.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 4:50 PM

    Sure RTE are only an instrument of a devisive media controlling government.

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    Mar 15th 2015, 4:10 PM

    100% correct, representing the elite indeed.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 4:27 PM

    Guys, the people who we like on TV and radio don’t all live in one big house together and love each other. It’s okay.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 7:16 PM

    I just wonder was it because Tony Fenton left rte and joined an opposition station that’s why his passing wasn’t mentioned on the late late Tubrridy did give a warm tribute on his radio show though.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 6:17 PM

    Ryan Tunbridy paid his respects to Tony Fenton on his radio show on Fri morning and it was very heart felt and genuine. Give the guy a break.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 6:28 PM

    Vanessa. I was listening to that. He spoke at length about Fenton as a treasured colleague and friend. And the fact that he owes much of his own success to the advice that Fenton gave him and how he showed him the ropes etc.
    Once he had finished his tribute he probably decided to just leave it at that and not mention it on the Late Late.
    The thing is with a lot of people they love to moan about Tubs regardless of what he does or doesn’t say, he’s damned if he doesn’t and damned it he does.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 6:40 PM

    Agreed Jason. I think Ryan Tubridy is a loving caring man and I do not understand why he gets such hateful comments on the Journal. Especially from so manywho hate RTE and the Late Late. I listen to him every day and you just get to know the type of person the presenter is when they are in your kitchen for 2 hours every day.
    just listening to him make that phone call to the children in the morning at 8.45 would brighten your day up!

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    Mar 14th 2015, 7:32 PM

    RTE mentioned Tony’s passing more than a few times on TV and Radio over the last few days. Tubridy also paid tribute to Tony on his radio show.
    Relax and keep your knickers on folks.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 8:51 PM

    True that it was mentioned on RT’s radio show, but the LLS is a different show on a different medium, watched by a different (& larger) audience, and the great, untimely loss of such a giant of Irish radio/music should have been mentioned, even if only in passing, and with reference to the other tributes given earlier.

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    Mar 14th 2015, 10:39 PM

    Nothing like a good crap when reading the journal ! Thanks for that

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    Mar 15th 2015, 8:07 AM

    So all the comments about Gerry Ryan have been removed . Pathetic . Still comment of the wk Rachel

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    Mar 15th 2015, 8:20 AM

    Wouldn’t surprise me if the late late show did a full tribute to tony Fenton. Maybe the show felt tony was worth more than just a quick mention

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    Mar 15th 2015, 4:03 PM

    The ReprobaTEs at RTE don’t forgive or forget if you defect from their ranks to a rival broadcaster.

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    Mar 15th 2015, 9:51 AM

    People using the death of Tony Fenton to get a dig at RTE need to have a long hard look at themselves.

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    Mar 15th 2015, 4:04 PM

    Someone give this guy a mirror.

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