George Hamilton
speaker
741 appearances
4 recordings
2 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 31 Jul
George Hamilton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It was the first one I remember and Northern Ireland were in it and it was a small time tournament.
And I was overwhelmed with excitement at the prospect of the team that I had actually seen in the flesh was actually going to be at a World Cup.
Of course, we couldn't see it on TV.
So everything I knew about the World Cup came through the lens of Malcolm Brodie, the sports editor of the Belfast Telegraph.
The newspaper came in our door every night.
And I avidly read.
And that probably started me off wanting to become a sports reporter, commentator.
But that was where the World Cup started for me.
And then there was Chile in 1962, which was on the box.
There was the England World Cup.
And they think it's all over.
The wonderful Kenneth Wilson, who was my inspiration.
1970, the Gordon Banks saved.
1974, I'd lived in Germany as a student.
And now I was back there looking at the...
in my mind's eye I was back there but seeing it all on TV in the final where the kick-off was held up because they didn't have the flags on the halfway line you might recall Jack Taylor the Wolverhampton butcher was the referee and then 78 I was actually there my very first World Cup for RTE they were short a commentator they had two of their own Jimmy McGee
And Philip Green, they hired Billy George from what was then the Cork Examiner, and the late, great Mike Horgan, a very good friend of mine, sports editor at the time, said, we need a fourth commentator.
What about the guy who does it for BBC in Belfast?
That's where it all began.
Magic.
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