Louise McSharry

Those You know all the classic old jingles That you'd hear in your granny's house Or you've heard your whole life Are gone I think Like we're gonna get into A different aspect of it But from the get-go Frankly Insane decision Insane decision Like those jingles

I love that I would turn on LiveLine today and hear the same jingle that I heard in my granny's house when I was eight.

Like, you know, as I've said multiple times, like RTE and particularly RTE Radio 1, I think, is such a part of Ireland's culture and identity that like many of us, for many of us growing up in a house with a radio on in the kitchen,

Like that's part of the fabric of our childhood.

And I always thought it was really cool that RT kept it the same because they could have been updating every five or 10 years, which would be what most radio stations would do.

They would change their imaging.

But they didn't.

And I was like, that's so great.

And then they did.

I think, yeah.

And turning it into just a normal national broadcaster.

Yeah, I was just going to say, this approach treats RT Radio 1 like it's any radio station.

And it's not any radio station.

People are deeply connected to it.

I'm very personally.

I really enjoy that the presenters themselves were kind of the first people to criticize.

Oliver Collins said at the start of his show on one day, it will take a bit of getting used to.

I'm now presenting your own news at 3 o'clock in the morning, it would appear.

Kieran Cuddihy opened the live line so that listeners could have their say themselves, which I thought was great.

One of the live line callers, Bernard, said that the theme tune reminded him of his childhood and makes the hair stand in the back of my head, shared heartfelt memories of the images that the familiar trumpet sounds on a Sunday evoked for him.