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There was widespread shock and sadness this week with the passing of Bill O’Herlihy of RTÉ fame.
The Cork native had only retired last summer after a career spanning 49 years that included fronting coverage of many Olympic Games, World Cups and European football championships.
He had also worked with The Examiner, but will be best remembered for his time as host with the RTÉ soccer panel.
Bill would have conducted countless interviews over the years, but readers may be interested to read that one of the very first was in The Avondhu circulation area, which he often alluded to down through the years when being interviewed himself, such as in January 2012 for the RTÉ website.
“My first job was in 1965. It was an interview for Frank Hall's Newsbeat about the 50th anniversary of the sinking of the Lusitania off the coast of Cork. I was sent down to Cappoquin to interview a survivor and it was a nightmare interview. I said to Frank Hall, 'Look, don't use it if it's not good enough'. And he saw something that I didn't see in it and he said I was to do all the work for his programme out of Cork – I was the first person in RTÉ to be based outside Dublin.”
He will be laid to rest tomorrow, Friday 29th in Shanganagh Cemetery, following 11.30am funeral Mass in the Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Succour, Foxrock.
Ar dheis De go raibh a anam dilis.
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