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Irish World House, 934 North Circular Road, closing for good on Easter Sunday London NW2 7JR. Telephone: 020 8453 7800 rish newsagent Eddie “’ve been around for 45 Brown will serve his years and I’d love to thank RTE’s DAB plans for last customer this all the customers,” he told Easter Sunday as he the Irish World. UK are squelched retires after 29 years. An online review of the IHis shop on Cricklewood shop by ‘Katie B’ in 2011 or some time ability of a DAB station Lane has become a hub of reads: RTE has for a million or more the community, where he “Oh Eddie how I love you struggled to Irish living in the UK. stocks Irish newspapers and your selection of hide its But if it did it didn’t and food stuffs, and was as Barry's Irish tea! incomprehen - succeed as the broad - much of a place to catch up “Eddie is a lovely man sion and incredulity at cast regulator – which with locals then it was to do and treats you like an old some UK Irish people’s says the bids are your shopping. friend every time you go in. rFeluctance to relin - assessed on the Eddie, 72, is well known “So if you're in the area quish listening to Long proposed service’s for having the chat as well, go on, pop in and say hello Wave. appeal to new tastes moving to Cricklewood Lane to Eddie and give Barry's tea The tone of its radio and interests – was after two separate stints on a whirl.” executives has ranged swayed by a business the Broadway too. from patronising to plan to bring back condescension to one Virgin Radio, last heard of genuine bafflement. in 2008. Barrister all set for London Marathon Why can’t people RTE Radio’s output just listen to the Radio is varied, talk sits A BARRISTER, IN One service they so like alongside music, on their smartphones factual and documen - or tablets when they’re tary as well as drama, on the go or on their hence its appeal to so his fifties, is Helpline and Southwark work that they do in support - alone. satellite receiver or Sky many Irish, and non- preparing to run in the London Churches Care. ing and providing companion - The 58-year-old started TV box, they ask – with - Irish, in this country Marathon later this month to Patrick McMorrow (right) ship to elderly people who live running four years ago when raGise omonleyd foer Dnulw ichwhaes sedlectedd thei cnharitgy for the he was offered a charity place out listening to the when they can receive in the 2012 London Marathon answers. it. on behalf of Hospice UK. One is therefore So one has to ask anniversary for “It was an unforgettable tempted to think that how strongly its case experience and I have run those same executives was made and, if it was, several half-marathons since had hoped to be able to to sympathise that it then and the Brighton pull, as if a rabbit from failed. Kilburn Couple Marathon last year,” he said. a magician’s hat, the The broadcaster “I've been training news that they had now says it is now througout the winter months secured a DAB slot for committed to look at and I'm really looking forward RTE Radio One from all its options in the UK. to this year's race which will next year – the cente - Might it be too much to probably be my last if my phys - iotherapist has anything to do nary of 1916, as we ask that, if DAB is now with it!” well know by now. a non-starter, the If you'd like to make a One doesn’t know station mightv look at donation visit https://mydo - how hard it tried to the recently vacated nate.bt.com/fundraisers/patric persuade , if it Bulgarian channel on Duo raise km£cm1o0rrowk1 for even did, of the desir - Long Wave? Marie Curie hospice

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