Morning Ireland is 25 years old!
Morning Ireland celebrated 25 years on air on Thursday 5 November 2009, with a special programme, broadcast and webcast in front of a live audience.
To watch the special programme again, click here.
To listen back to the special programme, click here.
To see photos of the event, click here.
In preparation for the occasion, we decided to look back at the past 25 years and select reports and interviews which were important to us for various reasons. We've collated those reports below, with accompanying blogs on why they were memorable.
We also asked you, our listeners, to select your stand-out moments. Click here to listen to the stories you selected
and we have a photo gallery from those early years. Click here to see some of the faces behind those familiar voices.
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Morning Ireland:
Cathal Mac Coille interviews Marianne O'Connor, CORI, who says more resources will be put in by the 18 orders for victims of abuse but the indemnity deal agreed with the Government will not be reopened. Listen to the audio and read Cathal's blog below about why this interview was memorable for him -
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Richard Downes reports from Baghdad on the day the coalition forces launched their bombing campaign, dubbed Shock and Awe, on the Iraqi capital and other areas of Iraq. Listen to the audio and read Richard's blog below -
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Aine Lawlor introduces a tribute to the victims of the Northern Ireland Troubles. Based on the book Lost Lives, which compiled the stories of all those who died in the violence of the Troubles, this piece includes tributes by politicians and leaders involved in the peace process, each of whom was asked to select one story from the thousands in the book. Listen to the audio and read Aine's blog below -
Morning Ireland:
Aoife Kavanagh reports from Rwanda where preparations are underway to mark the 10th anniversary of the genocide. She reports that, in a prison in Gikongoro, in the south-west of Rwanda, some of the killers acknowledge their crimes. Listen to the audio and read Aoife's blog below -
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Donal Byrne spoke to Annie Murphy about her relationship with Bishop Eamon Casey, the child he fathered with her and the effect it had on her life. Listen to the audio and read Donal's blog below -
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Cathal Mac Coille and Geraldine Harney interview Michael Buckley, then-Chief Executive of AIB, about the three quarters of a billion dollar bank fraud perpetrated by John Rusnack, a currency trader for AIB's US division, Allfirst. Listen to the audio and read Richard Dowling's blog below -
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Listen to the first ever broadcast of Morning Ireland: 5th of November 1984. Unfortunately, the recording is incomplete but, happily, most of it has survived. Listen to the audio and read Michael Good's blog below -
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David Hanly spoke to poet Seamus Heaney on 9 October, 1995, after he was awarded the Nobel prize for literature. - RTÉ.ie Extra Audio: Listen to David Hanly reminiscing about the Seamus Heaney interview as he and David Davin Power remember their debut as the first Morning Ireland presenters
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Read Cathal's blog about why his interview with Marianne O'Connor of CORI was memorable for him
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Read Richard's blog about why his report from Baghdad was memorable for him
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Read Aine's blog about why the recording of Lost Lives was memorable for her
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Read Aoife's blog about why her broadcast from Rwanda was memorable for her
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Read Donal Byrne's blog about the interview with Annie Murphy and how it forever changed Ireland's relationship with the Catholic Church
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Read Richard's blog about how the story of John Rusnak's fraud came to be broken on Morning Ireland
- Read Michael's blog about the early days of Morning Ireland
Morning Ireland News Quiz
How closely were you listening to the news this week? Take our quiz and test yourself.
There are no prizes, just the satisfaction of knowing you're up to speed on the issues of the day. All the questions were discussed on Morning Ireland during the past week so, yes, you can cheat by listening back.
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NAMA: extended interview
The aim of the National Asset Management Agency is to eventually get all of the assets it acquired from banks and developers off its books.
In this extended, interview, Cathal Mac Coille spoke to NAMA's chairman, Frank Daly.