RTÉ’s new face of news, David McCullagh has a reassuring message for viewers
evoke.ieIt was a moment that took Prime Time viewers by surprise – the normally composed Miriam O’Callaghan choking up with emotion, paying tribute to her great colleague and friend David McCullagh on his last broadcast for the show before his big move to the Six One.McCullagh admits he too lost his composure, to the point where he fluffed the joke they had planned for the viewers.‘It was a bit of an emotional moment alright,’ he says, just hours later. ‘She surprised me doing that at the end.
I was a bit taken aback by it, to be honest with you. It was a lovely thing to do and I was really touched but so much so that I messed up the ending.‘We often joked that we should do the Two Ronnies ending, “It’s goodnight from “And it’s goodnight from her.”.
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