Keith Walsh: Last News

Eoghan McDermott’s former colleagues have yet to share any farewell messages for the host since his permanent departure from 2FM was confirmed.

RTÉ has confirmed that Eoghan McDermott will not return to 2FM. The announcement comes over a fortnight after his abrupt absence from the station’s breakfast show began.

@RTE2fm pic.twitter.com/N4KSuI9kqF— Keithy (@KeithyWalsh) September 14, 2020‘As for me, keep an eye out for my podcast, book, documentary and please come to my play, details of all to be announced very soon.‘Thanks for listening and thanks for your support, you have given me a platform and I can’t wait to use it. So long and thanks for all the fish.’Keith ended the post with a quote: ‘I trust the next chapter because I know the author.’Fellow RTE 2FM presenter Doireann Garrihy shared a tribute to Keith on Twitter after he announced the news as she wrote:When I did a diploma in radio production, @PhilCawley was one of the teachers and said the no.1 rule if you want to go far in radio: be sound.

penning his first play as well as taking up residence on RTÉ Gold in the afternoons.Sharing on Monday that he’d soon be finished working on the station he said, ‘Hello all, it’s my last week here in Gold!’Ah feck that's a real shame. Thanks for entertaining us in the afternoon during the lockdown days.— Gareth Penrose (@garethpenrose) July 20, 2020His fellow presenters on the station wished Keith well with Rick O’Shea writing, ‘We just found this out today.’‘When @RTEGold was ramped up to 4 shows a day at the start of lockdown as a music safe place away from “the thing”, we presumed it wouldn’t be a permanent situation.

Keith Walsh has been enjoying much more civilised rising times for his radio work on 2FM and RTÉ Gold since Breakfast Republic came to an end a year ago.

Keith Walsh met his wife Suzanne in an art class during their teenage years and they went from painting cans to cans dinging behind the wedding car as their romance blossomed. 

RTÉ Radio 1, Keith shared that he came to a crossroads when his time on the breakfast show finished.He shared that he felt as if everything had been taken away from him, after putting so much time into that part of his career.The end of that chapter led him to therapy, which is something he wants to take the stigma away from.Speaking to Brendan he explained: ‘It gave me pause for concern. I think with something like that you put so much into it to the detriment of other things, like your personal life, your family life, your kids, your wife…’‘I’m not here to blame anybody, but when something like that finishes and is kind of taken away from you, as I perceived it, I felt like this was taken away from me.