Pat Butler and Alan Titley are Fachtna Ó Drisceoil’s guests on the programme this week. Pat is a TV and radio broadcaster with RTÉ since the seventies, and has worked on many programmes in that time including Youngline, Féach, Today Tonight and Léargas, as well as working on several documentaries about controversial episodes in Irish history. Alan Titley is a former Professor of Irish, a writer, a critic and a broadcaster. Both men are originally from Cork, and they met on their first day of primary school many years ago. On the programme today they talk about their long friendship, and we also learn about Alan’s time living in Nigeria, and Pat talks in particular about his work on Today Tonight.
Is iad Pat Butler agus Alan Titley an bheirt aoi a bheidh i mbun comhrá le Fachtna Ó Drisceoil ar chlár an lae inniu. Tá Pat Butler ina chraoltóir teilifíse agus raidió le RTÉ ó na seachtóidí i leith. D’oibrigh sé ar an iliomad clár thar na mblianta, ina measc Youngline, Féach, Today Tonight agus Léargas, agus rinne sé cláracha faisnéise iomráiteacha faoi ghnéithe conspóideacha de stair na hÉireann freisin. Iar Ollamh le Gaeilge, scríbhneoir, criticeoir agus craoltóir é Alan Titley. Is as Corcaigh ó dhúchas dóibh beirt agus chuireadar aithne ar a chéile ar a gcéad lá sa bhunscoil. Ar an gclár inniu labhrann Alan linn faoin tréimhse a chaith sé sa Nígéir, agus labhrann Pat linn go háirithe faoin am a chaith sé ag obair ar Today Tonight, agus labhrann siad beirt faoin gcairdeas atá eatarthu le fada an lá.