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LIVELINE CALLBACK ***NEW SERIES***

Liveline Callback ep 1 Image Name: Liveline Callback ep 1 Copyright: RTÉ
Liveline Callback Image Name: Liveline Callback Copyright: RTE

Returning for a brand new series Liveline Callback on RTE One, allows Joe Duffy to look back at some of the standout stories on the nation’s favourite radio talk show Liveline and follows up on the most memorable for the TV audience.

Each programme in this eight-part series episode asks what happened after these stories featured on the radio – and follows up on the sometimes heartbreaking, sometimes heart-warming outcomes.

Episode 1

Story – “Kathleen’s Roof”

82 year old Kathleen Byrne rang Liveline to tell Joe how she was scammed of €3000 by roofers claiming that her roof was damaged and needed repair. When Kathleen told the men that she had no money they drove her in their van to Raheny Post Office and asked her to take the money out of her life savings.

When she came back from the Post Office and got into the van again, she was asked, “did you get the money?”. She handed over the €3,000 which the man counted. The scammers then drove Kathleen back to her house and quickly scarpered.

What happened after?

Story – “The Search”

Surjit Nandha travelled to Dublin from Bedford, England in search of her sister who see hadn’t met in 40 years. She tried registry offices etc. but had no luck. On her way back to the airport the taxi driver suggested that she phone Joe to see if he could help. She spoke on the air for 15 minutes and gave as much information about her sister as she could. Listening that day was a woman on a bus in Co West Meath who identified the missing sister as her friend Vicky Jackson now living in Castlepollard.Vicky had changed her name from her original Indian name many years ago….

 

Story- “Creature on The Loose”

In 2011 one quirky story that caught the listeners ear was when a woman from Killiney phoned in to say that a large noisy bird had taken up residence in her back garden. This phone call sparked many more calls from people living in the Killiney /Dalkey area with a similar story.

After Joe Duffy’s extensive on-air research it turned out that the bird was a Peahen and she belonged to Bono! As soon as callers arranged for her to be returned to Bono – the Peahen would again take flight to explore more gardens in the Killiney /Dalkey area.

In this programme Joe Duffy revisits some of the people who fostered Bono’s Peahen and asks them about their experience.