John Creedon - floating on the airwaves for 30 years

John Creedon heads down the Shannon in his latest summer travel show for RTE. The leisurely cruise allowed him to reminisce on his long career on radio and TV. He talks to Ailin Quinlan about three decades at RTE.

It’s hard to imagine that John Creedon was once so stony-broke he had to hitch to an audition for a job in RTÉ.

But he did. That was 30 years ago, way back in the summer of 1987, when Ireland was in the death-grip of the eighties recession; unemployment was at a peak and like many at the time, Creedon, now a multi-award-winning broadcaster, was in dire need of a break.