AA Roadwatch broadcasters celebrate 21 years

IT has outlived many of its most famous characters like the Red Cow roundabout and the Westlink toll bridge, so AA Roadwatch had plenty of reason to celebrate yesterday when it marked 21 years of broadcasting traffic updates to a congested nation.

The service, which provides over 11,500 live traffic bulletins every year to national radio stations, marked its coming of age with a gathering of current and former presenters in Dublin.

Among the faces were TV presenter Lorraine Keane, RTÉ weather presenter Nuala Carey, record- breaking mountaineer Ian McKeever, 2FM’s Ruth Scott and Louise Heraghty, and the Afternoon Show’s Trevor Keegan, proving that the AA service has often acted as a springboard for other careers in broadcasting and elsewhere.