Stars come out to celebrate 50 years of RTÉ

“RTÉ was in total chaos at the time. It opened long before it should have.”

Legendary broadcaster and PR guru Bunny Carr should know — he was there on the night RTÉ launched on December 31, 1961 and two days later he found himself auditioning to be a live commercials announcer.

He was a bank clerk at the time but within minutes he was on air and, due to a technical error, making his script up as he went along.