Radio review: ‘RTÉ 2FM is now just a platform for influencers who have no trouble finding better things to be doing’

Strange as it may seem, when RTÉ 2FM started as Radio 2 it was providing an important public service. An older Ireland of showbands and cabaret artistes was weakening, and rock ’n’ roll bands were emerging. There was this general sense in the late 1970s that the tectonic plates of Irish life and culture were shifting and that RTÉ had to recognise that in some way.