Brendan Balfe
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Brendan Balfe is an Irish radio personality, who has been on-air consistently for over 40 years on RTÉ. Comedy has been a feature of many of Brendan's programmes. He has won three International Awards for radio comedy and his Pathetic News feature on Balfe Street, was the only original satire on Irish radio for many years. Apart from his on-air work, Brendan Balfe is also the Music Policy Coordinator for RTÉ Radio 1, responsible for the choice of contemporary music across the schedule and was the first ever voice on 2FM.
Brendan hosts Balfe B@rté on RTÉ Radio One on Saturdays at 2.00pm. Brendan also set an international Radio record (now broken) for a 12 hour broadcast as the story of the assassination of Robert Kennedy was unfolding.