Brendan Balfe

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Brendan Balfe is an Irish radio personality, who has been on-air consistently for more than 40 years on RTÉ. Comedy has been a feature of many of Balfe'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, 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 RTÉ 2FM.

Balfe hosts Balfe B@rté on RTÉ Radio 1 on Saturdays at 2.00pm. He also set an international Radio record (now broken) for a 12-hour broadcast as the story of the assassination of Robert Kennedy was unfolding.

In 1986, Balfe won a Jacob's Award for his radio documentary series The Spice of Life.

He published his autobiography, entitled Radio Man, in 2007.

On the 24th of March 2008 Balfe hosted the last radio show to be broadcast on RTÉ's medium wave service, Medium Wave Goodbye was a personal selection of items broadcast on the service since 1926.