SEAN BOLGER

I don’t quite know when it happened but I’ve realised that I no longer sit down and watch the news on TV with any degree of regularity. Having spent a lifetime in the broadcast industry, the need to know what was going on in the world became an occupational habit and with the advent of rolling news channels, television became my drug of choice. But now it appears I’ve started to look elsewhere for my regular factual fix.

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More sad news this morning - this time about bon vivant and raconteur Dai Llewellyn, who died yesterday at the age of 62. Dai was a regular contributor to the Talk Radio UK Breakfast Show back in the mid-90’s and in those heady days of supposed shock-jockery, I always looked forward to him appearing in the studio to stir up another hornets’ nest on whatever topical issue had happened to catch his eye.

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