She left this position in 1979 to join RTÉ as a journalist and presenter during one period as a reporter and presenter for their Today Tonight programme.

Its first legal advisor was Mary McAleese, Reid Professor of Law at Trinity College, Dublin, future President of Ireland ; she served as legal advisor from 1975 to 1979, when she left her professorial position to join RTÉ.

RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta joined in 1972, and RTÉ Radio 2, now 2FM, launched in 1979.

When, in 1979, RTÉ established a new rock and pop station under the name of RTÉ Radio 2 ( now RTÉ 2fm ), the original RTÉ Radio channel was renamed once again and became RTÉ Radio 1.

RTÉ Radio 2, as it was originally known, began broadcasting on 31 May 1979.

Hughie Green presented a single episode of Opportunity Knocks for RTÉ in 1979.

It is one of RTÉ Two ’ s longest-running shows, having been on air since 1979, one year after the channel first began broadcasting.

The first edition of The Sunday Game was broadcast on RTÉ 2 on Sunday, 8 July 1979.

In 1979, Whelan joined RTÉ Radio 2, now known as RTÉ 2fm.

He was RTÉ News and Current Affairs's Europe Correspondent from 1979 to 1989.

However, notwithstanding the outcry, and condemnation by John Cowley who argued that the cast had been badly treated, the last television episode was broadcast on RTÉ television in May 1979.

From 1972 until 1977 and again in 1979, Murphy was the regular Eurovision Song Contest commentator for RTÉ television viewers.

* The DOS operating system was the primary operating system for the Apple Computer's Apple II family of computers, from 1979 with the introduction of the floppy disk drive, until 1983 with the introduction of ProDOS ; many people continued using it long after that date.

In the experimental post 1960s eras, which saw the development of free jazz and jazz-rock fusion, some of the influential bassists included Charles Mingus ( 1922 – 1979 ), who was also a composer and bandleader whose music fused hard bop with black gospel music, free jazz and classical music ; free jazz and post-bop bassist Charlie Haden ( born 1937 ) is best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman and for his role in the 1970s-era Liberation Music Orchestra, an experimental group ; Eddie Gomez and George Mraz, who played with Bill Evans and Oscar Peterson, respectively, and are both acknowledged to have furthered expectations of pizzicato fluency and melodic phrasing, fusion virtuoso Stanley Clarke ( born 1951 ) is notable for his dexterity on both the upright bass and the electric bass, and Terry Plumeri, noted for his horn-like arco fluency and vocal tone.

Although the reasons for Saddam Husayn's decision to invade Iran were complicated, the leaders of the Baath Party had long resented Iranian hegemony in the Persian Gulf region and had especially resented the perceived Iranian interference in Iraq's internal affairs both before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

The war began when Iraq invaded Iran, launching a simultaneous invasion by air and land 22 September 1980 following a long history of border disputes, and fuelled by fears of Shia Islam insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed Shia majority influenced by the Iranian Revolution in 1979.

Nicholas Ray died in the summer of 1979 after a long fight with cancer.

The Marxist scholar Ernest Mandel revived interest in long wave theory with his 1964 essay predicting the end of the long boom after five years and in his Alfred Marshall lectures in 1979.

Some of the works involving long cycle research and technology include Mensch ( 1979 ), Tylecote ( 1991 ), The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis ( IIASA ) ( Marchetti, Ayres ), Freeman and Louçã ( 2001 ) and Carlota Perez.

A long period of transition occurred between 1979 and 1994, specifically in the capital, Koror, on the topic of relations with the United States.

In 1979, Michael O. Rabin published a related cryptosystem that is provably secure, at least as long as the factorization of the public key remains difficult-it remains an assumption that RSA also enjoys this security.

A worsening economy, burgeoning national debt, and growing public antipathy towards Trudeau's perceived arrogance caused his poll numbers to fall rapidly in the mid and late 1970s Trudeau delayed calling the 31st Canadian general election as long as he could, but was forced to call one in the spring of 1979.

Semi-spoken music has long been especially popular in British entertainment, and such examples as David Croft's theme to the 1970s ' sitcom Are You Being Served ?, the 1979 song Mickey as performed by Toni Basil in 1982, and the 1984 title song, " One Night in Bangkok " for the musical Chess have elements indistinguishable from modern rap.

Only Tomás Borge lived long enough to see the Sandinista victory in 1979.

The Xingu River ( pronounced " shingoo "), also called Rio Xingu, is a 1, 230-mile long, ( 1979 km ) river in north Brazil ; it is a southeast tributary of the Amazon River.

Eastwood filed for divorce in 1979 after another long separation, but the $ 25 million divorce settlement was not finalized until May 1984.

Paul and Bill began a long and successful partnership with the Newman Freeman Racing team in the Can-Am series which culminated in the Can-Am Team Championship trophy in 1979.

Before a long lull in activity which ended in the 1990s, the last one to strike was Hurricane David in September 1979.

After the introduction of professional football, Excelsior won the Eerste Divisie championship three times ( 1974, 1979 and 2006 ) and promoted to the Eredivisie various times, usually to relegate not long afterwards.

In 1968, June Whitfield and Terry Scott began their long television partnership which peaked with roles as husband and wife in Happy Ever After ( 1974 – 78 ) and Terry and June ( 1979 – 87 ).

After a long period of low emissions ( significant bursts only in 1979 and 1993 ) it became active in May – August 1998, and a burst detected on August 27, 1998 was of sufficient power to force NEAR Shoemaker to shut down to prevent damage and to saturate instruments on BeppoSAX, WIND and RXTE.

* Edgar Buchanan ( 1903 – 1979 ), who had a long career in movies and television.

In 1979, the airport was described as having a single runway long.

This album won him his second Grammy, in the category Best Pop Instrumental performance in 1979 and the title song, almost 15 minutes long in full version and featuring one of the most recognizable wind section themes, has not lost its popularity to this day.

* De Miranda F., et al., ( 1979 ), " Basic problems in long span cable stayed bridges ", Rep. n. 25, Dipartimento di Strutture-Università di Calabria-Arcavacata ( CS ) Italy, ( 242 pagg.

Viz is a popular British comic magazine which has been running since 1979.

In 1979 NBC partnered with the BBC to commission The Martian Chronicles, a three-episode miniseries adaptation running just over four hours.

He ran customer cars in Formula Two under various names from 1972 to 1979 — even briefly running a customer Formula One Ferrari 312T as Scuderia Everest in 1976 — before gaining financial backing from well known Italian motor racing patron Piero Mancini in 1979 to set up the Minardi racing team as a constructor.

* Chester Taylor ( born 1979 ), American football running back of the National Football League who is currently on the Arizona Cardinals

The band recorded five songs ; one of the tracks from the session, " Bela Lugosi's Dead ", running more than nine minutes, was released as the group's debut single in August 1979 on Small Wonder Records as Bauhaus ( the 1919 abandoned ).

In the Superboy story in Superman Family # 195 ( May-June 1979 ), Interstate 70 is shown as running through or near Smallville, as Lana and Clark drive along the highway.

The area running from Giza to Dahshur has been used as necropolis by the inhabitants of Memphis at different times, and it has been designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1979.

* Lawrence McCutcheon, running back for the Los Angeles Rams from 1972 – 1979, the Denver Broncos & Seattle Seahawks in 1980 and the Buffalo Bills in 1981, was born in Plainview and played football for the Plainview Bulldogs.

The Rocky Horror Show transferred to the 820-seat Comedy Theatre on Panton Street in the West End, running from 6 April 1979 until 13 September 1980, closing the play's initial run of 2, 960 performances.

The Kitten's chassis, engine, and running gear are shared ( with minor modifications ), with the Reliant / MEBEA Fox pickup introduced in 1979.

Pryor announced his candidacy for the U. S. Senate in 2001, running for the same Senate seat his father had held from 1979 to 1997.

The series was produced by the Reg Grundy Organisation in Australia, and aired on Network Ten, running 692 episodes from 27 February 1979 to 11 December 1986, after originally only devised as a 16 part mini-series.

Jones ran one Can-Am in 1979 ( Mid-Ohio ), where he and Keke Rosberg had fun running into each other and finishing 1 – 2, with Jones winning his last Can-Am start.

In 1979 the system was ported to VM / CMS running on the IBM 370, 3030, and 4300 computers and an agreement was reached with IBM to market the compiler.

In the UK charts, it reached number 1 in 1979, and in 1980 hit number 1 in Canada two weeks running on the RPM national singles chart and rose to number 9 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100.

One of the oldest continiously running known fantasy football leagues is the G ' national Football League ( GFL ), founded in the Summer of 1979 in Lakeland, Florida by Wayne Wesley.

Universal began syndicating the show ( initially under the name Jim Rockford, Private Investigator due to standard practices at that time for a show still running on a network ) in 1979 and aggressively marketed it to local stations well into the early and middle 1980s.

The Lancia Delta is a small family car produced by Italian automaker Lancia with the first generation being produced between 1979 and 1994, the second generation running from 1993 until 1999, and the third generation Delta entering production in 2008.

Beginning in 1979, late night service terminated at 125th Street in Manhattan with the running as a local in Manhattan.

The first line, M1, opened on November 16, 1979, running from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea ( now Petrache Poenaru ).

In 1979, a chain of UK brewpubs, known as the " Firkin " pubs, started, running to over one hundred at peak.

Jamie and the Magic Torch was a British children's animated television series, made by Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television and shown on the ITV network, running from 1976 to 1979.

By 1979, elections in Cleveland had become nonpartisan, and with then-Mayor Dennis J. Kucinich ( D ) about to enter a tough re-election campaign, Voinovich began to consider running for mayor again.