Simon Delaney returned to the Irish AM studios on Monday morning.
He’s no stranger to the Eire AM bench, in fact, however this time he was on the opposite facet.
Seven months in the past, he stepped down as a presenter of the weekend version of the Virgin Media present.
For seven years he was joined each Friday, Saturday and Sunday by Anna Daly, Laura Woods, Tommy Martin and Aidan Energy as co-presenters.
Martin King, Elaine Crowley and Katja Mia had been introduced final 12 months because the model new presentation staff for the weekend.
Simon left the present to return to his appearing and he returned to speak about his new play The Worth, which opens in two weeks at Dublin’s Gate Theatre.
Muireann O’Connell and Tommy Bowe had been delighted to see their previous colleague once more.
“It feels bizarre to be again. We used to launch as Weekend AM, then Saturday AM, then Sunday AM for Eire AM,” he informed the pair.
“Everybody is aware of this present is a juggernaut and an Irish TV establishment. After they tried it on the weekend, it labored and the present rolled out seven days every week. Seven years later, issues are nonetheless going effectively.”
“It is very unusual to be right here and never there,” he added, pointing to Tommy and Muireann.
He admitted to appearing right here and there throughout his time on Eire AM, however selected to go away to provide his full consideration to appearing.
“This specific job got here in the place I needed to be gone for 5 months, so I left right here. The next week I used to be in Germany after which went to do one other present in Belfast. It has been busy since I left,” he admitted.
We’re glad to see him once more.
