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The Story of Radio Kerry's Terrace Talk
By Weeshie Fogarty

Weeshie in full swing

The brainchild of Paul Sheehan, Terrace Talk first went on air in 1998 and since then has become a hugly popular program. The concept is very simple, it is broadcast live between 7-8pm (Irish time) every Tuesday evening from the Tralee, or sometimes Killarney, studios and listeners are invited to ring in relation to any sport at local or national level. Guests are invited on to the show to talk about thier sporting lives which is main drawing point of the Programme.

 

Weeshie Fogarty has been the shows presenter from the first night and his easy style and vast knowledge of most sports ensures the programme is always close to the top of the listnership ratings.

 

Most evenings a popular guest joins Weeshie in the studio for disscussion, debate and telling of their own sporting lives. The list of local and national personalities which have appeared on Terrace Talk is staggering and so popular has the show becomme that an invitation to "sit in" is never refused.

Interviewing the Great Mick O'Connell	Paul Sheehan, Brian Nimock & Weeshie

While Gaelic Games would occupy a huge part of the contents many other sports have been covered in like manner as can be seen in the interviews list.

Harry Gregg, Jimmy White, Mick Galwey, Charlie Haughy, Gillian O'Sullivan, and
John B Keane are only a fraction of the legendary guests that have been special guests on Terrace Talk.

 

Outside broad casts have also been hugely successful as the program has been broadcast from as far a field as London. Weeshie would often travel and record an hour long interview with well known personalities and this in itself would sometines make up the content of a week's show. Older people and visitors would be included in this aspect of the show.

 

As viewers will now appreciate the amount of historic and educational content in the inclided programmes is absolutely priceless and huge amounts of sporting history local and national would have been lost forever only for the intervention of Weeshie Forgarty, Radio Kerry and Terrace Talk.
In 1999 the program was the best in all Ireland and recieved the prestigious G.A.A McNamee award at a function in Dublin. A vast archive of sporting history has been archive of Irish sporting hisroty has been built up due to Terrace Talk.

Thanks to Terrace Talk and presenter weeshie Fogarty these fascinating sporting stories can now be heard worldwide.