I posted a few years ago about Cathal MacCoille's nasal wheeze, coughing, spluttering and heavy breathing. At the time I observed that it was always during phone interviews very early in the programme. I put it down to poor production values at RTÉ.
Then last week I heard a public apology on MI for the interview. It seems that he had a "heavy cold" and that the sound supervisor was not on duty when the interview was conducted.
It is good that at long last RTÉ is acknowledging that mistakes have been made. Heres hoping that they will pay a sound supervisior a few bob to come in early in the morning and supervise CMcC!