{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2015}} {{Use Irish English|date=May 2015}} '''''Marty in the Morning''''' is [[RTÉ lyric fm]]'s breakfast show, presented by [[Marty Whelan]].
It originally aired as the title of [[RTÉ 2fm]]'s breakfast show, presented also by Whelan from 26 September 2005 until it was axed<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/avrils-popular-show-to-stay-in-2fm-schedule-59517.html|title=Avril's popular show to stay in 2fm schedule|newspaper=Irish Independent|publisher=Independent News & Media|date=16 January 2007|accessdate=22 November 2008}}</ref> when [[Colm & Jim-Jim]] joined from [[FM104]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Jason|last=O'Brien|url=http://www.independent.ie/national-news/alarmed-rte-radio-axes-martys-show-59201.html|title='Alarmed' RTÉ radio axes Marty's show|newspaper=Irish Independent|publisher=Independent News & Media|date=13 January 2007|accessdate=17 October 2008}}</ref> The duo held the 2fm breakfast slot with ''[[The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show]]'' until the [[death of Gerry Ryan]] prompted a further change in the schedules in 2010.
''Marty in the Morning'' was an attempt by 2fm to find a successor to [[Ryan Tubridy]], who had left ''[[The Full Irish]]'' and defected to [[RTÉ Radio 1]] in 2005. However, in May 2006, it emerged that the show was receiving fewer listeners than its rival ''[[The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show]]'' on [[Today FM]].<ref>{{cite news|first=Samantha|last=McCaughren|url=http://www.independent.ie/entertainment/news-gossip/radio-ray-rocks-ryan-98711.html|title=Radio Ray rocks Ryan|newspaper=Irish Independent|publisher=Independent News & Media|date=19 May 2006|accessdate=22 November 2008}}</ref> Before this, Whelan's predecessors as breakfast presenters were [[Rick O'Shea]] and [[Ruth Scott (broadcaster)|Ruth Scott]], Tubridy's replacement ''The Rick & Ruth Breakfast Show'' was axed after it emerged the flagship ''[[The Gerry Ryan Show]]'' was losing 40,000 listeners to Today FM's ''[[The Ray D'Arcy Show]]''.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.hotpress.com/archive/2822790.html |title=2FM cancel Rick & Ruth breakfast show |work=[[Hot Press]] |date=30 August 2005 |accessdate=19 October 2008 |url-status=bot: unknown |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118011035/http://www.hotpress.com/archive/2822790.html |archive-date=18 November 2007 }}</ref> O'Shea and Scott were blamed for this and quickly disappeared off the morning airwaves.
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==External links== *{{Official website|https://www.rte.ie/radio/lyricfm/marty-in-the-morning/}}
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