He may have retired as RTE’s ‘winking weatherman’ – but two local radio presenters have ensured Gerald Fleming was still in the spotlight during Storm Emma.
The creative juices were certainly flowing aplenty in the morning studios of Galway Bay FM when the storm struck at the end of last week.
Molly in the Morning presenters Neil Molloy and Ollie Turner developed a sketch around Storm Emma and it has proved a phenomenal hit on social media by attracting more than 200,000 views.
The video is set to the tune of the 1990’s Vanilla Ice hit “Ice Ice Baby” and the presenter have reworked it with an image of Gerald Fleming featuring prominently and with him predicting that it will be “Ice Ice Mainly”.
“The station carried extensive coverage of the storm and its effects around the county and we just thought we would come up with something more lighthearted and this was the result,” Ollie Turner explained to The Connacht Tribune.
But little did they realise that it would become such a social media hit and Gerald was absolutely delighted with the video when he was asked about it on TV3’s Six O’Clock Show on Thursday evening. The presenters even played a clip from the video which went viral on YouTube.
The video portrays Gerald having come out of retirement and rapping the latest weather forecast relating to Storm Emma – and very few escape a mention including RTE’s Teresa Mannion doing her famous 2015 Storm Desmond report from Galway and even George Hook comes in for an honourable reference.
See full story in this week’s Connacht Tribune – and check out the video on Galway Bay FM’s Facebook page.
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