The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show is live all week from Bad Hofgastein in Austria, and among the steins of beer and the bowls of Tiroler Grostl, we've actually been doing some work too...honestly!
Sunday saw the Welcome Meeting, where 2 lads with massive horns turned up - along with CEO of Topflight Tony Collins, and Ian. (Not to be mixed up with the lads with the big horns)
Everyone had a great evening - here's Tony Collins from Topflight with Iano, Mairead and Charlie (yep, THE Charlie. He exists!)
Monday was an absolutely gorgeous day up the mountain from where we're broadcasting, so we went outside to have a chat with some of our listeners. We met Ali and Ross who met on the trip last year - and are now getting married! Here they are telling Ian their romantic story:
Frank and Mary also had a chat with Ian - Frank surprised Mary live on one of our Outside Broadcasts earlier on in the year by revealing that for her 50th birthday, he was taking her on the Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show Ski Trip for the first time!
Monday night saw "Dempskis Double" - with blind karaoke and a VERY SPECIAL GUEST. Everyone who came to the Town Hall last night put their names into a hat. We then chose 2 people to come up and sing a duet karaoke - 2 people who didn't know each other (with hilarious results!). Of those 8 people, we then pulled their names out of a hat to play DEMPSKIS DOUBLE - like Dempsey's Double, only instead of winning cash, one lucky listener won their holiday back. We even got our hands on Ian's cheesy Dempsey's Double jacket, and even better still - he wore it!
Philip McAuliffe was the lucky punter - he now goes home having paid not a CENT towards his Today FM Topflight Ski Trip! Here's the moment JUST before he won:
We also had a VERY special guest judge on the night - here's Ian introducing him...check the reaction of the crowd!
Tuesday morning was a bit of a family affair on the Breakfast Show - Roisin O performed a gorgeous acoustic version of Landscape - and her Mam, Mary Black was there to cheer her on! Here's Mary trying to warm up Roisin's hands before she sang (aww!)
Here are Ian, Mary and Roisin after the performance - and if that wasn't enough, we get to see the Coronas play LIVE tomorrow night. We're spoiled!
