Brendan O’Connor: With Bryan Dobson gone, who will keep us in order now?

Bryan Dobson is leaving RTÉ after 37 years. Photo: Steve Humphreys

Brendan O'Connor

In Dob we trust. Indeed, you’d wonder if Dobbo was the last thing holding it all together. I guess we’ll find out soon.

But you wouldn’t be surprised if historians look back and say Dobbo’s retirement was the final nail in the coffin of the monoculture. In a world increasingly lacking an agreed version of reality, they may argue that Dobbo at least provided a version most of us could roughly go along with.