Hanging up the headphones... Just for a bit!

That's it: I've had my fun on the radio. Now I better go back to learning Irish irregular verbs. Though it scares me to say it, the commitments of the Leaving Cert will take up most of my time over the next year. I have ambitious plans to study from the crack of dawn on Sunday mornings. If I stick to my plans, I'm going to need to be full of beans and enthusiasm when I wake up. Currently on Sunday mornings I am mentally and physically at my weakest - think of the guy who says 'YARP' in the film Hot Fuzz (that's before I have eaten my Weetabix*). Therefore, it would make sense that I would put my radio interest on pause for the next year to focus on academia.

I suppose one could say that I'm going on 'hiatus'. However I always feel a bit cautious around using that term. It's most often associated with bands who've washed up and been dropped by their record label. Usually these groups don't survive the hiatus and become regulars on reality TV or featured on 'Where are they now?' articles on Buzzfeed. I hope I won't suffer the same fate. I'm still with FM104 and I'm looking forward to covering shows over holiday periods next year and coming back next summer.

I have had a blast presenting 'the Takeover' on Saturday nights over the last year! It has been a challenge to fill the 5 hours with interesting patter and to sound as enthusiastic at 5 to midnight as I am at 7pm. In all honesty, presenting that show has been one of the highlights of my life so far. Yes, talking to myself in a room for 5 hours while all my mates were out partying was surprisingly enjoyable!

Talk to yis' soon!

Gavin.

*I wasn't paid to say this.

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