POPULAR RTE duo have announced their departure as their top show ends in just DAYS after years on air. RTE 2FM have revealed that Drive It with The 2 Johnnies has come to an end. The Tipperary friends, Johnny 'Smacks' McMahon and Johnny 'B' O'Brien, are leaving the station after a "successful" two and a half years on air.
The pair, who hosted the afternoon show on weekdays from 3pm to 6pm, will be on air for the last time on Friday May 31. The latest JNLR RTE Radio Listenership figures revealed that the dynamic duo had continued to entertain people across the country in the afternoons with 151,000 listeners. The podcasters bid an emotional goodbye in a departure statement as they said they're "out of the gap".
Johnny Smacks gushed over the experience saying: "We’ve had unreal craic over the last two and half years working on 2FM. "We came in with the idea to have a laugh on the afternoons and cheer people up and get more mad scones on the radio from every county in Ireland telling stories and auld yarns. "After two and a half years my jaws need a rest from all the laughing.
" He praised his RTE team and listeners adding: "Thank you to our unbelievable team who backed us and brought our crazy ideas to life with us, to our brother Aindriú de Paor, our producers/mammies Anita and Caroline and to our on-air sister Aifric O'Connell, the show wouldn’t be what it is without you thank you so much. "And the biggest thank you of all is for you the listeners, the show was all about.
