Colm Hayes
| Colm Hayes | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Colm Caffrey Santry, Dublin, Ireland |
| Nationality | Irish |
| Education | Our Lady of Victories BNS, Ballymun |
| Occupation | Presenter of radio and television |
| Employer | Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) |
| Known for |
The Strawberry Alarm Clock The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show Colm and Jim-Jim's Home Run The Colm and Lucy Show The Colm Hayes Show |
| Salary | €213,954 (2009) |
Colm Caffrey (Irish: Colm Ó Cafraigh), known professionally as Colm Hayes, is a former Irish radio broadcaster and sometime television presenter. He formerly presented weekend breakfasts on RTÉ 2fm.
Hayes had a 10-year radio partnership with James "Jim-Jim" Nugent, beginning on The Strawberry Alarm Clock on FM104 where the pair established themselves as the number one breakfast show in Dublin. The pair moved to national broadcaster RTÉ 2fm to host The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show. While there they also did Colm and Jim-Jim's Home Run on RTÉ One. When Gerry Ryan died in 2010, Hayes split up with Jim-Jim Nugent and presented The Colm and Lucy Show with Lucy Kennedy for a time before breaking off on his own and moving to his current timeslot.
His real name is Colm Caffrey. He attended Our Lady of Victories BNS in Ballymun, and St. Aidan's C.B.S. in North Dublin, Ireland. He is the youngest of four siblings. His wife is from Belfast. His dog Rocky, born in July 2009, is a brother of the dog owned by Adrian Wreckler, Digital Editor of The Sunday Business Post. Hayes smokes cigarettes.
Born in Santry, Hayes began his radio career on pirate radio. He broadcast with KELO, Q102 and Energy 103 and the immensely popular Radio Nova during the 1980s. Following the pirate stations ultimate closure by regulators, he worked at the state broadcaster 2FM on the late night shifts. Colm then got the weekday lunchtime slot. He left 2FM during the summer of 1989 for the first licensed commercial radio station Dublin's Capital Radio (now called FM104 ). After its launch, Colm Hayes was Capital Radio's first weekday breakfast show presenter. In 1996, Colm became the second anchor presenter of The Strawberry Alarm Clock on FM104, after the departure of Timmy Ryan.
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