 He devoted quite a bit of his paycheck to visiting night clubs; when a disk jockey did not show up for work, Cagney was asked to fill in, doing well enough at it to become a regular at the pirate radio station and now had two jobs.Before long, he was at RTÉ Radio Cork.He joined RTÉ in 1977, and was part of the original line-up of 2FM, broadcasting on its first night on air.