Should the Late Late Show be renamed the FF/PD Show?

[qtman]

Willie O Dea and Nicky Byrne appeared on the Late Late recently. The Minister For Justice and Excuses appears tonight. Presumably the Opposition will get the right of reply. Otherwise The Late Late Show will become part of the Government's election campaign.

McDowell was good, albeit its hard to look bad on the LLS.

Always amazed at his ability to remain calm in the company of morons.

[culbair]

Well was Nicky Byrne talking about politics, hardly!!!

Nicky Byrne asked for support for FF in the next election during his Late Late appearance. The Late Late Show had no opposition spokesperson to confront McDowell. The Minister for Excuses and Disorder got a soft interview and made plenty of political attacks on FG/Labour without contradiction. Everone else is responsible for the collapse of law and order only our Michael. Presumably The Late Late will seek to redress the imbalance. If not there are major implications.

[culbair]

No he had invented some kind of road safety system, which means he had an idea of an important policy area, which means he couldn't have been in FG

PD policies have wrecked the Health Service and of course we have the WILD WEST on our streets. The PD record is abysmal with gangs out of control. Murder and mayhem RULE.

[rkeane]

If they had any good or remotly interesting ideas on the major issues Im sure they'd be invited on, but they don't.

I think the Mullingar gang are just jealous!!

[qtman]

Well was Nicky Byrne talking about politics, hardly!!!

Nicky Byrne asked for support for FF in the next election during his Late Late appearance. The Late Late Show had no opposition spokesperson to confront McDowell. The Minister for Excuses and Disorder got a soft interview and made plenty of political attacks on FG/Labour without contradiction. Everone else is responsible for the collapse of law and order only our Michael. Presumably The Late Late will seek to redress the balance. If not there are major implications.

You have a point, but in fairness, the Government get gratuitously roasted every day on Morning Ireland, Live Line and the Pat Kenny Show, not to mention the once off pummelling that was Rip Off Republic.

RTE are a disgrace in terms of impartiality. They never shy away from using juicy adjectives to both support and criticise the Government and politics in general.

eg 'historic' agreements and 'lengthy' dail recesses etc etc

[campbeca]

Well was Nicky Byrne talking about politics, hardly!!!

Nicky Byrne asked for support for FF in the next election during his Late Late appearance. The Late Late Show had no opposition spokesperson to confront McDowell. The Minister for Excuses and Disorder got a soft interview and made plenty of political attacks on FG/Labour without contradiction. Everone else is responsible for the collapse of law and order only our Michael. Presumably The Late Late will seek to redress the balance. If not there are major implications.

lets not go over the top here. McD is one of the 4 REALLY famous politicians on the island. The LLS is about entertainment and McD is far more recognisable (thus timeworthy) than, say, Jim OKeefe.

When the election gets going proper RTE will count the minutes for all the parties religously. but for now people shouldnt moan about the Minister for Justice getting airtime to talk about serious issues rather than some nobody just putting out the same old guff about problems having magic answers in the form of some extra quango.

I love the irony of some people that say gvt isn't transparent enough and then piss and moan when a minister hits the airwaves

[campbeca]

No he had invented some kind of road safety system, which means he had an idea of an important policy area, which means he couldn't have been in FG

PD policies have wrecked the Health Service and of course we have the WILD WEST on our streets. The PD record is abysmal with gangs out of control. Murder and mayhem RULE.

keeping one's faith in democracy in the face of comments like this is quite an artform (ive never been able to do it)

[mjcoughlan]

PD policies have wrecked the Health Service and of course we have the WILD WEST on our streets. The PD record is abysmal with gangs out of control. Murder and mayhem RULE.

What tabloid paper did you get that from?

[Skin]

Does n e one actually know when someone from FG last appeared on the Late Late : Months or years :

Not on the Late Late but John and Richard Brutal did appear on Tubridy a whike ago doing some sort of Laurel & Hardy routine.

[White Horse]

PD policies have wrecked the Health Service and of course we have the WILD WEST on our streets. The PD record is abysmal with gangs out of control. Murder and mayhem RULE.

What tabloid paper did you get that from?

You'd see that from any newspaper in the State.

The writing is on the wall.