“I’m hoping what the Taoiseach has said is true. I hope it is not another two years. I hope they are working on a solution right now, and they’re not waiting for another person to take their own life. In a couple of years I’ll be able to look back and say Fiachra didn’t die in vain.”
Stephanie Meehan (above) on the Late Late Show last night.
Priory Hall tragedy – partner urges Taoiseach to act (RTÉ News)
Previously: I Just Need A Little More Time
Pic: RTE
Outstanding Late Late Show Audience Guyism on RTE1 last night.
(Thanks Dee O’Sullivan)
Every damn week.
Behold.
Baffled Late Late Audience Guy AND a Michael Collins fan.
It’s going to be a long night.
Largely Indifferent late Late Audience Guy
So When Are You Going To Unleash Magnum On Us?
Awesome Saturday Night Show Audience Guy
Thanks John Gavin
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUwndnIoOEc&feature=youtu.be
Dear God, it’s beautiful.
A new one for the collection from the December 14 Late Late Show on RTE 1 you may have missed in the pre-Christmas rush.
Cooler than Awesome Saturday Night Show Audience Dude?
Stranger and scarier than Scary, Starey, Late Late Audience Man?
YOU decide
Bodger wants his number.
Mancu writes:
Of course this a first world problem and I’m a little ‘late late’ with this but…I felt compelled to write to know that I am not alone.
I have taken to staying in of a friday (broke) so tend to switch on the Late Late Show at least to have something to shout at as I open the second bottle.
Last Friday’s show, however – featuring [from top] Lar Corbett, Brian Darcy, Daniel O’Donnell, Michelle Heaton and financial whiz, Brendan Burgess – was not simply a bad show. It was of course horrible and felt like being trolled by RTE.
But it raised a very simple question. Have they [Late Late Show] just given up on a young, urban audience? Has Twitter scared them off being even the tiniest bit credible?And is this soggy Middle Ireland diet ALL we can expect in the future? As you say, anyone?
You may recall the appearance of from left, Ruth Bowie, Arlette Lyons and Jenny McDonald on the Late Late Show in April.
They each had pregnancies in which their babies were diagnosed with abnormalities “incompatible with life” and went abroad to have those pregnancies terminated.
The women had previously made a not uncontroversial visit to Leinster House to tell TDs and Senators their story.
A man called Frank Fennell complained to the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland.
During a lengthy testimony he said the three women should be regarded as “promoting, or inciting to, the crime of unlawfully killing human babies in the wombs of their mothers”
Further arguing that the item:
The BAI ruled against Mr Fennell.
but added, ominously
The Authority consists of nine members:
Bob Collins (Chairperson)
Larry Bass
Paula Downey
Professor Colum Kenny
Michelle Mc Shortall
Dr Maria Moloney
Michael Moriarty
Siobhán Ní Ghadhra
John Waters.
Previously: The Nasty TD And The Smirking Senator
(RTE)
‘Bewildered’ writes;
The most worrying thing about C Moran’s tweet [following the Late Late Show] is the time 3am. Which means that she got back to the UK on a PRIVATE PLANE. So the question is who paid for it….
Steak sandwich, anyone?
3am. Just returned from doing the Late Late Show in Ireland. if you’ve never seen it, there are no words to describe it.
— Caitlin Moran (@caitlinmoran) September 22, 2012
Further to yesterday’s post about Verona Mullen comes this photo from her niece Martina Mullin who writes:
My granny died about fifteen years after Verona and my dad found this photo among my granny’s things.
Verona modelled in Ireland and Europe. I’m not sure how long for. She did a degree in English in New York. After her degree she was doing a masters or phd in Harvard but as I mentioned she got sick [with breast cancer]. I think she was trying to treat it naturally or homeopathically but after ten years it got the better of her. I think she died in Barcelona because her long term partner worked in Spain. He was a doctor and was possibly helping to treat her.
One story my uncle told me that I loved is as follows: Verona rang my granny when Aran jumpers came into fashion and asked my granny to knit her one. My granny was delighted thinking Verona was getting sense at last and giving up on all that high living she was doing in Dublin. My granny knitted the jumper it and sent it to Verona in Dublin.
Verona arrived down to mass on Christmas Eve wearing it and nothing else! It was a great Christmas for the bachelor farmers of north Leitrim!
Previously: Verona Mullen: What Happened next
You may recall the post a couple of weeks ago about the first ever Late Late Show line-up from 1962, which featured the incredibly striking Verona Mullen.
Whatever happened to her?
We wondered.
Last night Verona’s niece Martina Mullin wrote:
My dad’s going to love it [the post]. Verona was his sister. She is no longer with us so he and his brothers and sister will be delighted with this stuff. In answer to your question she is buried in Barcelona. She got breast cancer at 32 and died aged 42. She was doing a masters or PHD in Harvard when she got sick so that kinda puts Gaybo in his place. She said before she died that her greatest regret was that she didn’t use her good looks to marry an accountant. Sure isn’t that all any woman wants!
