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Last night, our Nat, who normally live-tweets the Late Late Show like a boss but is currently ‘off-Twitter’, found himself in a quandry. The following was found this morning, scrawled in purple ink on the back of a Weetabix box next to his unconscious, partially clothed body:

Man oh man. My first Friday night where I actually miss Twitter since it was the “Late Late 50th special”. Tubridy should get a payrise for sitting through what he did:

A prissy Gaybo (“Enough about me”, he blarts as Kenny and Tubridy start the show by recounting what a good job he did).

Twink (I don’t even want to think about her or her comments about zip-up-yer-mickey who played in tonight’s orchestra).

Dustin the Turkey and an incredibly badly-judged comment – describing Tubridy, Patrick Kielty, Pat Shortt and Twink as “Three men and a bike”.

An out-and-out pie-eyed Liam Neeson, who initially described an email from the Taoiseach as “snivelling” and departed with “Thanks Brian”.

Sinead O’Connor dressed as a priest in high heels, who sat down after an emotional “Nothing compares 2 u” and clasped hands with Gaybo for the rest of the interview.

Nell Jaysus McCafferty, who had to be placated with whiskey from Gaybo & guests and went on to slag Tubridy for being from the Twittery Text generation who wants to shorten the show and doesn’t believe in the ability of the good people of Ireland to sit doon and chat and by god how Tubridy didn’t reach for the guest-ejector-seat button is beyond me.

Pat Kenny was the most grounded individual of the evening.  So ner.

Surprising that some of the Annie Murphy clip was played at the start of the show but Gaybo got away without being pressed on it, the [highly colourful vitriolic rant redacted] toff-noodle (you won’t find that in his bio).

Needless to say, Drunk Mode was not enabled.

Missed it? Watch here.

(RTE)

From RTE:

Michelle Heaton; Aslan on celebrating 30 years in the music business;  the Irish couple who survived the capsizing of the Costa Concordia, and with Valentine’s only days away we have a panel discussing dating including chef Dylan McGrath, model Holly Carpenter, Geraldine O’Callaghan from The Apprentice and reporter Henry McKean.  Plus a performance from X-Factor winner Matt Cardle .

Sort of miss George Hook now.

‘Visionary’, Vicka Ivankovic-Mijatovic (above left) brought her sun-spinning madness and demented rictus grin to the Late Late last night.

Without any real challenge, Vicka told her hoary old story (through an interpreter), of how, as a young girl,  Mary appeared to her and her schoolfriends in the Bosnian town of Medjugorje.

And, in her case, keeps appearing, every day, standing “on a grey cloud”.

Chompsky’s dog-walker recalls visiting the shrine during the siege of Mostar, one of the early atrocities of the Bosnian war.

Apparently by then (1992) some of the visionaries had retracted their claims of seeing Mary. but owing to the amount of money coming into the town they were told to keep mum.

They were kept far away from the public and the visionary racket continued unaffected throughout the conflict (1991-95) which often raged around the town.

No mortars ever landed in Medjugorje, not because of the grace of God (as the pilgrims, many from Ireland, were told and believed), but because town bosses had paid off all the local warlords.

Croatian war criminal Mate Boban held regular press conferences there and, in a final irony, one of the visionaries’ husbands, a Bosnian-Croat soldier, would commute into Mostar to take his part in the attempted massacre of its Muslim population.

What the Blessed Virgin thought about all this went unrecorded.

All of which doesn’t mean Vicka didn’t see Mary. Nat saw De Valera during mushroom season last year. But couldn’t there have been one person in the studio to challenge this old ham on her preposterous claims, or even put a few of them under the spotlight?

As one would with – oh, say – Jim Corr?

Watch full interview here (starts at 30 mins)