It’s the final Questions and Answers programme tonight. The funeral is a specially extended edition at 10.30pm on RTE1 with 20 mourners as guests. (Kathy Sheridan, one of the better panellists over the years interviewed John Bowman in Saturday’s Irish Times). Unfortunately there are very few Q&A clips on Youtube – so jogging your moment […]
It’s now a constant occupation of Government Press Officers to stop any criticism of Brian Cowen or his government. This includes reporting on the hanging of paintings in galleries or on their potential value or how they got to be hung in the galleries in the first place. Tonight RTE apologised for offence caused to […]
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I got texts and emails yesterday, some offering me sympathy (!), over the announcement of the ending of Questions and Answers next year. Some of us have been liveblogging it for a few months and we’ll be sad to see it go but in fact the programme lost it’s punch a long time ago. So […]
Image via Wikipedia Have you noticed? Mary Coughlan has a giggling problem. She did it twice last night on Questions and Answers and has done it on numerous occassions when she takes questions in Dáil Eireann. It’s not a funny ha ha laugh – it’s a nervous laugh at something you can’t agree with or […]