Your favourite Q&A moment?
Posted by Maman Poulet on 29 Jun 2009 at 09:08 am | Tagged as: Irish Media, Irish Politics, Live Blogging, MSM
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 with ‘the best of’ was going to be very difficult.
But you may be able to relive them for us without clips for Maman Poulet’s Q&A awards?
The 1990 presidential election and Brian Lenihan Snr and his claims of having ‘no hand, act or part’ in attempt to pressurise President Hillery not dissolve the Dáil comes to mind for me.
My favourite guests – Michael D. Higgins, Pat Rabbitte (shock!), and Nell McCafferty when she was on form.
I’m also thinking up awards categories that you might not hear of on tonights show. Care to add a few?
Most frequent audience member award?
There must be UCD Alumni (Kevin Barry Cuman members in particular) all over the world who got plenty of free beer on regular Monday nights to keep them going through college – some probably have showreels on the basis.
Most tokenistic female panelist ever?
Q&A was legendary for it’s one female panellist among all the lads.
Tonight’s programme promises archive clips and it’ll be liveblogged.
Have you other award categories we could use in a Q&A awards programme?
Meanwhile this is the only clip on Youtube I could find apart from Michael O’Brien’s recent compelling intervention. It’s a good one of Dermot Ahern and Pat Rabbitte pre the last general election.
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That’a a clip I uploaded a good while back. There are two others from the same show on my YouTube account, but they’re not as good (Northern Ireland & Saddam Hussein being the topics).
Judging by Morning Ireland today, they’ll be replaying the Brian Lenihan/Garrett FitzGerald moment over and over again for 90 minutes and call that a show.
[...] Suzy is putting together some favourite moments from Questions and Answers ahead of tonight’s final show and looking for some awards categories too. I’m also thinking up awards categories that you might not hear of on tonights show. Care to add a few? [...]
In the absence of youtube clips I put together this post a few years back to show how to be more self selective about which parts of an RTe show you might want to include.
http://www.danielsullivan.ie/blog/?p=433
Might be a bit late now to get things up for tonight, but if people want to post on the show over the coming days and take out individual segments from tonight or other nights of their own choosing then it is one way to do it. You do need own hosting to post the resultant smil files.
As regards “The 1990 presidential election and Brian Lenihan Snr and his claims of having ‘no hand, act or part’ in attempt to pressurise President Hillery to dissolve the government comes to mind for me.”
I think that it was actually that Lenihan was pressuring Hillery to refuse a dissolution of the Dail as requested by Garrett who was then Taoiseach and that Haughey would try to form a government without an election. That’s my memory of it at least, on mature recollection.
Corrected Dan, my maturer recollection seems to have allowed me forget the important ‘not’!
How about the one where Ross and Rachel finally get together? Awww?
Wait, wrong show.
Eoin, I read that and immediately thought of Shane Ross and was then thinking of some left wing type that he must have surprising agreed with who was called Rachel. Hey, can we call RBB ‘Rachel’ and find some show where they agreed on something?
“Never mind the quality – feel the width”. Wasn’t that quip from Q&A?
Thanks for the tip. I’ll be watching. I still think of his poor every time I see John Bowman. Hope he copes ok.
I can’t be objective about Q&A but, personally, my favourite moment came at the end of a debate on electronic voting – a terrible idea which would drain all the drama from our electoral process. (You might as well replace the World Cup or Wimbledon final with a single penalty shoot-out/tie-breaker.)
Anyway, at the end of the debate, John Bowman concluded ‘long may we decide elections in this country with a ballot paper in one hand and… a pencil in the other’.
It was a beautiful subversion of the old Sinn Fein line about the armalite and ballot box, with echoes of ‘the pen is mightier than the sword’.
Thanks for the live blog, Suzy: it’s fun to be in the peanut gallery but also useful too, as bloggers often come up with info/facts that are being passed over in silence by the pols/msm