The problem with any Irish programme that is merely a version of another show is that we often can’t get passed the Irishness of it. We know it as a programme from another country on another channel, we can only cringe when we sit down to watch our version, a remake of another show [...]
A friend, returned from London for the weekend, looked on bemused as we argued about the return of college fees and the problems of the Irish economy.
Conversations like this can only take place in a pub because to really get a handle on the importance of an issue to the Irish people you have to [...]
RTE have tried their hands at another new drama series, called RAW, about the turbulent lives of the staff who work in the turbulent kitchen of a well-to-do restaraunt called, RAW.
It’s first achievement was in looking like something that wasn’t produced by RTE. Instead it felt like Channel 4 had combined with the BBC for [...]
Bulldog is one of those things makes lads lads and makes school worth getting through just so you can get out into the schoolyard at break time to release all that energy.
It reminds of innumerable school trips to Dublin Zoo, and later when we are able for it, Kilkenny Castle.
The last hour we were always [...]
The Michael Neary scandal has just been televised on RTE.
A surgeon in a Co Louth hospital carried out unnecessary Caesarean hysterectomies on many women in his care. The details are harrowing but it’s only when the torment of what happened is actually transmitted into the comfort of your sitting room that you realise the [...]
