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DESPITE THE FURTHER easing restrictions come Monday, weekends in front of the TV are not over just yet.
Although there’s no shortage of content to stream online, sometimes you just want to hear a familiar face talk about their time in lockdown, or discuss some Hollywood gossip.
Here’s our latest round-up of talk show content from the week and what will be on tonight. There should be plenty here to keep anyone occupied.
Tonight, in a three-and-a-half-hour special, RTÉ is returning to its telethon roots.
Hosted by Deirdre O’Kane, Nicky Byrne, Jennifer Zamperelli, Baz Ashmawy and Eoghan McDermott, Ireland’s take on the British fundraising night will feature some of the country’s top comedians and actors raising funds for the Community Foundation For Ireland.
While a majority of the skits and sketches have been filmed by the comedians and actors themselves, you’ll be happy to hear that a few were not – Normal People being one of them.
Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar Jones will be reviving their Connell and Marianne characters for a sketch written by playwright Conor McPherson and directed by Lenny Abrahamson who says the premise is “top secret”.
Another sketch to look out for tonight is the Derry Girls reunion via Zoom. Erin, Orla, Clare, Michelle and James’ group call is probably the only video chat you might actually want to be on at this stage.
A few famous faces that will pop up during the evening includes: Saoirse Ronan, Dara O’Briain, Andrew Scott, Hozier, Roy Keane, Chris O’Dowd, Jason Byrne, Aisling Bea, and David Mitchell.
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RTÉ One / Twitter / Twitter
While RTÉ has announced who is taking part in tonight’s show, they haven’t said what they’ll be doing or who’ll they’ll be in a sketch with, so people should keep an eye out for some “unexpected combinations” and “surprise cameos”, according to the producers.
After spending what was no doubt a joyous few months in Dalkey, Matt Damon resurfaced this week on Jimmy Kimmel Live.
While Kimmel is announcing that he will be taking the summer off, Damon appears and falsely tells Jimmy that he has spent the last three months in his basement. A hurtful lie.
Over on Last Week Tonight, John Oliver’s latest deep dive involves incarceration and coronavirus.
While Irish prisons have managed to contain the spread of Covid-19, jails in the US are seeing an alarming spike in infections. Oliver breakdowns why down the virus has spread so rapidly behind bars and what can be done to stop it.
Jimmy Fallon meanwhile chatted with comedian Sarah Cooper about her rise to internet stardom for her Trump impressions on Tik Tok, Twitter and Instagram.
Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton has been doing the rounds on US talk shows promoting his new tell-all book The Room Where It Happened.
On The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Bolton says he believes there is more damaging behaviour yet to be revealed with regards to Trump’s quid pro quo with Ukraine and similar dealings with other foreign governments.
Colbert doesn’t give Bolton an easy ride for not testifying during this year’s impeachment trial which the new author claims was too partisan.
With pubs set to reopen soon, you’re probably thinking about the sip of that first stout – and balancing it on your head to impress the other patrons.
Take some inspiration from Carlowman Mick ‘Mull’ Mulrooney in this RTÉ Archives clip from 1986 – the undisputed pint and whiskey balancer in Ireland.
Not only can Mull balance a pint on his head, but he can pick up a box of matches while doing it.
“If the Minister for Finance could balance the budget as well as you balance the pints, the country would be rolling in money.”
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I can’t believe he has a girlfriend when he’s a convicted paedophile.
I can’t believe chemical castration isn’t mandatory for animals like him.
“Girlfriend” can refer to an adult woman, not necessarily a child.
Yes Neal, I am aware. I am just surprised that any woman would become involved with a convicted paedophile.
“Girlfriend” can refer to an “inflatable” woman, in this case.
Oh but you can’t say that, these people have human rights you see, the heroes at amnesty international would be appalled…
Thank goodness for that judgment from Europe. They aren’t always as sensible as this.
Just out of curiosity,
Is there any sympathy for this man at all?
He’s suffering from a genetic condition with a bunch of pretty terrible to side effects (impulsivity, impaired judgement, promiscuity, apathy and executive dysfunction with poor planning and decision making) – these are only a few of the possible symptoms.
While not wanting to excuse this man, or possibly even change the procedure carried out on him, I still find it a little excessive for people to suggest he needs “justice” with a “rusty saw” and that he’s an “animal”. Agree or disagree with what happened to him, but it’s already demonstrated that he’s sick. He is suffering from a condition which could very well have caused him to behave in this way.
Just seem very odd to demonise him, when he’s suffering from a condition which he cannot control. Remove him from society, so that he can’t be a danger to himself or others, but don’t sit in judgement of him as a person.
Cue “liberal agenda”, “lefty nonsense” and “psychological BS” comments.
Sean wake up and cop on, where Is your thoughts on the next child victim ffs
In fairness Sean, between this and your outright witch-hunt of the NI baker – you do indeed come out with some off the wall stuff… I’d have that moral compass checked out.
Troyman, did you bother to read my comment at all?
To a certain extent, this man is also the victim of this illness.
As I said, I in no way want to excuse his behavior, actions or compulsions. I also said, I might not even change what happened to him.
What I also said was that there seems to be zero appreciation for the fact that this man is not of sound mind or at the very least has an altered mental state.
All i’m saying is that branding him a monster for a genetic illness he has and can’t do anything about is pretty awful.
LoneHurler,
Once again distorting the truth. Well played, I did absolutely nothing of the sort regarding the NI Baker. What I said on that (which is completely irrelevant to this conversation btw) is that people get religious freedom, businesses don’t. Simple as.
Secondly, please explain to me, what’s wrong (morally) with saying “yeah for the sake of everyone involved, this should probably have happened, but that doesn’t make him a monster”.
You rarely say anything that’s little above trolling, now’s your chance. Go for it.
Compassion for the child victim of sexual abuse trumps the compassion for an ill perpetrator every time Sean.
Wait,
Is there a quota?
Are you only allowed to feel sorry for one of them?
Is it possible that instead of even expressing compassion for this guy, people could simply not suggest that he’s a “animal” who should castrated with a “rusty saw” for the sake of “justice”.
If you’re only capable of having compassion for one of the groups in this, fine. But that isn’t the case, nor does a lack of having compassion compel people to revile someone instead.
How do you suggest we protect our children Sean? It’s not punishment, it’s protection.
Kitty. Sean puts this animal with his illness above our children. He had the cheek to do the same last week to me over this fellow whom the bbc have interviewed. He has very sexual impulses for children as young as 5. He got great sympathy from a few here . I was devestated, these annimal have no place near children.
I’d have taken him to the zoo and turned him into a Lion bar,
then I’d have thrown 2 Rennie to the Lion for Dessert. ……
Pedophilia and hebaphilia are 2 entirely different things! Pedophiles are attracted to prepubescent children and hebaphiles are attracted to pubescent children. One is not a form of the other.
Castration with a rusty saw is the best treatment for paedophiles.
Do you think torture fantasies are healthy? I’m not judging (much), just find it slightly odd.
Livestock squeezers at the start of a new moon, sweeling would then occur, that’s proper treatment….. And justice
U wot m8?
Burdizzo. That’s the best yoke.
A sensible judgement, when can we implement it here! Probably never too many do gooders!
About time, any chance of out donkey silver spoon cavier fed juctice system following suit
God old school, finally, someone who stood up to “political correctness”
If you like this, you’ll looooove Saudi Arabia.
Have to agree with you scarr. Going by the comments made by troy, tom and others, I’m surprised the mairia Cahill story got any traction when so many here call for similar types of sharia based community justice.
Well Scarr, I am an open Anti Saudi, anti Islamisation of Europe, and pro equal rights, but some people will never change, is in their nature and is either the paedophile’s human rights or our innocent children’s human rights. When human rights clashes what do you do? Don;t tell me that he should be put in surveillance or away from children, or in a program, people like him have no help, they were born this way, just like I was born being attracted to adult women, and someone else was born being attracted to adults from the same sex (Nothing wrong about it), some are medically born to be paedophile like this man.
Other acceptable punishment would be moving the offender to another jurisdiction.
This is a very interesting and important ruling by the ECHR. It now seems that a state can perform a medical procedure on its citizens, like castration, where it is preventative.
I wonder does this hearld a new approach to the way we should punish criminals and those that might harm our society? New laws to castrate sex offenders? Amputate the hands of pick pockets? Psychological and physical maiming of thieves, white collar criminals? Once we have developed the means by which genetics allows us to predict who amongst us might be a threat, then we can really develop this concept further.
Well Scarr, I am an open Anti Saudi, anti Islamisation of Europe, and pro equal rights, but some people will never change, is in their nature and is either the paedophile’s human rights or our innocent children’s human rights. When human rights clashes what do you do? Don;t tell me that he should be put in surveillance or away from children, or in a program, people like him have no help, they were born this way, just like I was born being attracted to adult women, and someone else was born being attracted to adults from the same sex (Nothing wrong about it), some are medically born to be paedophile like this man.
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