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The Remote: The Den Christmas Special, Grafton St busking and Katie Taylor representin' on the Beeb

We’ve got you covered whether you want a solo TV night or one for all the family.

THE REMOTE IS our weekly look at the upcoming TV listings. What With Everything, people are at home a bit more than usual these days and this is perhaps especially true in the run up to Christmas.  

We’ll focus mainly on free-to-air TV and freely available streaming services – with the occasional recommendation from subscription services too.

Something sporty

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The GAA championships draw to a close this weekend with somewhat of a bang as Dublin have the chance of doing another men’s and ladies’ football double. 

Mayo stand in the way of the men on Saturday with the Cork ladies taking to the field on Sunday. There are also some underage games being shown if you’re interested. 

When’s it on? Mayo v Dublin 5pm on Sat on RTÉ 2, Cork v Dublin 3.30pm on Sun on TG4. 

Something festive

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The Den’s Christmas Special was always a legendary addition to the festive schedules back in the day. This year won’t see the gang heading to Lapland, or anywhere else for that matter, but expect silliness and cheer. 

When’s it on? Sunday at 6.30pm on RTÉ One

Something ballroomy

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Christmas also means the climax of some shows over the next few weeks with Strictly Come Dancing: The Final taking place this weekend. 

If you’ve been following it you may want to tune in, but Robbie Williams is also performing too if that’s your bag. 

When’s it on? Saturday at 6pm on BBC One

Something musical

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One thing that won’t be happening this year is the traditional Christmas Eve busking with Bono, Glen Hansard and the rest, but RTÉ is seeking to recreate it with a couple of programmes. 

The Busk – A Decade of Christmas on Grafton Street will look back at the stories of the annual tradition and the Late Late Show will hold a musical event in the studio to recreate the annual busk indoors for the Simon Community. 

When it’s it on? Friday on RTÉ One

Something out of this world

Showtime comedy series Moonbase 8, which features John C. Reilly and others, is coming to our screens this weekend. 

There are six episodes of the show and Sky Comedy is to screen them in double episodes over three days from next Monday. 

When’s it on? 21 Dec on Sky Comedy or NOW TV

Something in review

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As with everything else, it’s been a very strange yea for sports but the the BBC is going ahead with its SPOTY. RTÉ has announced no such Irish version

Footballer Jordan Henderson and and snooker player Ronnie O’Sullivan are among those in the running for the main BBC award with Ireland’s Katie Taylor nominated in the international category. 

When’s it on? Sunday at 8pm on BBC One

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:06 PM

    This Trump lad is as mad as a bag of spanners.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:31 PM

    Lee , we have yet to see if Republicans at large are as daft.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 5:20 PM

    Not as bad as ted Cruz looks like another George Bush war monger

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    Nov 21st 2015, 5:44 PM

    Problem is is that he keeps rising in the polls with every absurd thing he says! Paul Kruger sums it up well, “At this point panic is what the right is all about, and the republican nomination will go to whoever can most effectively channel that panic”.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:01 PM

    Trump is an ideas man and this is another terrific idea. Muslim values are not American values.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:07 PM

    Hmm WrathCheney Trump hates Dick Cheney etc .. LOL
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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:43 PM

    True Rory they are a strange bunch alright like that brain surgeon claiming that the pyramids were grain silos.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 7:34 PM

    Can american people really that stupid to support this fool ? I am wondering are they only keeping him up in the rations so he won’t drop out of the race in order to see what will be the next stupid thing he says. Best comedy show ever.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 7:48 PM

    I think WOC believes he still lives in the crusaders era

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    Nov 21st 2015, 9:00 PM

    Yeah wrath, such a terrific idea that Trump himself has backtracked on it, probably after his advisors had a hairy conniption.

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    Nov 22nd 2015, 12:20 AM

    Congress makes all the decisions before Republic and Democrats. Anything to get the voter’s attention. Lies and more lies from the Walter Mitty sham of a Government.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:06 PM

    When you have a policy proposal only previously used by Hitler, you tend to scare off even the most conservative of conservatives.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:02 PM

    Bad comparison, the Jews were no threat, Muslims are.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:20 PM

    Adolf convinced the German people, falsely, that Jew were a threat, financially and racially.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:23 PM

    Pat no convincing needed when it comes to the barbarian moslems.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:41 PM

    Pat Morrissey Martin Luther leader of the Reformation influenced the Nazis///
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    Nov 21st 2015, 7:40 PM

    @ W. O. C ” Muslims are a treat” That is exactly what ISIS want you to think you fool. Their logic been if the west declare a war on all muslims like the fool Trump wants they ISIS think that all muslims would have no choice but to fight along with ISIS.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 7:57 PM

    Muslim certainly are not a treat James.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 8:14 PM

    @ W.O.C. No they are NOT. ISIS are false muslims and yes they are a serious threat. More so of a threat to to the syrian muslims then the are to the west. Which is evident in the fact that thousands of muslims are risking their lives and the lives of their children and thousands have died crossing the mediterranean sea as they run for their very lives.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 9:57 PM

    The people with the money are always a threat Money can buy anything Ask Benji in tel avi

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    Nov 22nd 2015, 8:08 AM

    The vast majority of victims of Daesh are Muslims. Muslims are not the enemy, just Daesh.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:12 PM

    A journalist asked him how his proposal would be different from The Nazis registry of Jews during the holocaust… He couldn’t come up with an answer or didn’t want to risk being caught out saying something that shows him as completely ignorant of history.

    So he shouted ‘you tell me’ over and over… And then refused to answer any more questions.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:26 PM

    He’s not just ignorant of history, he’s ignorant of his own country’s constitution. Not good qualifications for a wannabe president.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 5:07 PM

    He also believes that POTUS has unlimited power and can make unilateral decisions without having to get them past either Congress or SCOTUS .He doesn’t even seem to know how US government works.I thinks he actually believes it’s equivalent to that of absolute monarch.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:13 PM

    If this guy gets voted in I will lose all faith in humanity

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:19 PM

    If this guy gets voted we will all want to love to Australia, or as far bloody away from the US as we can cos anything caught in the crossfire will just be fair game!

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:22 PM

    He can’t. There’s no way he’ll win the republican nomination

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:47 PM

    @The Normal One: Don’t forget that the Republicans are also as mad as a bag of spanners!

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:50 PM

    Trump was leading in the the polls in Iowa (before this came out) – and I don’t think that this idea will put off any potential Trump voters. Remember – he has already called Mexicans rapists, and has a plan to make Mexico build a wall on the border.
    The first 3 states with primaries are Iowa (lots of old white people), New Hampshire (lots of old white people) and South Carolina (lots of white racists). He wins these – and he has momentum for the rest of the primaries.
    This is what happens when the likely voters are a load of old white people – who get all their “news” from Fox – which has spent the past 2 decades trying to scare the shite out of them by telling them the darkies are coming to take their jobs, live on welfare, sell drugs and rape them, while pouring sugar into their gas tanks.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:58 PM

    I do think however that as we approach closer to the election the serious republicans begin to look a who is winnable rather than we personally appealed to them previous. However Clinton accepted money from trump so trump would do well in a televised debate.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 8:01 PM

    Newsflash for paid shill FOX NEWS dont like TRUMP . I think you will find alot of blacks like what trump has to say . Obama has forgotten about the black people of america .And what with the” old white people ” why are you hating on them ?

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:24 PM

    This man is as mad as a box of frogs, can you even begin to imagine this imbecile having access to nuclear weapon codes..

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    Nov 21st 2015, 5:17 PM

    Mad, but popular.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 8:00 PM

    He’s even popular on this site, given the amount of green thumbs his supporters are getting.

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    Nov 23rd 2015, 8:25 PM

    There’s a handful of right wing nuts on here . Each with about 5 different accounts.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:31 PM

    This suggestion of his just defies belief, I am absolutely astonished he’s said this. Never mind how it contravenes the First Amendment (and we all know how the Tea-bagger Conservative Right adore the Constitution, especially for the protection of their guns) but any Jewish bodies should be screaming for his head on a block when this suggestion is compared to Nazi Germany’s registration of Jewish people. This is beyond believable.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 4:59 PM

    The right only love the constitution when it suits them. These are the people who managed to have slavery and segregation despite what is in the constitution.

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    Nov 22nd 2015, 2:50 PM

    Paid shill that exactly what you are . The repubs did away with slavery but dont let history get in the way of your left migrant loving agenda . Read and learn http://thelastcivilright.org/2012/08/19/the-democrat-party-vs-the-republican-party-who-is-the-true-champion-of-the-ending-slavery-the-civil-rights-movement-and-the-black-community/

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    Nov 21st 2015, 5:41 PM

    Trump has actually made a net loss over his lifetime from where he started off. He was born into a business empire his father created. He knows nothing about building or creating wealth and that needs to be called out more often.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 8:03 PM

    Really “he knows nothing” . Considering he funding this election himself .

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:44 PM

    Trump is an exponent of the politics of fear. He appeals to the basest of instincts.

    Trump would be electable in Ireland. He would find FG values compatible with his own. We love our billionaires in Ireland and we give them tax free holidays.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 8:06 PM

    The politics of fear Fiona, have been the American way for years, since they discovered during the ‘reds in the bed’ McCarthy era, that it’s useful. Since then the Americans have always had a big,bad public enemy number one, from ghadaffi to bin laden to Saddam, and now public enemy number one is not an individual but followers of a particular religion. Land of the free my arse

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:41 PM

    Trump’s proposals would appeal to our anti-refugee panic merchants.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 8:07 PM

    They are on here cheerleading already Fiona

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    Nov 21st 2015, 5:59 PM

    William Boyd / Sertorius / Joachin Peiper/ Vladimir Vasyectomy / Avina Laaf / gkrell / Patrick J O’CONNOR etc must be all in the same pub planning how to get Trump elected and get a Muslim database set up in the Republic of Ireland .. hope they do not drink too much whiskey and do something stupid

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:45 PM

    They are working out how to design a hybrid of Trump and DOB.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:35 PM

    He somehow makes sense in a general view, not just Muslims, but every single one who is granted asylum should be vetted. Normally this is the case, but there are corners being cut for Syrian refugees due to the immense number of refugees, ISIS knows it and is using that flaw to infiltrate Jihadists posing as refugees. ISIS have said it in many occacions, and so far ISIS have managed to keep their word.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:47 PM

    Saul Goodman, you love to serve the Daesh panic agenda, don’t you.

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    Nov 21st 2015, 7:26 PM

    Ass clown

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:20 PM

    When trump has stirred up all the liberal bend over and do me from behind lefties, both in this country and in the US, he is definitely on the right course. The polls agree with him no matter what certain spinless media comminators would have the US public think

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    Nov 21st 2015, 6:39 PM

    Uh oh Trump supporters are very secretive .. I wonder why ?
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    Nov 21st 2015, 8:30 PM

    Every single GOP candidate is either incompetent on a basic human level, insane, or both! I hope one of them gets elected.

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    Nov 22nd 2015, 12:30 AM

    Many FG supporters would find Trump’s prejudices quite mild.

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    Nov 22nd 2015, 4:09 AM

    Sure all the Muslims need to do is stop believing in the barbaric religion. They then won’t be on the registry. Problem solved

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    Nov 22nd 2015, 2:46 AM

    If Trump wins, rest assured I will be moving to your country. Enda Kenny can’t be THAT bad, can he?

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