Baron Ballymote, a man with notions indeed 🙄

The tedious obsession with giving people titles and then agonising about how/when to take them away! Just stop with the silly names and unelected leaders!

To clarify, the mispronunciations in the original post are deliberate! I've even been tansplained that sam-hayne is the English pronunciation of Samhain 😆

Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky

Great point about the phone ins, they've played quite a role in the evolution of Irish society, as well as being hilarious at times (the Joe Duffy led discussion of Normal People's raunchiness being one such legendary example 😊)

This comment seemed worryingly sincere, in response to the suggestion he buy a wife in Thailand 🫣

"Or Philippines. A lovely people overall and plenty of very bright, pretty girls desperate to find a western husband."

I'm enjoying your Irish topics, go raibh maith agat / thank you 😊

It's impossible to take him seriously as a Today presenter given this sort of analysis. I turned off his piece on asylum this morning in part because of his known bias