Gay Byrne picked the most argumentative leftwingers, some of them fresh from student activism, to serve as researchers on the ‘Late, Late Show’. Terry Prone says he helped shape Ireland.

Pat Carey is gone. As a child might say ‘gone, gone’. He is now in the worst of all possible worlds, writes Terry Prone

Our attitudes to drug taking have changed so much that we now criminalise addicts and society has to bear all the associated costs, writes Terry Prone

Every radio programme has an ‘expert’ giving advice to mums worried about their children, writes Terry Prone

Often the downfall of women in business; the desire to be liked and matching need not to be hated, writes Terry Prone

The suggestion came from people driven nuts, by new words they don’t know and don’t like, by old words being misused, writes Terry Prone

I don’t know about this Pope at all. I really don’t. He doesn’t fit in the pattern of popes I grew up with, writes Terry Prone