Denis Lehane: RTÉ now more like Dallas than Glenroe

Farming columnist Denis Lehane says things turned sour for RTÉ once they took Ireland's favourite rural soap opera off the air
With thousands needlessly tossed away on flip-flops and gas-guzzling cars, RTÉ is now positioned closer to the characters of Dallas rather than the honest folk of Glenroe.

With thousands needlessly tossed away on flip-flops and gas-guzzling cars, RTÉ is now positioned closer to the characters of Dallas rather than the honest folk of Glenroe.

For years I have been campaigning to have a Glenroe reboot. A little nod to the farming community from the bigwigs who run that mighty organisation up there in Donnybrook.

Like a donkey with long hooves in dire need of paring, it's a job, to my mind, that should have been undertaken years ago. Glenroe should have never gone off the air in the first place.

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