Tommy Tiernan: 'I’m already hosting the Late Late Show, under a different name'

'The Tommy Tiernan Show that is something I’ve built myself, that follows my own inclination, that follows my own curiosity and my desire to entertain, so it wouldn’t make a fierce amount of sense to kind of do the Late Late as it is'

Tommy Tiernan on a previous visit to Live At The Marquee in Cork. Picture: Darragh Kane

Tommy Tiernan has an ambivalent attitude towards phones, so maybe it's no surprise that he's not hanging on a call from Donnybrook, Dublin 4 — even if it involves the second longest-running chat show in the world.

"I haven’t any missed calls," he laughs when the subject of the Late Late Show — and the possibility of him presenting it — arrives into conversation.