Telly Review: The tale of King Puck's Liveline incursion is an amusing one

"Joe Duffy is good value whatever you might think of him. He doesn’t sit on the fence here, telling one caller to cop themselves on and stop playing the victim, that the real victim here was the goat."
Telly Review: The tale of King Puck's Liveline incursion is an amusing one

John Joe MacGearailt in Scannal: For Puc's Sake

If only the goat could have talked to Joe, this might all have been averted. 

But no, the goat that is hoisted high above Killorglin for three days every August during Puck Fair was unavailable for comment, so during unusually hot weather last August, half the country rang in to Liveline on RTÉ Radio to tell Joe their views on a goat out in 29 degrees Celsius.

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