When Séamas O'Reilly met Patrick Kielty: Pubs, freshers' week and 'nerves'

Patrick Kielty returns for his second season of The Late Late Show. There are nerves, he tells Séamas O’Reilly, but also a newfound confidence

Late Late Show host Patrick Kielty unveils the 2023 edition of the long-running chat-show's set.

“I have a question for you,” says Patrick Kielty. We’re not yet two minutes into a free-ranging chat that will eventually cover everything from his teenage start in comedy, to getting hired to host the longest-running chat show on the planet.

“I did the Craic’s 90 comedy club in The Delacroix in Derry,” he says, referencing a pub well known to me from a misspent Derry youth.