Four Late Late Show talking points from Saipan to a Toy Show surprise
Eanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan on the Late Late Show. Picture: RTÉ
Fresh off appearing at the Cork International Film Festival on Thursday, Eanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan dropped in to Donnybrook to talk all things Saipan.
The film, which premiered at the festival ahead of a January release in Irish cinemas, tells the tale of the infamous bust-up between Roy Keane (Hardwicke) and Mick McCarthy (Coogan) at the 2002 World Cup.
Hardwicke explained how it was just moments into the premiere that a horrifying thought passed his mind.
“I thought: this is a mental idea, we’re premiering this in Cork in front of 800 Corkonians! They’ll decide after five minutes – nah this isn’t for me!”
“But it went down a treat, it was very special because that’s my local theatre, I did plays there as a kid and been going my whole life!”
Coogan joked that the script, at times, was “too pro-Roy”
“I think, in the end, people will be pleased because it’s fairly even-handed. It’s probably 51-49 to Roy.”
Coogan also heaped praise upon his co-star for his work both in and out of character.
“Eanna had abs, I had attitude.
“He’s a startling young actor with an incredible career ahead of him. It’s like having a good sparring partner. He raised my game.”
One child got the shock of their life in relation to the
Ahead of the December 5 spectacular, a young boy called CJ got a knock at the door in Newbridge and was informed he would be performing.
Though he did have the best quip of the night: “Is this Patrick Kielty?!... How did you know where I live?”
But on top of that, Kielty also announced the
On Friday, 21 November, the Toy Show will take over both radio and TV, where a number of competition entrants will win tickets to the biggest event on Irish TV.
The Rebel nature of the evening continued with the arrival of the Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns.
She explained how her party were happy to get behind president-elect Catherine Connolly right at the beginning of her campaign.
She said: “I was lucky enough to get to know her in the previous Dáil. And you know, she always stood out to me as somebody who stood on the right side of important arguments.”
She said that Simon Harris’s recent comments on immigration showed the Government were in “panic mode”.
“What they're doing is trying to point the finger of blame for their failures elsewhere, and that is not only irresponsible, but in the current climate, when we know things are so fragile, when it's a number of days after the riots outside City West. It's actually reprehensible because it fans the flames of a very serious and delicate situation.”
“That is the very least that he could do is condemn an attack whereby somebody quite literally tried to burn children, including a nearly three week old baby, alive.
She also noted that other members of the Dáil were conflating crime with immigration.
“That is also factually incorrect. There's actually more crime amongst Irish people than there is amongst our immigrant community, and that's just a matter of fact. So it's really important that we talk about it.”
Ms Cairns also categorically ruled out a future run for Presidency.
On a pit-stop off his tour between Chicago and Australia, Jarlath Regan joined the show to discuss his new book –
Some major discoveries were made, according to the Dubliner.
He explained: “Eight out of ten gobshites are male – they learn slow!
“In my marriage, it took me 10 years to learn that when my wife says we, she means me.
“I also learned that if attempting to pick up your wife, never make a noise, nothing is acceptable.” He also noted that a “number of gobshites are being elected around the world!”
