THE Late Late Show is upon us again. On Friday, it will begin its 52nd season. Surely, the show is on its last legs. It is dispiriting. It lost its fire as a forum for national debate long ago, but what really irks are its inane celebrity interviews.

The topic may not dominate or even feature at the more glittering dinner parties in Ireland this weekend but the momentum building behind Britain’s Eurosceptic Tories about an in-or-out EU vote deserves, from a purely selfish Irish view, some serious consideration.