Newsreader left red-faced after latest on-air gaffe

Poor old Aengus Mac Grianna — it’s one thing to have one newsreading gaffe under your belt but racking up your third in quick succession is quite another.

The dapper newsreader is no stranger to the odd gaffe on air but his most recent one on Wednesday night may be the one to send him viral and make him a star across the world.

Nobody told poor old Aengus that he was live on air for the 10pm headlines on the RTÉ digital news channel, so the plain people of Ireland got a full view of him applying a little bit of make-up and fixing his tie before word comes through his earpiece that he is, in fact, live on air. What follows is an hilariously pained facial expression before an angry exclamation of: “What?”