‘Irish children should still be watching Irish TV,’ says Dustin

A wave of nostalgia for the Irish kids’ TV of yore greeted the news that RTÉ will outsource all its TV programming for young people to independent production companies. 

Amidst mixed reactions to the finance-based decision from the State broadcaster, one familiar high-pitched voice was raised.

Bosco’s gloves came off in tweets from the puppet’s official twitter account, saying: “Maybe tonight RTÉ will get rid of adult programmes.” The red-haired puppet also tweeted Enda Kenny’s official account asking for the Taoiseach to intervene and followed up the Twitter outburst with a radio appearance where he criticised the thinking behind RTÉ’s decision.