Response to Hobbs’s programme is really about freedom of expression

IF you were Eddie Hobbs, presenter of the Rip Off Republic series on RTÉ, wouldn’t you just love to have a Minister of State attack you, especially with a threadbare attack like that launched by Tim O’Malley this week.

If there were medals for inept, counter-productive whingeing, O’Malley would surely be a gold medal contender.

He accused Hobbs of “creative bankruptcy” in echoing Fine Gael’s website at www.ripoff.ie.