Call for Dáil channel - TV Tripe? Why make it worse?

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern’s suggestion yesterday that RTE should transmit a dedicated Dáil channel on television is a mind-blowing suggestion.

He thinks that the Dáil would be more interesting than “a lot of the tripe that is on TV.”.

Daylong coverage of the Dáil and Seanad could serve a purpose for programme makers. They could call it Posturing Politicians, or Political Puff, and it would probably make even Desperate Housewives and — what the Taoiseach calls tripe — look positively good.