Irish Examiner View: Toy Show gave us the gift of giving

Adam King clapping in delight as he sees his favourite hospital porter, John Doyle on the Late Late Toy Show

We exercised that admirable national trait — the capacity to indulge the gift of giving — again on Friday night when the Late Late Toy Show raised €6.4m for various children’s causes.

This is a spectacular achievement for all involved and speaks far, far louder than words. At a moment when so much is in doubt, at a moment when even the glow of Christmas may be unavoidably dimmed, this speaks in a reassuringly decent way about this society.