RTÉ’s celebrity chef cheque in poor taste

I FIND few things more irritating on TV than ‘celebrity chefs’. Jamie Oliver, with his ‘mockney’ accent, was my pet hate — until Conrad Gallagher came along.

But my irritation turned to anger when I read that RTÉ had paid a load of licence payers’ money first to have Gallagher on the Late Late Show and then to air an hour-long programme about him.

Conrad Gallagher is a chef who for some inexplicable reason gets loads of publicity in a Sunday newspaper. Apart from providing the new rich with an excuse to spend a lot of money on food, what else has he done? Nothing!