This article discusses a segment on the Irish radio show 'Newstalk' where host Kieran Cuddihy learns about the possibility of an asteroid hitting Earth, with a particular focus on the potential impact on Dublin. The article also touches on Cuddihy's coverage of other lighter topics, such as Eurovision and a trigger warning on 'Father Ted,' contrasting them with more serious discussions on topics like the justice system and the housing crisis.
‘If the asteroid hits Dublin, everything is gone’: A chastened Kieran Cuddihy hears about the end of the world
Anyone expecting the kind of reassuring answer suggested by Cuddihy’s jaunty tone will be disappointed by David Moore of. “This is the problem: we just don’t know for sure,” replies Moore, who reports that an asteroid being tracked by Nasa has a 2.2 per cent chance of hitting Earth. “And Ireland could actually be a bit in the firing line,” he adds. Cuddihy gasps at this information, although whether jokily or genuinely is hard to tell., everything is gone.
Even more frivolously, Cuddihy opens Wednesday’s show by deliberating over Channel 4’s decision to put a trigger warning on an episode of Father Ted, the kind of micro-controversial story about woke excess that reliably triggers supposedly unoffendable anti-woke warriors. The newspaper columnist Ian O’Doherty decries fragile contemporary sensibilities, albeit in jaded rather than outraged manner, while the songwriter Ciara Lawless delivers a more nuanced take.
On Wednesday, for instance, the duo cover topics such as hospital overcrowding, a possible US-EU trade war and the fragile Gaza ceasefire but devote their opening debate to comments by Dublin City Council’s waste-management head that people littering in the capital having. It’s not as if this is an unimportant issue – untidy streets negatively affect people’s daily quality of life – but Coleman and Kelly’s huffing has an almost rote air.
In playing up their differences in front of the microphone, Coleman and Kelly are merely following their time slot’s venerable formula, which dates from the tenure of Ivan Yates and Chris Donoghue. But the routine is a bit shopworn now, especially when the pair have to drum up a new point to argue over every day.
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