Radio: The veteran presenter grows ever more outraged by imaginary injustices as he highlights potential shortcomings of the new builders’ register
miss his calling as a consumer affairs advocate? The attention to detail that is the veteran presenter’s trademark when dealing with news stories goes out of the window when the subject is shoddy workmanship, even of the hypothetical variety. On Tuesday, as he discusses the newcannot answer to his host’s satisfaction.
Conjectural though all this is, it’s clearly something of a bugbear for Kenny. He has already put the same question to the builder Peter Finn The punchline delivered, the duo talk to the ubiquitous Peter Finn, who affirms that younger people are losing basic practical abilities: “We need to know simple life skills.” But rather than descend into why-oh-why griping, the item offers practical advice – Finn recommends that every household have a toolkit – as well as self-deprecating anecdotes. “I had to put up a curtain rail,” Ó hEadhra admits. “I couldn’t do it.
Ó hEadhra, a Gaeltacht native, starts a potentially intriguing conversation with Owens, who speaks Welsh, about the connections between the Celtic languages, only to overplay his hand and instead gently slag his guest that the Irish name for Wales is An Bhreatain Bheag, or Little Britain.
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