Ed Power: “I’m leaving this show with a spring in my step as opposed to a heavy heart.” You wish him well. It’s just a shame that, after 14 years of earnest toil, his final Late Late isn’t a bit more spectacular.
The Late Late Show: Ryan Tubridy with Charlie Bird. Photograph: Andres Poveda/RTÉ
There are also some heavyweight cameos. “I love how brilliant and smart and kind and cheeky you are,” the actor Saoirse Ronan says in one video message. “I hear you’re learning to play guitar – not a good idea,” McCartney jokes in another. But some of the evening is anticlimactic. A performance by a supergroup of trad musicians that features Andrea Corr, John Sheahan of The Dubliners, Steve Wickham of The Waterboys and Sharon Shannon is enjoyable but hardly the mind-blowing spectacular RTÉ had been hyping.
And then, in line with Late Late farewell-episode tradition, along come U2. The Edge, in a video message, points out that “Ryan Tubridy” is almost as popular a search term on Google as “Ryanair”. Next, Bono, in Los Angeles, delivers a spoken-word performance of Born to Be Wild.This leads to the comedian PJ Gallagher driving in on a shiny red scooter, U2′s goodbye gift.
Tubridy won’t mind. He is eager to move on. “I’ve made an important decision,’ he tells Andrea Corr and Clannad’s Moya Brennan. “I’m leaving this show with a spring in my step as opposed to a heavy heart.” You wish him well. It’s just a shame that, after 14 years of earnest toil, his final Late Late isn’t a bit more spectacular.
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