Radio: Today FM host bemoans uneventful general election, as Pat Kenny hears two sides of the charged migrant issue
Radio: Today FM host bemoans uneventful general election until charged subject of immigration is raised
But that’s as snarky as it gets. While Smyth and O’Loughlin quibble, they’re disappointingly civil to each other. There’s more edge during Monday’s set-to on housing between Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal Donohoe andTD Eoin Ó Broin, with the latter accusing his Fine Gael opponent of “sidestepping” questions, before snippily complaining about being interrupted when the Minister cuts across him to rebut the charge.
As the exchanges grow more heated, Cooper has to adopt his most headmasterly tenor and remind his guests – neither of whom is in the studio – that listeners can’t hear them while they’re talking over each other. Which isn’t necessarily a bad thing: such a contretemps may inject needle into the lacklustre campaign bemoaned by Cooper but it’s disheartening that immigration raises tempers more readily than other issues. Maybe a boring campaign isn’t so bad after all.
“This is the kind of mature debate we need to be having,” he adds, harking back to Australia’s previously restrictive immigration laws as an example of how to control inward migration. . Quinn frames all this as a common-sense position thwarted by a timid political class, but despite his butter-wouldn’t-melt manner, his argument also places immigrants in the firing line of electoral discontent.
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