Despite some awkward guest pairings, this New Year's Eve special is a marked improvement over the previous year's broadcast. Patrick Kielty hosts with a good line in sharp jokes, and the show avoids the desperate feel of its predecessor.
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Television: Despite blink-and-it’s-over conversations with wildly mismatched guests, this New Year’s Eve special is much better than 2023’swas a damp squib, an underwhelming countdown to 2024 not helped by the decision to film it in the dreariest depths of mid-November. is a much-improved affair that corrects course and avoids the stale whiff of desperation that infused the 2023 broadcast.
A serviceable 90-minute special concludes with The Undertones performing their punk classic Teenage Kicks and then, mystifyingly, the late-1990s Swedish band The Wannadies doing their mid-level hit the You & Me Song – a quirky ending to a new year Kieltynanny that, if lacking fireworks, doesn’t make you hate staying in on December 31st. By the standard of RTÉ New Year coverage, that almost rates as mission accomplished.
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