Television: RTÉ new current-affairs show is off to a solid if not earth-shattering start
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Then, alas, the awkward factor is dialled all the way. The four guests – including the former tánasite Michael McDowell and the Irish-Syrian journalist and activist Razan Ibraheem – are introduced with a “quirky” piece of trivia. Here “quirky” means toe-curling beyond the capacity for human comprehension.
It isn’t the most promising of beginnings. Hannon, though, has seen things the rest of us wouldn’t believe, in so far as she has sat in for Joe Duffy on Liveline. Launching a flagship current-affairs panel show at a time of unprecedented social strife will surely prove a cinch by comparison. The first subject is more fraught, and there is indeed some of that familiar RTÉ current-affairs shouting. The host, to her credit, keeps the conversation moving forward. More than that, she is no-nonsense without turning into Simon Cowell surprised in the bath by Jedward. Or Jeremy Paxman back when bull-in-china-shop news anchors were all the rage.
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