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Jeremy Kyle? Whoa, whoa, whoa... let's not say stuff we can't take back. :P

(There's a great documentary about Kyle and how he was a symptom of a disease, shall we say, rather than the main problem. He profited from negative attitudes, and then allowed them to grow and fester. Still, Tubridy has not left 3 or 4 people dead in his wake).

I'd say softening the image is to help her appeal more internationally. Seems to work too, her tickets sell for 50 or 60 quid, in France and other countries. Solid sales too.

Can i make a suggestion that we go back to a new thread for the show each week? Having this single one is rolling over arguments week in week out.

Fck me....

Of all the crap bands,chancers and general sh1tehawkery of performances of the Late Late down the years and you choose to have a go at the Hothouse Flowers? One of the best and most underrated Irish bands of all time.If you only know the " one song" then that's tells me all I need to know about your musical knowledge.

I just watched eamon dunphy doing an interview with tommy martin on TV3....my god even tommy martin blew tubridy out of the park...

Well researched, knowledgeable...led to a very insightful and interesting interview....

Tubridy is honestly not worth 1/5 of his current salary with the quality he produces.....there are so many better value alternatives to Tubridy...Tommy Tiernan, Daithi OSe, Sarah Mcinerney...even someone like Tommy Martin could pull it off at a fraction of the cost.....

The Late Late Show needs a major shake up....its in the doldrums...ratings are muck for the flagship show of RTE......

Tubridy must go....

Tubridy interviewed Dunphy recently and it was just jarring.....going for death and misery angle all the time.

Tubridy reads a package put together by the researchers and is very ill informed about sporting guests...

And he is on Virgin TV every night what more can he say also we had all the leaders on at the start of Operation Transformation telling us all about their lives and weight struggles what the hell more is there to come out two days later, the Late Late is now a load of crap week after week.

That's it. That's it exactly. Speaking as someone who's had issues with Mental Health/ Mental Illness since I was diagnosed at 15 (but definitely had it long before then), even I think this is trivialising things.

If you really want to help people, maybe encourage the government to make more resources available for people with mental illness? Public health services can be very hard to come by, and even harder to get good services. You can get someone who's still being trained, or another who's like 'take these meds' and you've literally just walked in the door and haven't been diagnosed with anything. One friend of mine ended up in hospital due to being prescribed the wrong medication for his depressive disorder. The services are really poor. You often have to search for a private counsellor, or else you're totally out of luck.

But that rarely if ever gets highlighted. Instead we get useless campaigns, useless Health Ministers, or infantilising people (mainly men) when discussing Mental illness. The services are wanted, and if they were stretched before, they are completely sparse now. The pandemic didn't help things. The isolation hit many folks.

Next week's guest probably yer wan that done the reading at the ex-pope's funeral.

You do realise mental health issues and “real depression “ ( as distinct from??) are not necessarily the same?

Ryan bounding on to the Blues Brothers Intro Music!

Sadly, no chance of him being arrested by all of the Illinois Police Force.