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Cowen was in no humour to be listening to Farrell screeching beside him last night.

He wasn't long shutting Brock down either when she tried to bring up his own case.

Fitzmaurice seemed a bit agressive last night, he is usually level headed but he let Gibbons get under his skin and it was all downhill after that.

That Labour one was some dose, no wonder her party is going down the drain.

And of course they had to have an "activist" on as well.

The guy from Lismore argued his point well considering most of the panel including Brock were libs.

Is it just me or has the government realised there is an election coming up and has started to turn far right?

It's okay though. Catherine Day is out batting for them...again! - Govt know that we are just hanging on every one of her words, so it'll be fine

He'd be more articulate if they'd let him speak - I see Alison O'Connor took the shilling...

...which is nice

That NGO is very annoying

Yeah she has popped up on a few videos over the last few weeks.

Another one who thinks we should take in half the world and deport nobody.

That Cynthia Ní Mhurchú is a truly appalling woman.

That is all

screeching, roaring and looking at everyone with disdain! She's unbearable. A big NO from me

That was a disaster of a debate if you want to call it that. Cynthia Ní Mhurchú is an aspiring warmonger so maybe she'd fit in well in Europe

I missed it. What did she do?

reduced to two nights a week, not surprising, terrible hosts.

I gave up watching ages ago. It was a must watch when Browne was at the desk pity they let it decline so much.

The could save quite a bit of money by reducing The Six O'Clock Show by five nights a week to zero nights a week too.

And then put the savings, however meagre, into a decent presenter for the Tonight Show. What they have now as a product, is crap.

I agree, it’s a loss in the sense of we got to see a lot more politicians than RTÉ features.

We need a BBC Question Time style show, the RTÉ Katie one isn’t it.

Never watch 6 O’Clock Show don’t know who that’s aimed at.

Yes a Question Time style show where they move it around the country every week would be great, have a host with 2 local TD's for that area and 3 media/entertainment personalities in front of a live audience asking 5 or 6 topical questions to the panel.

The Tonight Show in Vin B's day did a brief stint of shows around the country in the lead up to an election some years back.

Very disappointing news. It's important that we have a private alternative to what RTE is offering.

And now their flagship current affairs programme is being reduced by 50%.

The media market in Ireland is so threadbare as it is.

The statement mentions that they are doing a documentary on the US Election and sending Richard Chambers to cover it. I'm not sure how this addresses their public service remit given that we can get US election news from about a million other sources.

I'm surprised they haven't just pulled the plugged on this, the show is terrible. There's a good opportunity for doing a show that's different to what rte give us

Does anyone watch The Group Chat?

It does look vindictive particularly just as we're about to have an election but Virgin Media have a point.

I don't know why RTE doesn't run Prime Time 3 times a week. I keep saying why on earth do they need 2 presenters. RTE having been getting away with this nonsense for decades and the government keep bailing them out.

In fairness to RTÉ (why why do I defend RTÉ why? :) ) ….

They have 4 current affairs shows across the week TWIP, Upfront and Prime Time 2 nights a week.

My question for RTÉ why not run a late night current affairs show on RTÉ2 at 11pm or any news on the second channel for that matter and my second question is why do their current affairs shows begin taking breaks during the summer months.

In fairness to TV3/VMTV up until the exit of VB from The Tonight Show they would replace him with guest presenters in August.

4 times a week for maybe 34 weeks a year. The other 18 we're left with one showing of Prime Time.

No reason for Prime Time not to be shown on Wednesday night in my view. And of course they reduce Prime Time to just once a week for 3 months in the summer. How does RTE still get away with this carry on?

Just to mention here that I'm A Celeb and its after show replace The Tonight Show over the next few weeks, but I think this has more to do with the cut then what's being suggested.