A variation of this post first appeared on TheJournal.ie, 31 December 2013 With advanced publicity for Oliver Callan’s New Year’s Eve special promising sketches that would sail close to the wind in their depiction of President Michael D. Higgins and his aide Kevin McCarthy, RTÉ reportedly asked that the satirist tone down his portrayal of the PresidentContinue reading “Ballymagash & the Fall of the Fine Gael-Labour Government, 1977”
