We should be grateful, as a nation, to Ryan Tubridy and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell for giving us something other than war, plague and terrfying gas bills to talk about.
And the big reaction to their awkward little moment on the Late Late Show shows how desperate we are to be able to care about silly stuff again, after two or more years of news that just wants to make you hide behind the sofa with a bottle of whiskey and a baseball bat.
If you were hiding out in a cave for the weekend, Ryan managed to outrage half the country by asking the Derry Girl’s star a pretty innocent question, in a bid to compliment her and the rest of the comedy’s crew for convincingly playing teenagers.
