RTE radio listeners were in hysterics on Thursday as a man took to the airwaves to discuss his town's traffic problems.
Tyrone man Paddy Lyons started into a hilarious rant about Coalisland during the Parish Quiz hosted by The 2 Johnnies.
The 2FM show features local people talking about their towns and villages, who also answer questions to get through to a final and win a prize.
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Yesterday was Coalisland's turn and top of the agenda was the town's relationship with traffic wardens and roundabouts, Belfast Live reports.
Paddy told The 2 Johnnies: "Jesus Christ hi the roundabouts are an absolute pantomime. See about this time here now about five o’clock whenever there’s traffic coming from out of Powerscreen, traffic coming from all engineering companies, all the schools and then there’s a bus that just plants in the middle of it and holds everything up.
“There’s a set of traffic lights as well which nobody really pays any heed to.
“Roundabouts - we don’t really do them either. They’re not really roundabouts, they are more like ‘overabouts’. People just drive over them.”
The chat moved on to the town’s short stint of having a traffic warden patrolling its streets.
Paddy added: “No there was one attempt but they realised that it just wasn’t doing any good so no there’s none. They tried to give somebody a ticket and they basically got told to sling their hook.
“People were complaining and giving off that Coalisland is getting away with no parking signs, no double yellow lines, no nothing but what have you got to do, just move to Coalisland and you don’t have to worry about parking fines.”
In a host of questions about the town, Paddy answered four out of five questions correctly, including making reference to the time his father beat local legend Dennis Taylor in a snooker match in Gervin’s pub.
Paddy made his way through to Friday’s final, and will compete against the contestant from Nobber in Co Meath.
You can listen back to Thursday’s episode on the RTE 2FM website.
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