A Newstalk presenter has hammered RTE for their decision to show the Queen's funeral live on Monday saying "she's not our Queen".
Kieran Cuddihy told listeners to his Friday show that he is dumbfounded why taxpayer money is being spent to broadcast the commemoration.
Speaking on Newstalk, Cuddihy said: "You have a wave of nostalgia sweeping across the nation just across the pond.
"But I didn't realise that wave of nostalgia, that nostalgia for the days of empire had even reached these shores.
"And it reached Dublin, and it reached Donnybrook and Montrose to be precise.
"RTE television are going to televise the Queen's funeral, they are sending Ray Kennedy and others over the London on Monday and from half 10 they are going to have a special programme so that everyone in Ireland can gather around the television set in the corner, around its warm glow, and watch her majesty's commemoration.
"That's right, that's what they are spending taxpayer's money on .
"Remember everything that's broadcast on RTE is taxpayer's money.
"And I know they'll say there is people up North for whom the Queen is head of state, but I hate to break it to RTE, but those people are not watching RTE."
He added: "She's not our Queen so I don't know why we're spending our money putting it on our national broadcaster."
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