Friday night saw Ryan Tubridy back in the Late Late hot seat for the penultimate show of what has been an unpredictable season.
The past few months may have provided the production team with some unprecedented challenges in the midst of the health pandemic, but they’ve delivered the goods regardless, embracing audience-free shows, socially distanced guests and even video calls from around the world.
And no star shone brighter than Ryan himself, who admits he’s had to grow up fast during the rollercoaster series which saw him not only lose and mourn precious colleagues like Marian Finucane and Gay Byrne, but also tackle the show completely ‘solo’ as the nation navigated its ‘new reality.’ After weeks of a somewhat sombre studio, the halls of