Quote Originally Posted by Sir C View Post
Odd though, isn't it? You'd imagine in the 70sand 80s the BBC would have been gagging to wallpaper him in huge checques, whilst RTE were paying him in Guinness and a quarter of aul' Howie's pig dat he's going to shlaughter nixt week like.
They had Wogan and Val Doonican, Dave Allen and Eammon Andrews - they may just have felt their Irish quota was filled.