Media Matters: One RTÉ 'star' for everyone in the audience

Ah, The Late Late Show, that much-hated, much-loved Irish institution that everyone complains about - but still watches.

There was bad news for the world’s longest running chat show recently, when it was revealed its viewership had fallen. The average audience for the 2015/16 series of The Late Late Show was 583,300, compared to an average of 599,900 for the previous series.

The media had a field day, with one newspaper claiming the ...