Remarkable but true, it was the man in the gansey, Ryan Tubridy and his first Late Late Show in November 2009. Almost 1.4 million people watched the programme for a minimum of 15 minutes. One had to go back to the year 2000 to find the nearest competition, 1.27 million adults watched the October airing of Who Wants to be a Millionaire?

It’s football, soaps, sport, current affairs, the news, Pat Short, the Eurovision, and  Eddie Hobbs – not all in that order. That’s what we all watched. Click in the thumbnail below.