Claire Byrne and Farage

Agree completely. She loves a gimmick on her show. There was absolutely nothing to be gained from bringing him on other than to show him that clip and laugh at him. She knew she'd get kudos from Twitter for sneering at him and that's all that mattered.

Wasnt the best from RTE or from Claire Byrne. Plenty of better ways to conduct an interview than take something completely out of context and ham it in there.

It was pretty obvious Farage didn't have a clue, considering he was comparing membership of the EU to 500+ years of British rule over Ireland.

If anything she was pretty kind to him by just pointing out he's a knob rather than outright calling him one.

Farage could have been torn a

country have been torn apart

You mean the Birthday greeting ....

I am sure one can read into the Birthday greeting his entire history and knowledge of Anglo - Irish relations...... FFS!

Surprised at the Farage fan club on here. He is an odious Prick and should be treated as such at every opportunity. Fair play Claire

i doubt there's a fanclub but it's pretty low brow to ring up a feckin eegit just to show him a stupid video and then let him grandstand to the irish feckin eegits that love him

Not at all surprised to see the tone of the thread is focused on feeling sorry for the Agitator in Chief Mr Farage.

The Up the RA clip was cheap, but a perfect illustration of the BS that man pontificates about and how it is largely disconnected from reality.

I do think Claire should have done better and when he started with the rhetoric about being governed by Europe after fighting the English for 500 years (it was actually 800 Nigel) she should have told him that every 5 years we have elections, using PR voting practices, to send people to be part of the governing process in Europe and that that is A- more reflective of true democracy than the FPTP method they use in the UK and B - that is very different to having a colonial occupier subjugating the country.

I'm not surprised at the Farage support on here, many on Boards are comfortable with the idea of someone fighting for the traditional form of society they wish still existed. You can see it in their support of Farage, Trump, and against anything with even a whiff of progressiveness about it.

Well Corbyn got dubbed a traitor and a terrorist for a remark he made about the IRA so why does Farage get off the hook.

If a lad got Starmer to say "Fk the Queen" for a birthday joke the UK media would go into absolute meltdown and he would end up on top a Guy Fawkes bonfire

Farage is best ignored and not given the air time he craves.

How dare you! He has family in Ireland!

But seriously, though, he is the very definition of 'right-wing grifter'. His act is shallower than a garden pond. He was out there last year doing that march for Brexit thing, wearing a flat cap and hunting jacket, and eating a bag of chips, trying to be as stereotypically British as possible. All that was missing was a pint of John Smith's in his hand. I'll give him this, though - it works, but only because British politicians had been so laughably out of touch over the last 15 years, especially since the recession, that desperate ordinary people look to an obvious hack like Farage as some kind of hope. It's only with Brexit passing and the rise of Johnson to PM that Farage's relevance has dwindled. The man is primed to be knocked down by any competent interviewer - but there seem to be too few of them out there and Farage is just a bit too clever to knowingly risk exposure.

Interesting you're only here a couple months and have enough insight to identify the 'usual crowd'.

Other people are criticising Byrne for taking that approach at all, I'm criticising her for not going far enough. See the difference?

Farage is an odious individual and not enough people challenge him on the various angles of hypocrisy he exhibits. A generation of people in the UK are worse off partly as a consequence of this man and his imperialistic fetish.