Should RTE stop airing Father Ted?

No.

I feel sorry for him that his whole life is just an obsession about trans people but yeah he is very nasty.

Of course Fr Ted shouldn't be dropped.

If those are genuine quotes from GL then the man has issues. It's fine to be opposed to nonces but why pick on the trans lads? There are bound to be some trans nonces. There are loads of white men nonces and nobody expects me to take responsibility for them just because I'm also a white man.

If GL was abused and this is his way of talking about it by going on and on about nonces on Twitter, then fine. But leave the trans lads out of it. They have enough going on without being branded deviants.

Haven't we seen this exact same movie before except with gay people as the suspects? Spoiler alert, gay people are grand and they aren't nonces either.

I think if you're going to write a musical, pissing off the gay community and devoting your life to supporting conspiracies that link gay pride with paedophilia might be a commercial faux pas

He doesn't live in Ireland... But he's already gotten in trouble with the police in the UK for harassment.... He's a prick. Air it away and nobody cares that it or the IT Crowd is still aired. The reality is that most of the comedy scene simply don't want to do future work with him.

Everyone has seen examples of tweets from him in this thread. I'm doubtful that the other people involved would want to work with him after this ****.

Even before he became involved in the whole trans thing he came across as quite an abrasive, arrogant character in his Twitter interactions. This would have been when he was still regarded as "woke". Id say he has some sort of personality disorder.

Should RTÉ stop playing the Corrs if Jim Corr says something a bit odd?

Not reading 5 pages of no doubt top quality boards.ie brainrot peddled by people who have no real knowledge of Linehan's activities in the past few years and instead rely on what the soft-touch British media report.

Instead I'm going say something controversial here: Linehan isn't actually an ideologically motivated transphobe. He's just an internet addicted, mean-spirited, egotistical, bully who found an acceptable target group to pick on, people who'll support him in it, and a media who won't take him to task whenever he rears his head outside Twitter. And has run with it to the point of torpedoing his entire personal & professional life, leaving him with nothing left but bigotry. That in some ways makes it worse. Remember his "Twitter Policeman" persona before he went bananas? Remember what kicked him off on this was people gave him some mild criticism for an episode of the IT Crowd? How dare you criticise Graham's art. Now all trans people must pay forever.

Barring a successful intervention from whatever friends he has left who aren't toilet obsessed loonies, he's going to end up in the asylum screaming "WHY DO YOU SUPPORT THE MUTILATION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS?!!" at the staff as they try to sedate him to stop him from hurting himself again.

That being said, I don't think there's any need to cancel Father Ted over him. For one thing, it was co-written by people who haven't become absolutely horrible.

What is GL's actual issue with trans people? I'm a bloke and a fair bit of the media aimed at me is supposed to make me cross with trans people. I can't actually see any reason to be cross with them for being trans, it just doesn't seem like a problem for me. So could someone who is actually opposed to the trans lads explain why I should have a problem with them?

I would think psychiatrists are experts in this area. Do you disagree?

RTÉ should stop playing The Corrs because its musical cancer, not because of Jim Corr being stone mental.

But of course Father Ted is legendary and of the highest quality and so likewise, its status is irrelevant to that of Graham Linehan.

In any case, I've yet to hear anything said by Graham Linehan, on the topic for which he has attracted attention, which was anything less than logical, sober, common sense and verifiable by scientific standards.

But you agree they are experts then on thesubject? You just disagree with the majority of the psychiatrists opinion on the matter.