Who is someone you inexplicably can't stand?

Paul Mescal.

His American ex, the folk pop musician, is your cookie cutter lefty culture wars bore, so on the basis he would put put up with her I'd assume he can only be a class A bellend on that evidence.

Although he may be a total pain, he is actually correct on this.

Had the famine and the resulting mass emigration that it triggered not happened, then based on what happened in other European countries, the population of Ireland would have at least doubled between the mid-19th century and today.

To set it in context:

The average population density of the EU is 109 people / square kilometre.

The population density of Roscommon is 27 people / square kilometre.

Hence Roscommon could easily have a population significantly larger than it does today.

And we would over time adapted- twice as many teachers, hospitals, road networks etc etc.

I would say we would actually have more than doubled. We always had a higher birthrate than the likes of France and England, although mass emigration would have eventually happened regardless- there was no famine in Italy or Poland and they still sent millions slightly later than ourselves.

Morons like Ming are effectively saying we could double the population over the space of a few years and it would all be grand, to the clapping of the fiscally illiterate seals on his timeline who believe you can run a society on de feelz.

How anybody like that can be taken seriously is a damning indictment of our media- it's the type of stuff Diane Abbott in the UK comes out with, and she is widely lampooned in their media for the thick gobshyte that she is.

There can be no arguing that there is a cohort of Irish politicians- Ryan, Harris, McEntee, P Murphy, Coppinger, Brid Smith- for whom it isn't just a question of their policies being bad, it's a fact that they are by any measure of extremely low intellect. Some of them could well fall under a psychological disorder diagnosis.

Ricky Gervais. I don't think he's a decent person. Likes to come across as a serious thinker on topics until he doesn't like the game anymore so hides behind his stupid cackling to try and make it all a joke.

His latest comedy I didn't find funny at all. That last TV series 'After life' was awful guff laced with bad actors and terrible storyline. Loads of lazy gags dragged in from his old material - The same line about atheism strung through every gig and outlet he's got going. Coasting on the coat tails of his earlier work a while now.

To freshen things up he's going after "woke" people......edgy stuff alright.

Gervais ? Is it overexposure ?

Since he hit our screens he’s always doing something and or on repeat on Gold.

the office, awards presenting, talking head on various shows usually with Stephen Merchant laughing his head off about XYZ…

*im not trying to explain the inexplicable but just discussing the possibilities 💀

His latest show isn't genius but I laughed fairly lively for all of it , and that is the single most important part of comedy , if its a silly lecture like on live at the apollo then its not comedy

I liked the Office but he comes across as a throughly unlikeable individual.

That brian dowling gimp

Al Porter

Bernard O'Shea

David Doherty

Fred Cooke & his missus Julie Jay

Alison Spittle

Deirdre O'Kane

Edwin Sammon

Fred Cooke . About as funny as sh1tting yourself 30 minutes into a 7 hour flight....

Surely he's doing more for RTÉ to earn a wedge than just announcing guests on a talk show....

Ivan Yates - bankrupt former politician and radio host

And he aways just drops in remarks on programmes just to get a reaction out of people. Don’t find him in anyway credible as a presenter / journalist and he wasn’t much cop as a politician…..smug and hyper opinionated but you get the impression he doesn’t believe half the shït he’s saying….

But he always gets himself in the news.Controversial it's called.A cute ho$ure.

The Sunday World's version of Paul Williams.