The Late Late Toy Show 2025 thread

Different resources in different schools maybe because my kids teachers definitely know what they can handle.

We arranged to meet a teacher a few years back. Teacher visibly relaxed when, at the meeting, when we told them why we wanted to talk and they produced a file they had compiled to help them have a "difficult " conversation with us. They were expecting push back and were glad we were approaching them on the same topic.

Had all application forms already filled out for us from the school perspective, added in our own observations, and we had the AoN.

2nd kid. Different teacher, same school, same assistance with navigating official Ireland

I thought it was great. It all felt so natural. Patrick seemed to be loving it, the kids seemed genuinely delighted to be there. There was the right balance between toys and performances. There was some commercialism in it but it wasn’t overly commercial. There were regular mentions of the very worthy charity appeal but it didn’t take over the show. The performances felt more genuine as well this year. Very good but not overly rehearsed. All in all top marks to all involved.

Tubridy turned it into a one variety variety show because he fancied himself as a song and dance man. In reality he was a pong and nance man. He ruined the toy show and thankfully it’s now being recovered

Has to be a confused boy trying to be a girl and using a girl's name?

There's lots of clips on the RTE Youtube site, hopefully you can access that ok if you want to see e.g. just the CMAT section, or opening etc

https://www.youtube.com/%40rtelatelateshow

Thought it was great, time flew by which isn't always the case

Were the audience gifts much less than other years? I always found it was a talking point but don't remember much from last night bar some airline voucher

And an An Post hamper thing.

Or perhaps they are transgender and not confused at all.

I think we can all agree that Keelan was the star of last night’s show.

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Tubridy was a master at plugging brands to be fair, just like all of his fellow superstars at NKM too. Be they paid product placement or freebies donated to the uber talented broadcaster he was in a league of his own at corporate shilling - the Freebie list on the old Tubridy Radio Thread makes for fascinating reading. He got so good at it he started to request brands and ordinary members of the public to send him stuff - the highlight for me personally was his requesting the backroom team of his former Radio 1 show to get him tickets and a flight to Orlando to see his hero Macca play around the time of his 50th birthday. I miss Ryan - his salary was enormous but it never affected his soul.

There’s a couple of features in Evoke alright including one long form ad which details prices per room (so tacky) and such detail went into the press release that Clifden is misspelt as Clifton more than once. No doubt the same articles will be repeated verbatim on similar sites like VIP and RSVP etc.

Edit: links below

And it’s just a coincidence that his wedding took place on the same weekend as the Toy Show…….I mean who doesn’t get married in December?