Eamon Morrissey on Hall's Pictorial Weekly, c1977.
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@cahern196812 жыл бұрын
35 years later things are still the same, but now, sadly, we don't have programs like this any more.
@glen73187 жыл бұрын
True... god the Coalitiion in the 70s were hilarious
@cloverfield91116 жыл бұрын
Hall's Pictorial Weekly. a classic, and so true of the 70s and 80s.
@lar8422 жыл бұрын
More true now than ever Xmas lights police the glimmer man is back 2022
@ciaran5588 Жыл бұрын
I was about 9 when this was on. Glad things are SO much better now..........
@paulcorrigan85303 жыл бұрын
The "Minister for Hardship" was performed by Eamon Morrissey, known for his work bringing the characters of Flann O'Brien to life on stage. The Minister was intended as a thinly disguised caricature of the unpopular Taoiseach Liam Cosgrave. Morrissey gave the Minister a life of his own, creating a character who could have walked off the pages of any Flann O'Brien novel, and is as memorable as any of the stock characters of Cruishkeen Lawn. The Minister may well have contributed to Cosgrave's downfall, with the real Taoiseach's image increasingly confused in the public mind with Morrissey's character. In any case, he remains the best remembered of the stock characters of Hall's Pictorial Weekly.
@k3D4rsi554maq Жыл бұрын
I thought it was modelled on Ritchie Ryan the Minister of Finance.
@tomkeegan37822 жыл бұрын
Electricity will be twice as dear if ya don't use twice as much!!!!🤣🤣🤣 Hilarious!!!🤣🤣🤣
@FredJ5114 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! And it might have been scripted yesterday. NOTHING has changed in Irish politics. No wonder RTE got cold feet over this sort of programme, same as with 'Scrap Saturday.'
@tsk33922 ай бұрын
RTE has nothing like it anymore.
@w4nk5r11 жыл бұрын
we do! the irish pictorial weekly out now!
@Ruthybobz1914 жыл бұрын
Lets see the hardship Lenihan sends our way tomorrow!
@chicken600016 жыл бұрын
This is uncannily appropriate in todays context. HAHA
@glen73186 жыл бұрын
Ah Sadly the real Minister for Hardship has passed away....
@DiscoReaper9 ай бұрын
Christ …it could be re-interpreted as Pascal in todays govt of ‘23
@mrsjaycloth14 жыл бұрын
Dont tell Cowen that they dont have to hand out free Cheeses!
@ON8EI16 жыл бұрын
Quite apt considering how things have changed in IRL over the last few months.
@ciaranoh Жыл бұрын
HAPPY DAYS
@martinadarcy781 Жыл бұрын
A comment from a Gript viewer brought me here ah the good oul days 😅
@johneharold15 жыл бұрын
I think he's impersonating Liam Cosgrave. I remember this clip from the 70's & never thought it would come back to haunt us! Those jerks in Fianna Fail (especially Bertie)have brought this country to its knees (I'm non party). It will take a miracle and a courageous person to lead us out of this catastrophe
@glen73187 жыл бұрын
Yes of course, Liam C was the Taoiseach at the time
@snipper1ie5 жыл бұрын
Although your comment was made a whole nine years ago, I must say (high horse). Was this character not called Richie Ruin? A parody on Richie Ryan FG, who would have been Minister for Finance in 1977. You're really contradicting your, 'non party' thing. There's a thing. As things stand nowadays, nine years later. What do you think of the state of the Country now? Have we been led out of the shite?
@dinullr19574 жыл бұрын
Huh. Timely
@mrsjaycloth14 жыл бұрын
Deja vue?
@JJONNYREPP Жыл бұрын
The Minister for Hardship. 1608pm 27.3.23 this is same style of humour as propounded by those chpas from Father Ted and IT Crowd...