The Tonight Show

🗣️ “People will find this difficult to accept - we’re going to have to have a staged retreat.” Following the Virgin Media News documentary Ireland Under Water, the #TonightVMTV panel discussed the difficult decisions Ireland may face as flooding becomes more frequent. [1/2]

🗣️ “We have quite a nebulous definition of neutrality.” Kenneth McDonagh questions how central the Triple Lock really is to Irish neutrality. 📺 Catch up on the full episode on Virgin Media PLAY and highlights on YouTube. #TonightVMTV

ICYMI: #TonightVMTV 🚨 Triple lock reform: Is Ireland’s neutrality under threat, and should a referendum be called? 🚨 Europe’s angry autumn: What’s driving a wave of protests and social unrest? 🚨 Brian Stack: The Taoiseach issues a State apology. 👇 https://ow.ly/Eq5M50ZZV5T

Ireland’s 'Triple Lock': What Does Scrapping It Mean For Neutrality? 📺 Watch the full #TonightVMTV discussion. youtu.be/_69qAD2U6LY?...

🗣️ “Particularly generational inequality with housing. If it isn’t addressed here, you’re talking about the fracturing of the social contract,” Mick Clifford on the potential for social unrest in Ireland amid protests in Spain and France. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “For young people looking at their futures, I don’t think they see a future. I think they feel really hopeless,” Senator Patricia Stephenson on the causes of social unrest and protests among young people across Europe. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “It’s the breakdown of liberal democracy... to the effect that it is not working for a critical mass of the people in the way that it has done,” Mick Clifford on the social and political unrest in Europe. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “We have quite a nebulous definition of neutrality,” Ken McDonagh on Irish neutrality, how central the triple lock is to it, and how our neutrality will evolve. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “Do we want our Defence Forces involved in non-human rights-compliant operations?” says Senator Patricia Stephenson #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “The Dáil today [was] little short of hysterical,” @mickcliff.bsky.social on the Dáil debate surrounding the removal of the triple lock. #TonightVMTV

📺 On #TonightVMTV 🚨 Triple lock: what does neutrality mean today, and should there be a referendum? 🚨 Storm Austen nears as 6 counties brace for flooding. 🚨 Taoiseach’s State apology to the family of prison officer Brian Stack. Tonight’s panel ⬇️

🗣️ “This needs to be at the top of our consideration here, just how traumatic these flooding events are,” John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺 on the new Virgin Media News documentary 'Ireland Under Water', which looks at the growing threat of flooding in the country. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “We did withdraw a UN mission in the Middle East. We didn’t do it because of Vladimir Putin or Donald Trump - we did it at the behest of Micheál Martin,” #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “It comes back to a broader point about Sinn Féin. They’re trying to conflate this issue about the triple lock with wider neutrality,” says says Pádraig O’Sullivan TD, Fianna Fáil. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “I think it’s telling Mary Lou went back to 2013, while Micheál [Martin] wanted to go back several decades.” Matt Carthy TD on heated Dáil exchanges over the triple lock, after the Taoiseach told the Opposition Leader he wouldn’t take “lectures” from a party that “once supported Nazism”.

🗣️ “Every new case...was a rape case. So, of course, 100% of those that weren’t dealt with were rape cases,” Matt Carthy TD on the Minister for Justice telling the Oireachtas committee that solicitors deliberately targeted rape cases in their protest. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “I was in the Children’s Court today. There were 16 cases and 13 young people not represented,” Mary Carolan, Legal Affairs Correspondent at the Irish Times, on the impact of the solicitors’ dispute on young and vulnerable people. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “The Minister for Justice has forced us to take extreme measures,” Michael Finucane, solicitor, on the solicitors’ dispute over a new payment scheme for criminal legal aid. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “The Minister’s comments are ill-conceived at best, and self-serving at worst,” Michael Finucane, Solicitor responds to Jim O’Callaghan doubling down on comments that solicitors had deliberately targeted rape cases in their protest. #TonightVMTV

📺 On #TonightVMTV 🚨 Minister won’t budge on legal aid, saying solicitors targeted rape cases in their protest. 🚨 Dáil clash over the triple lock; Taoiseach rejects “lectures” from the opposition. 🚨 Ireland Under Water: Are we prepared for what's coming? Tonight's panel ⬇️

🗣️ “The State will lose good people” Economist John Fitzgerald says unions must enter talks to avoid a “lose-lose” outcome, with skilled workers potentially moving to the private sector and further strikes costing workers more days’ pay. 📺 Watch here ➡️ https://f.mtr.cool/cjwjy8lj5g

On #TonightVMTV:  Our panel react as over 300,000 public sector worker strike over pay dispute and what should the Government do to deal with the rapid development of artificial intelligence.  We are live on Virgin Media PLAY & One at 10pm📺

🗣️"Index it based on the pay increases in the economy" 🗣️"If you had indexed public sector pay over the last ten years, your members would be worse off" Owen Reidy, ICTU general secretary and Shane Coleman debate about the ongoing public sector pay row on #TonightVMTV.

🗣️"RTÉ have a big, big problem" 🗣️"The Minister has discretion to do what he wants, and he has left them short" John Lee Executive Editor, Irish Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday on Media Minister, Patrick O'Donovan's decision to cut RTÉ's funding. #TonightVMTV

Strikes are "regrettable" but "avoidable" - Owen Reidy, ICTU general secretary #TonightVMTV

James Geoghegan says restaurants are closing because of high wage costs - but Owen Reidy, ICTU general secretary dismisses the claim as “nonsense”. #TonightVMTV

The Government "broke a whole string of promises" in the Budget, says Cian O’Callaghan TD as he cites Fianna Fail's manifesto. #TonightVMTV

Dr Emma Howard says TV licence prosecutions have fallen by around 50% over the past three years. She says certainty around multi-annual funding for RTÉ is important. #TonightVMTV

The Government promised "multi-annual funding". They’re now "breaking that promise.” Social Democrats TD Cian O’Callaghan criticises the Government over its approach to funding RTÉ. #TonightVMTV

RTE have got a "big, big problem" - John Lee, Executive Editor, Irish Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday #TonightVMTV

“The idea of An Post collecting the TV licence has been an abject failure.” Niall Collins TD says Revenue would be better placed to collect the TV licence fee. #TonightVMTV

On #TonightVMTV: We examine the clash between RTÉ and Media Minister Patrick O’Donovan, looming industrial action over pay, and claims Budget 2027 is “painfully out of touch”. 📺 Tonight at 10pm on Virgin Media PLAY and Virgin Media One.

Income tax cuts, capped childcare costs and extended fuel excise reductions. Will workers be better off or left standing still? Minister Jack Chambers and Sinn Féin's Mairéad Farrell debate live in studio. 📺 Virgin Media PLAY and Virgin Media One.

On #TonightVMTV Budget 2027 has arrived – but who really benefits? Public Expenditure Minister Jack Chambers and Sinn Féin's Mairéad Farrell debate live in studio. 📺 Tonight at 10pm on Virgin Media PLAY and Virgin Media One

🗣️ “When those young players needed support, they didn’t get it from the Government.” Ahead of Ireland's second game against Israel tonight, the #TonightVMTV panel discussed the FAI’s handling of the controversial fixtures and whether the Government should have intervened. [1/2]

🗣️ “At a time of unprecedented surplus, we have unprecedented child poverty.” The #TonightVMTV panel discuss Budget measures to tackle child poverty and childcare costs.

🗣️ “200,000 children living below the poverty line. And we’re boasting massive tax surpluses.” 🗣️ “We’re not asking you to drain the country’s finances here,” says Daniel Ennis TD. #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “[The Irish players] showed great unity, dealt with the massively difficult situation they found themselves in.” 🗣️ “They didn’t trip up and find themselves in that situation...the FAI failed in their duty of care,” #TonightVMTV

🗣️ “They couldn’t furnish that information to their own players and staff. That is a failure of the board of the FAI,” Daniel Ennis TD on the alleged racist abuse of Irish players by Israeli fans and the FAI ‘failing’ to give Irish players notice of potential racist chanting.

🗣️ “It is a genocide. We cannot normalise it. We shouldn’t be playing games with the Israeli team.” 🗣️ “When those young players needed support, they didn’t get it from the Government.”  #TonightVMTV