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Northern Ireland\u2019s First Minister and Sinn F\u00e9in vice president Michelle O\u2019Neill joined Patrick Kielty to discuss the recent standoff between the Orange Order and nationalist residents of the Garvaghy Road<\/a> in Portadown, and Friday evening\u2019s banning of the Drumcree parade.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Neill shared her relief at the decision to prevent the march once more, which she learned about en route to the RT\u00c9 studio. She also criticised the failure to intervene sooner.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe said from day one, the Secretary of State could step in, he could have stopped this nonsense, he could have put an end to it, but unfortunately, he chose not to until the eleventh hour,\u201d O\u2019Neill said.<\/p>\n

She also addressed the potential implications of the standoff on a future United Ireland, arguing that Northern Ireland is a more inclusive place since the Good Friday Agreement was signed, citing the inclusive success of events like the recent Fleadh in Belfast as an example of respect between communities.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe won’t allow a small minority of people to drag us into the past. We won’t allow a small minority of people to disrupt all that’s been achieved over the last 28 years. We have a really, really positive story to tell.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Baz Ashmawy on the power of DIY SOS\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n DIY SOS: The Big Build Ireland\u00a0host Baz Ashmawy<\/a> was on the Late Late Show to mark the fifth season of his programme, which revamps the homes of struggling families through community volunteer work.<\/p>\n

He said DIY SOS restores his faith in humanity time and time again.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou think you’d get used to seeing people give up their time and be so empathetic and be superheroes, but you just never get used to it, and it just blows me away every time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He added that he forms a close bond with every family they feature.<\/p>\n

\u201cI just fall in love with them. They open their doors to me and they share these stories with me, and I’m very lucky and blessed to get to become friends and close to them. I adore them.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"NewlywedsNewlyweds Tanja Evans and Baz Ashmawy. Picture: Brian McEvoy <\/p>\n

Ashmawy, who recently welcomed a second grandchild, also spoke about his wedding in April to his partner of over two decades, Tanja Evans.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe snuck off and got married in April,\u201d he said. \u201cDo you know what, a lot of your life is out there, and everything’s very public all the time. For us, and for our family, we just wanted to do something very quiet and very private, and we just snuck under the radar and we just did it. It was great.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Deirdre O\u2019Kane on DNA\u00a0<\/p>\n

Comedian Deirdre O\u2019Kane<\/a> revealed she had her DNA analysed and learned she had considerable French ancestry, much to her delight.<\/p>\n

She said her 20% French DNA didn\u2019t come as a surprise, given the notions she feels she grew up with.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere were a lot of notions in our house, definitely,\u201d she said. \u201cIn the 80s, my dad very briefly drove a yellow Mercedes. Now, not for long. He didn’t have the confidence. We’re not meant to drive yellow cars, lads. You really do need to be in the south of France for that stuff.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

She said a nun at her boarding school saw her father drive the car and compared her to Jackie Onassis.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was about 14 years old at the time. I had never heard of Jackie Onassis. For years, I thought Jackie Onassis was a girl in sixth year because that was the only Jackie that I knew.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

She also described the “beautiful chaos” of family life and the challenges of raising teenagers \u2014 and the rage that features in her new show.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you have teenagers in your house, there’s a lot of hormonal rage, and if they’re in the house at the same time as a woman of a certain age, that’s another bit of rage. And then, if you have old people in your life, they’re raging. They’re raging against the dying of the light. So that’s a lot of rage.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Mario Rosenstock on meeting those he parodied\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"MarioMario Rosenstock and Patrick Kielty on the Late Late Show<\/p>\n

Impressionist Mario Rosenstock<\/a> spoke about the awkward encounters he has had over the years with the people he parodied.<\/p>\n

He spent time in elevators at Today FM with both Brian Cowan and Joan Burton, and he discovered politicians like Michael Noonan, Miche\u00e1l Martin, and Paschal Donohoe had been listening to his radio sketches. This was particularly hammered home when speaking to Taoiseach Miche\u00e1l Martin<\/a> on his podcast.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe told me that at one stage he had missed a crucial finance meeting with Paschal Donohoe because he had pulled the limo over to the side of the road to finish a Gift Grub sketch. I didn’t believe him, but a year later, I met Paschal Donohoe, and he came onto the podcast and he went, \u2018Yes, Mario, it’s absolutely true. And may I say that I was also late for that meeting because I was also listening to the same Gift Grub sketch on the side of the road.\u2019 So they do listen.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

He said one of the most intense encounters was with Cork soccer legend Roy Keane, who challenged Rosenstock to make him laugh.<\/p>\n

\u201cRoy Keane, back in 2006, wasn’t the Roy Keane that exists now. Roy Keane was a fierce, savage, uncontrollable monster in 2006,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe had asked to meet me, and I couldn’t believe it. I thought it was a prank, but he asked to meet me, and he said he wanted me to do him in front of him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Northern Ireland\u2019s First Minister and Sinn F\u00e9in vice president Michelle O\u2019Neill joined Patrick Kielty to discuss the recent…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[93,61,60,7539,282],"class_list":["post-650418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-the-late-late-show","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}