The morning after a televised debate between John Bruton and Bertie Ahern reporter Niall Martin got views of early morning commuters in Dublin.

Sunday Business Post Television critic Emmanuel Kehoe reviews the debate for 'Morning Ireland' and wonders if there is anything else that could be done to the format, "...short of stripping the two men down into g-strings and having them wrestle in a vat of oil".

An item for 'Morning Ireland' on the previous night's televised debate.

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