It may have been off-air for the duration of the Rio games, but the Late Late will return this Friday night with a look back at all that was good (and unfortunately not so good) at the Olympics from an Irish perspective.
The biggest cheer of the night will be for Silver Medalists, Paul and Gary O'Donovan who enjoyed the mother of all heroic homecomings last night in Skibbereen in west Cork. More than 10,000 people (or was it "a million or something") thronged the streets to applaud the two silver-tongued rowers.
Olympic heroes welcomed home - 'We're not great at judging crowds but I’d say there’s a million or something here' https://t.co/h5fgk4UKeK
— RTÉ News (@rtenews) August 29, 2016
Also joining the lads will be other hero of the Olympics, Annalise Murphy, who's well-deserved Silver Medal in sailing banished her fourth place finish in London to a distant memory.
The show will also be hearing from the man at the centre of one of the biggest upsets in Ireland’s Olympic history, Michael Conlan. The Belfast man’s expletive-laden comments in the wake of a widely denounced defeat despite being favoured for gold generated headlines around the world, however he remains unrepentant.
Michael Conlan irate after controversial loss. Watch here: https://t.co/Sg2KTSRTDS https://t.co/4fXhWtjbsK
— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) August 16, 2016
And let's not forget the other big story from the Olympics which is still rumbling on. The ticket scandal, which saw IOC President Pat Hickey being arrested and jailed for several days, also made headlines around the world.
The Minister for Sport Shane Ross will be joining Ryan Tubridy to discuss the scandal, its fallout and whether the proposed inquiry will yield any answers.
Expect questions too on the government's very rocky start and the decision by the Minister and Independent Alliance TD to ignore the Attorney General's advice by lending his support to Mick Wallace's Private Member's Bill on Fatal Foetal Abnormalities.
The Late Late Show, RTÉ One, Friday, September 2nd at 9.35pm
