Paddy Joe is not happy with new speed restrictions on roads and faces a fine for cruelty to animals.

Paddy Joe Canavaun (Michael Twomey) arrives on horseback and is interviewed with much confusion by Frank Duggan.

Paddy Joe Canavaun welcomes the new speed limits restricting cars to 50 miles per hour but says it is still too fast. He would like to see a speed limit for cars of 20 miles per hour. He believes that 50 miles per hour is not too fast for a horse.

Frank Duggan is insistent that he has never seen a horse that can run at 50 miles per hour. However, Paddy Joe Canavaun describes his horse as,

The fastest thing on four legs.

Paddy Joe Canavaun says he has been prosecuted for cruelty to animals but should have been prosecuted for speeding.

On a journey from Roscarberry to Skibbereen, he was pulled over by a Garda who claimed that the horse was sweating excessively. Paddy Joe Canavaun said the horse was wet from the rain. In court this explanation was not accepted by the judge who said that Paddy Joe Canavaun was the biggest liar that ever stood on two feet and fined him £50.

This episode of 'Hall's Pictorial Weekly' was broadcast on 22 January 1975.

Frank Hall's amusing and satirical series began on 29 September 1971 with the full title "Hall's Pictorial Weekly Incorporating the Provincial Vindicator" which became known as "Hall's Pictorial Weekly". The series allowed Frank Hall to follow his own interest in the lives of viewers throughout the country. Regarded as RTE's flagship comedy show, it featured satirical sketches on current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, cartoons and spoof television formats. The show ran for 9 series until 1980.

In the RTE Guide on the week of its first transmission, Frank Hall wrote,

The form and content of Hall's Pictorial Weekly should be impossible to forecast until the last moment. It should be as varied and absorbing as life itself"

He further commented

I have an inexhaustible interest in the lives and times of the people who live in our country towns and villages; no event is too small to capture my attention, no community too out of the way... This programme is intended to be about you, your town, your friends, your local interests.

(RTE Guide, September 24, 1971, Vol.8, No.9, p.2)