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Debate and analysis on Ireland's only independent TV current affairs programme. Tues & Wed nights at 10pm on Virgin Media One #TonightVMTV Contact The Tonight Show: linktr.ee/thetonightshow

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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
🗣️"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.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
🗣️"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
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
ICYMI: #TonightVMTV We examined the clash between RTÉ and Media Minister Patrick O’Donovan, looming industrial action over pay, and claims Budget 2027 is “painfully out of touch”. 👇
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Podcast · Virgin Media Originals · A sharp look at the major stories shaping Ireland and the world.Expect thoughtful analysis and robust discussion on the country’s only independent TV current affairs programme. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Strikes are "regrettable" but "avoidable" - Owen Reidy, ICTU general secretary #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
James Geoghegan says restaurants are closing because of high wage costs - but Owen Reidy, ICTU general secretary dismisses the claim as “nonsense”. #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Government "broke a whole string of promises" in the Budget, says Cian O’Callaghan TD as he cites Fianna Fail's manifesto. #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
RTE have got a "big, big problem" - John Lee, Executive Editor, Irish Daily Mail & Mail on Sunday #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“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
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🗣️ “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]
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
🗣️ “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]
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ICYMI: #TonightVMTV 🚨 A rare result for FAI as execs grilled by an Oireachtas Committee?  🚨 A week from Budget 2027, the panel discusses a deepening cost-of-living crisis. 👇
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Podcast · Virgin Media Originals · A sharp look at the major stories shaping Ireland and the world.Expect thoughtful analysis and robust discussion on the country’s only independent TV current affairs programme. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🗣️ “At a time of unprecedented surplus, we have unprecedented child poverty.” The #TonightVMTV panel discuss Budget measures to tackle child poverty and childcare costs.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🗣️ “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
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🗣️ “[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
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🗣️ “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.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🗣️ “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
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🗣️ “Under UEFA, if Government interfere in national sporting bodies...it’s a matter for penalties.” 🗣️ “What is a financial sanction against the scenes we’re witnessing?” The #TonightVMTV panel discuss whether Government should have stepped in on the Ireland-Israel games.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🗣️ “I’ve no doubt in my mind now that certain [FAI] board members need to resign,” Daniel Ennis TD, on his takeaways from the FAI’s appearance before an Oireachtas committee.  #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
📺 On #TonightVMTV with Shane Coleman: 🚨 A rare result for FAI as execs grilled by an Oireachtas Committee?  🚨 A week from Budget 2027, the panel discusses a deepening cost-of-living crisis. Tonight's panel ⬇️
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
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'Joyriders: Ireland's Lucky Dip Gang' Discussion | How Do We Tackle Youth Crime?
Following the Virgin Media News documentary 'Joyriders: Ireland’s L...
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
🗣️ “The Gardaí have not been able to do this in the past, yet there’s just this recycling of old rhetoric that hasn't worked.” The #TonightVMTV panel discusses how joyriding can be tackled, following the Virgin Media News documentary 'Joyriders: Ireland’s Lucky Dip Gang'.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗣️ “I think this amounts to the biggest controversy in club football history,” Miguel Delaney, Chief Football Writer at The Independent, on the seismic nature of the Premier League confirming Man City has been found guilty by an independent commission of all charges of breaching financial rules.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗣️ “In the past, too many nationalist communities have endured oppression and repression of the police in the six counties - and they were left on their own,” Matt Carthy TD on why he and First Minister Michelle O’Neill joined the Garvaghy Road protest. #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗣️ “There doesn’t seem to have been dialogue with the local community - and surely that is a key part of reconciliation,” Martina Devlin on the Garvaghy Road impasse and her hope for international mediation to find a solution. #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗣️ “We do know why they [Orange Order] want to march down the Garvaghy Road...they want a return to supremacy,” Matt Carthy TD on the Garvaghy Road impasse in Portadown and his views on why the Orange Order are determined to march. #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗣️ “It’s going to take smart investment and a redirection of policy away from increasing prison sentences - because we know prison does not work,”  Robert Cullen on whether he is hopeful young offenders can be brought back from a life of criminality. #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗣️ “That is evidence that it does not work and we need to do something else, and that the Gardaí are incapable of addressing this problem.” 🗣️ “We need help from the parents and society as a whole,” #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗣️ “We can’t always lay the blame at the State, or for An Garda Síochána to deal with these things. This starts at home,” John Joe O’Connell, Vice President, GRA. #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗣️ “The Gardaí have not been able to do this in the past, yet there’s just this recycling of old rhetoric that hasn't worked,” Robert Cullen, Criminologist and Former Prisoner, on suggestions of how to tackle joyriding amongst teenagers. #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗣️ “We don’t have adequate youth intervention,” says Matt Carthy TD, Spokesperson on Justice, Sinn Féin, following the Virgin Media News documentary 'Joyriders: Ireland’s Lucky Dip Gang'. #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🗣️ “Talking about early intervention doesn’t make anyone driving down the M7 tonight feel any safer,” says Barry Ward TD, Fine Gael. #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
📺 On #TonightVMTV 🚨 Following 'Joyriders: Ireland's Lucky Dip Gang', the panel explores gang terror, the M9 crash & joyriding teens. 🚨 Garvaghy Road: What will break the impasse? 🚨 Man City's decade of deception as they are found guilty on all charges. Tonight's panel ⬇️
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🗣️ “It would allow us to stand tall, to be proud, and to know that we are doing the right thing in the face of genocide.” The #TonightVMTV panel discussed whether an Irish boycott of Sunday’s Ireland v Israel match would have any impact. 📺 Catch up on Virgin Media Play.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📺 Catch up on the full episode on Virgin Media Play and watch the highlights on YouTube now.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
🗣️ “Why are you showing these videos to people at all?” Social Democrats TD Sinéad Gibney questions TikTok’s approach to dangerous content online. TikTok told an Oireachtas committee it identified 1,600 reckless driving videos since last month’s fatal M9 crash. #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
ICYMI: #TonightVMTV - Social media firms grilled over dangerous driving videos. - AI Minister rejects claims Ireland helped draft plans to weaken GDPR protections. - And Taoiseach meets Mamdani to strengthen Irish-American ties. 👇
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Podcast · Virgin Media Originals · A sharp look at the major stories shaping Ireland and the world.Expect thoughtful analysis and robust discussion on the country’s only independent TV current affairs programme. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Micheal Martin plays bingo with Zohran Mamdani #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Senator Garret Ahearn: "I can understand why there would be concern." But who is pushing the proposal to give over our data to AI companies? #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Ireland's AI Minister refutes claims that the Irish presidency had a hand in drafting legislation that would scrap GDPR protections for AI products.  #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Should social media companies be held "criminally liable" over certain content being shared online? Sinead Gibney TD believes they can and should. #TonightVMTV
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The Tonight Show @tonightvmtv.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Is taking an entire domain down not considered "totalitarian"? Shane Coleman asks Social Democrats TD Sinead Gibney. Senator Garret Ahern, Fine Gael says shutting down sites is not the answer. #TonightVMTV
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