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Late Late Show promises a 'slice of magic' in place of cancelled Electric Picnic as show returns for new season

The Late Late Show returns this week for its 59th season.

THE LATE LATE show returns to RTÉ One on Friday for its first episode of the season after its summer break.

Ryan Tubridy is set to return for his twelfth year as the host of the show, and said the show will “endeavour to bring a slice of the magic to you at home” for the weekend that would have seen thousands in Laois for Electric Picnic.

Gary Lightbody of Snow Patrol, a band which was due to headline Electric Picnic, will perform on the Late Late Show on Friday night.

Veteran Cork rockers The Frank and Walters will also perform.

Irish Women in Harmony will be in the studio to perform after they topped official homegrown charts earlier in the summer with a cover of Dreams by The Cranberries in aid of Safe Ireland.

Elsewhere in the show, Tubridy will be joined by Acting Chief Medical Officer Dr Ronan Glynn to discuss how Ireland stands in terms of Covid-19 and what lies ahead as we move into the winter months.

Cousins Ellen Glynn and Sara Feeney will appear to discuss being rescued off the coast of Galway after their paddleboards drifted out to sea in August.

The cousins spent a night at sea while rescue organisations from around the country searched for them.

Fisherman and RNLI volunteer Patrick Oliver and his son, Morgan, rescued the women the next morning, and will also appear on the Late Late Show.

Tubridy will speak to Dr Samar Fatima Ali, the daughter of Dr Syed Waqqar Ali who was a frontline doctor in the Mater Hospital. 

Dr Syed Waqqar Ali died in July after contracting Covid-19 and spending three months in ICU.

His daughter, Dr Samar Fatima Ali, previously told RTÉ News that he was “incredibly dedicated to his profession and he lost his life to his profession”.

GAA commentator Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh will be on the show from Croke Park to talk about the lost summer of the All-Ireland Championships.

Ó Muircheartaigh will look at the importance of Croke Park to Irish culture as the centenary of Blood Sunday approaches in November, and says that positivity has been the driving force in keeping him going for 90 years.

Tubridy said that he was “very excited” for the start of the Late Late Show’s 59th season.

“Much like everyone else in the country, we’ve had to recalibrate how we do things, but as ever we have a brilliant line-up of guests and musicians ready to go on Friday night.”

“Friday nights are back,” he said.

The Late Late Toy Show is also due to return later in the year with a “radically different” show than usual.

Speaking at the launch of RTÉ’s autumn schedule, Tubridy said that the show is “operating at the moment with the view to everything being socially distanced, everything being as we know it now in terms of Covid rules”.

“I don’t anticipate anything changing between now and Christmas to be quite honest with you, I don’t see some sort of miraculous move towards people gathering,” he said.

Tubridy said that there will “definitely” be children in studio for the Toy Show, because the thought of doing a toy demonstration on Zoom “would just be too much for anyone”.

“It’s changed some things for the better, so we can get kids from around the world to audition online now. I mean that’s unusual, but it’s allowed them to participate. So it’s going to be a radically different type of Toy Show.”

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    Sep 17th 2015, 9:08 PM

    This might be the poorest informed article I’ve read on an Apple release in a while.

    1) Doubling the ram is something just “does” in its phones, almost year on year.

    2) 2GB of ram wasn’t a surprise, it was widely speculated and assumed that would be the case.

    3) Extra ram, on iOS, doesn’t really affect how apps run in the background; it allows larger apps to run more processes in the foreground. That means better graphics in a game because it can load more triangles / drawing processes etc.

    4) Cramming 4gb of ram into something with a mobile chip doesn’t make it as powerful as a laptop, it just has as much ram as one. A lot of these things still run on really crappy processors, and Android is a one-for-all operating system – it’s not built to get the most out of any 1 combination of processor make / speed / model, combined with a ram / speed / make / model. So you can’t really compare them based on the headline number of a single part of it.

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    Sep 17th 2015, 7:16 PM

    Apple also launched it’s first Android APP called ‘Move to iOS’ yesterday on Google Play as part of the iOS 9 launch…. It got blasted with over 8 thousand 1 star reviews (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.apple.movetoios) Most of the reviews are just rants against Apple.

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    Sep 17th 2015, 7:24 PM

    I thought Apple Music was the first Apple app released on Android?

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    Sep 17th 2015, 9:15 PM

    John… Aside from Beats Music for Android, which Apple acquired, this is the company’s first Android APP. Apple didn’t announce ‘Move to iOS’ at WWDC 2015. Instead, the APP was quietly listed on Apple’s What’s new in iOS page the same day.

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    Sep 17th 2015, 8:22 PM

    My vodafone smart ultra 6 has 2gb Ram and lots of other stuff the iphone 6s has and it only cost me €170!! The only thing it doesnt have is the apple logo on the back :( I’ll just have to live with not being cool!

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    Sep 17th 2015, 8:54 PM

    Funny enough when I see someone flashing the apple logo on their phone or laptop/tablet I just think knob!!!

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    Sep 17th 2015, 11:29 PM

    boulder on your shoulder Brendan

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    Sep 18th 2015, 7:52 AM

    I have a MacBook Pro. I will never use a windows laptop again.

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    Sep 17th 2015, 8:04 PM

    The Journal.. Sponsored by Apple!!!

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    Sep 18th 2015, 12:46 AM

    I updated my iPhone 5 to iOS9 today. Purely by chance I discovered that, with this new update, it automatically starts your 3 month free trial with Apple Music and – in the small print – after the 3 month trial is up, Apple will start charging your account. I wouldn’t have known this only a friend and I were chatting about Apple Music this evening and I had a quick look at it. I have never signed up for the free trial so am really Annoyed by it.

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    Sep 18th 2015, 3:29 PM

    Well it hasn’t opted me in on any of my devices not any of my friends I have checked with so you must just be unlucky

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    Sep 19th 2015, 12:57 PM

    Surely you seen this nugget of information in the 400 pages of terms and conditions that you read before agreeing to iOS9 ;-)

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    Sep 17th 2015, 8:30 PM

    During testing of iOS9 it was discovered that there is an issue for users who use custom Access Point Names (APN) to access their corporate networks.
    This could affect some customers using Vodafone Office Access, Vodafone Data Control or customers who have custom-built APNs.
    The impact it may have is that if a user upgrades to iOS9 they may lose complete data connectivity.

    As a precaution we strongly recommend that any users who use custom APNs, Vodafone Office Access or Vodafone Data Control do not upgrade to iOS9, until further notice. We understand that Apple are working on a fix.

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