The Lucy Kennedy Show

John Kennedy, accompanies her in studio, where he performs the role of pianist.^[1]

John Kennedy was there at all and lamented not being told that he had once written the Irish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest.^[7]

Evening Herald was just as forthcoming with his own criticism. He described the show as a "post-Christmas turkey" before adding that he found it difficult to locate sentences to convey the "sheer badness". Stacey discussed the appliance of numerous words such as lazy, shoddy, inept or embarrassing but, finding that as a matter of opinion each of these words only told of various segments within the show, settled instead on "excruciating", the "good, solid, blanket word to cover all bases". The opening monologue was said to be "excruciating and unfunny" and "delivered in that klutzy, amateurish style that supposedly makes Lucy so endearing but which, in reality, merely irritates to the point where your teeth itch". The Dobson sketch was declared "excruciating and embarrassing" and "dim". The "non-interview" with Tubridy was panned but Tubridy "the only person working for RTÉ who knows the first bloody thing about how to present a proper chat show" was praised for being "ever chivalrous" by "going through the motions" even more so than if he had "poked his own poo with a stick".^[8]

This is Nightlive which ran in the same slot on Monday nights, though the context of this comparison against what a good figure would be was not provided; by context, the Herald noted that viewing figures for This is Nightlive were dismal and were said to be declining by the week, with the first episode attracting 89,000 and the second episode attracting 76,000.^[9]