2022 brought horrors that no one should ever experience; from giant queues at Dublin Airport to seeing the inside of Leo Varadkar’s fridge. Callan Kicks the Year returns to give events in Ireland and abroad their annual seeing to, in this comedy news review on RTÉ One this Christmas.
Michael Flatley’s Blackbird, Ed Sheeran’s Irish tour and the rise of Joanne McNally all feature in this essential look back on 2022’s most bizarre and OMG moments.
Oliver Callan’s character classics Leo, Micheál and Eamon return with Sinn Féin’s Mary Lou covering the political year from Robert Troy’s 11 gaffs to the rotating co-Taoiseachs. David McWilliams kicks the housing disaster and Dáithí Ó Sé hits the heatwave.
Des Cahill investigates the big Irish sports story of 2022 – the chilling Cody-Shefflin hurling handshake that launched a thousand memes. The show also tries to make sense of Britain’s year when it said bye-bye Boris and hello disasTruss Liz.
Plus Francis Brennan and the Healy-Raes chat through all the perma-crises in between; from Elon Musk to turf, the cost of living, Wagatha Christie and how everything wrong is now Putin’s fault.
Callan Kicks the Year 2022 is a Wonky Chair Media production for RTÉ, directed by Exec Producer James Cotter.
RTÉ One Television 9.25pm Thursday December 29th 2022 and on the RTÉ Player.