Cuts wroteWithout getting into all this again, lest someone put words in my mouth again, I think what Mol is alluding to is Wogan was a friendly face against a backdrop of anti-Irish sentiment brought on by successive IRA bombing campaigns. I could be wrong. I have been before. If I am I'm confident someone will point it out.
Yes and no. He and Allen just came and did their thing. He pre-dated the IRA and lasted after. What I meant was they gave a positive Irish stereotype against the alternative prevailing one.
DJ, that's bollocks, he was just being him. But if you saw it that way fair enough.