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Sat 10 Oct 1996Tally ho: not so funny, Mr Jordan
TALLY HO is right! What else would an Anglo Irish tearaway on a horse shout in 1901? That Neil Jordan finds it funny that the young huntin' shootin' fishin' Constance Gore Booth should shout "tally ho" says as much about his sense of Irish social history as the fact that he found a car bomb scene in his film "funny" tells us about his sense of contemporary Irish politics.
And the way David Hanly and Richard Crowley treated themselves to a snicker in studio when it was read out by John S. Doyle tells us plenty about RTE's politics. Perhaps, like Dr Johnson, they should plead pure ignorance.
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