Ann Marie Hourihane: Repetition, sweating correspondents and tiny pie charts – why is RTÉ’s televised election coverage so bad?

Niall Boylan, a candidate for Europe in the Dublin constituency, at the RDS count centre on Sunday. Photo: PA

Ann Marie Hourihane

Next time, why don’t we send all candidates in all elections to a sealed arena – Croke Park, perhaps – and keep them there until they come up with the winners themselves?

They all agree with each other anyway, and they love talking about results. But we would not let the candidates out until they were done, and the result was clear.