As host of Lunchtime Live (Newstalk, weekdays), Andrea Gilligan isn’t afraid of exploring difficult issues, but when it comes to certain subjects she doesn’t always ask the hard questions. On Wednesday, when digesting the news that her home county of Donegal has been named by Lonely Planet, the travel-guide company, one of the best places in the world to visit, Gilligan forgoes any semblance of rigour, or indeed objectivity. “What makes Donegal stand ahead of other counties?” she fearlessly asks the TikTok comedian and county compatriot Eric Roberts. The uncompromising tone set, the item that follows is so boosterish as...