People in the South, particularly Dublin, have voted with their attention spans on this
Drivetime don't favour UK news over NI news just cos they all love All things British in Montrose - they do - but because they know that's what people largely have a preference for.
Same with Brendan O'Connor doing segments on the British Royal family. It's because there's a huge appetite for it.
Again, all well and good. We're a nation with a huge population of anglophiles. West Brits. Jackeens. Whatever you want to call it.
We just don't seem to admit it to ourselves; how much the English enthrall us and how it's all a one-way attention stream.
Maybe I'm nuts, or just because I'm so disinterested in Englishness. But once you see it, you see it everywhere.
agree with much of this, as I've said before.
but I think its arrogant to assume that interest in a) equates to disinterest in b).
this is a bugbear for you, grand.