Deirdre O’Kane’s financial worries persist despite landing dream RTÉ show
EVOKE how she’d ‘love to’ host her own show expressing that it made all the sense in the world to get comedians to front chat show.While she wasn’t among the five women pitching pilots to RTÉ for a Saturday night slot at the time, the universe has delivered for her.At the time national broadcaster was reviewing pilots by Kathryn Thomas, Stefanie Preissner, Jennifer Zamparelli, Doireann Garrihy, and Angela Scanlon, with Scanlon winning the slot, only for the pandemic to scupper those plans.Asked if she had to do a pilot and compete for the dream gig she has landed, Deirdre said it came to her. ‘I actually am utterly unaware.