Ryan Tubridy has confirmed that children living in emergency accommodation will appear on tonight’s Late Late Toy Show.
The popular show will air tonight on RTE One, and hundreds of children from across the country have been selected to reviews toys and perform on the programme.
Speaking to the Irish Mirror, Ryan revealed that some of the kids that will feature on the show are homeless, but the fact won’t be made known.
“The show has this other side that we can’t discuss in great detail because we feel, I know I do, that we have a responsibility to mind children.”
“For example, there are over 3,000 children homeless and I find that preposterous and really not acceptable in 2017. We’re really aware of it, I’ve been talking about it at some length on the radio and to the team.
“Homeless children will feature tomorrow night and we won’t be telling [the viewers] that this child is or this child is.
“Yes it’s fun, yes there are toys and yes childhood is magic but it shouldn’t be the case that a child is watching the Toy Show in a room, on a hotel bed with three other family members and has to get up the next morning and walk by a bunch of guys who are still drinking from the night before. That’s not good.
“That’s going to be on our mind tomorrow… Childhood should be happy and we as a state have a responsibility to mind children. We’re not great at that, I think,” he added.
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