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"Are we going to re-recorded this?" - Harris

Senator and Sunday Independent columnist Eoghan Harris appeared visual upset after a recent TV interview was not going his way (clip above).

The senator looked upset on TV3's 'the Political Party' when the interview was not going his way. "We got bogged down in small tribunal stuff," he said on the show in reference to questions about Taoiseach Bertie Ahern, who he regularly defends.

He asked "Are we going to re-recorded this?", to which the presenter, Ursula Halligan, told him the programme was "recoded as live, this is pre-recoded as live".

The event follows him storming out of the Today FM studios in May after he was not allowed to control a debate with the Irish Times' Fintan O'Toole. At the time he said: "I tell you what, I have enough of  Fintan O'Toole and the Irish Times", and left the studio.

Eoghan Harris appointed to the Seanad

Sunday Independent journalist Eoghan Harris has been appointed to the Seanad as one of 11 non-elected nominees of the Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern.

Harris has been a supporter of Ahern throughout last year's 'Bertiegate' events. The journalist has been accused by some of being too close to the  Taoiseach, the appointment will now be seen as a reward.

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