the politicians, the banks and the media that encouraged the madness...”. Also in January 2010, O'Connor castigated a journalist who brought up the subject of his July 2007 "ballsy" article during an interview. O'Connor claimed that the article contained valid opinions originating from original thinking. The journalist related in his article how O’Connor became angry, and didn't let him speak, with O'Connor claiming, “… I came here and opened up out of respect. And you know why? Because I believe in freedom of speech. Anyone else would have said 'I'm not sitting down with that c**t'. Seriously they would. You went away and found a piece in Google and harangued me on this one piece I wrote in 15 years of writing... Look, I've no wish to airbrush over anything I've written in the past," he says. "But do I regret it? No, because it was valid position at the time. So yes I got it wrong in one article..." In April 2010 he again returned to the topic with an article entitled, "Let someone walk all over you...". This article made analogy of abusive domestic personal relationships with the central banks' position that caution must be exercised with respect to bailing out those with mortgage difficulties. O' Connor used this device to make emotional appeal writing such as, "... naturally, like everyone in an abusive relationship, we are tending to blame ourselves in some way..." and, "... Clearly the Central Bank thinks that we are so battered and bruised at this stage, and that we have taken so much crap from them, that we will put up with anything..."Other O'Connor supported the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the United States government. In early 2004, O'Connor enraged some of his colleagues by strongly supporting management during an industrial relations crisis over forced redundancy. The Saturday Night Show In 2010, O'Connor began hosting TV chat programme The Saturday Night Show on RTÉ One. His controversial interview with Michael Barrymore brought him to the attention of the British press. His interview with Oliver Callan, during which the impressionist announced he was gay, brought him to the attention of the international press. On 14 March 2015, O'Connor announced without warning live on air his resignation as host of The Saturday Night Show and that the show would finish for good at the end of that series on 30 May 2015. Personal life O'Connor