Questions and Answers (TV Series) - End

End

The final Questions and Answers aired on June 29, 2009. The decision was taken when the presenter, John Bowman, stepped aside. It will be replaced by a similar programme said to involve public participation and to run in the same time slot on a Monday night. Some politicians were said to have welcomed the show's demise, saying it was "well past its sell-by date". One government Minister told the Evening Herald newspaper: "Government and opposition parties were finding it more and more difficult to get people to go on a show that was late at night and at the start of the week to debate topics which had been trashed to death on every other show over the weekend." Prime Time presenter Miriam O'Callaghan was speculated upon as a replacement but insists she knew nothing of the show's departure until she read about it here on the RTÉ website.