RTÉ Responds to Viewer Complaints About The Late Late Show

We've all, at times, found ourselves shocked and disappointed when we somehow didn't manage to win the car/holiday/cash giveaway on The Late Late Show, despite being completely convinced it was our turn. While we tend to move on quite quickly, it seems some eagle-eyed viewers have a bigger issue... and they're not happy about it. The Herald reports that annoyed RTÉ viewers have complained to the national broadcaster, noting that those who bag the top prizes on the chat show are "always from Munster". Copies of the complaints, received by the paper under the Freedom of Information Act, included the comment "Does Ireland comprise of six counties, whose population is less than that of the Dublin area?" When asked for a list of counties prize winners hail from, RTÉ said they do not keep details on winners but insisted that staff are "not aware" of where entrants are from until they are on the phone with host Ryan Tubridy. A spokesperson said that competition winners are selected "completely at random" using a software programme, adding: “each entry is assigned a record number and winners are selected entirely at random using a unique integer generator”. “At the point of generating the winning record number, RTE is not privy to location details.”