Four Late Late Show talking points, including Colin Farrell and ...

Fogarty is Ireland’s longest-surviving person battling the agonising skin condition. To mark her 40th birthday, Farrell is running in next week’s Dublin City Marathon where Fogarty will join him for the final 4km.

The pair spoke about their wish to raise €400k for the charity Debra to support the 300 people in Ireland living with EB. Farrell criticised the government for not financially supporting the charity, saying they need to “put the money where people are going to be given the most support and the most help where they're needed.” 

Farrell said the charity asked the government for €695k to help support people living with EB and did not receive it. He criticised the decision to set aside €9m for mobile phone pouches in Budget 2025. 

“€695k for the 300 people, it's a drop in the ocean. It's not even a bit of vapour that rises from that ocean. It's nothing,” he said.

Fogarty spoke about the reality of living with EB and the extreme pain she experiences daily.

“At 40, I've gone through hell. I've been through a lot,” she said. “The pain is excruciating. The pain is constant, sitting here now I'm in agony.” 

She added that she will “definitely have wounds” when she completes the 4km portion of the marathon.

By the end of the show, over €400k had been raised by viewers for Debra.

Actors on politics

Irish-American actor Aidan Quinn joined the show to discuss his journey from Dublin to Hollywood and his upcoming work with “my buddy” Steve Buscemi at the Abbey.

Both Quinn and Farrell live in the States and the pair spoke about the upcoming US election. Quinn said “it is absolutely frightening” that Donald Trump could be re-elected.

Farrell said he believes there is division in the US and called for unity in the country.

“I just want American people to be looked after, to have a good time and have a greater sense of what the country is called: United,” he said.

Quinn shared how he had to give up golfing with some people due to the “aggression” he felt from some Republican voters.

“I golf with a lot of Trump voters, I suppose, and I've had to stop golfing with some because of the aggression and because of the bullying,” he said.

“Before with Bush and that, you can have your arguments back and forth on Clinton Bush, but the aggression that you're talking about I see mostly on the Republican side, much more so than I see on the other side. I do think you do have to stand up. There is a closet misogyny and racism that is underneath that support for that despicable man that has to be called out.” 

Never giving up

Singer Rick Astley performed his hit 1980s song ‘Never Gonna Give You Up’ and spoke about returning to the spotlight thanks to the internet craze of ‘Rickrolling’ where his song would be edited into other videos at crucial moments.

Astley said his early fame was overwhelming. “I think the world was taking over me rather than the other way around. I was just hanging on, to be honest.” 

He returned to music and had a number one album at 50.

“I made the record in my garage without the record label,” he said. “I didn't think anyone would release it properly. I was just doing it for fun, and I called it 50 because I thought, well, Adele's calling everything 19, 21, I thought, I'll grab that now, darling.” 

Marathon challenges 

Vogue Williams returned to the Late Late Show to promote her latest podcast, ‘Never Live It Down’, which explores people's most embarrassing moments.

She spoke about her husband Spencer Matthew’s recent successful desert challenge where he ran 30 marathons in 30 days and compared it to Colin Farrell’s upcoming Dublin City Marathon.

“You made such a huge amount of money tonight for Colin, but I was thinking to myself, Spenny had to run 30 marathons and he didn’t make that much! He still made a lot of money for charity but I thought, ‘wow, you could have come here’!”