I don't know why, but recently I have been thinking about. For those of you who weren't around at the time, most of you, I suspect, Hall's Pictorial Weekly was a series of humorous TV programs broadcast on RTÉ in the 1970's. Devised and produced by Frank Hall, the program concentrated on lampooning politicians. This it did by depicting a meeting of county councillors in charge of a place called Ballinagash. Leading the actors in this satire was Frank Kelly, a pastmaster at mi

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