No More CoCo Before Bedtime

It’s been one of those weeks – not again I hear you say. Could I be talking about local Northern Ireland politics? We have the DUP, the UUP, the TUV, the PUP, the SDLP. Is CoCo just another political party in ‘our wee country’, like the others on the scene continually looking back and failing to see the road ahead? Or am I thinking of the recent commercial acceptance that one of our favourite chocolate makers Cadburys will be bought over by Kraft Foods. So literally it is no more cocoa before bedtime. The end of a tradition many may say. Rather it is the end of a tradition that goes back a whole seven months. As last weekend saw the last ‘Tonight Show’ presented by Conan O’Brien. I get to watch CNBC here in Ireland and its normal programming consists of wall to wall financial news. But for two hours each weekend evening it shows the previous week’s ‘Tonight Show’. It didn’t matter who Conan’s guests were, as I always found his opening monologue the funniest part of the show. So I am going to say goodbye to Conan and Cadbury, with a little tear in my eye. But at least I still have our local entertainers up in Stormont Castle. This is a show that continues to survive cancellation, despite the fact that they have reading from the same tattered and worn scripts for years.