Lisa Garvey

The annual comedy review starring Oliver Callan looks back on the year Ireland flipped out over RTÉ scandals and flopped out of a Rugby World Cup.

Callan Kicks the Year dips through all the maddest moments in Ireland and abroad in 2025.

Zig and Zag are alien twin teen brothers from the Planet Zog. One day they were out flying around in their spaceship when they get sucked into a random black hole (it happens!) and end up crash landing in the suburbs on a strange green and blue planet called Earth. With their craft beyond repair, the brothers decide the only thing to do is plant a porch on the front of their shiny metal spaceship and called it ‘home'. Join our inseparable extra-terrestrial brothers on a series of fun adventures creating all manner of mayhem as they make the most of what this cool new planet has to offer. With death-defying stunts, crazy inventions and banana and mackerel smoothies! Life in the suburbs will never be the same for friend Nellie from the corner shop and neighbours Mrs Eyebrows and her invisible cat Mr President, Mr and Mrs Jones and their creepy staring twins Brie and Stilton, the uber-competitive neighbours Abs and Pek Von Pumpiniron, and not forgetting the Secret Agents: Agent A Gent and Agent Honey, tasked with keeping an eye on the alien visitors.

Joining Oliver Callan in kicking the years. 2020 was the year of two lockdowns, two elections and two Taoisigh. Callan's Kicks looks back on the forgettable year's epic highs and lows.

From Brat Summer to Kamala’s collapse and Sinn Féin scandals to Simon Harris’ viral disaster, everything worth laughing about features in this essential look back on 2024.