Brendan Gleeson Advocates for Non-Partisan Media

Actor Brendan Gleeson has urged the public to appreciate non-partisan media and to be wary of impersonations online purporting to be him selling products. Speaking on Sunday With Miriam, The Guard actor stressed that the only matter he is associated with is the fundraising for St. Francis Hospice in Raheny, Dublin.

The Harry Potter actor discussing the state of play in the US observed: \"One of the things I have noticed in America is the divisiveness. I really hope we can fight it here. I think we have so far but it's really important that RTÉ stays as an honest broker.

\"It was something that I wanted to say about that thing where people are spreading lies like AI, now, like I was saying this, my voice wasn’t right, but in that kind of Facebook thing, anything can be passed off as fact now. It's really really worrying and I think the money is one thing, and you know, there was a fat that had to be sort of trimmed and stuff in RTÉ but the idea that we actually have essentially an honest broker and if they are not, they can be held to account it is really really important,\" The In Bruges actor added.

The Calvary actor said \"Don’t let the commercial end of things run away with this. It's much more important that we have somewhere to go where we can have a public forum and talk about things that are important to the nation as a whole, no matter what different sides of the political spectrum and that we don’t get divided like America.\"

\"It's not nice in America at the moment. People cannot talk to each other in a way being reasonable without all the time being goaded. Americans are lovely as a broad sweep of people. How they are at each other’s throats like this has been orchestrated and some of it unfortunate with algorithms and some of it orchestrated. We need to stop it now here, as what we have here is precious.\" The Banshees of Inisherin' actor added.