Ryan Tubridy was in inspired form this morning as he urged listeners to "accentuate the positive" ahead of a third national lockdown.
The RTE host promised that Covid-19 will be "confined to history's wastebin" by the spring of 2021, in a message designed to bolster the mood of a country sick and tired of coronavirus restrictions.
Tubs said: "I would never underestimate the pain, or the sorrow, or the loneliness – but if we can at all accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative, where possible, we'll get through it."
And with an unprecedented Christmas just two days away, he implored listeners to think of next year's festive period – with all the joy it'll bring: "Bags, cars, suitcases, flights, drives, chaos, families. Relatives, in-laws, outlaws, how's-the-laws. Everyone running around, panicking.
"This year," he added, "we're not allowed. So in some ways – in some crazy way – maybe we should enjoy what's about the happen."
The Dubliner told his legions of listeners: "We have to now think of the spring time, which is one of the most beautiful times of the year.
"And strangely, the spring time is when the virus will be dead, gone, forgotten, confined to history's wastebin.
"And we will march into the bright, long days, and into the future, together with a great wind in our sails of lessons learned from arguably the most difficult period of this country's period for a generation.
"We'll get there. It doesn't feel like it today, in a dark shadow, by any means."
The Late Late supremo has been a frequent voice of positivity throughout the pandemic, keeping listeners' spirits up with messages to galvanise us against the worst effects of the virus.
Yesterday, he lauded the Irish people for their resilience throughout the pandemic.
Tubs said there was a sense of "sadness" and "exhaustion" among listeners following the news.
"Yet within all of that sense you can also feel a mood that says: 'We'll do it.'
"And we can – and with great stoicism, sometimes," he said.
