Monthly Archives: November 2011

“One would certainly be forgiven for wondering if there were a plan to slow the whole thing down in order to save revenue.”

Lol

“The patient did not have long to live…The medical card was issued within days of receipt of my letter…There is a large stream of negativity out there and I believe that in cases where something positive happens it should be acknowledged and applauded.”

They did their job! *applause*

Irish Times letters

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“Jennie Balfe, Jennie Balfe, Jennie balfe.”

In the days when filming anything required a bag of VHS tapes, an absurd lighting reflector shield and a scruffy sound technician carrying a fat wooly sausage on a stick.

A brilliant odyssey to find Jennie Balfe whose name was scrawled on walls across Dublin 8 a decade ago.

And give her a pound of ham. The last three minutes are priceless.

A more surreal and simpler time.

But where is she now?

Thanks SnD

Speaking about the Christmas schedule, Glen Killane, Managing Director, RTÉ Television said:

“I’m proud to unveil such a strong and varied Christmas schedule full of quality home-produced programming in such challenging economic times.”

These include:

“Now That’s What You Called News is a revealing Top 20 countdown of some of the biggest, most interesting, colourful and bizarre news stories we explored online over the past twelve months. Presented by Craig Doyle.”

“The return of Mrs Brown’s Boys to RTÉ One for a Christmas special, in which Agnes tries to put together the perfect Christmas for her family.”

“Derek Mooney will present Mooney Tunes, a unique collaboration between RTÉ Radio 1’s Mooney radio show, the RTÉ concert orchestra and the RTÉ radio audience, which comes to television for the first time from the Grand Canal Theatre in Dublin.”

RTE Announce Christmas Highlights (RTE)