Monthly Archives: August 2012

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So called because he/she is a dog sitting on a donkey in Dingle, Co Kerry.

Tadhg O’Riada writes:

You can keep your Existential Salthill Dog. Down here we have the dingle donkey dog. How much more Irish can you get?

Work resuming this morning on foundations for the The Marlborough Street bridge [Dublin].

It will Connect the Luas Green and Red lines for the first time [following the granting of planning permission by An Bord Pleanála last week]..

The Luas BXD line will run from the Luas Green line at St Stephens Green to the Iarnroid Eireann station at Broombridge in Cabra,

They “hope” to have the first passenger across by 2017.

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

From Bray.ie

Bray Town Council and Bray Chamber are screening Katie’s fight  at Shoreline Leisure, Southern Cross Road, Bray (outdoors).
There is no public parking permitted at this venue. So there will be park and ride facilities from Old Dell Car Park and Bray Dart Station where shuttle buses will bring the public to the Shoreline Leisure Centre venue and back. Buses will start at 3pm from both locations. Fight starts at 4.45pm<

 

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

She turned Yeats into a stalker.

Now hear her SPEAK.

Listen to Maud Gonne McBride talk about her revolutionary experiences here.

Charming and feisty.

Bonus feature: a recording of our old friend, jew-baitin’, red-hair hatin’, Justice Gavan Duffy

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Thanks Sibling of Daedalus

From RTE:

Inside the Department, John Lonergan’s School Principles and Scoil Mhuire. Clinical Psychologist David Coleman explores the issue of teen bullying in Bullyproof and Claire Byrne witnesses real rescues unfold in Ireland Search and Rescue.

 

In a new series Hector Ó hEochagáin takes to the highways and by-ways of Ireland and Irish Pictorial Weekly offers a satirical slant on Irish life.

 

The new season sees the return of the hugely popular The Voice of Ireland with Kathryn Thomas at the helm and Celebrity Bainisteoir is back with a new twist.

 

On RTÉ Two Craig Doyle holds court on his chat show and Singin’ Bernie Walsh has her eye on re-inventing breakfast television with the help of her trusty sidekick Brian.

 

Format Farm is an innovative series of exciting new Irish generated television entertainment programme formats including pilots like The Hit,The Takeover and Six in the City.

 

IFTA award-winning Love/Hate is back for its third season under King Nidge’s reign and Jojo and the kitchen crew return for a fifth season of RAW. Ireland’s favourite home-grown soap Fair City enters its 24th season and new crime series The Fall, starring Gillian Anderson and made in Belfast in association with RTÉ, makes its debut.

 

Nick Munier and Dylan McGrath are back to cook up a storm in the second series of Masterchef and three well known personalities take up the challenge of learning a musical instrument in Instrumental.

 

A Grand Experience charts a journey by three artists along the Grand Canal on board a barge while The Missing Bones of W.B. Yeats traces the mystery of Yeats’s final resting point.

 

The Choice is a new interview based format presented by Bláthnaid Ni Chofaigh which will explore the consequences of religious and ethical decisions. The Meaning of Life with Gay Byrne returns and Gay speaks to former President Mary McAleese and musician Noel Gallagher.

Hmm.

Previously: The RTE Guide Monkey Tennis Challenge

Thanks Ruairi Carroll