Yearly Archives: 2013

-2It’s Montrose Monkey Tennis time.

The 2013/14 season on RTE television.

From RTE:

RTÉ One Factual will be offering viewers a wide range of powerful one-off documentaries which promise to stimulate debate around important topics such as class, education, and surrogacy. These include the Sundance Award-winner The Summit, about the deadliest day in modern mountain climbing history; My Lockout which gives a unique insight into the most famous labour dispute in Irish history and, as the legal debate around surrogacy plays out in our courts, Surrogacy goes beyond the constitutional debate to tell the human stories behind the headlines.

New to our screens is atmospheric thriller Quirke starring Gabriel Byrne as chief pathologist-turned-detective in 1950s Dublin. This season will also bring network premieres of the award-winning, indigenous movies What Richard Did and The Guard, both of which have been co-produced by RTÉ.

In new Entertainment series for RTÉ One, Hector Ó hEochagáin crosses the border into Northern Ireland for the very first time and Des Bishop ventures to China in an attempt to deliver a successful comedy show through a language he doesn’t yet speak.

Sinead Kennedy joins Marty Whelan as the new presenter of Winning Streak. Plus Ryan Tubridy and Brendan O’Connor return with The Late Late Show and The Saturday Night Show and this season also sees the return of the hugely-popular The Voice of Ireland and Irish Pictorial Weekly.

On RTÉ One Lifestyle, Mairead Farrell is looking to find Ireland’s Fittest Family and the all-new Design Doctors are here with practical tips and inspiring ideas to help us make the most of our homes. A new medical series, Doctor on Call, sees Dr Johnny Walker use the latest cutting edge technology to diagnose and treat communities around Ireland and Áine Lawlor re-traces the steps of her journey to overcome breast cancer.

The focus in Arts this season is on creating major events which bring the public and artists together to generate debate and discussion around Irish culture. The Play Next Door is a major three-part series which challenges three well-known writers to deliver a television play under unusual circumstances. Other documentaries include profiles on Myrtle Allen, Pauline Bewick and John Boorman along with the return of The Works and The Bord Gais Energy Book Awards.

In a country of great storytellers, RTÉ One’s Cláracha Gaeilge bring viewers some of the very best. Scannál looks back at more of the scandals that shocked, outraged, amused and incited the nation and Cloch le Carn remembers Maeve Binchy and Ciarán MacMathúna.

RTÉ One continues to feature a broad range of religious expression from all the major Christian denominations and Ireland’s minority faith communities through its religious programming. Bláthnaid Ni Chofaigh is back with The Moment of Truth and Gay Byrne’s The Meaning of Life returns with more interviews from major figures from all walks of Irish and international public life.

Following their success on the Republic of Telly, Damo and Ivor are back on RTÉ Two with a brand new comedy/drama alongside a stellar cast including Rik Mayall (The Young Ones), Ruth McCabe (Single-Handed), and Norma Sheehan (Moone Boy). Katherine Lynch returns to our screens with a new sitcom, The Centre, which follows six weeks in the life of St Bartholomew’s Community Centre. And comedian Kevin McGahern is the new presenter of the Republic of Telly which returns along with other favourites Don’t Tell The Bride and The Mario Rosenstock Show.

Maia Dunphy takes a look at the issues affecting women in 21st century Ireland in a new series Maia Dunphy’s What Women Want. The Reality Bites series returns with eight new one-off documentaries that reflect modern Irish life including Nightshift which documents a night in the life of those who are only starting their day’s work as we lie tucked up in bed,
Angela Scanlon explores one of Ireland’s most distinctive and best-known features, our red hair in Oi Ginger! and Vogue MacFadden presents Vogue Does Home and Away. Plus there are new one-off Format Farms such as Away With A Stranger and My Best Shot, a new studio dating game show.

RTÉ Two maintains its commitment to bring Irish viewers the very best of international drama this season with brand new acquired dramas including the Irish-based series Vikings, Stephen King’s Under The Dome, plus the return of big-hitting series including Revenge, Homeland and Mad Men.

FIGHT!

Thanks Tara O’Brien/Fergus McCormack

the-throw-your-phone-gameSend Me To Heaven is an Android app that encourages you to throw your expensive smartphone as high in the air as you can (hopefully catching it without damaging it before it hits the ground), recording the altitude as a score on a leaderboard.

The app only works with ARMv7 phones. Turning on GPS allows you to compete with other idiots nearby.

Apple has already refused to endorse it.

highdefinite/geekologie

mcstrikeTonight.

A step by step account of organising low paid workers and how it can be done [and was done in New Zealand]. 

This is for workers who want to organise a union in their workplace, trade unionists and activists who all want to build meaningful and sustainable unions and resistance to low pay.

Put on by 1913 Unfinished Business, an activist group working to “reinvigorate class politics in Dublin using the centenary of the Lockout as an inspiration”.

McStrike.org.nz

Thanks Jennifer O’Leary

 

File Pics Mater hospital representative says it cannot comply' with abortion legislation.

I recall talking to someone whose wife had recently experienced an emergency during pregnancy.

Admitted under her gynaecologist in a very well regarded religious-ethos hospital, she was in a serious condition and needed an emergency termination. A member of medical staff pulled the husband aside and advised him, in an undertone, to seek a transfer to another hospital in another part of the country, immediately, because he could not guarantee that she’d be given the lifesaving treatment she needed in this hospital, because of its religious ethos. She was transferred to a hospital three hours away by ambulance, and, after being treated as required, made a full recovery.

My friend thought this legislation would make that situation a thing of the past, but he was wrong.

We’re back to a situation where a woman who is pregnant – and has the money to choose where she is treated – will have to spend some time researching the religious ‘ethos’ of her hospital and even her doctor to ensure that she will be treated in accordance with the law. If – like most of us – she doesn’t have a choice about where she’s treated, a few decades of the Rosary might be advisable instead.

No Mater what (Deirdre O’Shaughnessy, Cork Independent)

Previously: “Would He Prefer For Both Of Them To Die?”

Nothing Really Maters

(Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland)

pinebrook-cover640kitchen-copyquartroback-colourHouse of the year 1974. With carport.

The Pinebrook estate in Malahide, Co Dublin.

Existential ted is existential (with good reason, in fairness).

More here: Pinebrook, Malahide Rd, Dublin 5 – House of the Year 1974 (Brand New Retro)

TIT

Peader writes:

Here’s your daily dose of misogyny. Play on D’Olier St. will let girls with breasts rated (by them) as 8/10 or better in for free. But first they have to brand their cleavage and date the picture so it can be displayed for all to see. Just staggering.

oliver brady

Jaysus.

Horse trainer Oliver Brady gets his Hal Roach on following victory by Zafarqand in the Martin Reilly Motors Mini Dealer Apprentice Maiden in Sligo last night.

Horrific or heart-gladdening?

YOU decide.

Another for King as Zafarqand obliges (Donal Murphy, IrishRacing.com)

 

 

Tara Flynn adds her voice against online nastiness.

Contains language which some listeners may consider NSFW.

Previously: Tara Flynn On Racism

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pg-2-phwaoarr-irelandNo longer will poor Paddy see,
Some boobs while he sips on his tea,
First thing in the morning,
For quite without warning,
They’ve announced that they’re ditching Page 3.

John Moynes

Pic: UK Independent