Yearly Archives: 2016

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpDr_Vs8z6o

Pets.

They’re like children this time of year.

Share their joy and excitement with ‘sheet readers by submitting your pet in festive mood  to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘My Pet At Xmas‘.

Rodents welcome.

Above is last year’s entries in a dazzling CGI-laden video compiled by Sam Fitzpatrick.

Top pic: ‘Sterling’

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TUSKS – Doom-metal from Belfast

What you may need to know…

01. Emerging from a rich scene for various amounts of musical heft, TUSKS fall somewhere between Sabbathesque riff worship and spiky punk noisemaking.

02. The band’s debut album Embers, released in August of last year, on Larne-based metal label Freak Flag Recordings.

03. Streaming above in its entirety, it’s available for download, and on limited 12″ green/”beer” vinyl.

04. Next seen live at the Eglantine in Belfast next Thursday, with support from Elder Druid and Black Market Thieves.

VERDICT: TUSKS have a lash off doom-metal’s tropes and rituals without directly aping same, adding a bit of piss and vinegar to proceedings.

TUSKS

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Chef JP McMahon (left) and Dermot O’Connor

And are you in Galway?

Read on.

Maisie Lynch writes:

Chef and restaurateur JP McMahon and Galway nightclub stalwart Dermot “Doc” O’Connor are teaming up to host a charity food and music-themed table quiz on Wednesday , November 30 in Massimo in Galway’s West End.

The event is being held to fundraise for COPE Galway and raise awareness of the city’s homelessness crisis in conjunction with the charity’s Business Sleep-Out event.

The Sleep-Out fundraiser will see thirty local business and community leaders sleeping out overnight on Shop Street on December 2  from 6pm until 6am.

The quiz starts at 8pm and tickets are €40 for a table of four, available at link below or by phoning Massimo on 091 582 239.

Roisin Dubh

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Every Friday, we give away a voucher to the value of 25 big ones to spend with abandon at any of the many Golden Discs stores nationawide.

All we ask from YOU is a tune we can play TODAY.

This week’s theme: Diddly aye.

What traditional Irish tune tickles your ear buds and bangs your bodhran?

To enter, just complete this sentence:

‘The most outstanding example of traditional music from the island of Ireland would have to be______________________________’

Lines MUST close at 2.30pm

Golden Discs

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FIGHT!

Could Fair City be next for axe as RTÉ looks at all areas in cost-cutting drive? (iIndependent,ie)

Meanwhile…

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Mary Fitzgerald

RTÉ is at it again, selling off the family silver. First the lands around the RTÉ studios in Donnybrook, and now the jewel in the crown, children’s and young people’s television programmes.

As a former RTÉ children’s and young people’s television presenter in the 1980s and 1990s of very successful children’s shows, made in-house by great RTÉ production teams, I am very disappointed and sad to hear the news that RTÉ is outsourcing the making of children’s and young people’s television programmes to independent production companies.

Did anyone ask the children or young people what they think? Probably not. Their voices are always the last to be heard. Once again children’s interest are bottom of the pile, and the accountants win out. A very short-sighted decision.

Mary Fitzgerald

Irish Times Letters

Update….