Of his new play, Frame 37, Aidan Fitzmaurice writes:
Frame 37 is part of the upcoming Scene and Heard Festival in Smock Alley Theatre [6/7 Exchange Street Lower, Dublin 8]. Frame 37 is about pool. About people playing pool. About people playing pool and coming to terms with the fact that they’re merely scripted characters in a play about pool. It’s not really about pool. But there is a pool table.
Fair balls, in fairness.
Book here.
For the weekend that’s nearly in it.
Saturday, January 29, 1972.
The final 5 Nations game between France and Ireland to be staged at Stade Colombes, Paris.
The championship that never was.
Five new Irish caps, all fine, young, inordinately hairy men, They heaved against the veterns de rugby francais and gritted it out for an historic and most unlikely victory (France 9 Ireland 14).
Paul McWeeney writing in the following Monday’s Irish Times said:
It was a sobering thought before the match, when asked if I had ever seen Ireland win at Colombes, to realise that, in fact, only myself and one or two other of my British press colleagues had ever had the pleasure, nor was I all that optimistic that I would ever see it again.
Puissant!
Previously: Frogger 1983
Retro Rugby on Broadsheet.ie
Photo credit: Lineout Coach
Siptu picket at Red Cow Luas station this morning
From Stillorgan and right into town,
The whole of our tram network’s down,
Now the poor middle class,
Must trudge through cold grass,
As they walk into work with a frown.
John Moynes
Pic: Dave Dunne
MORE to folly.
The River Liffey, Dublin in the last 30 minutes.
Lovely.
Thanks Buzz
Karl Boos writes:
A two-minute video of a recent a comedy gig with Neil Delamere in Whelan’s sponsored by Southern Comfor based on true life admittance of embarrassing things that have happened to people, Neil basing his show around the best ones.
And a few that didn’t make the cut:
“At a funeral once, and a family member of the deceased came up to me and said “Thank you for coming today”, I replied “No, thank you. It was a pleasure.”
“I’m a hairdresser and had an elderly lady come in for an appointment. When she came in she “I know your face” and I explained that I worked in the local shop for years when I was younger, she then told me that’s where she knew me from and went on to say that I looked amazing after having the baby.. I am a man.”
“Called to my friends house and was standing at the door when this guy across the road starts shouting ‘TRAMP!! TRAMP!!’ at me. I look around but it’s only me and him there. Once again he calls ‘TRAMP!’ so I said ‘who are you calling a tramp???’. Next thing this little dog comes round the corner…”
“Some guy told me worked for Focus Ireland and I said oh my God my aunt has one of those cars.”
“I walked into a fabrics store in Sligo and asked the male assistant where can I get felt?”
“I put out my hand to stop the DART on a crowded platform one morning.”
Mmf.
Thanks Karl
This evening.
The Point Luas station.
Michael OR writes:
I Just noted that the Real Time info boards at the Point LUAS stop were not working. I wonder are they getting everyone prepared for the strike chaos tomorrow a little early?
After taking the shot I turned and realised that the two people chatting near me were a reporter and a commuter she was interviewing. Did not catch for who as the LUAS was about to leave, but I guess radio. Blue cover on the mic anyway. Looking forward to tomorrow… not!
Luas management, unions warned over extra funding as strike looms (RTÉ)
Yesterday: Trams Like Us
