The charming fruit of gifmaster James Curran’s ongoing trip to Tokyo.
Many more here.
Previously: LA Gifathon
Yearly Archives: 2017
Slavko Kalezić – Space
Cathal Farrell writes:
As Eurovision is only two weeks away, I thought you might like to see the entry from Montenegro. It’s all kinds of amazing….
Finally
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From left: Fergal Barry, Jonathan Sugarman and PJ Coogan, presenter of The Opinion Line on Cork’s 96FM this morning.
RTÉ won’t touch him.
But they’re made of sterner stuff in Cork.
Fergal Barry writes:
This morning PJ Coogan conducted the first live radio interview with banking whistleblower Jonathan Sugarman The Opinion Line with PJ Coogan on 96FM
May I particularly call your attention to 37 minutes into the interview where Jonathan speaks of the danger of banks in the IFSC plunging Ireland into a fresh bailout, possibly much larger than the one we are experiencing.
Listen here
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The Opinion Line With PJ Coogan
Previously: Thank You, Mr Sugarman
Every Friday, we give away a voucher worth twenty five euros to spend wildly at any of the 13 Golden Discs Stores nationwide.
All we ask from you is a tune.
This week’s theme: Rock critics/writers
What music enthusiast operating in the media steered you in the right direction on the often hazardous contemporary music highway?
To enter, please complete this sentence.
‘I would like to dedicate__________to ___________for sharing with me his/her impeccable taste and love of decent music.’
Lines MUST close at 5.45pm MIDNIGHT on Sunday!
Samples of writing/enthusiasm may be included.
Sinead’s cash dropping route
Sinead Casey writes:
I bought a coffee in the Lime Tree at Kilmainham Gaol Wednesday and strolled back to Inchicore [Dublin 8] guzzling away. As I reached the Black Lion [Emmet Road[ a woman ran up behind me clutching a twenty that she said I’d dropped.
I looked down and saw my purse was inverted and unzipped and there was no sign of the over €100 in cash that had been there 10 minutes previously.
Cursing my stupidity I walked back to see if I could find any more and ask in the café but all I recovered was two supermarket tokens.
Fast forward to that evening and I get a call from a lovely woman called Siobhan who’d found a wad of cash and my hospital appointment card and was wondering if I was still at the same address. All was deposited through my letterbox yesterday.
Thanks Siobhan and kudos to the people of Inchicore!
Mmf.
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Map: Google
Professor Chris Fitzpatrick
You may recall how last April, Justine McCarthy, in The Sunday Times, reported that the Religious Sisters of Charity-owned St Vincent’s Healthcare Group (SVHG), at that time, was demanding that the new National Maternity Hospital agreed to “become a branch of its corporate structure” before allowing the planned co-location in Elm Park to go ahead.
Wisdom Teeth
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Ronan Kelly writes:
My hobby is travelling around the country by bike and Irish Rail/Bus Éireann – I shoot short videos of people I meet.
After Bark
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Did you stay up?
A warm and nuzzly thank you to ‘Jinx’ Keenan (top) and to, above clockwise from top left: Johnny Keenan, Neil Curran, Caroline McEvoy, Olga Cronin and, not pictured, Mike McGrath Bryan (producer) and Gavin Hennessy (audio/visual effects), our panel on last night’s Broadsheet on the Telly.
You can watch the show in its raw entirety above.
Matters under discussion included the National Maternity Hospital, United Ireland and Mike’s Master’s degree.
Jinx, barking lustily from Johnny’s lair, provided much-needed balance during the panel’s debate on church-state relations.
Arf.
Thanks all.
Last night: Broadsheet on the Telly Tonight
Meanwhile…
The bukes mentioned on the show…
From top: A Challenge To Democracy: Militant Catholicism In Modern Ireland (Maurice Curtis, The Irish History Press) and Nothing is Written In Stone; The Notebooks Of Justin Keating (Barbara Hussey and Anna Kealy, Lilliput).
David McSavage
He’s back.
On The Ray D’arcy Show…
Via RTÉ Press office:
As RTÉ launches its GAA championship coverage next Sunday, broadcaster Marty Morrissey will join Ray in studio to discuss the upcoming championship and how he will broadcast live on radio from New York during the New York vs Sligo match
Same-sex couple Dil Wickremasinghe and Anne Marie Toole will chat to Ray about their joy at Anne Marie being pregnant. This news comes less than two years after Dil gave birth to their first child – a son called Phoenix.
There will also be two Doctors in the house this Saturday night! Drs Pixie McKenna and Phil Kieran will tell Ray why Irish people have a phobia about seeing a doctor.
And be prepared – funnyman David McSavage will drop by to offer his unique perspective on life in Ireland and abroad.
*refashions telly into handy foot stool*
The Ray D’Arcy Show at 10:25pm on RTÉ One.
Pic: RTÉ News
From top: Charlie Haughey and Conal Gallen, who play him in The State Of The Nation
Gulp
Conor writes:
Was it for this that Michael Collins died? Would Big Jim Larkin be turning in his grave? And what would idealist Thomas Davis and arch pragmatist Charlie Haughey make of the current slew of political scandals?
Find out in The State Of The Nation – a new comedy coming to The Civic Theatre, Tallaght, The Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey and The Playhouse Derry in May.
Four towering figures from Irish political history meet to play poker in the afterlife. As the game draws on the conversation hots up – covering topics from 1916 to civil war politics, water charges to hospital waiting lists and Apple tax to Brexit..
The State Of The Nation, features Conal Gallen as Haughey and Cillain O Gairmhi as Collins forms part of a theatrical double bill with the evening also featuring a staged reading of award winning radio play The Fund – a re-imagining of the shocking true story of IMF whistle-blower Davison Budhoo.
The Civic will also be hosting a post show discussion after the show with guests including Frankie Gaffney, Conor McCabe and Terry McMahon.
May 2 and 3: The Civic Theatre, Tallaght
May 5 and 6: The Balor Arts Centre, Ballybofey
May 7: The Playhouse, Derry