Colm Tobin on the island of ‘Carnananaunachá’
Surviving Ireland.
A new radio mockumentary] on RTE Radio 1 tomorrow at 11am.
BUT available online NOW..
In this RTÉ Radio 1 Comedy production, comedy writer and producer Colm Tobin visits a boutique digital detox centre on the island of Carnananaunachán to follow the journey of Holly (Stefanie Preissner) and Declan (Aidan O’Donovan), a smartphone-dependent couple from Dublin….
Listen here
Thanks Liam Geraghty
This morning (US easterrn time)
The White House, Washington DC,
Taoiseach Enda Kenny meets US president Donald Trump before the official ‘handing over of the shamrock bowl’
He told reporters:
‘I Really Love Ireland…I’ll be Back“
FIGHT!
More as we get it.
It’s not a caption competition until you say so, etc.
Trump meets with Irish leader Enda Kenny, declares ‘I really love Ireland’ (USA Today)
Pics: Reuters/AP
Update:
Ireland's PM Enda Kenny pokes fun at President Trump for reading from script during St. Patrick's Day luncheon pic.twitter.com/A98f2Nl7lv
— Globalnews.ca (@globalnews) March 16, 2017
Hmm.
Update:
“My new friend. My new friend. Great guy," says Pres Trump of Taioseach Kenny at Friends of Ireland Luncheon in the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/DQi0HSYMlA
— Mark Knoller (@markknoller) March 16, 2017
Gulp.
This afternoon,
Sheriff Street,, Dublin 1
Local residents, including Sinead Dunleavy and her son Guy Dowling with St Patrick (above), joined children from schools and creches, business workers and artists in a mini march around Sheriff Street today ahead of tomorrow’s St Patrick Day Parade .
In fairness
Rollingnews
Every week, we give away a voucher worth TWENTY FIVE big ones to spend at any of the 14 Golden Discs stores in Ireland.
All we ask for is a tune we can play TOMORROW and at the end of Broadsheet on the Telly tonight.
This week’s theme: Patrick’s Day discs.
What snake-hipped Irish song of any genre makes your heart swell with patriotic palpitations?
To enter, complete this sentence:
“If I could hear only one song on March 17 please make it_________________________because______________________’
Lines MUST close at 5.55pm MIDNIGHT! March 17, 10am!
No Amhrán na bhFiann.
Nimuno Loops – reuseable building block-compatible tape that makes any surface, eh, LEGO-able.
The brainchild of Cape Town-based designers Anine Kirsten and Max Basler, currently massively overfunded on Indiegogo and therefore highly likely to be an actual thing you can buy.
Danielle McLaughli (above) and last night’s vigil in her memory
Last night.
Goa, India
Following the murder on Tuesday night of 28-year-old of Irish backpacker Danielle McLaughlin.
Around one hundred locals and tourists gathered to honour the young Buncrana woman in the location where her body was found in Canacona, in the southern part of Goa.
Mourners scattered flowers, photographs and gifts on the ground, along with a sign which read ‘Justice for Danielle’. The evening ceremony was said to have ended with an emotional rendition of Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman No Cry’.
Emotional vigil held in India in memory of Danielle McLaughlin (Donegal Daily)
