Gulp.

‘Dear Drinks Man’ goes in hard on a much-loved retro soft drink and at one point Ireland’s gaseous answer to the Coca Cola/Pepsi behemoth.

Part of a weekly fizzy beverage review series with new episodes every Tuesday.

Dear Drinks Man

Thanks Rog

Ultan Conlon – Sparks Of The Divine

Do you wanna dance?

Then here’s some moves to practise in the video for Ultan Conlon‘s new single as Julia and Varun get jiggy with it.

It’s the first taster from his forthcoming fourth album There’s A Waltz which was recorded in Los Angeles with top session players.

Catch Ultan live on Sunday at the Black Gate Cultural Centre in Galway.

Nick says: A holy show.

Ultan Conlon

Bohemian FC 2020 away jersey, in new partnership with Amnesty International Ireland

Anyone?

If only we had a mad lad chancer with an in at FIFA.

Earlier: ‘Refugees Welcome’: Bohemians team up with Amnesty for new away kit


He’s a charmer.

Watch him.

Ahead of Valentine’s Day (this Friday!)

Rob Reeves writes:

I ventured into Dublin to find out if people were single or taken for this coming Valentine’s Day, whether they are happy or sad about it, and if they have any wacky exes in their past that they’re glad to have put behind them.

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Theo Dorgan

Meanwhile.

In 2011…

“I think we’re going through a great change. The Irish people have dealt the first decisive blow to the old politics.

The biggest political party and the biggest political organisation on the island has been dealt a death blow.

And next time out the exact same thing will happen to Fine Gael….

Nothing  has persuaded me that Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael or a great chunk of Labour understands just exactly truly a) how desperate the situation is, b) how powerless the old politics is to deal with it, and c) what’s coming down the line…

…People are going through a strange, slow-motion crash of the state. They’ve dealt with one of the great monoliths.

They’re now scrupulously giving the other monolith in the old politics its shot, and when that proves itself – as it absolutely will, I’m completely certain of this – a busted flush, then the new politics will happen.

So it seems to me this is an interim moment in a long, unfolding process of change…”

Poet Theo Dorgan on March 1, 20111 following that year’s General Election.

Previously: You’ve Seen The Trees. Here’s The Wood

This is a long-term crisis, slowly unfolding (Gene Kerrigan, Sunday Independent)

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