RTE has invited @EndaKennyTD to take part in Seanad debate with @MichealMartinTD on Seanad on October 1
— Sarah McInerney (@SarahAMcInerney) September 20, 2013
Oh, It’s ON.
Possibly.
Previously: Not Taking Debate
File pic: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Scary Lady writes:
With All-Ireland fever the talk of the country this weekend, it’s easy to overlook that Ireland’s [U23 cycling champion] Sam Bennett of Carrick on Suir had a fantastic [2013 Tour Of Britain] stage win this week.
Sam’s team manager Kurt Bogaerts was…somewhat pleased.
Mmf.
https://vimeo.com/70408891
What you may need to know:
1. It’s a new documentary from Irishman Paul Duane.
2. It’s about cult music legend Jerry McGill, a forgotten one hit wonder with a criminal streak. He died in June.
3. Duane did an incredible doc, Barbaric Genius (2012), on writer John Healy, and produced RTE’s new drama contender Amber. He’s the real deal.
4. We do love a good music doc. This is a great one.
Release Date: October
Summary of some headline findings from Growing up in Ireland study.
Full report here.
Via Mark Nolan
Cathal O’Rourke writes:
“Two hundred and ten years ago today…they hung Robert Emmett outside St.Catherine’s Church, on Thomas Street in Dublin. Then beheaded him aswell just to be sure to be sure.”
The rebel leader led a rebellion in Dublin against British rule in 1803 and was sentenced to execution for high treason after he was captured in Harold’s Cross, Dublin.
Before his execution, he said:
“Let no man write my epitaph; for as no man who knows my motives dare now vindicate them, let not prejudice or ignorance, asperse them. Let them and me rest in obscurity and peace, and my tomb remain uninscribed, and my memory in oblivion, until other times and other men can do justice to my character. When my country takes her place among the nations of the earth, then and not till then, let my epitaph be written. I have done.”
Pics: H. Warren (Panoramio)
‘Sup?
YIKES!
Cillian de Búrca writes
Derry City, minutes ago. There’s an excavation taking place next to the City Walls on graves that were recently discovered, possibly going back to the Siege of Derry [1689].
More as we get it.
In the first installment of the CDZA Instrumentals series, Mark Sydney Johnson covers 28 classic riffs from Chuck Berry to John Mayer in one take.
