This morning.
The 96FM Opinion Line with PJ Coogan
Fiona Corcoran writes:
Melanie Gillespie, daughter of the late Brendan Grace, is trying to track down a Cork couple who she met at the Galway Clinic in July 2019, shortly before the death of her beloved father.
She had taken a photograph of them (above), but never got to send it to them and she’s hoping to find them now and pass it on.
Anyone?
Yesterday.
Church of St. Nicholas of Myra, Francis Street, The Liberties, Dublin 8
From pic 2: Daniel O’Donnell; Brendan O’Carroll; Dickie Rock; Marty Whelan; Anne Doyle; Bertie Ahern; Micheál Martin; Paddy Cole; June Rodgers; Noel V. Ginnity and Twink.
Earlier: Grace Note
Yesterday: Meanwhile, In The Liberties
Yesterday.
Lenny Traynor, from Ballyfermot (permission given), interacts with a mural of Brendan Grace in the Liberties, after the comedian’s funeral in the Church of St. Nicholas of Myra, Francis Street, Dublin.
Yesterday: Meanwhile, in The Liberties
This afternoon.
Francist Street, Dublin 8.
A bagpiper leads the way as huge crowds wait as the coffin of comedian Brendan Grace arrives at the Church of St. Nicholas of Myra, Francis Street in The Liberties.
Earlier…
Brendan Grace fan are singing as they line the streets outside the church in Dublin’s Liberties for his funeral mass @rtenews pic.twitter.com/mIUWVOSsS9
— Samantha Libreri (@SamanthaLibreri) July 15, 2019
Brendan Grace as ‘Bottler’ at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin in 2001
RIP.
Irish comedian Brendan Grace has died (RTÉ)
Meanwhile…
Noel Whelan with Elaine Bedford during a press conference for Together for Yes during the Eighth Amendment referedum campaign last year
So sad to hear that Noel Whelan has passed away. We come from different party backgrounds but I feel this morning like Ireland has lost a friend. Such a sharp intellect. So articulate and effective on marriage equality.
— Leo Varadkar (@LeoVaradkar) July 11, 2019
Barrister and political commentator Noel Whelan dies aged 50 (RTÉ)
From 1987, when Rhonda Paisley (top) hosted an episode of RTÉ’s chat show Saturday Live.
Most recordings have been destroyed as part of the Good Friday Agreement.
Guests included Brendan Grace, Rhonda’s then partner Sammy Wilson, and her father a pre-cuddly Reverend Ian Paisley (bottom).
Sammy’s deathless anecdotes (15:00, 25:00 and 57:00) and Brendan impersonating the Big Man (54:30) do nothing to relieve the unremitting weirdness.
Good times.
Watch in full here.
From 1988, an ad for Sunday Night At The Olympia.
The Sunday night ‘fear’ untroubled by James Reilly in clerical garb with false teeth.
Comedy gold…
Voiceover by Brendan Balfe.
Your turn
From TV3’s Autumn/Winter schedule:
Bottler is an animation and live-action production set in 1960’s Dublin. Brendan Grace’s young Bottler character and his friends get involved in various adventures, some of which are closely tied to real historical events of the time. In this series of different stories told through the eyes of Bottler, viewers will be introduced to (or reacquainted with) famous Dublin characters of the time such as the rag & Bone man and Bang Bang. these stories expand upon Bottler’s world, show aspects of working class family life in dublin and the rich culture of the city from times past.
Hmm.
TV3 Autumn Winter Schedule 2013/14 (TV3)
(Hat tip: Clampers Outside)
