Month: December 2011
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Nice Work Maire T.
My special lady friend, the wonderfully talented Maire T. Robinson has reason to celebrate this morning as her short story “Another Breakfast With You” has been published in todays Irish Independent as part of their Hennessy New Irish Writing Award. Each month one story is picked from countless entries and published on the last saturday…
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A very TG4 Christmas
This christmas was really bad in terms of television, very little to get excited about. RTE showed independence day on christmas day and I can’t believe they couldn’t come up with something better then that. Seriously, Who hasn’t seen it? The British channels weren’t much better, in fact the only station to come up with…
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The Pride of Quarrymoumt on RTE at 8:30
After assaulting our ears for the last five years on Off The Ball, the brother is now to be seen on the small screen. This is his first tv engagement since that famous episode of Gridlock back in 2000 where Ciaran called “gridlock on green” despite as Derek Mooney pointed out “Interesting move, you are…
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Steve James top 10 documentaries
The Interupters is on tonight on BBC4 and it is one off the finest documentaries of recent years and indeed one of my all time favorites so make sure to tune in. It is directed by Steve James who also directed Hoop Dreams and No Crossover:the Trial of Alan Iverson both of which were incredible.…
John Murphy 