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John Murphy – A Face for Radio
So yesterday afternoon, for the first time since my days on Blackboard Jungle in the mid-90’s I once again took to the National airwaves. I was very kindly asked by the good people on Newstalk Sports Sunday to take part in a panel discussion on Sports Documentary Films. For the last hour of the show,…
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Some Festival News
Last week TG4 aired the Ras Tailteain documentary and despite some technical issues with the first broadcast, everyone seemed to really like it and the feedback online was great. The doc went onto to play the Bicycle Film Festival in London last weekend where it played to a full house in London’s famous Barbican, which…
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Ras Tailteann Doc Airs Tonight TG4 9:30
A documentary I edited on the colourful history of the Ras Tailteann cycling race is to broadcast tonight on TG4 at 9:30. You may have heard the lads on Off The Ball discuss it on last nights show where they gave it an enthuastic thumbs up. the film was produced by David Burke of Dot…
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Support Paul Kimmage
Paul Kimmage is one of the finest journalists we have in this country. He has always stood up to cheats and fought to restore honour and pride to the sport he loves. For this, the UCI are commited to a witch-hunt against him and they are suing him in court this december for writing that…
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Poetry SLAM
Later tonight I shall be heading to this in the Irish Writers Centre. Its the Leinster finals of the All Ireland Poetry Slam. Two winners from tonight performance go through to the finals to be held in Cork at the end of November. I’ll be going there to shout on my buddy, Sean Dennehy who…
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The Dun Laoghaire Underground Film Festival Opens Today
The Dun Laoighaire Underground Film Festival kicks off today. This festival has grown from strength to strength and is really carving a niche for itself in the Irish Festival circuit. Great credit must go to its director Dave Byrne who is doing sterling work. Among the films playing at it is Kara. This is a…
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Busho Film Festival in Hungary
Last week my film “Bubble Chamber” which I made with Brooklyn composer PoN screened at the Busho Film festival in Budapest, Hungary. PoN flew in from the states and we had a great time over there, met with some wonderful people, saw some cracking shorts and walked all over what is a spectacular city. The…
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Herzog’s Birthday, watch his films
It’s Werner Herzog’s birthday today and I’m sure that someplace in Malibu ar whatever outpost of civilisation he is currently in, Werner is telling all within shouting distances that “Birthdays are an abomination”. In honour of the man, who is one of my great heroes and a true soldier for cinema, here is a bunch…
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Some Highlights from RTE50
I spent some time yesterday going through the RTE50 website on the RTE Player. It really is superb and you could spent hours watching this stuff. We all give out about RTE all the time, often with good cause but when they get something like this right, they should be commended. Still can’t understand why…
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Busho Film Festival, Hungary with interesting poster design.
Next week I’m heading to Hungary to the Busho International Short Film Festival where the music video I made for my friend, Brooklyn based composer PoN is screening as part of the festival. I’m excited to be showing the video but also to actually be on holiday will be good too, especially as PJ is…
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