Category: Misc
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Hurricane Sandy Relief
Maire came across this on the Au Revoir Simeone facebook page during the week. Its a video about the devastating affects of Hurricane Sandy on the Rockaways district of Queens, New York. The video is about a resident of that area, Michelle Cortez and contains her description of what has happened. Michelle was someone whom…
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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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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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Old Photos of Galway
These photos have been posted elsewhere but I thought I’d throw them up here as well. I saw them on the Galway Museum’s Facebook Page and was blown away by them. Its a collection of shots taken by the late artist and photographer Derek Biddulph in the 80’s and early 90’s that he donated to…
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So the football isn’t the only thing on today
The football is on today and I am very excited about Ireland v Croatia later on. There would appear to be a huge number of Irish over in Poland which means they wont be going to the Eucharistic Congress which also starts today. I remember learning in Primary and Secondary School about the first Eucharistic…
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Great Chance to Score some Poitin
I’ll be heading to this event tomorrow night, its all in aid of my buddy Traolach’s film which he will be shooting in June. Its also a great chance to see one of the greatest films to ever come out of this country. At 7.30pm on Wednesday, 23rd May in the basement of Filmbase there…
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Tuam Film School for Seconary School Students this Summer..
I was delighted to see an ad for this during the week. Its a film making course for secondary school students in the Tuam and North Galway area that runs during the summer. I would have loved this when I was in my secondary school pomp (and I had some serious pomp going on). The…
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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…
John Murphy 