Category: Television
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Great response to ‘The Tommy Tiernan Show’
There was a fantastic reaction to the first episode of the ‘The Tommy Tiernan Show’ which aired last Saturday on RTE One. It was a big hit with audiences and critics alike, with the Irish Independent saying ‘The Tommy Tiernan Show has shaped up into the best Irish chat show in years‘ Brian Lloyd from…
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Tir Eoghain nominated for Celtic Media Festival
Delighted that Tír Eoghain: The Unbreakable Bond has been nominated for the Best Sports Documentary at the 2019 Celtic Media Festival to be held this June in Aviemore, Scotland. Programmes Ive edited have had some success in this category over the last five years with Páidá Ó’Sé, Arkle, Rás Tailtean and Crash and Burn all…
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‘An Phairc’ airs tonight on TG4
A documentary I cut for Nemeton and director Ronan O’Donoghue airs tonight on TG4. ‘An Phairc’ tells the story of Phairc Ui Chaoimh, its recent rebuild and some of the massive games and events that have taken place there over the years. Its a cracking doc that finally allowed me to cut something about Hurling!…
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Sheffield Doc Fest
I’m delighted and honoured to have 2 feature films I cut showing at the prestigious Sheffield Doc Fest this weekend. I’m heading over to the festival and really looking forward to not only seeing the films but to also catch a whole host of other great documentaries. Sheffield is the worlds 3rd biggest documentary festival…
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Watch ‘Mar A Cheile Muid?’ online
For Seachtain na Gaeilge, Seán Ó’Cualáin has made his film ‘Mar a Cheile Muid?’ about the Gaeltacht civil rights movement of the 1970’s and its impact then and now available to watch online. The film is on the surface about the 40th anniversary of the 1974 Oireachtas in Cois Fharraige, the first one outside of…
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Weather Report on RTE2 at 11:30 tonight
There is an opportunity to catch my brother Paul’s short film ‘The Weather Report’ tonight on RTE2 at 11:30. The film has had a great run on the festival circuit appearing at over 50 festivals at home and abroad. Paul picked up a few awards at the Limerick Film Festival and Boston Irish Film Festival.…
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Arkle wins at the IFTA’S!!!
On Thursday last, the Arkle documentary I cut won the IFTA for Best Sports at what was a lovely evening in the Burlington (It will always be the Burlo to me). It was such a good day that its taken me this long to write about it! I was absolutely thrilled for Arkle director Luke…
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Ifta Nominations for Arkle and GAA USA
I was delighted this morning to see that 2 shows I edited were among the Nominees for the IFTA Television awards to be held in Dublin in 3 weeks time. Unfortunately both Arkle: The Legend Lives On and GAA USA are up against each other in the sports category. To further complicate the matter my…
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‘Waterloo:Na Laochra Gael’ TG4 8:00 Tonight
Today marks the 200 year anniversary of the battle of Waterloo. A documentary I cut about the Irish and Scots who fought that day ‘Waterloo:Na Laochra Gael’ airs tonight at 8 at TG4. Heres a little taster…
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Reaction to ‘Scots at Waterloo’
The show ‘Scots at Waterloo’ which I had the pleasure of cutting aired last night on BBC2 Scotland and it went down very well. Here are some of the reactions online from the screening The documentary on The Scots Soldiers at Waterloo was v interesting;what a close run thing it was, what courage displayed —…
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