Tag: sports
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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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Irish Sports Doc’s online
There are some great Irish sports doc available to watch online so I decided to collate some of them together for future reference. Perfect for days like today. If there’s any I’ve left out, leave a link in the comments. Enjoy We Got Game When droves of seven foot tall black ball players, who have…
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Rás Tailteann – Rotha an tSaoil wins big in Wales
TG4’s cycling documentary ‘Rás Tailteann – Rotha an tSaoil’ scooped two awards at this year’s Celtic Media Festival held in Swansea. The double-winning documentary tells the story behind one of Ireland’s greatest sporting institutions, the Rás Tailteann cycling race. Established in 1953, its aim was to symbolise the nationalist aspirations of its organisers and promote…
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2012 – When Sport was King
Earlier this week we had the broadcast of When Ali Came to Ireland on RTE One and the entire production staff behind making the film were blown away by the positive feedback we received in person and online. All those nice things people said about it really do make the effort involved in making the…
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Faster, Higher, Stronger, RTE One Tues 9:30
Through a somewhat odd set of circumstances and despite being pretty busy I havent had anything I cut on TV since April 2011. That is until now, Tuesday sees the screening of this sports doc I did for Independent pictures. It was directed by Ronan O’Donoghue and I’m quite proud of it. I trust you’ll…
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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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