Posted in TV, Media on May 27th, 2008 No Comments »
As everyone knows the Irish health system is in crisis. It is the responsibility of every right thinking citizen to be as informed as possible about the nature of this crisis and to campaign both individually and collectively to have the problems corrected by our slovenly self-serving government. At the very least, every Irish person […]
Posted in irish culture, TV, Media on Mar 12th, 2008 28 Comments »
Dermod Moore has done us a great service. I missed last night’s RTE documentary Fairytale of Kathmandu on Donegal poet Cathal Ó Searcaigh and how he apparently sexually exploited young Nepalese men. I caught the end in which Ó Searcaigh seemed to condemn himself. In a long, apparently unedited, sequence where the documentary film-maker Neasa […]
Posted in TV, Media, Ireland, Politics on Nov 26th, 2007 2 Comments »
I was actually looking for something else when I saw that I was close enough to June 1921 to have a look and see what was written. Anyway, it’s not much but here’s what the Irish Independent had to say about Coolacrease. It’s from page five, issue dated Saturday 2 July 1921.
Posted in TV, Internet on Nov 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Or… trying to save the world without a mobile or broadband. Taken from YouTube, via www.collegehumour.com
Posted in US Politics, Working Class, Film, TV on Nov 9th, 2007 2 Comments »
This quote comes from “Heard on the Picketline” section of the Hollywood writers strike weblog.
This morning, I picketed with an 86 year writer, who wrote for ‘Mr. Ed.’ He said, ‘It pisses me off that that fucking horse wound up speaking Italian, Polish and Rumanian, and I never made more than a nickel.’”
I have to […]
Posted in satire, TV on Jul 3rd, 2007 4 Comments »
There’s a new one-off special of Armando Iannucci’s The Thick of It on BBC4 tonight. According to the listing “the career of spin doctor Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi -pictured) is hanging in the balance.”
Those looking forward to the second series have to wait the outcome of Chris Langham trial, unfortunately.
The clip below suggests […]
Posted in Irish Working Class, Film, TV, music on Jun 19th, 2007 25 Comments »
I have always wondered why I’ve found myself drawn to expressions of English working-class childhoods, especially those of the 1960s and ’70s. For years I thought it was because I grew up in Dublin, and Dublin is such an English city - not really Irish at all when you think about it, at least, not […]
Posted in satire, Film, TV on Jun 15th, 2007 No Comments »
Chris Morris has always been a bit dodgy. Well, to be more precise he’s always been several types of dodgy, but most are the good type rather than the bad.
In the current lexicon of British satire I suppose he’s considered ‘edgy’, always pushing out the margins of what is acceptable, although part of […]
Posted in TV, Media on Feb 19th, 2007 4 Comments »
My television license renewal reminder landed in the door on the same day Trouble in Paradise made its debut on RTE 2. This, combined with the recent blurb for this year’s St. Patrick’s Day stamp that it “presents the shamrock as a contemporary emblem while reminding us of its eco-systemâ€, has me convinced. An Post […]
Posted in TV on Jan 30th, 2007 No Comments »
Kids says the craziest things
‘Homer loves burgers’
That’s the first thing my three and three quarter year old daughter said to me upon waking this morning. Like a lot of uptight, middle class parents I sometimes worry about the amount of TV my daughter watches. For example, after watching an hour of Cbeebies she has to […]