Tag: Music
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Glen Hansard – RIP
“Imagine, it’s your last day on earth, it’s a Paddy’s Day, and you might have had a drink, just the one”! “Then, Brendan Behan’s song strikes up and you’re reminded you’re in the most special place on earth”. That was my introduction to Glen Hansard. On a YouTube video of a concert at the Royal…
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The Late Trevor Dietz
Sincere sympathy to the mother, siblings, partner and all who will mourn the incredible loss of the loss of music industry trend setter Trevor Dietz who passed away recently in Brighton UK. We studied together years ago in BCFE (Ballyfermot) and though initially we would have had little or nothing in common, through his warm,…
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Never mind the bullsh** – treat yourself to a night with Christy
At some point either towards the end of my ‘career’ in primary school and in the early stages of life at the next level, I took quite the chiding – and absolutely not all of it was light hearted – from my contemporaries regarding my musical preferences. The bugbear seemingly being that I was too…
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Freddie Mercury could see what some still can’t
“Is this the world we created, we’ve made it on our own. Is this the world we devastated, right to the bone? If there’s a God, what must he think of what we’ve done, to the world that he created? “ I think the first line quoted above was the title of the moving number…
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Red Bull Need To Listen To B*Witched
There are a few clips of Arsene Wenger during his time as Arsenal manager which perennially come up in Football’s Funniest Moments compilation. One shows the great Frenchman struggling manfully with the zip on his trenchcoat, and the other when, in the aftermath of some controversial incident or other, all he could muster by way…
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Selections for Dundalk – Feb. 11th 2022
4.00: MOVIE KING (NIALL MCCULLAGH/TONY MARTIN) 4.30: ELZAAMSAN (RONAN WHELAN/MICK HALFORD) 5.00: FOX LEICESTER (SEAN BOWEN (7)/DENIS HOGAN) 5.30: SINGSONG LADY (GARY CARROLL/GAVIN CROMWELL) 6.00: CHAVAJOD (LEIGH ROCHE/MICHAEL O’CALLAGHAN) 6.30: FIVE ZEROS (MIKEY SHEEHY/NIGEL SLEVIN) 7.00: HELEN DU POURTALES – EW – (SAM EWING/JAMES MCAULEY) 7.30: A CASE OF YOU (RONAN WHELAN/ADRIAN MCGUINNESS)
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A century on, have things really changed much?
If certain heartbreaking developments hadn’t happened during the summer, I can only imagine the debate myself and Myles Fahey would have had on Monday night. It would surely have got feisty but would just as certainly have wound up being adjourned over a pint or three. Now read on… Monday night pints were always my…
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Boylan Talks Sport Weekly Brain Workout – No. 16
Due to the passing of my father there was no quiz last week, but normal service shall resume