National media reported last Wednesday that a senior official from Wicklow County Council was arrested in connection with an investigation into the deaths of two fire fighters in the county in 2007. It was some senior official – and it took the local press to report that the person arrested was in fact the County […]
RTE have commenced work on the leaders debates – or well they’ve responded to various interested parties who have contacted RTE. I’m not sure which parties these are – there has been a lot of talk about the matter while watching the 3 debates in the UK and the Labour Party have called for a […]
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or not… I refer of course to Fair City. Yvonne Doyle who when I last watched Fair City years ago was one of my most despised characters, is going out with Connie – whom the RTE website describes as ‘Self-taught, independent and strong-willed’ (secret telly code for lesbian). Yvonne met Connie in Australia it seems […]
Tags:Fair City·Ireland·Lesbian·Raidió Teilifís Éireann·Same-sex marriage
Update: Video is at the end of this post Have a look here – at 22.54 minutes in and watch Anne Doyle calmly introduce the TV News moment so far for 2010. Charlie Bird is back viewers … back with a bang. After over a year of isolation and loneliness as RTE’s Washington correspondent, Charlie […]
Tags:Anglo Irish Bank·Anne Doyle·Cape Cod·Charlie Bird·David Drumm·George Lee·Republic of Ireland
Thats to all the political correspondents and hacks running to join twitter and talk about it expertly. It was not long ago you were laughing at it and those of us who use it and read it. Now its ‘the twitter that did it’ and ‘tweeted out of office’. So was Dan Boyle’s tweet planned […]