December 22nd, 2009
I haven’t seen it before. At SeaWorld San Diego, Clyde and an award-winning Irish dancer go flipper to toe in one of the most unusual yet hilarious dance contests for the 2007 St. Patrick’s Day.
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December 22nd, 2009
This is one of those occasions when the website address may be pretty much all you need to see: http://www.leprechaunmuseum.ie Among the myriad of questions I have is: Why has this never been done before?
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December 22nd, 2009
I’m sure you were only dying to know… As per the official blog: Just to let you know a few things about the 2010 Blog Awards: They will be in Galway We are looking at a March date Nominations will be opening on the first week of January for 2 weeks There are going to [...]
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December 17th, 2009
Give this a go. An easy one, yes? Fancy giving some others a go?
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December 16th, 2009
Yeah, I know, loads of videos from me. Sorry. I just love this stuff!
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December 16th, 2009
You’d have to be careful on the roads with Irish criminals like this one. Jaysis, that poor Garda! This and more like it coming to TV3 any day now. Ireland’s most vicious police chases is by John Walsh and Kathleen O’ Rourke. (Reminded me a lot of Garda Patrol)
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December 16th, 2009
I don’t know – maybe I’m far too serious for my own good – maybe the Great Famine is something to laugh about, given it’s so long ago. Maybe too this video is just a gentle satire of the current situation and maybe, if it was happening today, this sort of thing might actually happen. [...]
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December 16th, 2009
I met Granny O’ Grimm recently – it was quite the encounter and I’m sure I’ll be recounting it to you shortly. Amid the complaints, the grumbles, the overwhelming sense of pessimism and gloom (her life motto is “give up your dreams“), there was actually an attractive streak of divilment in this elderly lady that [...]
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December 15th, 2009
If you’re gonna do a Christmas music video, make sure it’s at least as good as this one from the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, called Christmas Eve/Sarajevo – 12/24: And if you’re gonna do some improv on the streets of New York, why not do it as part of a guerilla handbell strikeforce for a great cause [...]
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December 13th, 2009
I quite like this – song is “Snowflakes” by Dubliner Dean Robert Murphy (Deano) and the music video, directed by Paul Ward, features the stunning Aoibheann McCaul.
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December 13th, 2009
It was one of my favourite Christmas events of last year and tomorrow I’ll be queuing outside St Anne’s Church on Dawson St for free tickets to the Glória annual Christmas Concert, on Monday 14 and Tuesday 15 December. Glória, founded in October 1995, is Ireland’s lesbian and gay choir, established “to provide a safe [...]
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December 13th, 2009
The above photos is used, for some bizarre reason, to highlight on Facebook the Sexy Christmas Party that those talented lads over at Dead Cat Bounce are hosting in Dublin’s Sugar Club on Monday December 21. They’ve got a great line-up, including the International‘s comedy mish-mash superstars Andrew Stanley and Fred Cooke, as well as [...]
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December 13th, 2009
Regular readers with great memories may remember Niamho writing about David O’ Doherty‘s live gig in Whelan’s of Wexford St, Dublin last August to record his new album. A couple of us went – supporting live comedy, don’t ya know – and it was indeed, what it promised to be – a funny, fast and [...]
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December 11th, 2009
The latest from the Muppets Studio: Dunno about you, but I can’t hear this song any more without thinking of Peter Griffin.
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December 10th, 2009
When the moon hits your eye, Like a big pizza pie, that’s amoré. One of my favourite lines from a song. You’ll normally sing along. But if you change just a bit, could it be as big a hit? When an eel bites your hand, And that’s not what you planned, that’s a Moray. When [...]
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