Archive for August, 2013

The Salt and Pepper Talks

Posted: August 14, 2013 in Uncategorized

Posted: August 14, 2013 in Uncategorized

irishonlineradio

Blog nominated

This Blog http://irishonlineradio.wordpress.com/ has been nominated in seven categories for the Blog Awards Ireland 2013.  The Blog is on the longlist in the following categories:  News/Current Affairs Blog, Blog of a Journalist, Political Blog, Podcast Blog, Newcomer Blog, Best Designed Blog and Mobile Compatible Blog categories.  Many thanks to everyone who nominated the site.  The shortlist in all categories will be announced on the 8th of September on http://www.blogawardsireland.com/.  The category Best Blog post will be put up on the http://www.blogawardsireland.com/ website in the next week or so, if one of my Blog posts makes that shortlist I’d appreciate it if you could vote for the post as it is a public vote.  Kind Regards, John.

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The Guts by Roddy Doyle

Posted: August 12, 2013 in Uncategorized

The Guts

Jimmy Rabbitte is back.The man who invented the Commitments back in the eighties is now forty-seven, with a loving wife, four kids … and bowel cancer. He isnt dying, he thinks, but he might be.Jimmy still loves his music, and he still loves to hustle his new thing is finding old bands and then finding the people who loved them enough to pay money for their resurrected singles and albums. On his path through Dublin he meets two of the Commitments Outspan, whose own illness is probably terminal, and Imelda Quirk, still as gorgeous as ever. He is reunited with his long-lost brother and learns to play the trumpetThis warm, funny novel is about friendship and family, about facing death and opting for life. It climaxes in one of the great passages in Roddy Doyles fiction: four middle-aged men at Irelands hottest rock festival watching Jimmys son Marvins band Moanin at Midnight pretending to be Bulgarian and playing a song called Im Going to Hell that apparently hasnt been heard since 1932.

Ghostboat starring David Jason

Posted: August 12, 2013 in Uncategorized

Ghostboat is a 2006 British television film based on a novel by George E. Simpson and Neal R. Burger starring David Jason — a fantasy tale of His Majesty’s Submarine Scorpion reappearing 38 years after it vanished. The crew has disappeared, but the vessel is otherwise unchanged and has not aged in the intervening years. In the Cold War year 1981, a Royal Navy crew along with the sole survivor of the original voyage is given the mission of retracing the last days of the boat prior to its 1943 disappearance. A supernatural influence takes hold of vessel and most of the crew, and they find themselves fighting World War II enemies