Great news for music fans this summer! The Spiegeltent is returning to Cork as part of the Cork Midsummer Festival 2006!
Fred The Band are playing there on June 20th. Tickets are 15 Euro.
The Nail Drivers will play in the Angler’s Rest on June 17th in a charity event so get along and support them! See you there!
Here are a few pictures of the Nail Drivers from a while back. They played a blinder at my wedding and I definitely recommend them!
Category Archives: When-in-Ireland
kick.ie – Irish news, community driven.
kick.ie is a site like digg.com but for Irish news and sites.
They linked to my photoblog which is how I became aware of it.
Tim O’Reilly’s attack on IT@Cork for using the term “Web 2.0” as their conference name is shocking. They have a trademark on the phrase “Web 2.0” so be careful about labeling your website or blog posts!
Mainstream attention for Cork Bloggers
Damien Mulley says that several Cork Bloggers were profiled in the Sunday Business Post last weekend. Included among them was this little blog!
Does anyone have a copy of that sbpost they don’t want? I read Damien’s post around 23:30 on Sunday night and didn’t get a chance to buy my own.
Rage on the road
“Who’s calling me now, must be one of the lads about tonight. No Gardai around, answer phone. Damn bend, must slow down… There they are in that garage! I better stop the car in the middle of the road and shout at them! What the f*ck! The guy behind me blowing his horn at me? F*cker, who does he think he is?”
I’m sure that’s what was going through the mind of the driver in front me who braked suddenly and stopped in the middle of the road to shout abuse at his friends in another car. Lovely.
The Rising, by Langerland
Even if you’re not Irish or don’t know anything about Irish history you’ll still probably find The Rising funny. It’s a short animation featuring the main players of the 1916 Rising as members of the R Team as they battle today’s politicians and institutions!
Warning, sense of humour required. I bet someone will ring Joe Duffy’s show to complain about this over the next few days!
Are Eircom calling you?
I just got off the phone with a man named Brendan saying he wasn’t from Eircom tele-sales who proceeded to say, “You aren’t a customer of Eircom’s any more” or something similar. Before he could say anything else I informed him that I was fairly certain this was an illegal act ringing me because we’d signed up to the National Do Not Call Registry National Directory Database (thanks Adam!). He quickly apologised but I’m still angry. We signed up to that list way back in November 2005 and despite some delay by UTV I know we’re on it now.
If I remember correctly, this was the second time he rang. The last time being several months ago. It’s not often you get a sales-pitch from someone with a country accent! Unfortunately I don’t remember his surname or his company.
The list hasn’t stopped the recorded message scams however. As soon as I hear that recorded voice or a ringing phone line I hang up.
The Data Protection Commission has a useful faq too.
Free groom for Maebh!
“Scrubs”, “Naked Camera”, “How Low Can You Go?” and “Podge and Rodge”. 3 out of 4 home grown. That’s great!
If you’ve ever watched Maebh look for a boyfriend or a husband on Naked Camera, you may have wondered where they got the idea for that.. I snapped this poster outside of the men’s clothes shop the first episode featured. (You know the one, where the poor lad was single, but then magically was engaged when Maebh freaked him out! Oh, that would apply to any episode!)
No wonder she was confused with a headline like that!
Ni Gaeilgeoir Me
I watched the first two episodes of reality tv show, Ni Gaeilgeoir Me tonight. It’s on every night at 10pm for the rest of the week and I’ll probably tune in.
I do have to admit that I fast-forward through it on the Sky+ because I’m not a reality tv fan, but it’s fun to watch. It does help ma ta cupla focail Gaeilge agat but there are subtitles through the recorded bits to help. The speed dating as Gaeilge was brilliant!
I haven’t a clue what the two teachers are saying. That guy from Ulster is practically incomprehensible to me! The presenter, Aoife Ni Thuairisg, is great and she’s easy to understand however!
I think a special mention has to go out to Jenny Kelly and Jeannette Cronin. The former because I wouldn’t be watching it if the Ray D’Arcy show hadn’t got her on it, and the latter because of her infectious laughter throughout interviews!