Very swish video and a sign of things to come from FF’s social media team in support of TD’s where seats may be under pressure in 2012? And who’s in government again? And they need to launch a campaign for it with a petition? I’ll stop asking questions and let you look at the video [...]
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Tonight No Escape opens in The Peacock Theatre and there have been a number of developments since I wrote about the lack of access to The Peacock and the rights of people with disabilities to both access the venue and bare witness to the work of Mary Raftery and others. After some further discussions and [...]
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The Dáil is on holiers and I am not. Excuse the lightness on the blogging as the day job keeps me occupied and tired. However you could peruse the programme for Stranger than Fiction – this is a documentary film festival taking place in the Irish Film Institute this weekend. Of note besides Pyjama Girls, [...]
Tags:Documentary film·Fawcett Society·Film festival·Ireland·LGBT·Oliver Stone·Tom Shakespeare·Youth
Update: The Abbey released a statement this evening in response to this post and other queries regarding access to the Peacock and the forthcoming productions. A play opens next week in Dublin – a piece of documentary theatre on the Ryan Report on abuse in institutions. Written by Mary Raftery, No Escape is the first [...]
Tags:Child·Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse·Disability·Ireland·Mary Raftery
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
Ok so it’s unasked for advice but here goes anyway. You may have heard that Brian Cowen is interested in blogging and twittering. On Saturday last while speaking to Marian Finucane about Twitter I had hoped to be able to deal with the matter of the Taoiseach and Twitter but alas there was only so [...]
Tags:Brian Cowen·Online Communities·Social Networking·Taoiseach·Twitter
Today’s Sunday Business Post reports that there will be changes to the Civil Partnership in the coming weeks and the legislation continues it’s progress through committee stage in the Dáil. Niamh O’Connor reports that the name of the Bill is to be changed to the Civil Partnership and Cohabitation Bill 2009 to reflect the fact [...]
Tags:Civil Partnership Bill·Dermot Ahern·Irish Farmers Association·Minister for Justice Equality and Law Reform·Oireachtas
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
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