Mick Donnellan has been in touch to let me know about his play Shortcut to Hallelujah, which the Truman Town Theatre will shortly be bringing to the stage at the Town Hall Theatre in Galway. The play was previously performed in Galway (at the Town Hall Studio) last August, in Ballinrobe (in the Valkenburg) last September and at the Linenhall in […]
It’s the eve of Christmas Eve and the excitement levels here are rising faster than the S&P 500 has done this week. With a bit over 24 hours left before the Ho, Ho, Ho-ing gets go, go, going I can see that it’ll be tough to keep the lid on things around here in the interim. All this domestic excitement […]
Well, although the prevailing weather has been a proper pain in the hole of late, at least we’re about to get payoff, in the form of the whitest of white Christmases that most of us will have ever seen. I doubt if we’ll be warbling that old Bing Crosby number with the same gusto in future years, now that those […]
Okay, that last post set off a fair few unexpected spats so maybe it’s time to change the subject. Personally, I blame the lack of football for all this online tetchiness and I don’t think that Sunday’s FBD World Series Final will adequately fill the gap in that respect either. Me, I’m off to Parnell Park with my little Dub […]
I’m back on Holy Ground for the first time in a while and back on broadband too (Digital Divide how are you?) so I’m gradually starting to catch up with stuff, even if it means that work is beginning to catch up with me too. The minor team for Sunday will be announced tomorrow or the day after but before […]
We’re heading off on hols in the morning, down to the far south-west of the country where I’m reliably informed that the internet hasn’t been invented yet. As a result, things are likely to be quiet enough here for the next week or so. Just to keep you all going, though, I’ve stuck up a new poll on the site […]
We’re approaching the finishing line in this year’s NFL mini-league and, unless he comes a cropper at the final fence, Mick C is going to win with a bit to spare. He’s got 63 points to spare on Barney in second place and with only one full weekend of action (plus the two finals themselves a fortnight afterwards) to go, […]
Well, here it is once again folks and once again I’m reaching for the corkscrew to open a rather nice Christmas bottle of red wine and proceed to get more than a little mellow by the fireside. But before I do (and having brought to your attention the match report on and the post-match quotes relating to the over-40s All-Ireland […]
Liam Horan has been on to tell me that his alter ego Championship Man will be making his inaugural appearance on the literary circuit when he takes to the boards at the Kenny-Naughton Autumn School this coming weekend in the picturesque village of Aghamore. I haven’t got a full programme for the event itself but Liam’s gig is part of […]
Well, the environs of it at any rate. We’re all off to Blighty early in the morning for the weekend and we’re planning to make it down to Central London at some point tomorrow where what’s in the picture is firmly on the agenda. With a bit of luck, we’ll have confirmation shortly as to where the showdown with the […]