Archive for June 20th, 2007
This is the Best Trip I’ve Ever Been On
As a Bohs fan, I can’t get this song out of my head this week. The terrace chant version of Sloop John B, as sung at away games, ends with ‘don’t want to go home, don’t want to go hooooooome, this is the best trip I’ve ever been on!’
Here’s the Beach Boys version, with their original video, which for some reason reminds me of the video for My Lovely Horse in Father Ted.
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Quiz - Irish Political Anagrams
Rearrange the letters to find two Irish political groupings:
- AN OLD PANIC AFFILIATION
- NO PANIC, ENLARGED AFFILIATION
Answers just a click away, but try to figure them out first. >>> (more…)
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Ten Best Places to Hear a Cúpla Focail
Out of every hundred people in Ireland, forty can speak Irish, and twenty do speak it outside the education system. Less than five of that twenty speak Irish regularly (at least once a week) and two of those speak it every day. A quarter of all people who can speak Irish say that they never speak it at all.
Here are the ten best places to find a regular Irish speaker. >>> (more…)
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Ten Worst Places to Hear a Cúpla Focail
There are only ten small Irish localities where nobody speaks Irish regularly (by which I mean at least once a week outside the education system). And you might be surprised where they are. >>> (more…)
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That’s Pirate Radio Part 12 - Rambo’s Law
By 1987, RTE Radio 2, re-branded as 2FM, competed with super-pirates Sunshine, Super Q and Energy, and about seventy other pirates around the country. But nobody could match the biggest literal outlaw to muddy the metaphorical waters. When Fianna Fáil returned to Government, Ray ‘Rambo’ Burke began five years as Minister for Energy, then Industry, then Justice. >>> (more…)
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