Great Rock Band Origins #23

Great Rock Band Origins #23

As you know, I love a good loud rock band, and I'm always fascinated to find out how they started on the road to greatness. One of my all-time favourite [...]

Leading Ladies by the College Players

Leading Ladies by the College Players

Just in from College Players ____________________ Limerick’s oldest theatre company, the College Players have announced details of their forthcoming production, Leading Ladies which opened at University Concert Hall in Limerick on February [...]

The Oscars

The Oscars

I'm sorry.  I'm very very sorry.  Forgive me please for not doing anything about the Oscars but I have a good excuse and I hope you'll accept it with good [...]

The Mayor Turns Up

The Mayor Turns Up

Get back to the drug-addicts, says the Mayor of Bohane to the clerk-typist he calls his secretary. Tell them I can't open their meeting.  Something else came up. Mister Mayor [...]

John B Keane's "Field" at the Belltable

John B Keane's "Field" at the Belltable

In the long history of humankind, is there a square inch of ground left that somebody has not killed for?  I doubt it.  There's a longing  deeply embedded in some [...]

Van The Man Gets Stuffed

Van The Man Gets Stuffed

It's the early nineties.  It's Friday night and it's an alphabet party. The D-listers wave at the Cs and the Cs are leering at the Bs, but this is Dublin, [...]

Aaron Ramsey, Serial Killer, Strikes Again

Aaron Ramsey, Serial Killer, Strikes Again

We were chugging along in the old Bockmobile when I casually mentioned the sad loss of Whitney Houston. What a great singer, I said to Bullet, apart from that plastic [...]

TAN -- Wildebeest Theatre at the Loft

TAN — Wildebeest Theatre at the Loft

Here's something just in from Wildebeest Theatre. _____________________________ TAN. Written and performed by Marie Boylan and Ann Blake (somebody you might know from the Brad Pitt Light Orchestra), the play runs [...]

Happy Mondays at Dolan's Warehouse

Happy Mondays at Dolan's Warehouse

This just in from Choke Comedy ______________________________ Choke Comedy @ Dolan’s Happy Mondays Have you made a New Year’s resolution to enjoy life more? To get up of the couch and [...]

Toby Kaar at Bourkes Bar

Toby Kaar at Bourkes Bar

Bourke's Bar in Limerick's Catherine Street has found its Thursday night feet with a series of free gigs featuring the best of contempoary young Irish acts plying their varied styles [...]

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