christmas my arse

Christmas is a time of giving With turkey and ham and easy living And its baby Jesus versus Santa Claus And carol singing for a worthy cause It’s a holiday for a week or two The church is packed, a religious coup And its midnight mass at 10 o’clock And the next-door neighbour in her…

RTE Archive

what a wonderful collection; now with podcasting, youtube and broadband internet we should be able to see more of the archive our licence fee has kept preserved. like this Prince Rainier & Princess Grace of Monaco, Dublin, 1961 filmed in silence 6 months before RTE TV started. Like Aljazeera English today, RTE were busy making…

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it was pointed out to me by an rss developer that was testing against my feed that my briangreene.com domain had no favicon.ico — I hated IE for making the requests on my server for a file I did not have and did not want, and for a crime I did not commit. But I…

it was 20 years ago today

20 years ago today I set up my second radio station. aim of station: raise funds for local hospital frequency 88 & 96FM / station name Centre Radio. Station on air 19/12/1986 03/01/1987 (recordings exist will try to digitize over holidays) From radio days From radio days

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Haughey Moriarty Baldoyle & Iraq

some people on the news at one on rte radio complained about the availability of the moriarty-tribunal report. sure its in PDF here as the Planning Tribunal (the other tribunal into payments to politicians) is looking at the Baldoyle lands module, I scanned the moriarty-tribunal report for Baldoyle (where i live). 3-16 On 19th February,…

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The Constituency

RTE podcasting goes from strength to strength, hear here ‘The Constituency’ presented by Rachael English (the ex wonderful voice of tea time intelligent current affairs) This episode features Dublin North where Clare Daly of the Socialist Party is polling well. RTE now has about 30 podcasts in its podcasting offering. And I like to listen…