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  • The London Ear on RTÉ 2XM // Show 163 with Ambassador Dan Mulhall

    The London Ear on RTÉ 2XM // Show 163 with Ambassador Dan Mulhall

    Dan Mulhall, Nessy, The London Ear

    The London Ear on RTÉ 2XM // Show 163 with Ambassador Dan Mulhall

    I was delighted to able to chat to Irish Ambassador to Great Britain, Dan Mulhall, on this week’s show. He is now leaving his post in London to become Ireland’s Ambassador to the United States.Before that though, he sat down with me to chat about Irish Culture, Identity, and the dreaded B word.

    You can follow, Ambassador Mulhall on Twitter, he’s great for starting each day off with some poetry.

    Our chat was recorded on August 3 2017 in the Irish Embassy in London. Thanks to Brendan and Bernadette for their help in organising this.

    The London Ear on RTÉ 2XM // Show 163

    In-between chatting with Ambassador Mulhall, he picked the following tracks to play:

    1. Planxty: Raggle Taggle Gypsy/Tabhair Dom Do Lamh
    2. Bob Dylan: Shelter from the Storm
    3. Clannad: Na Buachaillí Álainn
    4. Steely Dan: Aja
    5. London Philharmonic Orchestra & David Parry perform Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute, K. 620: Overture

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    Transcription of the interview with Dan Mulhall

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  • Rory and The Island: Jimmy’s Winning Matches (video)

    Rory and The Island: Jimmy’s Winning Matches (video)

    This is actually hilarious, Rory Gallagher of Rory and The Island and his buddy playing a version of Jimmy’s Selling Watches, entitled ‘Jimmy’s Winning Matches’ all about Donegal GAA footballer Jimmy McGuinness. This has now had over 55000 hits on Youtube, Massive! It was filmed on a beach in Lanzarote where Rory lives..

  • Ham Sandwich: Croke Park March 11th (video)

    whitefoxSomewhere between a hurling game and a football game today in Croke Park, Kells heroes, Ham Sandwich, played a few tunes accompanied by non other than funnyman, Fred Cooke. If that wasn’t enough the boxer, Bernard Dunne tried to get Podge to do a duet as gaeilge. Gawd bless his cotton socks.

    Sorry the video wasn’t closer, it was filmed from the Davin stand, or as I still prefer calling it, The Canal End.

  • Dublin Vs Kerry, Feb 4th 2012, Pre-Match Celebrations

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    Abseiling from a roof
    Last night, thanks to my little sister, I had the great honour of going to see Dublin and Kerry kick off their National League campaigns in Croke Park, Premium Level no less. Kerry had an unbelievable amount of wides but still managed to wrecked the All Ireland Champions’ day with a 1-14 to 0-11 win. Anyway, it was the Dubs first game in Croker since their All Ireland win and they kicked off the whole thing in style. The floodlights in the stadium were turned off, the teams came onto the pitch then the fireworks went off. As if that wasn’t enough, some bloke then abseils from the roof of the Hogan Stand to pitchside with the match ball.

    All this followed the Rubberbandits give a good clean family friendly performance* of the ‘Roisin, I Want to Fight Your Father’, as Gaeilge and some song called ‘Horse Outside’.

    Fun times! Good job, great way to get things going!

    *only a ‘few’ swear words were used but they were used a fair bit.

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