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CHEF BRENDAN GRACE. Bellboy Ryan Tubridy. Chambermaid Mary Kennedy.
At the Abbeyglen Castle hotel, it appears you don’t know who you might bump into when you visit – according to their latest promo video anyway.
The video, titled I’m A Celebrity Get me in There, took a year to make, and features the late Tony Fenton providing the voiceover.
Manager and owner of the Abbeyglen Castle Brian Hughes – whose family have run the hotel since 1969 and who grew up “peeling potatoes and washing dishes” there – said they were inspired to make the video after a previous promo took off.
That video was taken offline, but it inspired them to start something new.
Over period of a year we got all the well-known Irish people that come in and out of the hotel to do something in the hotel. They all jumped into it with vigour and vim.
Hughes described Glen Abbey as “one of those mad fun places” that has “a very special atmosphere”.
Before the guests did their scenes, the hotel staff making the video would come up with ideas for their parts. “It had to be funny,” said Hughes, who is a cousin of Ryan Tubridy.
The promo video got its debut in Times Square of all places, thanks to a regular visitor to the hotel. Hughes visited on 19 March, and watched the ad being displayed on No 3 Times Square.
“It was just incredible,” he said.
I’m from Clifden in Connemara and I never really understood what Times Square meant and the size of it. I never would have thought a little man like me on the edge of the Atlantic would be in Times Square.
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Our favourite cuddly friends from that most peaceful of religions.
I will Always wonder how they can openly use social media but cant seem to be stopped and are so difficult to track down.
After 9/11 the war on terror began. 15 years later there is more terrorism than ever before which would lead you to believe the entire thing is counter productive. Terrorism is being used by today’s elite to keep people afraid and in their place. Actual precautions to prevent terrorism are not being used.
Oh, look two articles in 24 hours where the societal troglodytes can spew their spittle-infused bile into the world – aren’t we lucky.
My father fought terrorists in Sudan,The Sudanese Army .When they had POWs, they’d force convert them to christianity because they are muslim and vice versa.
Religion interlaced with racial hatred and a lack of will to not give a shit about the past that noone now had involvement in it is at the core of this.
Like you hear slave decedent’s talking about slave repatriations, WTF like. Way I see it, god is the worst enslaverer.
Maybe the WW1 celebrations in Britain caused the terror threat escalation.
Or is that excuse only apparently when Ireland commemorates?
I assume then Oracle you’ll be saying the same thing about British Protestantism when the orange order get going?
@Teene, thumbs up, absolutely correct.
Padraig the fact you keep defending this ideology is vile.
How many more people have to die.how many airports and metros have to be bombed, how many concerts shot up. How many girls and boys sold into sex slavery, how many women forced i to marriages, how many gay people hanged or thrown off buildings. How many journalists killed, how many children groomed before you recognise that it is not the hate of Islam the ideology that is vile, but the ideology that causes all the above that is vile
Poor old Heathrow must have looked at them in a funny way.
You can use emotive speech as much as you want Aguy, it will not change the facts in play. You can wage war against extremism while tackling the incubators of that mainly Western policy. Or you can wage war against now, 2.2 billion. If you understood this you would be better equipped to provide a coherent position.
Padraig go to the countries where most if these 1-2 billion people live. Yeah they tend not to be as progressive as you make them sound. The poor poor mostly middle eastern muslims, all they want to do is to watch they gays get stoned to death without having to worry about Isis blowing them up in the train on the way home.
If I came to your country and waged war against it, you would find everyday people that became radicalised. Oh, hang on a minute we have seen that in out history. Now multiply that by training and hedging bets of one aginst the other. While you are at it, destabilise a few neighbours and breed some further hatred. You reap what you sew. Unfortunately, it is now affecting a widening landscape. People seem to think problems start and finish in a vacuum. They don’t.
This sounds like a James Bond plot when the baddie actually tells you what he’s plotting! So bizarre.
Or an IRA one. They were always telling you what was coming!
Yeah ok,if you’re doing history you should try be balanced and have a go at your loyalist friends too,or even the British establishment who collaborated with them.
@Dave
What are you even on about? Loyalist friends? I hope you have some dip for that chip on your shoulder
Dave has a chip on both shoulders. Well balanced…
They had twitter back then?
@yeag & Ger, what sad lives ye must lead, constantly looking for attention by dragging up a conflict that’s been over a long time, only racist bigots do this, do ye want to keep the bad old days in people’s minds so that maybe they come back again!! Stick to the relevant topic in the article and less of your hatred racist bigotry please!!
Well…that’s a terror tactic too. Make people afraid through constant scares. There doesn’t even need to be a real bomb.
I’m so confused. I make one throwaway IRA statement, under a James Bond statement, and now I’m a racist bigot trying to bring back the troubles. Good Ol’ Internet, you strange strange place.
Calm down conri m8. You really believe the conflict is over, and that the IRA have gone away – cos Jorry doesn’t!?
@Ger, first I’m not and would not be a m8 of anybody like you, secondly, your constantly on here inserting IRA comments into any and every article. People want to move on, we don’t need the likes of you dragging up the past, even FG sent men to slaughter Spanish men, women and children, how far into the past do you want to go, drop it!!.
No
@Ger, ok, well maybe, send me a photo, I’ll let you know!!
Gers mam has to tie a bone around his neck to encourage even the dog to play with him.Loves the attention.
@Dave, shti, forgot Ger can also be male, know a few girls with Ger as a shortened name. Don’t bother with the photo Ger. Thanks Dave, could have been in trouble there! !
conri – you are a racist, idiotic buffoon…as all can see
@Ger, getting angry and lashing out, dosent suprise me. I must protest though, I’m none of the above, where as you, you are all of the above!!
Honestly. What an outdated comment.. Some people still just insist on feeding their worn out dreams of long ago. Pathetic.
The IRA gave ten minutes notice these guys are a different breed. They just pounce so I think it’s weird they’re giving notice. By the way I do not endorse or condone the IRA.
10 minutes? If they gave a warning at all, it was usually 40mins-90mins. Sometimes they weren’t heeded, like Canary Wharf 1996 when a newsagent and his assistant didn’t leave. Same bombing that ended the PIRA ceasefire of 1994 and effectively brought about the GFA.
Deborah why would anyone condone the IRA? Nobody wants bloodshed. Nowadays the Brits and their quislings aren’t allowed terrorise the local populace. The days of Orange supremacy up north are long gone. Big changes ahead.
a twitter account , that is how the pros do it alright
Isn;t just amazing how much power a single twitter account can now yield and they confusion, fear, and mayhem this will cause airport staff, security, flight crews and any member of the public flying. It’s all so easy for them to shut everything down by social media alone.
Yet Twitter et al won’t? You’d have to question what is going on when Twitter, FACEBOOK and Instagram etx will quickly shut down an account of someone who posts a photo of someone showing a bit of breast while breastfeeding yet can’t and won’t close down fanatical accounts????
The social media accounts are left open so that they can be surveyed. There’s no point shutting down something that could lead you right to their den.
That’s a good point Neal.
It’s frustration at the “nothing to do with Islam” argument. Spouted by Muslims and Islamic apologists all the time. We see, every day, on every continents acts of barbarism committed by Muslims being inspired by islams “holy” texts and crying “allah Akbar” and we still have to listen to the “nothing to do with Islam” crud. Until the world admits to itself that Islam Is the problem and puts pressure on the Islamic world to reform itself and moderate it’s violent texts, we will always have the extremist “good” Muslims willing to blow themselves and others up with the promise of their rewards fot their hate and violence. No other religion has this problem because no other religion has such violent texts as inspiration.
Had the IRA nothing to do with Catholics?
Not really actually. The IRA were not set up to forcefully implement a Catholic theocracy. B
But didn’t the Christian Brothers, for example, extol one Ireland with the culture of the south – with the language, music, sports etc?
And religion…
Why does the IRA have to do with this story???
Yes Marg.
No. Everything to do with a united socialist republic.
What about those of us in the West and East. Dont we have a say?
Marg, plenty of fundamentalist Christians out their blowing people & buildings up, threatening to kill people. The largest victims of fundamentalist Islam are the Muslim community themselves. The argument that it’s a Muslim problem that Muslim people need to sort out is as false as the argument back in the 80′s that every Paddy was harbouring IRA members when really the majority of the Irish people just wanted to go about their daily business and new nothing about any bombs or murders.
Fundamentalist Catholics blowing buildings? Where?
No.the largest victims are non SUNNI muslims…Yazidi,Christian,Shia,Alawite,Hazara,Kurds,Ahmadiya,Sufi,Copts,Jews,Druze etc….you may not like that but you CANNOT disprove it.
@Dave, there are a number of people commenting on this platform who insert comments about the IRA into every possible article, Ger, is one of these Sad Sad individuals.
Closet fanboys conri.
@Jamie, that’s exactly what I’m starting to think.
I get what the top comment on these kind of articles is generally getting at. Usually ‘yet again our friends from the religion of peace’. I do get that. But what is it trying to achieve exactly? We know the terrorists doing this are doing so in the name of their religion. But what about the other 950 million Muslims who have never done such a thing? Because when you are saying ‘from the religion of peace’ you are immediately throwing them all into the same bracket as cold killers. I don’t know what it’s means to achieve by commenting these type of things, other than making people afraid of the religion, and thus making them afraid of all Muslims.
Much like the events in Turkey, under Islamic scripture and teaching, travellers are to be protected and assisted in any way possible, especially during Ramadan. So those attacking the airport in Istanbul did not do so in the name of Islam
Just like the IRA does not carry out it’s atrocities in our name…
Irony and sarcasm…the apologists used the term endlessly..”religion of peace” or ROP…now we all know its actually an ideology,not a religion….and peace is not one of their objectives.The current corporate jargon includes gems like – Islamaphobe and racist.
@TTIP McGowan……..Since you asked the other 950 Million Muslims are contributing 2.5% of their annual income and possessions to ZAKAT/the Muslim Charity that hauls in $200 Billion annually.The proceeds are dispensed to just 8 categories by Sharia Law and 1 of these categories ,category 7 is given to those doing active jihad against non-Muslims. All Muslims know where this Category 7 goes to.
-ZAKAT/CATEGORY 7
…”Sharia Law Handbook Reliance of The Traveller states clearly,-
….” “Those Fighting for Allah: The seventh category is those fighting for Allah, meaning people engaged in Islamic military operations for whom no salary has been allotted in the army roster (O: but who are volunteers for jihad without remuneration). They are given enough to suffice them for the operation, even if affluent; of weapons, mounts, clothing, and expenses (O: for the duration of the journey, round trip, and the time they spend there, even if prolonged. Though nothing has been mentioned here of the expense involved in supporting such people’s families during this period, it seems clear that they should also be given it)…”
http://www.islam-watch.org/home/165-jon-mc/1523-how-zakat-the-islamic-charity-tax-is-to-be-used-according-to-islam.html
You couldnt make it up…Al Queda/Al Nusra are squabbling with ISIL/DAESH about the ideologies/religions of their victims….
Here’s a comment that I’m certain marg and pjoc will refute and refute in their usual “my opinion is the final word” kind of way. Pjoc’s link is from a website who is deciding to interpret muslim teachings in exactly the way that terrorists do. Islam doesn’t have a central hub in the way Catholicism does for example. They don’t have a pope. There are various presentations and interpretations of Islam and pjoc’s link is being presented as something that billions are expected to live by which simply isn’t true. Here’s a link which doesn’t match the narrow interpretation that pjoc would like everyone to believe. http://www.zakat.org/blog/the-eight-kinds-of-people-who-receive-zakat/
@Tony Canning……….A sickening post Tony that you know to be a lie,- plus a link to a Chicago-based Muslim charity set up in 2001 with a white-washed version of Official Sharia Law ZAKAT 8 Categories to conceal its true intentions. The link you supplied to the ‘ZAKAT Foundation of America is heavily endorse by 2 Muslim Brotherhood orgs. ISNA-islamic center of NA and MSA-Mus. Stud. Assoc.
And who gets the charity money from
…”Finally, there is the question of how the Zakat Foundation distributes its funds. The Caipirinha Foundation, the charitable organization created by anti-Israel documentarian Iara Lee and her billionaire husband George Gund III, utilized Zakat as a fiscal sponsor for a grant to the Foundation for Human Rights and Freedom and Humanitarian Relief (IHH). The IHH is part of the “Union of Good,” an umbrella coalition of Hamas-affiliated organizations led by Qaradawi. The Foundation supports the IHH’s efforts to disrupt Israel’s self-defense, describing last year’s controversial flotilla as a “heroic effort….”
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/98034/three-ways-tell-if-muslim-charity-supports-jihad-david-swindle
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PS: Are you bac getting any ZAKAT money Tony!
And Tony I know you are acquainted with the The Reliance of the Traveller/Official Sharia Law Handbook but for the sake of the readers here is Category 7 of the 8 Categories of allowable recipients of Muslim Charity.
….”I quote from Reliance of the Traveller, the Shari’ah handbook of the majority Sunni sect of IslaCat
Category 7
h8.17: Those Fighting for Allah
The seventh category is those fighting for Allah, meaning people engaged in Islamic military operations for whom no salary has been allotted in the army roster, but who are volunteers for jihad without remuneration.
They are given enough to suffice them for the operation, even if affluent; of weapons, mounts, clothing, and expenses for the duration of the journey, round trip, and the time they spend there, even if prolonged.
Though nothing has been mentioned here of the expense involved in supporting such people’s families during this period, it seems clear that they should also be given it.
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@TC— No answers Tony so like all the other Islamo-Fascist apologists you resort to name-calling and slander. I’ll enjoy my few pints all the more to-night thinking of you stewing in hate in your closed world cut of from the rest of civilization. And if you try to leave they’ll kill you!
Hahah, name calling in the same sentence as crying about name calling. Pjoc once again being disingenuous but at least consistent in that while tarring all Muslims as terrorists he remains disingenuous. Your suggestion that what you have quoted is the entirety of a double digit section on zakat is your MO
IRA killed “Protestants” indiscriminately for years and all Catholics got the blame…is there anything new in this really?
@Declan, are you talking about the time 80 Protestants civilans were shot in Cork over a few months during the war of independence, yes these were terribly killings, some of these civilians were still in their teens, and of course we cannot forget the innocent Catholics murdered by loyalists, do you remember the particular instance of where loyalists poured petrol over two Catholic toddlers while they were strapped into their seats in the back of the family car, then set them alight.eh Dicko, remember that.
Declan that’s a very ignorant statement.
I’m guessing it wasn’t P. O’Neill this time.
The founders of most religions were generally peaceful people. The founder of Islam was a medieval warlord that condoned mass murder, rape and married a 7 year old girl.
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