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GAYBO’S FIRST BROADCAST? Mary Robinson on the Den? Footage from Italia 90? Which would you like to be able to watch again?
They may all be available soon as the National Broadcaster is to release more of its archived footage online for its 50th anniversary celebrations.
RTÉ will publish photos, video clips and TV50 Classics as part of TV50, a year-long celebration starting New Year’s Eve.
The comprehensive archives which provide a snapshot of Irish life will be made available from spring 2012.
Other events have been organised across the group to celebrate the golden birthday. Of course, there are the stamps as well.
Fifty years ago on New Year’s Eve President Eamon de Valera launched Telefís Éireann with these words:
Never before was there in the hands of men an instrument so powerful to influence the thoughts and actions of the multitude.”
That first evening included poetry readings by Siobhán McKenna and Mícheál MacLiammóir, a look back at the preparations for the television service, and an hour of music and song featuring Jimmy O’Dea and Maureen Potter.
Speaking at the launch of TV50, Director General Noel Curran said, “Television has served as both a window and mirror to an evolving nation; witnessing and chronicling huge change across five decades of Irish life. I hope that in that time we have served the viewing public well: that we have reflected their lives in a way that is nuanced and recognisable; that we have stimulated our conversation as a nation; that we have informed the populace in a way that has furthered our democratic rights and responsibilities; that we have promoted a sense of national identity. And that we have entertained and engaged along the way.”
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@Mike Brady:
Ehhhr…BnB???
@: that’s a racist comment.
If the Journal wasn’t full of anonymous bot chancers like yourself…
@Richard Walsh: well to be fair @: is a racist
@Keith Collins: ?
Report for racsm
@Mike Brady: “after a number of checks before listing”!
I’m amazed at this error by Booking.com ! Makes me nervous re booking with them again !
@Ger Byrne: If you book through Booking.com after you verify payment block them as they went back and took €50 extra from my account one month later..without my permission..they are seriously compromised
Ive booked a room for December with me mistress. Very deflating news..
@Paul Gorry: Take her up to Monto, and pump her with Gin
How dare you
@Paul Gorry: a brazzer more like
@Mise Freisin: nice.
Can we just stay? Jesus, people are nuts.
That’s why it’s always better to book direct. You often get a better price and definitely get a better service.
I once booked a BnB in Sligo for the weekend and the owner even collected me from the train station. Most people are sound.
Sounds like an angry ex
@Valerie Lowth: Certainly seems like someone with a grudge, rather than a financial scam when they didn’t take payment in advance.
That’s unbelievable. The stuff of nightmares
Booking.Comical :)
I just don’t know what to do anymore.
cowboys absolute cowboys Ted!
@Tom Newell:
Shoddy, shoddy, shoddy
someone booked a listed 2 star for an anniversary. presumably the last anniversary they’ll be enjoying together
To do what in kinnegad, 7:20 is the last food is served in the pub, doesn’t have restaurants open. Nothing to do in kinnegad
It’s normal enough to break the journey to Galway in Kinnegad? I know loads of people who don’t like driving long distances, or after dark.
Mind you, whoever set up that elaborate a false booking account should maybe move to a busier town instead of annoying the residents.
We had a somewhat similar problem (but not as bad!) here when a local large BnB put my Eircode on their website instead of their own
We had no idea and a family turned up at the door wanting to stay the night. A lot of confusion and angry words later they left.
@P.J. Nolan: A poor woman turned up at my parents with their address looking for “AirBnb”. I gave her the directions of the garda station and told her she had been scammed.
@Laura Farrell: I saw the same happen in Dublin city centre the other day – an unlucky couple had booked an Air BnB online that didn’t exist. Just what you need after a long day’s travel. Their taxi driver said it’s happening every week now.
@Laura Farrell:
Indeed, these people had travelled from the north to the south east. I can understand why they weren’t happy but nothing I could do about it.
@F Fitzgerald: Another reason to ban the pox that is AirBnB.
I tell ye if these knocked on me door asking to stay I’d show them both barrels and arsenal full of feckin lead
@: Sure you would.
@Ajax Penumbra: then I’ll look for you Mr tough guy.
You spelled balls and ars@ wrong
It’s our anniversary. Can we stay at your two bedroom, remote home anyway? We don’t mind sharing the toilet bowl
If you can find the “quadruple room”, go for it! There’s another 11 people you’ll be sharing with.
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