Archive for October, 2008
Just a quick update on radio matters!
The name of the show has been decided – “The Cosmo” – and I’m hoping to have the first programme launched by the Wednesday, 12th November, from 6-8pm RTÉ Pulse. This will be just one of three shows aimed at the LGBT community in Ireland that RTÉ Radio are [...]
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Tags: Cosmo, De Buitléir, Pulse, RTÉ, Scott, The
Gay Radio Show Planned for RTÉ
RTÉ Pulse, one of RTÉ’s 5 new stations for DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting), is set to launch a programme aimed at the LGBT community in Ireland. This will be the first show of its kind on a national level, and who’ll be presenting it…?
Yours truly, of course!!
That’s right, RTÉ Radio have asked me to present [...]
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Tags: Buitléir, DAB, De, gay, Ireland, media, Pulse, RTÉ, Scott
I thnk Lindsay Lohan has become my newest hero(ine)!
According to the newspapers, Lindsay Lohan is going to be dressing up as Sarah Palin this Hallowe’en to push on with her attack against the American vice-presidential candidate by imitating her for the holiday – wearing the hair up, the glasses, the red dress – the works. [...]
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Tags: Costume, Hallowe'en, Lindsay, Lohan, Palin, Sarah
I’ve been single for the past month, and already I’m going insane. It’s not that I’m desperate to find Mr. Right and settle down in the suburbs with 2.5 kids, but it’s more that I’m not used to being single.
Now, that might sound ridiculously big-headed, but it’s not; I was in a long-term relationship for [...]
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Tags: Bridget Jones, gay, Irish, single
The Great Cultural Struggle
I’ve realised recently that I neglect my skills in writing in English way too much; as an Irishman of the 21st Century, I should be able to write in both Irish and English, but for the past few years, I haven’t really been paying to much attention to the latter of the two languages.
For years, [...]
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Tags: culture, England, english, hybridity, Ireland, Irish, language
London Calling (?)
The thought of leaving my hometown of Clontarf, a picturesque seaside suburb in North Dublin, and moving to London (where I was actually born, despite both my parents being Irish) has been on my mind for the past few days. Obviously, I’d have to wait until next May at the earliest to actually do it, [...]
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Tags: catholic, gay, Ireland, Irish, London, protestant, religion, UK
Time for an Update
I haven’t properly blogged here for quite some time, so believe I’ve a lot to fill you guys in on!
First of all, as of a few weeks ago, I’m now a published writer! One of my poems in Irish, “An Eitilt” was featured in “Blaiseadh Pinn” (Irish for a Taste of the Pen), a collection [...]
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Tags: Blaiseadh Pinn, Festival, IMRAM, Irish, language, Norway, Oslo, poetry, publishing, Travel, UCD
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