Adieu, Donal.
Rest in peace, first met playing with Emmet Spiceland, 'Mary of Dungloe' fest mini moke up the steep street.
Lots of chats two abreast before bike lanes arrved. Ranelagh Park at a time of great grief.
Join me this Bank Holiday weekend @RTEGold for another handpicked selection of Motown, Soul, and great Rock 'n' Roll.
I'll also be looking at the origins of the term, 'Digging in the Crates'.
The Golden Years, with Eric Moore
Sunday at 5pm, on RTÉ Gold
New from Hi Tone Books. Green Beat - The Forgotten Era of Irish Rock 1963 - 1970 by Daragh O'Halloran. 480 page, hardback edition of 500. Forward Eamon Carr @carrtogram , design Niall McCormack.
Via @dubwherewereyou
🚨 BREAKING: A baby in a stroller and two women were killed after a Russian attack targeted a park in Kharkiv region.
Fourteen people were injured, seven of them children.
Vladimir Putin appears to have concluded that he cannot win the war in Ukraine on the battlefield. His strategy now is to grind Ukraine down. How scandalous that Donald Trump has become his best weapon https://t.co/vOpJsJYM3I
100 years ago today, Chuck Berry was born.
Guitarist and songwriter who shaped rock and roll out of country, blues and R&B. Story songs, a double-stop guitar style, and a body of work that became the template.
James Gorry, third generation specialist picture restorer, with Dr. Amélie Dochy, author of A Scot in Victorian Ireland, Erskine Nicol’s Paintings of Irishness, at the opening of a new exhibition at the Gorry Gallery, Dublin.
@dramdarcy Yes, and an astonishing individual. Remarkable history. AND … must see… has a fascinating self-portrait of James Arthur O’Connor (!) in current exhibition.
Needless to say, when two award-winning Irish artists meet up, the yarns are first rate 😆✌️ John Devlin & Oisin Roche at the Gorry Gallery, Dublin.
I settled 8 WARS, am close to ending or settling 2 more, got all of the Israeli hostages back, including the final 28, both living and dead, had hundreds of hostages, from countries all over the World, released and sent back home, won a war in Venezuela, and captured the violent dictator who so viciously ran that country, and stopped the number one state sponsor of terror, the Islamic Republic of Iran, from obtaining a Nuclear Weapon — AND MUCH MORE! Yet, with all of that I, or the United States of America, did not get the Noble Peace Prize. WOW!
( TS: Oct 10 2026, 8:04 AM ET )