Old Sneezes

Archive for February, 2008

Snippets #17

Monday, February 11th, 2008

Breakingnews.ie ran a piece yesterday that mentions 13-year-old Saoirse Ronan’s nomination for Best Supporting Actress in Atonement. It explores the life of writer Briony Tallis and looks at her character at three ages – 13, 18 and 77 – with separate actresses for each part. You would kind of expect that, wouldn’t you? Saoirse, with [...]

Frankie-four-times

Friday, February 8th, 2008

Many moons ago, my parents’ house was renovated by the County Council. As with all public authority works, it was put out to tender. The builder awarded the contract had worked as an accountant in the Council for many years. Whether he knew the ins and outs of the system, or simply knew people, is [...]

A Ray of Dope

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

»» In the list of top 20 programmes favoured by 20 to 44-year-olds, audiences are increasingly turning to Today FM. Half of the top 20 shows are Today FM shows – the Ray D’Arcy Show is number two with this younger audience after Gerry Ryan, who takes the top slot, with 248,000 and 327,000 listeners [...]

Switch to our mobile site