The Hoff - Seamus Whelehan

Here is a detailed explanation of shooting stars.

Brilliant Video, From their new album “Of the Blue Colour of the Sky”

When the government tells us we should be tightening our belts reducing our spending and not to be seen within ear shot of a Champagne bottle being corked you’d think they would take a leaf out of their own book but No our politicians are off on there travels again this year.
It seems they have to be anywhere but Ireland on the most holy of days in the Irish calendar Paddy’s day. I think they would serve us better if they stayed at home this year. Who wants to see their ugly mugs (sorry Brian and Micheal). If it is an effort to sell the country to other nations would we not be better off sending our celebraties. I’m sure Bono would do a good job selling Ireland.

With up to 25 ministers on the move this year one wonders who will be left running the country while the rest head off to fly the flag for our floundering economy - John Gormley !!!
We are led to believe that this mass exodus is being done on a shoestring budget but we are not told how many will be in this years entourage.

In 2008(a year of deep recession) the exodus cost the tax payer over €523000 that’s according to information obtained through the freedom of information act. The report says this figure could be bigger as the price doesn’t include the use of the government jet which some ministers took advantage of.
So why the change in policy - this year ministers are being sent to every corner of the world that has a St. Patricks day celebration but told not to use First Class or Limos where possible.

2008s’ bill covered limousine hire, VIP airport lounges, five-star hotels, first-class and business-class flights, drinks receptions and fine dining.
One wonders are all these trips necessary? Dose the country gain anything out of these junkets?
Tánaiste, and Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Mary Coughlan is due to travel to Berlin for Paddy’s Day – can anyone tell me if she will be flying Ryan air or Aer lingus.
All this talk of Junkets has a song running through my head: Bob Marley - Exodus

Why don’t you, sit right back, and I, I may tell you, a tale.
A tale of three, little pigs, and a BIG, BAD, WOLFFF. Classic video

The 2 live crew singing “Me so Horny” from their album called ” As Nasty As They Wanna Be“. 2 Live Crew is a hip hop group from Miami, Florida. They caused considerable controversy with the sexual themes in their work, particularly on their 1989 album As Nasty As They Wanna Be.

County Cork- Rebel state of mind, there’s nothing we can’t do

Yes, this is real. Mother, son and daughter from East Cork. The song has been stuck in my head since I first heard it. Over the last few days they are trending pretty high on twitter.This video was shot in a hotel I frequent for lunch in Blarney. And already they have a tribute band called Cryshtal Shwing doing covers.

Billy Ocean - When the going gets tough.

When the going does get tough politicians resign and footballers blame the mother in law.

It’s the modern way!!!

Puppeteer and ventriloquist Eugene Lambert has died at the age of 82.
Born in 1928 in Sligo, Mr Lambert later moved to Monkstown in Co Dublin, where he died at home yesterday evening.
He is survived by his wife Mai and eight of their children.

With the rise of television in the 1960s, the Lambert puppet theatre became a fixture in Irish broadcasting. In the early 1960s, Lambert devised a puppet series for children entitled Murphy agus a Chairde  (”Murphy And His Friends”). Murphy was a giant who lived in a magical kingdom. Its king, “An Rí”, only had one problem - constant mischief from two witches, Feemy and Babóg. The Irish TV broadcaster RTÉ was the only station most Irish people could receive, and Murphy’s adventures were soon an important part of most children’s viewing. Murphy himself appeared as the in-vision continuity announcer all through one of RTÉ’s Christmas Day broadcasts.

Lambert later co-starred in the children’s television series Wanderly Wagon as the mischievous and greedy “O’Brien”, known for his child-like curiosity and cowardice in the face of magical events. Lambert and his family provided many regular (puppet) characters - Judge the dog, Mr Crow (who lived in a cuckoo clock), the mysterious Foxy Loxy, and the untrustworthy Ssneaky Ssnake. The series also featured Irish actor Frank Kelly, who later appeared as Fr. Jack Hackett in Father Ted.All of the Lambert children also worked on the show, which ran until 1982.
Mr Lambert was founder and director of the Lambert Puppet Theatre, which was established in 1972.

Michael Jackson befriended the veteran puppeteer after playing a concert in Dublin in 1992 and visited him again with his three children on his birthday in August 2007. Emily Tully said her grandfather, who sang Happy Birthday through one of his puppets to Jackson, was a big fan of the pop star.

Minister for Arts, Sports & Tourism Martin Cullen has paid tribute to Mr Lambert, saying he ‘enriched the lives of adults and children’.
Mr Cullen said: ‘Eugene Lambert was a master of the art of puppetry and Eugene’s place in Irish theatre is unparalleled.’
‘Eugene was a natural storyteller whose words were entertaining and accessible to his young audiences’, he added.