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Colm O'Callaghan

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I am a documentary producer and writer. theblackpoolsentinel.wordpress.com

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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Pulp: a long read from our blog about the band's first live show in Dublin in 1993. And its most recent, last week. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/06/16/p...
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PULP: FROM THE FIRST TIME TO THE LAST
In a triumphant return to Dublin’s 3Arena, Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker took fans on a nostalgic journey through the band’s early Irish gigs—culminating in a sharp, hilarious callback to their very …
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The Blackpool Sentinel @blackpoolsentinel.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Remember the buzz of a good disco? Dave Heffernan captures it beautifully in our latest guest post - “Yes Disco.” A lovely read for anyone who was ever there — or wishes they had been: theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/04/24/y...
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YES, DISCO
In this evocative and sharply tailored piece, David Heffernan takes us back to the dancefloors of 1970s Ireland — a world of mohair suits, platform shoes, and Dubonnet-fuelled dreams. From the revo…
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RTÉ @rte.ie · 16/04/2025
Hooked: How Addiction Hijacks Your Brain | Series Finale Tonight | 9.35pm | @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player
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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Imagine a drummer.
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Michael Moynihan @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
@irishexaminer.bsky.social Music and Mayhem by Keith Donald @lilliputpress.bsky.social review by @colmocallaghan.bsky.social #books www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
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Book review: A musical life less ordinary
Keith Donald kept diaries throughout a hectic working life that began when he joined his first showband, The Federals, in the mid-1960s
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CorkBeo.ie @corkbeo.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Historic city centre clothes shop closing after almost a century in the heart of Cork Mannix & Culhane has been in the city centre since 1928 www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
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Historic clothes shop closing after almost a century in the heart of Cork
Mannix & Culhane has been in the city centre since 1928
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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
No sign of this lot running out of puff anytime soon.
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Fergal Bowers @fergalbowers.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
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Groundbreaking former forensic scientist dies aged 80
Former senior forensic scientist Dr James Donovan, who survived a car bomb attack carried out by The General, has died.
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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Episode two of AKA The Monk tonight, 9.35pm on RTÉ 1.
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The Blackpool Sentinel @blackpoolsentinel.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Boyzone’s story gets the documentary treatment in No Matter What—a sharp, stylish look at fame, media, and music @colmocallaghan.bsky.social gives his take in our latest post. #Boyzone #NoMatterWhat theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/02/12/b...
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BOYZ, OH BOYZ
There’s much to admire and plenty to recommend about Sophie Oliver’s documentary series ‘No Matter What’ which, over three episodes, looks at a careful selection of the colourful life and times of …
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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Dolores O'Riordan. On her anniversary. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2018/01/16/d...
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DOLORES O’RIORDAN: 1971 – 2018.
During the first series of the RTÉ music show, ‘No Disco’, the presenter, Donal Dineen and myself travelled west to Limerick on a couple of occasions to pick up long interviews that we’d use to pop…
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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Bowie and Cork via The Blackpool Sentinel. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2016/01/19/d...
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DAVID BOWIE: THE CORK YEARS
‘Him ? Sure, he doesn’t know if he wants to be a man or a woman’. It was the end of the summer, 1980, and David Bowie at his most theatric, glamorous, playful and compelling, wasn’t convincing my m…
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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
No harm reminding ourselves ... www.rte.ie/player/movie...
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Watch all your favourite TV shows Live or On Demand on your PC, smartphone or tablet for free.
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RTÉ @rte.ie · 19/12/2024
Christmas Cipher: Kabin Crew are back with a new Christmas song! www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZr... Find out more here: www.rte.ie/kids/2024/12... Watch Kabin Crew's Christmas Special Christmas Eve at 5.15pm on @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player. And again on Christmas Day at 8am on @rte2.rte.ie.
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⭐NEW⭐ Kabin Crew | 🎶 Christmas Cipher Music Video 🎶 | Kabin Crew's Christmas Special | @RTÉKids ​
YouTube video by RTÉ Kids
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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Henry Mount Charles: A Lord in Slane RTÉ One December 27th at 6.30
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Shush! Sounds from UCC Library @shushradio.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
In the words of Noddy Holder & the gang… Merry Xmas Everybody… Here is the recording of the Shush Christmas Special 2024 (selected by UCC Library staff) Expect some of the usual suspects and some unusual ones. on.soundcloud.com/tkychybrzp47... #christmas #merrychristmas #xmas
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Shush 279 - Christmas Show 2024
Shush Christmas Special 2024, an hour of some usuals and some not so usual Christmas tunes... Enjoy
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The Blackpool Sentinel @blackpoolsentinel.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Remembering Mick Lynch - gone 9 years today. @colmocallaghan.bsky.social wrote a lovely tribute to Mick at the time theblackpoolsentinel.com/2015/12/18/m...
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MICK LYNCH
Mick Lynch, the Cork-born musician, singer, actor and performer who passed away yesterday after a long illness, will be familiar to those of us who served our time around the margins of left-field …
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Michael Foley @mickfoley76.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
An emotional chat with Brian Fenton explaining his decision to retire, the joys and demands of an all-time great career, hanging with Clifford and the Kerry boys and finding the edge that turned Dublin from era-defining team into footballing immortals. www.thetimes.com/article/daca...
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Brian Fenton: The highs and lows of a decade in blue
The Dublin footballer talks about his decision to retire at 31 and the emotional toll of saying goodbye to the game he loves
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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Rest in hairpiece, Dickie.
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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
VHS.
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Al @alelliott88.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
That's Gerry Adams
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The Blackpool Sentinel @blackpoolsentinel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
New post alert. Just back from the Kane Gang’s recent gig in Sunderland, we dive deep into the Kane Gang and reflect along the on the iconic Kitchenware Records scene, touching on Prefab Sprout, Paddy McAloon, and Martin Stephenson. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2024/12/04/h...
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HA’WAY THE LADS
The actor, Kevin Kennedy, takes the lead role in ‘Cinderella’, this year’s pantomime at The Empire Theatre in Consett, a small town in the Northeast of England. Best known for playing Curly Watts, …
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The Blackpool Sentinel @blackpoolsentinel.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
We’ve started a starter pack for those who post about Irish rock music. If you want to be added, or know somebody who should be on this list please let us know! Let’s connect this scene up
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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Closed Windows: the end of an era in Newcastle
JG Windows closes after over a hundred years
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Ben Dickenson @benjitoon.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
End. Of. An. Era. A really long era. Barely a muso on Tyneside who hasn’t wandered the floors of Windows at some point. I bought my first guitar there decades past, and my son’s first a few years ago. Walking out through the arcade with it on his back…wish others could have that memory.
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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
'And in Cork, there'll be a stop-go system in operation on Redemption Road all week'.
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Gerard Cunningham @faduda.eurosky.social · 29/11/2024
Bland Election News Bingo: Someone says "Brisk" Photo of a nun voting A dog outside a polling station Bride going to vote in her wedding gown
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Shane O'Neill @mollzeis.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
"whoiwasandwhatiam" is a beautiful, emotional, enthralling single piece of music, 37 minutes long, with the only lyrics having been written by Dennis Potter. Lots to talk about, which we did a week or two ago." ~ Niall Crumlish psychiatryandsongs.com/2024/10/01/d...
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David Long & Shane O’Neill: Peace, Love, Forgiveness and Redemption.
David Long and Shane O’Neill have been friends since they were six years old and were neighbours in Churchtown a half century ago.  They have been close ever since – there’s a lovely description of…
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
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New appeal on 50th anniversary of disappearance of Belfast schoolboys
Thomas and John were last seen on the morning of Tuesday, November 26 1974 when they left their homes to walk to the bus stop to catch a bus to school
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Dorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Have to admire this LRB headline. No pussyfooting www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3...
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Andrew O’Hagan · Who’s the real cunt? Dacre’s Paper
The Daily Mail is like the drunken lout at a party who can’t get anyone to like him. Suddenly all the girls are sluts...
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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
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Graeme Thomson @graemethomson.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Nick Drake - 50 yrs gone today - had a complex relationship with John Martyn. I wrote this piece for the Guardian a few years ago, adapted from my JM biography, Small Hours. Insights from Joe Boyd, Beverley Martyn, Linda Thompson, Danny Thompson, Paul Wheeler &tc www.theguardian.com/music/2020/j...
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'Greek, without the sex': Nick Drake and John Martyn's folk bromance
A new book explores a musical friendship entailing joy, anger, ‘mountains of drugs’ … and tragedy. In this extract, the pair’s friends examine a complex rivalry
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Irish Examiner @irishexaminer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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Woman who accused Conor McGregor of rape wins claim for damages
Nikita Hand, however, has lost her lawsuit against Conor McGregor’s friend, James Lawrence
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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Adam. Showbands.
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U2 Star Adam Clayton’s Irish Showband Series ‘Ballroom Blitz’ Set For International Launch
Rock star Adam Clayton will explore Irish showbands in 'Ballroom Blitz'
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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Consett, County Durham.
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soundStory @soundstory.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
On this date in 1983 #U2 released their first live album. What are your favourite tracks from 'Under a Blood Red Sky'?
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RTÉ @rte.ie · 21/11/2024
In his fascinating new RTÉ One documentary The Land of Slaves and Scholars, writer and podcaster Blindboy Boatclub explores the origins, evolution and cultural legacy of early Irish Christianity. www.rte.ie/culture/2024..., via RTÉ Culture. Watch tonight on RTÉ One | 10.15pm
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Getting medieval: Blindboy explores Ireland's myths and legends
In his fascinating new RTÉ One documentary The Land of Slaves and Scholars, writer and podcaster Blindboy Boatclub explores the origins and evolution of early Irish Christianity, while also interrogat...
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Save Our Bride Otters @saveourbrideotters.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Buzzards everywhere in Blackpool at the moment it seems. This one was perched in a willow on the banks of the River Bride yesterday. #cork
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Michael O’Toole @mickthehack.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Six and a half years…that is some whack www.rte.ie/news/2024/11...
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Man who set garda car on fire during Dublin riots jailed
A 28-year-old man who set a garda car on fire, jumped on the bonnet of another and attacked an accommodation centre for International Protection applicants on the night of the Dublin riots last year h...
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Mark Little @marklittle.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Twitter was founded in 2006 but didn’t hit 20 million monthly active users until the end of 2009. And beyond the headline number is the higher proportion of people posting here than on other platforms and higher level of engagement with links from the open web. All this by design. Amazing!
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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
'Do you have a vacancy ... For a back scrubber ?
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Aaron Howey @aaronhowey.com · 17/11/2024
We had the mad idea to make the new @corkcityfc.ie away jersey a tribute to The Frank & Walters and their orange shirts. They loved the idea, even helped us to launch it and all… What a bunch of legends 🧡
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