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Donal O’Hanlon

@donalohanlon.bsky.social
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Retired teacher of IT& Hard Sums. Now poncing about on stage, film & telly, playing a bit of music & writing. Proud Chair of @NewpointPlayers

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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
Parful interview @Dearbhailmcdonald.bsky.social with @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social What an odyssey through her own backyard - and the neighbour’s. Hers is the generation to break the mould - in both senses.
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
@ginolynch and BagHead get all Nostradamus on Newry’s ass…. youtu.be/1cbNKT1IU1s?...
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Choose Newry 26
YouTube video by Gino Lynch
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
A well-rehearsed reading of the Thomas D'Arcy McGee story It's Morning Now by Dermot Nolan performed in Carlingford Heritage Centre, 2nd September '25. Talent here: The venerable Pat Mooney, Mark Hughes, Mickey Brannigan, John Shannon, Meself, Lowry Hodgett, Eithne Bell. youtu.be/ic7r0AGibLs
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It's Morning Now by Dermot Nolan, performed by Newpoint Players
YouTube video by Donal O'Hanlon
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Puffin experience similar limitations..
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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
I’m no expert but I would’ve got a person to do it.
A BBC news headline which says “Penguin says it did “all necessary due diligence” with The Salt Path
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
The Da on the left. Waiting, surely not loitering….
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Good God! @pwbwriter1.bsky.social has mentioned me in the Acknowledgements; I am not worthy!
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
PW Bridgman’s new book has just dropped on the mat. I shall pose with it in cafés & engineer trips to the jacks, nonchalantly leaving it splayed open on the beautiful dedication page. I’m expecting an array of quirky characters, awkward situations & supreme wit with the genuine blas of the Gael.
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
We have a new Pope, we'll soon be searching for a new Dalai Lama, could YOU be the new Newpoint Youth Director. Send an email to newpointplayers@gmail.com TODAY!
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
To sausages and laws, add poetry! P.W. lets us under the bonnet (aka hood) to boggle at the amount of craft applied to his magic. Great to see his love for the work of me oul mate @sioframacherie.bsky.social peeking through. Keep writing, don’t make my jaw drop with explanations!
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
From the lads.... Newpoint Players The All-Ireland & Canadian tours behind us, our attention is on the Youth Summer Show We invite young directors with a great idea to submit them esp a grad. from Newpoint who knows the work ethic A £ commission 15Jul to 29Aug newpointplayers@gmail.com by Fri30May.
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a black cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer .
ALT: a black cat is sitting in front of a laptop computer .
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Strule Shared Education Campus. The one stunning item of information today was not the boycott, nor the cost but the fact that each school will have separate canteen facilities! Universities can feed thousands at once. Is breaking bread together not at the heart of peace making?@BBCTalkback
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
OK, youse guys, make with the rosary beads!
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
While we’re waiting for the BIG review of Ghetto in the Ulster (AUDF) Drama Finals on Saturday night coming, here’s a review of The Trial Of Thomas D’Arcy McGee in Wexford Arts Centre on Friday last: www.wexfordartscentre.ie/reviews/
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
I have a delicious moment in this outrageous, brilliant pilot for (hopefully) a full series. Do tune in! #TeamSpinster
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Gegs
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Awaiting a pint of stout to settle in Babs’ Forkhill I tried to make chat with the punter at the end of the counter. Noting the low protrusions of the overhanging bar I said,” You could hit your head on that if you weren’t careful.” Without even lowering his paper he growled,”Why fuckin’ don’t ye!”
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Liam Carson @liamcarson.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
Dán le Paddy Bushe.
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Tomorrow, Saturday night in Lislea Community Hall. A riveting drama.
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.chantal//RYAN @thoughtrise.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy
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Ken Cheng - I want to connect with you, emotionally)

Al will never be able to write like me. Why? Because | am now inserting random sentences into every post to throw off their language learning models. Any Al emulating me will radiator freak yellow horse spout nonsense. 1 wiite all my emails, That's Not My Baby and reports like this to protect my data waffle iron 40% off. 1 suggest all writers and artists do the same Strawberry mango Forklift. The robot nerds will never get the better of Ken Hey can | have whipped cream please? Cheng. We can tuna fish tango foxtrot defeat Al. We just have to talk like this. All. The. Time. Piss on carpet
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Last local gig for this powerful production before it goes to the Finals! Lovely Lislea tomorrow week.
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Coming to @brigidswellpub Tomorrow, Sunday on the 200th anniversary of Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s birth, 2pm. Tonight, concert featuring the astonishing Irish fiddler Gerry O’Connor and friends at the same venue! youtu.be/AljxYh75qb4?...
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IRISH CANADIAN HISTORY REVISITED; FIND HIM GUILTY MADAM.
YouTube video by Flora Forever Reporting
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Brand On The Run
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
Newpoint Players taking Anthony Russell’s The Trial of Thomas D’Arcy McGee to Montreal & Ottawa 11 &13th April -the latter date the 200th Anniversary of his birth. Audience are the jury and vote on charge of treason! www.eventbrite.ca/e/the-trial-...
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Profoundly correct!
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Newpoint Players The audiobook for Aidan McQuade's excellent Some Service To The State which features the voices of our stalwarts 'Polly' Lynch & Paddy 'McGarrity!' ...must be a tax thing, but you know who they are.... www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0DW637WM...
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Some Service to the State
Some Service to the State (Audio Download): Aidan McQuade, Polly Lynch, Paddy MacGarrity, Austin Macauley Publishers Ltd: Amazon.co.uk: Audible Books & Originals
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Aidan McQuade @themcquade.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Lovely evening last night with @donalohanlon.bsky.social, (director), Paddy McGennety (Mick) and Pauline Lynch (Sophia) celebrating the release of the audiobook of my novel, Some Service to the State
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Good God. Randy Newman’s satirical song, Political Science, like The Simpsons, predicts the absurd becoming reality. “We’ll build an all-American amusement park there, They got surfing too!” youtu.be/Kg_LDeUEiWY?...
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Randy Newman - Political Science (Live in London)
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Join the jury in judgement of the patriot John Mitchel in Armagh Market Pace on Friday. At stake, his reputation: is it still appropriate his statue stands in Newry given his support of slavery? Hear the evidence before voting in the secret ballot! marketplacearmagh.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/...
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
‘The price of our iniquity…’
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Ally Maciver @allymaciver.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
There once was a man from Cork, who got limericks and haikus mixed up
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
I’m guessing it’s the poetic musing of a cryptic crossword adherent. Lovely.
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
A Blesséd Trinity
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
What a miserable, vulgar ould turd....
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
“I think sexual intercourse is in order, Gilbert”
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Just remembered the stuffing…
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
I particularly like the frame
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
A scene worthy of The Matrix!
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Our school choir loved singing the song and did so with a strange relish. On closer inspection they were singing, “Good King Wency’s lad stuck out…”
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Aye aye!
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Well…that day flew!
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Could that last paragraph ever be adequately translated into teanga na máthar?
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
The Listeners… J, M &J.
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Donal O’Hanlon @donalohanlon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
It REALLY is time to get Sipowicz on the job...
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