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Cycling grand tours would be the perfect sport when your stuck at home for a month too
Breezy (Limerick) - Posts: 1236 - 06/04/2020 17:03:47 2275449 Link 1 |
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To be fair it's had a bad reputation for a long time. I'm not a cycling fan, but I would recommend the book Put Me Back on My Bike: In Search of Tom Simpson by William Fotheringham. Tom Simpson was one of the one of Britain's most successful professional cyclists during the 1960's. He collapsed and died during the 1967 Tour de France.
Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2446 - 06/04/2020 19:01:39 2275454 Link 1 |
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Just thinking of the damo and Ivor movie. :)
royaldunne (Meath) - Posts: 19449 - 06/04/2020 19:50:19 2275456 Link 0 |
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I could never watch that show royaldunne, I cant watch Mrs brown or that Brigid and Éamon either. The only Irish comedy I could stomach was fr Ted. I do like Nonnie from the Dermot and dave show. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 06/04/2020 21:03:45 2275457 Link 2 |
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obviously summers in Ireland you could never be guaranteed to good weather so in the 80's during the school holidays only had three sports to watch during the holidays, Tour de France, Wimbledon and test cricket. Always wanted to go to a mountain stage of the Tour de France. One of sporting event I always remember was watching a mountain stage in 87, and Delgado crossed the line and the commentator goes and now we see how much time Roche has lost, and next thing you see Roche bombing it round the corner, crossing the line and collapsing.
Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 07/04/2020 11:12:12 2275476 Link 0 |
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Great TV. This is from Wikipedia: On the next stage, crossing the Galibier and Madeleine and finishing at La Plagne, Roche attacked early, was away for several hours but was caught on the last climb. His nearest rival Pedro Delgado then attacked. Despite being almost one-and-a-half minutes in arrears midway up the last climb, Roche pulled the deficit back to 4 seconds. Roche collapsed and lost consciousness and was given oxygen. When asked when revived if he was okay, he replied "Oui, mais pas de femme toute de suite" ("yes, but I am not ready for a woman straight away"). Cockney_Cat (UK) - Posts: 2446 - 07/04/2020 12:25:12 2275484 Link 0 |
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Yeah. For a country that has produced so many great writers and comedians, we never got the hang of writing great (or even good) comedies. Mind you, we could try and claim the great John Sullivan RIP- the writer of Only Fools And Horses, amongst others, whose father was from County Cork. streaker (Galway) - Posts: 497 - 07/04/2020 19:37:27 2275504 Link 0 |
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Ya the stuff that RTÉ churn out is fair bad. John Sullivans only fools and horses was brilliant, didn't know he had a Cork heritage. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 07/04/2020 21:28:10 2275509 Link 2 |
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Graham Linehan one of the greatest comedy writers of the past 20 years , has he ever actually done anything for RTE?
Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 08/04/2020 09:37:05 2275525 Link 1 |
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RTÉ aren't very good at scouting the ould talent so, I seen an add for a new show they have out now where they send 2 Irish " celebrities" on holidays, 1 on a cheap holiday and another on a dear holiday, That's nice that our licence money is going to a good cause eh! KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 08/04/2020 11:12:29 2275530 Link 2 |
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So one to Killarney and the other to Tralee maybe ? ;)
catch22 (USA) - Posts: 2148 - 08/04/2020 12:43:41 2275535 Link 0 |
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It'd be worth it if they could leave some of them where they were sent :)
streaker (Galway) - Posts: 497 - 08/04/2020 13:15:59 2275536 Link 0 |
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Definitely the greatest comedy of all time bar none, the Brits in fairness back in their day produced some great comedy. Most of our comedians had to go to England to make it big, you look at Dave Allen, Fr. Ted, Miss Brown's Boys to name a few.
gilly1910 (Galway) - Posts: 170 - 08/04/2020 13:18:02 2275537 Link 1 |
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Send them to North Korea and Beirut, I hear they're lovely this time of year :-)
KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 08/04/2020 13:32:53 2275539 Link 2 |
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Ya faulty towers, only when I laugh, selwyn froggitt, rising damp, all great shows in fairness. I can't get our humor where a lot of our comedy shows involve people dressing up pretending to be from France or some other country like the Mike Murphy show RTÉ seem to be following that blueprint for 40 odd years now. KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 08/04/2020 13:40:26 2275540 Link 2 |
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Or a cruise off the Somalian coast. Very tranquil I hear.
Lockjaw (Donegal) - Posts: 9115 - 08/04/2020 14:33:51 2275543 Link 1 |
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Now that's something we'd all watch :-)
KingdomBoy1 (Kerry) - Posts: 14092 - 08/04/2020 16:35:26 2275550 Link 2 |
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For those of you into cycling, I would recommend this documentary on the 1928 Tour de France, which was the first year that it featured English-speaking cyclists. Gleebo (Mayo) - Posts: 2208 - 08/04/2020 19:35:37 2275556 Link 0 |
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Most of our actors and comedians have to head to London to make it as the scene here is too small to fund most careers. Every second Irish person I met in London the last 10yrs was an actor or a writer
Breezy (Limerick) - Posts: 1236 - 08/04/2020 20:03:03 2275557 Link 0 |
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we definitely don't hang out in the same places in London.
Rosineri1 (UK) - Posts: 2099 - 09/04/2020 08:51:02 2275584 Link 1 |