Why, who are you anyway? – Casual encounters with celebrities…

I’m with the good people of Dalkey going that extra mile to keep superstar celebrity Matt Damon in his box. Graham O’Toole and Nathan O’Reilly, hosts of Spin 1038’s morning radio show, should not have been so mawkish and sycophantic after hounding Matt out of his Dalkey lockdown hideaway and he telephoned the show. It is simply not the Irish thing to do. Chasing ratings is one thing but these boys have let down the side and all the stoical …

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Liam Neeson, St Patrick and the Northern Ireland identity headache…

Ballymena’s finest Liam Neeson it seems is the official voice of Ireland. Here is is narrating the official St Patricks Day video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXifIS5pBi4   He is also the voice for Discover Northern Ireland. Here is the ad Liam narrated for Discover Northern Ireland: You got to hand it to him, he is great at the aul voice overs. Watching these ads you can really imagine the headache Discover Northern Ireland have in trying to market brand NI. Is it Ulster? …

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