Could this be what Charlie Sheen is at?

Really....Off the rails

Trinny Lennon & Brendan Wan

I'm sorry if I offend anyone with this but I was watching Off the Rails last night for the second week in a row. (My wife was watching it and if I want to watch sport, I have to occasionally watch these programmes so I can say, but I watch your programmes too) Anyway, it's just wrong. Irish television for starters has a rotten habit of looking across both sides of the water, ripping off ideas and throwing them on RTÉ as "new" programmes coming to our screens.

And, I have actually sat in RTÉ commissioning briefings that were open to the Independent Producers of this land and the commissioning editors encouraged would-be tv makers in attendance to have a look at successful formats and to "reshape" them. Off the rails has lost its purpose in my own most humble view. Let me point out that I actually like Brendan Courtney and Sonya Lennon as presenters. Quirky metro male meets safe suburban sal, sometimes it works, sometimes they bomb and that's ok too. It's not like I have a hugely successful show behind me to slate them as presenters but I am a punter who pays a tv licence so I think my view however humble is justified.

What's Bren wearing? My mothers scarf and short pants

I take issue with Brendan Wan and Trinny Lennon bringing vulnerable women for the most part away on what they assume will be a glorius makeover and from what I have witnessed in recent weeks has been a desperate attempt by the stylists. Yes, it is my opinion but when they encourage the victim and because of that the viewer buy the most expensive jeans so they will last longer and save money in the longrun I think it puts added pressure to normal households where that kind of expense is now really not possible.

Caroline & Pamela unlucky to get the chop

But that's not the main issue really. The stylists, both nice people i'm sure and good at what they do usually look ridiculous themselves. Why is it that "fashionistas" always to me look like they are just trying too hard. They dress their victims up in dresses that highlight their spare tyres and use the whole "show off your curves" trick instead of raising the white flag and hand out Mumu's all around. I don't know but I think this programme should be seriously revamped or brought to a dignified end. Head to Toe on LSD doesn't cut the mustard!

The Kill Team

This isn't for the faint hearted. Really disturbing scenes from Afghanistan.  
During the first five months of last year, a platoon of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan went on a shooting spree, killing at least four unarmed civilians and mutilating several of the corpses. The “kill team” – members of the 5th Stryker Brigade stationed near Kandahar – took scores of photos chronicling their kills and their time in Afghanistan. Even before the war crimes became public, the Pentagon went to extraordinary measures to suppress the photos, launching a massive effort to find every file and pull the pictures out of circulation before they could touch off a scandal on the scale of Abu Ghraib.

The images – more than 150 of which have been obtained by Rolling Stone – portray a front-line culture among U.S. troops in which killing innocent civilians is seen as a cause for celebration. “Most people within the unit disliked the Afghan people,” one of the soldiers told Army investigators. “Everyone would say they’re savages.”
Many of the photos depict explicit images of violent deaths that have yet to be identified by the Pentagon. Among the soldiers, the collection was treated like a war memento. It was passed from man to man on thumb drives and hard drives, the gruesome images of corpses and war atrocities filed alongside clips of TV shows, UFC fights and films such as Iron Man 2. One soldier kept a complete set, which he made available to anyone who asked.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/photos/the-kill-team-photos-20110327/0602176

Tá sé seo thar a bheith go maith

Tar éis gur tháining an físeán sin amach do fhoireann Shasana ag promsáil thart agus Grand Slam Chapmions 2011 a ghlaoch orthu féin, bhí muid ag fanacht leis an steacht ar ais, bhuel tá sé tagtha. Féach ar seo - Priceless!

Swing low sour chariot

This was never meant to be released after the dream was failed to be realized but someone couldn't resist. There must be some Irish man or woman working for Nike who go their hands on this. Funny stuff!

Tsunami in Japan 8.9 on the Richter scale

Níl mé ag magadh faoi céard a tharla i Tokyo ach is an-amhrán atá anseo.

Show reel for real

Ní cheapfainn gur árdaigh mé mo show reel ar seo cheana mar sin seo chugaibh anois é.

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Cuirfear tús le Abair Amach é ar Raidió na Life 106.4 FM anocht ag 6.30in. Seo a leanas preasráiteas maidir leis;
Beidh sraith úr nua darbh ainm 'Abair Amach é' á chur i lathair ag Richie Ó hEadhra ag tosnú ar Raidió na Life ar an Aoine 4ú lá do Mhárta ag 6.30in. Beidh Ó hEadhra ag labhairt le pearsain mór le rá a bhfuil an-aithne orthu i saol na Gaeilge ach go háirithe. Ina measc siúd a bhéas i mbun comhrá le Richie Ó hEadhra, beidh na ceoltóirí Liam Ó maonlaí agus Gerry 'Banjo' Ó Connor, iar-rós Thrá Lí Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin, an Seanadóir David Norris agus na craoltóirí Róisín Ní Eadhra agus Éanna Ní Lamhna. Cuirfear tús leis an sraith le Éanna Ní Lamhna ar an 4ú lá do Mhárta ag 6.30in.

Ryan Tubridy & Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin

Déanann an sraith seo iarracht aithne a chuir ar an duine taobh thiar don adhaidh poiblí agus eolas níos mion a thabhairt don éisteoir faoin aoí. "Tá mé ag súil go mór leis an sraith úr nua seo. Níl mórán oibre déanta agam ó thaobh raidió de agus tá sé íontach a bheidh mar pháirt do chuisle na cathrach ar raidió na life. Stíl ré-chúiseach a bhéas agamsa sna cláracha seo agus beidh mé ag iarraidh breathnú taobh thiar don phearsan a phéinteáiltear dúinn nuair a bhíonn na daoine seo ar an teilifís nó an raidió. Bíonn siad féin ag iarraidh siamsiacht a chuir ar fáil don chuid mó mar sin beidh deis labhartha acu féin fuathu féin anois" a deir Ó hEadhra.

Tá aithne ar Richie Ó hEadhra mar gheall ar an obair a rinne sé ar son na Gaeilge leis an ngrúpa Na Macallaí i Loch Garman agus ar a chuid obair sna meáin chumarsáide ag láithriú cláracha teilifíse do TG4 agus RTÉ. Bhí sé mar láithreoir ar shraith sacair TG4 'Sacar Beo' agus bhí sé le feiceáil ar ár scáileán ag dul ar chúl an cheamara ar an gclár iomráiteach 'Aifric' freisin. Chaith sé seal in Institiúid spórt Thuaisceart Éireann freisin don sraith Scéal Ó Thuaidh a craoladh ar RTÉ Two áit a raibh sé ag traenáil le cuid don peileadóir is fearr sa tír.

Le déanaí bhí Ó hEadhra ar ár scáileáin sa chlár 'Stróc' a léirigh Independent Pictures. Chom-chruthaigh sé an clár fáisnéise spórt a bhain gradaim IFTA amach 'Tall, Dark and Ó hAilpín' i 2007. Chomh-léirigh sé clár fáisnéise do RTÉ Raidió 1 darbh ainm 'Yola - Lost for Words' agus bíonn sé le feiceáil agus le cloisteáil ar chláracha raidió agus teilifíse eile go mion minic, The Business le George Lee ina measc. Bíonn Ó hEadhra ag blaggáil agus ag scríobh dona meáin chlóite chomh maith. The red quarter.blogspot.com é'n leathanach féin agus scríobhann sé roinnt altanna don Irish Daily Star agus The Time Online freisin. Tá sé ag obair ar a chéad albaim ceoil i mbliana freisin.

Liam Ó Maonlaí & Bono

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Shame the Celtic Tiger didn't stick around as long as the Princeton Tigers or is it?

The legendary Princeton Tigers

They say they can be fickle creatures and lack loyalty, the tigers. They are members of the Felidae family and are the largest of the big four cats in the genus panthera. That seems to be the case when we consider the Celtic Tiger.

It seems like a distant memory at this stage and as the Irish people wait for a new government to be formed, evidence that the joys of the Celtic Tiger did not benefit everyone and scrape its claws on everyones front door with more people begging on the streets of Dublin than ever before.

The opposite can be said for the Princeton Tigers however. Princeton never decreed that it's teams be referred to as the "Tigers". Orange and black were the colours chosen by their athletes in the 1860's and the nickname caught on in the 1880's when sportswriters called the players tigers. They are still known proudly as the Princeton Tigers and are an intimidating sight on the battle field.

Beggar in Dublin

As I walked by one of these beggars during lunch hour, I felt guilty for not giving them some money. I could have given them a paultry sum which is all I could afford and would have made me feel better and helped them buy half a coffee or something.

The Celtic Tiger is back where it belongs in my opinion. We were greedy people when it was in town. And the funny thing was that the only ones who felt its impact were the fats cats themselves. The rest of us were given loans we could not afford and mortgages were given every Tom, Dick and Harry.

So as we approach St. Patrick's day, spare a thought for those who are in a less fortunate situation that yourself and remember the Princeton tigers who lived up to the true meaning of their nickname being brave and courageous in the face of all adversity. Ireland needs that mentality in it's darkest hour, just like our Cricket team showed yesterday in the World Cup defeating England in Bangalore.

Kevin O'Brien & the Cricket team gave us all a boost yesterday defeating England

An-lá dona hÉireannaigh i mBangalore

An la inné do fhoireann na hÉireann i gcoinne na Sasanaigh. Milis ar chuile shlí.

I can't believe he kicked the poor owl

Mr. Sheen shines on TV screens

When our own now former Taoiseach Brian Cowen went live to the nation in a highly "congested" state and gave Cathal Mac Coille of Morning Ireland that infamous interview, we listened in disbelief. It wasn't so much that the Taoiseach had been drinking and singing songs into the wee small hours the night before while our country was in the shit heap and that the worst economic downturn since the foundation of the state was now upon us that amazed us. But where were his highly paid media advisors who had let the interview go ahead?

In the above clip, you will witness more self destruction. The poor soul is in the same bracket of dillusion as Gadaffi at this stage. There isn't a more eloquent way to say this, Chalrie Sheen looks like shit and he is talking a hell of a lot of shit too. For God's sake, why does someone not help the man before he is just another one of those cases that "couldn't be helped".