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The Night The Music Died: Eurovision 2012 LIVE! | What Kind Of Week Has It Been?
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What Kind Of Week Has It Been? Who Writes This Crap? May 26, 2012. The Night The Music Died: Eurovision 2012 LIVE! 11:20pm – And there’s a mercifully sans Jedward headpiece Grainne Seoige wrapping things up. Thanks a million to everyone who’s looked in tonight, hope you’ve enjoyed the night’s craic. Stockholm next year, yeah? 11:13pm – They’re probably sending couriers with bits of the set to Sweden already. 11:11pm – They don’t even have Lena doing the results in Germany! 10:59pm – FUMBLE! 10:40pm ̵...
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17th June, 2012 | What Kind Of Week Has It Been?
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What Kind Of Week Has It Been? Who Writes This Crap? June 17, 2012. 17th June, 2012. Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, Edith Piaf once famously vocally vibrated. But while not being bogged down by past errors is a refreshing notion, sometimes you really just have to be ashamed of yourself. The Presbyterian congregation are also getting in a tizzy over it, with Glasgow’s St George’s Tron. Went on BBC Radio this week and described gay marriage as being a rung on a ladder only slightly higher off the ground than be...
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1st July, 2012 | What Kind Of Week Has It Been?
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What Kind Of Week Has It Been? Who Writes This Crap? July 1, 2012. 1st July, 2012. It was, by all accounts, a momentous occasion. Two more unlikely people you could not imagine meeting, and while it got a bit awkward at times it truly was an honour to witness such an historic reach across the spectrum. I am of course referring to will.i.am meeting Miriam Margolyes. But in Belfast this week a similarly momentous conflab took place, between Queen Elizabeth and Martin McGuinness. Placed it ceremonially on B...
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8th July, 2012 | What Kind Of Week Has It Been?
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What Kind Of Week Has It Been? Who Writes This Crap? July 8, 2012. 8th July, 2012. Dear News Gods, thank you for your bounty this week. I’m not one for hyperbolic statements, but this week’s news has possibly been the best, bizarrest, most lunatic string of stories ever. First, to the politics section. In Poland the Mayor of Poznan guaranteed a seat on any council in Ireland after he put up ads. Either he means this. Or we’re going to need bigger signs. You expect a conservative Republican gun-toting red...
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15th July, 2012 | What Kind Of Week Has It Been?
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What Kind Of Week Has It Been? Who Writes This Crap? July 15, 2012. 15th July, 2012. On Twelfth Night, Belfast is hardly ever a midsummer night’s dream. Plenty of toil and trouble though. It’s the kind of thing that would render a visiting committee from another planet speechless. One group of people celebrate culture by burning posters of Polish people. And using Beach Boys tunes for evil. Outside a Church, while another group either get the hell out of Dodge or make an absolute hames of everything.
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22nd June, 2012 | What Kind Of Week Has It Been?
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What Kind Of Week Has It Been? Who Writes This Crap? June 22, 2012. 22nd June, 2012. There’s been a lot going on this week, almost as much as there is at this year’s Westport Festival which I am going to this weekend, the reason why this week’s edition has been brought forward. Ahem. But I’m not the only one who’s in the mood for a bit of a jolly, as the G20 took place in some beautiful resort or other. From such immorality himself and has a marry-their-attractive-cousins-style relationship with the Murd...
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Olympic & Mix: Opening Ceremony Live Blog Special | What Kind Of Week Has It Been?
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What Kind Of Week Has It Been? Who Writes This Crap? July 27, 2012. Olympic and Mix: Opening Ceremony Live Blog Special. 12:40am – Well that was awesome. And now, as Paul McCartney plays us out, I shall bid thee good night. Don’t let those bogeymen from earlier interrupt your sleep too much. 12:30am – Now would not be a time for sweaty palms. 12:27am – Here comes the torch! 12:12am – In other news, a Tory MP made a real prat of himself. 12:04am – How nice, a Beatles song with Wings. 10:59pm – Guine...
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Who Writes This Crap? | What Kind Of Week Has It Been?
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What Kind Of Week Has It Been? Who Writes This Crap? Who Writes This Crap? I’m Paddy Duffy, I was born in 1985 in Donegal, and have been living ever since. I’ve spent a great deal of that life variously writing, broadcasting, youth working, public speaking, being a liberal wise ass, travelling, moderating panel debates, making up puns, quizzing, larking about and making basically no money at all. It is my great pleasure to say those Facebook columns attracted a great following, and thanks to the encourag...
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3rd June, 2012 | What Kind Of Week Has It Been?
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What Kind Of Week Has It Been? Who Writes This Crap? June 3, 2012. 3rd June, 2012. Ah yes, June is busting out all over and so is the sweat of anyone trying to walk more than ten minutes, but the sensational weather belies the gloomy spectre of the news. For months and months now, the despotic horror taking place in Syria has been allowed to carry on unabated, and this week the west’s inertia has produced the most ghastly results conceivable. To catch up with in fact. Poor old Kevin Foley. With some of t...
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10th June, 2012 | What Kind Of Week Has It Been?
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What Kind Of Week Has It Been? Who Writes This Crap? June 10, 2012. 10th June, 2012. I really hoped the days of Irish politicians diddling their taxes were over. But…. Oh, Mick Wallace. You rode into town promising new politics and a square deal for the common man, but instead we got something saddeningly familiar and a large round figure tax settlement. Even though he admitted that his VAT receipts were as conspicuously unkempt. But he’s still got supporters. Speaking of raining down a firestorm, that a...
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