Colm O'Callaghan
@colmocallaghan.bsky.social
I am a documentary producer and writer.
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Pulp: a long read from our blog about the band's first live show in Dublin in 1993. And its most recent, last week.
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PULP: FROM THE FIRST TIME TO THE LAST
In a triumphant return to Dublin’s 3Arena, Pulp frontman Jarvis Cocker took fans on a nostalgic journey through the band’s early Irish gigs—culminating in a sharp, hilarious callback to their very …
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June 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Pulp: a long read from our blog about the band's first live show in Dublin in 1993. And its most recent, last week.
theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/06/16/p...
theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/06/16/p...
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Remember the buzz of a good disco?
Dave Heffernan captures it beautifully in our latest guest post - “Yes Disco.”
A lovely read for anyone who was ever there — or wishes they had been: theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/04/24/y...
Dave Heffernan captures it beautifully in our latest guest post - “Yes Disco.”
A lovely read for anyone who was ever there — or wishes they had been: theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/04/24/y...
YES, DISCO
In this evocative and sharply tailored piece, David Heffernan takes us back to the dancefloors of 1970s Ireland — a world of mohair suits, platform shoes, and Dubonnet-fuelled dreams. From the revo…
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April 30, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Remember the buzz of a good disco?
Dave Heffernan captures it beautifully in our latest guest post - “Yes Disco.”
A lovely read for anyone who was ever there — or wishes they had been: theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/04/24/y...
Dave Heffernan captures it beautifully in our latest guest post - “Yes Disco.”
A lovely read for anyone who was ever there — or wishes they had been: theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/04/24/y...
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Hooked: How Addiction Hijacks Your Brain | Series Finale
Tonight | 9.35pm | @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player
Tonight | 9.35pm | @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player
April 16, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Hooked: How Addiction Hijacks Your Brain | Series Finale
Tonight | 9.35pm | @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player
Tonight | 9.35pm | @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player
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Imagine a drummer.
April 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Imagine a drummer.
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@irishexaminer.bsky.social Music and Mayhem by Keith Donald @lilliputpress.bsky.social review by @colmocallaghan.bsky.social #books
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
Book review: A musical life less ordinary
Keith Donald kept diaries throughout a hectic working life that began when he joined his first showband, The Federals, in the mid-1960s
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April 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
@irishexaminer.bsky.social Music and Mayhem by Keith Donald @lilliputpress.bsky.social review by @colmocallaghan.bsky.social #books
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...
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Historic city centre clothes shop closing after almost a century in the heart of Cork
Mannix & Culhane has been in the city centre since 1928
www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
Mannix & Culhane has been in the city centre since 1928
www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
Historic clothes shop closing after almost a century in the heart of Cork
Mannix & Culhane has been in the city centre since 1928
www.corkbeo.ie
March 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Historic city centre clothes shop closing after almost a century in the heart of Cork
Mannix & Culhane has been in the city centre since 1928
www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
Mannix & Culhane has been in the city centre since 1928
www.corkbeo.ie/news/local-n...
No sign of this lot running out of puff anytime soon.
Just another brilliant new song from Fontaines DC, picking up where 'Favourite' leaves off at the end of Romance
Fontaines DC - It's Amazing To Be Young (Official Video)
YouTube video by Fontaines DC
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February 21, 2025 at 10:18 AM
No sign of this lot running out of puff anytime soon.
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Episode two of AKA The Monk tonight, 9.35pm on RTÉ 1.
February 17, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Episode two of AKA The Monk tonight, 9.35pm on RTÉ 1.
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Boyzone’s story gets the documentary treatment in No Matter What—a sharp, stylish look at fame, media, and music
@colmocallaghan.bsky.social gives his take in our latest post.
#Boyzone #NoMatterWhat
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@colmocallaghan.bsky.social gives his take in our latest post.
#Boyzone #NoMatterWhat
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BOYZ, OH BOYZ
There’s much to admire and plenty to recommend about Sophie Oliver’s documentary series ‘No Matter What’ which, over three episodes, looks at a careful selection of the colourful life and times of …
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February 12, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Boyzone’s story gets the documentary treatment in No Matter What—a sharp, stylish look at fame, media, and music
@colmocallaghan.bsky.social gives his take in our latest post.
#Boyzone #NoMatterWhat
theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/02/12/b...
@colmocallaghan.bsky.social gives his take in our latest post.
#Boyzone #NoMatterWhat
theblackpoolsentinel.com/2025/02/12/b...
Bowie and Cork via The Blackpool Sentinel.
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DAVID BOWIE: THE CORK YEARS
‘Him ? Sure, he doesn’t know if he wants to be a man or a woman’. It was the end of the summer, 1980, and David Bowie at his most theatric, glamorous, playful and compelling, wasn’t convincing my m…
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January 8, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Bowie and Cork via The Blackpool Sentinel.
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December 20, 2024 at 5:15 PM
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Christmas Cipher: Kabin Crew are back with a new Christmas song!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZr...
Find out more here: www.rte.ie/kids/2024/12...
Watch Kabin Crew's Christmas Special Christmas Eve at 5.15pm on @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player. And again on Christmas Day at 8am on @rte2.rte.ie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZr...
Find out more here: www.rte.ie/kids/2024/12...
Watch Kabin Crew's Christmas Special Christmas Eve at 5.15pm on @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player. And again on Christmas Day at 8am on @rte2.rte.ie.
⭐NEW⭐ Kabin Crew | 🎶 Christmas Cipher Music Video 🎶 | Kabin Crew's Christmas Special | @RTÉKids
YouTube video by RTÉ Kids
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December 19, 2024 at 6:17 PM
Christmas Cipher: Kabin Crew are back with a new Christmas song!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZr...
Find out more here: www.rte.ie/kids/2024/12...
Watch Kabin Crew's Christmas Special Christmas Eve at 5.15pm on @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player. And again on Christmas Day at 8am on @rte2.rte.ie.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfZr...
Find out more here: www.rte.ie/kids/2024/12...
Watch Kabin Crew's Christmas Special Christmas Eve at 5.15pm on @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player. And again on Christmas Day at 8am on @rte2.rte.ie.
Henry Mount Charles: A Lord in Slane
RTÉ One
December 27th at 6.30
RTÉ One
December 27th at 6.30
December 19, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Henry Mount Charles: A Lord in Slane
RTÉ One
December 27th at 6.30
RTÉ One
December 27th at 6.30
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In the words of Noddy Holder & the gang… Merry Xmas Everybody…
Here is the recording of the Shush Christmas Special 2024 (selected by UCC Library staff)
Expect some of the usual suspects and some unusual ones.
on.soundcloud.com/tkychybrzp47...
#christmas #merrychristmas #xmas
Here is the recording of the Shush Christmas Special 2024 (selected by UCC Library staff)
Expect some of the usual suspects and some unusual ones.
on.soundcloud.com/tkychybrzp47...
#christmas #merrychristmas #xmas
Shush 279 - Christmas Show 2024
Shush Christmas Special 2024, an hour of some usuals and some not so usual Christmas tunes... Enjoy
on.soundcloud.com
December 19, 2024 at 7:49 AM
In the words of Noddy Holder & the gang… Merry Xmas Everybody…
Here is the recording of the Shush Christmas Special 2024 (selected by UCC Library staff)
Expect some of the usual suspects and some unusual ones.
on.soundcloud.com/tkychybrzp47...
#christmas #merrychristmas #xmas
Here is the recording of the Shush Christmas Special 2024 (selected by UCC Library staff)
Expect some of the usual suspects and some unusual ones.
on.soundcloud.com/tkychybrzp47...
#christmas #merrychristmas #xmas
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Remembering Mick Lynch - gone 9 years today. @colmocallaghan.bsky.social wrote a lovely tribute to Mick at the time theblackpoolsentinel.com/2015/12/18/m...
MICK LYNCH
Mick Lynch, the Cork-born musician, singer, actor and performer who passed away yesterday after a long illness, will be familiar to those of us who served our time around the margins of left-field …
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December 17, 2024 at 10:22 AM
Remembering Mick Lynch - gone 9 years today. @colmocallaghan.bsky.social wrote a lovely tribute to Mick at the time theblackpoolsentinel.com/2015/12/18/m...
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An emotional chat with Brian Fenton explaining his decision to retire, the joys and demands of an all-time great career, hanging with Clifford and the Kerry boys and finding the edge that turned Dublin from era-defining team into footballing immortals.
www.thetimes.com/article/daca...
www.thetimes.com/article/daca...
Brian Fenton: The highs and lows of a decade in blue
The Dublin footballer talks about his decision to retire at 31 and the emotional toll of saying goodbye to the game he loves
www.thetimes.com
December 8, 2024 at 7:34 AM
An emotional chat with Brian Fenton explaining his decision to retire, the joys and demands of an all-time great career, hanging with Clifford and the Kerry boys and finding the edge that turned Dublin from era-defining team into footballing immortals.
www.thetimes.com/article/daca...
www.thetimes.com/article/daca...
Rest in hairpiece, Dickie.
December 6, 2024 at 9:38 PM
Rest in hairpiece, Dickie.
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That's Gerry Adams
Good morning. Might have stayed up late drawing Leicester City. Upsetting imagery to follow 🧵
December 5, 2024 at 9:11 AM
That's Gerry Adams
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New post alert.
Just back from the Kane Gang’s recent gig in Sunderland, we dive deep into the Kane Gang and reflect along the on the iconic Kitchenware Records scene, touching on Prefab Sprout, Paddy McAloon, and Martin Stephenson. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2024/12/04/h...
Just back from the Kane Gang’s recent gig in Sunderland, we dive deep into the Kane Gang and reflect along the on the iconic Kitchenware Records scene, touching on Prefab Sprout, Paddy McAloon, and Martin Stephenson. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2024/12/04/h...
HA’WAY THE LADS
The actor, Kevin Kennedy, takes the lead role in ‘Cinderella’, this year’s pantomime at The Empire Theatre in Consett, a small town in the Northeast of England. Best known for playing Curly Watts, …
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December 4, 2024 at 9:37 AM
New post alert.
Just back from the Kane Gang’s recent gig in Sunderland, we dive deep into the Kane Gang and reflect along the on the iconic Kitchenware Records scene, touching on Prefab Sprout, Paddy McAloon, and Martin Stephenson. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2024/12/04/h...
Just back from the Kane Gang’s recent gig in Sunderland, we dive deep into the Kane Gang and reflect along the on the iconic Kitchenware Records scene, touching on Prefab Sprout, Paddy McAloon, and Martin Stephenson. theblackpoolsentinel.com/2024/12/04/h...
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Gardaí are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 44-year-old Aidan O’Shea, who is reported missing from his home in Macroom, Co. Cork, since Monday 2nd December 2024.
Aidan was last seen in Macroom, Co. Cork on the morning of Saturday 30th November 2024, at 9.30am.
Aidan was last seen in Macroom, Co. Cork on the morning of Saturday 30th November 2024, at 9.30am.
December 3, 2024 at 1:01 PM
Gardaí are seeking the public's assistance in tracing the whereabouts of 44-year-old Aidan O’Shea, who is reported missing from his home in Macroom, Co. Cork, since Monday 2nd December 2024.
Aidan was last seen in Macroom, Co. Cork on the morning of Saturday 30th November 2024, at 9.30am.
Aidan was last seen in Macroom, Co. Cork on the morning of Saturday 30th November 2024, at 9.30am.
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We’ve started a starter pack for those who post about Irish rock music.
If you want to be added, or know somebody who should be on this list please let us know!
Let’s connect this scene up
If you want to be added, or know somebody who should be on this list please let us know!
Let’s connect this scene up
December 3, 2024 at 9:15 AM
We’ve started a starter pack for those who post about Irish rock music.
If you want to be added, or know somebody who should be on this list please let us know!
Let’s connect this scene up
If you want to be added, or know somebody who should be on this list please let us know!
Let’s connect this scene up
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