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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · May 16

Stop it there ...

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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The Blackpool Sentinel @blackpoolsentinel.bsky.social · Apr 30

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...

YES, DISCO

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RTÉ @rte.ie · Apr 16

Hooked: How Addiction Hijacks Your Brain | Series Finale

Tonight | 9.35pm | @rteone.rte.ie and RTÉ Player

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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Apr 16

All the more so knowing you're still in the music, Pat.

Book review: A musical life less ordinary

Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Apr 15

Just beautiful.

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Pete Paphides @petepaphides.bsky.social · Apr 7

Imagine a drummer.

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Michael Moynihan @mikemoynihanex.bsky.social · Apr 6

@irishexaminer.bsky.social Music and Mayhem by Keith Donald @lilliputpress.bsky.social review by @colmocallaghan.bsky.social #books

www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/ar...

Keith Donald kept diaries throughout a hectic working life that began when he joined his first showband, The Federals, in the mid-1960s

www.irishexaminer.com

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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Mar 29

Niall was a gorgeous, gentle and modest soul. He had many, many talents and he'll be much missed and very fondly remembered. Ar dheis Dé go raibh a anam dílis.

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CorkBeo.ie @corkbeo.bsky.social · Mar 21

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...

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

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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Feb 21

'The Vision of Peregrine Worsthorne' by the excellent McCarthy.

Fontaines DC - It's Amazing To Be Young (Official Video)

Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Feb 21

No sign of this lot running out of puff anytime soon.

Eoghan @eoghantpoe.bsky.social · Feb 21

Just another brilliant new song from Fontaines DC, picking up where 'Favourite' leaves off at the end of Romance

YouTube video by Fontaines DC

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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Feb 20

Yes to this.

www.rte.ie/news/2025/02...

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Fergal Bowers @fergalbowers.bsky.social · Feb 18

Groundbreaking former forensic scientist dies aged 80

Former senior forensic scientist Dr James Donovan, who survived a car bomb attack carried out by The General, has died.

www.rte.ie

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Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · Feb 17

Episode two of AKA The Monk tonight, 9.35pm on RTÉ 1.

Conor Gallagher @conorgallagher.bsky.social · Feb 15

AKA The Monk: how we recreated the gangland trial of the century

www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

AKA The Monk: how we recreated the gangland trial of the century

Within every courtroom, there are scores of mini dramas taking place as the details of the case unfold...

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The Blackpool Sentinel @blackpoolsentinel.bsky.social · Feb 12

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...

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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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Feb 3

Game's gone.

DOLORES O’RIORDAN: 1971 – 2018.

Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Jan 15

Dolores O'Riordan.
On her anniversary.
theblackpoolsentinel.com/2018/01/16/d...

During the first series of the RTÉ music show, ‘No Disco’, the presenter, Donal Dineen and myself travelled west to Limerick on a couple of occasions to pick up long interviews that we’d use to pop…

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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Jan 12

Its the sound of crying. Its number one, across the earth ...

DAVID BOWIE: THE CORK YEARS

Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Jan 8

Bowie and Cork via The Blackpool Sentinel.
theblackpoolsentinel.com/2016/01/19/d...

‘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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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Jan 4

Is it Dave Griffiths ?

Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Dec 24

Happy Christmas, Peter. This too shall pass ..

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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Dec 20

No harm reminding ourselves ...

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RTÉ Player

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Colm O'Callaghan @colmocallaghan.bsky.social · Dec 20

Good man, Pat. Superb. ❤️