North Atlantic Skyline - - Photographs from the west of Ireland (Galway, Mayo, Clare, Limerick, Roscommon and even Leitrim)

Lard of the Ring

I missed the chance to ask Elijah Woods for nine hours of my life back when he visited Galway last week. His cheesy grin appears in all the local Galway papers, which is one expression more than he used in the three bloody Hobbit movies.

Meanwhile, the people of Athenry, Loughrea and Gort are providing the background to a new RTE drama series currently in production. It’s called Showbands, presumably about that musical era that gave us such cultural highlights as Dicky Rock and Ronan Collins (somewhere in Dickie Rock’s attic is a portrait of himself visibly ageing by the day). It stars Kerry McFadden who is well known for being, um, well known. For some reason, the newspapers describe this as if it was a good thing.

Posted by Monasette at September 2, 2004 07:34 AM