STUDENTS in UL are unlikely to be able to listen to The Blanket on the Ground or Drop Kick Me Jesus Through the Goalposts of Life in the near future without wincing slightly, after they were inconvenienced last week by the activities of the country and western brigade.
Over 1,000 students found themselves being bussed to the Kilmurry Lodge Hotel for lectures after the university's concert hall, which is also used for classes, was taken over on three nights for the recording of Paschal Mooney's Christmas television series for RTE.
For the initiated, Mooney is a noted Irish country and western music, that peculiar musical genre beloved by people whose only chance of "riding the range" is to put on a pair of cowboy boots and sit on the cooker at home.
While the concert hall is likely to make a few bob from the activities of the buckskin and spangle brigade, the students were mildly unimpressed at their unscheduled tour of the Limerick countryside.
"It's a pity we have to send people over to the Kilmurry Lodge Hotel just because Paschal Mooney is recording a few Christmas shows," concluded a students' union spokesman, although he admitted that "it's hard to hold a position on Paschal Mooney".
