Eamonn Andrews
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Come Out Ye Drunken Dads – Frank McNally on the curious reinvention of a spoof rebel song
- Opinion
- February 12, 2020, 18:30
There is a double irony in the revived popularity of Dominic Behan’s Come Out Ye Black and Tans, a song that briefly topped the British singles charts(...)

Seán Bán Breathnach: ‘They probably saw me as . . . a showman.'
- Gaelic Games
- March 30, 2019, 07:30
“Oh, another thing I shouldn’t have done: I lay on a bed of nails,” Seán Bán Breathnach (SBB) confesses, alluding to the time when, for the gaiety of (...)

Crackerjack returns to BBC TV, 35 years after last episode
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 11, 2019, 13:01
The BBC is to revive the children’s TV show Crackerjack, 35 years after it was last aired. The broadcaster announced that the programme, which origina(...)

Remembering a surprise trip home marred by tragedy in Omagh
- Abroad
- August 15, 2018, 22:56
As we mark the 20th anniversary of the Omagh bombing, I am drawn back to the summer of 1998. A new mother living in the US, I had taken my baby daught(...)

RTÉ broadcaster and voice of Irish rugby
- People
- June 24, 2017, 01:00
When the news of Fred Cogley’s death at the age of 82 came last week sports fans, most particularly rugby fans, must have felt that they had lost some(...)

'The BBC is giving Mrs Brown her own chat show? I need a lie down'
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 19, 2017, 05:00
This has been a difficult time for elitist media snowflakes. We peer at one another through monocles while harpsichord music spills across the Regency(...)

Madge Herron: Eccentric and brilliant Irish poet of London’s streets
- Stage
- November 12, 2016, 05:00
Here is a memory of Donegal poet Madge Herron. We are walking to the tube station in Camden Town, her recalling how shortly after the second World (...)

Soccer memories: Jack Charlton, USA ‘94, and sticker collections
- International
- June 3, 2016, 13:00
Paul Howard, writer/creator of Ross O’Carroll-Kelly Football is the game of the people. It’s played everywhere in the world. I know we get excited ar(...)

Unflappable master of the TV sports show
- People
- January 4, 2014, 09:41
David Coleman, who has died aged 87, was a major figure, perhaps the major figure, of that distant era when television broadcasts of Britain’s nationa(...)

Obituary: Trevor Danker
- People
- May 4, 2013, 06:00
Trevor Danker, who has died aged 74, was for many years a social columnist with the Sunday Independent (...)