Sunday Miscellany
@RTESunMisc
New writing + complementary music on RTÉ Radio 1, Irish public radio, Sunday mornings since 1968. Producer: Sarah Binchy. All queries to [email protected]
What a fascinating story about this mostly unloved building. Who would have thunk !!!
"After much initial opposition to the project, the opening was a celebratory affair, with a pipe band, magicians, pony rides, and even a baby elephant." Cormac Murray: An Elephant in Phibsborough on the fortunes of Galen Weston's 1969 Phibsborough Shopping Centre, next @RTERadio1
Delighted to hear my local shopping centre in Phibsborough so lovingly described on @RTESunMisc A Brutalist icon! x.com/RTESunMisc/sta… @Phizzfest @PhibsTidyTown @RTERadio1
"After much initial opposition to the project, the opening was a celebratory affair, with a pipe band, magicians, pony rides, and even a baby elephant." Cormac Murray: An Elephant in Phibsborough on the fortunes of Galen Weston's 1969 Phibsborough Shopping Centre, next @RTERadio1
"You still bring me to places sunny seaside car parks where the grass was as hot as the sand To an army of hard-working fathers fulfilling Sunday obligations when holidays lasted only one day Twisting coat hangers into a variety of antennas..." To close: Radio Games: John Cooney
"I’ve always said if I didn’t live in Donegal, I would want to live in Donegal. The wild beauty of the county, the mysticism that surrounds it, but mostly the real lives that are lived here. The joys, friendships and strengths, the hardships withstood..." Denise Blake is next
"You told me to keep an eye out for Keating’s Bread Van, to tell you immediately when it was coming down the road and you’d give me the money to go and get a fresh loaf..." Noel King is next with his poem Caravan #Castlegregory #sundaymiscellany
"I see boys playing with their friends in back gardens, windswept club pitches and freshly cut hayfields across the Kingdom of Kerry. I see the young men I've come to know, the teammates who've trusted me with their stories, their struggles..." Tony Griffin is next #KerryGAA
"He sings, “I want to explore every lovely inch of you,” and we believe him. There are three fine-looking women singing along with him. This is a 75-year-old man, and there is hope for us all..." John S Doyle is next, on Leonard Cohen's magical 2010 Lissadell concert @RTERadio1
"Being there, shouting until my voice is hoarse, cheering, celebrating, commiserating, on good days and bad, through thick and thin, I’ve found life and football are like two sides of the one coin..." Regina Devenney is next with Ecstasy in Green and Gold #michaelmurphy #Donegal
"We’re on holidays in Kerry, Waterville, and we’ve just met, or bumped into, the legendary Mick O’Dwyer at his garage. His name is over the door and in the background a black Ford Anglia, JIN 57..." @johnnytoal is up first this morning @RTERadio1 #KerryGAA #allireland
Dreams of Sam Maguire from Killybegs to Kenmare, Leonard Cohen's magical Lissadell concert + more... #sundaymiscellany 9am @RTERadio1 27/07/25 @johnnytoal Regina Devenney John S Doyle @TonyGriffin Noel King Denise Blake John Cooney #allirelandfinal #KerryGAA #DonegalGAA Tune in!
Really lovely essay on the legendary Babs Keating.
"In the weeks leading up to the 1971 All-Ireland hurling final, Tipperary wing forward, Babs Keating, looked forward to trying out his new football boots. He’d bought them in London a couple of weeks earlier..." Joe Whelan is next with The Barefoot Wonder #hurlingfinal
I used to hitch home from college in Galway to Portlaoise and back again. Always had my Hurley with me. No matter where I was in the queue outside Merlin Park someone would always pull in: “couldn’t leave a hurler stranded - are you going home for a match?”
Driving up to Dublin with Sunday miscellany is one of the joys of all ireland Sunday
Former Cork manager John Allen's piece, the Croke Park warm-up, on Sunday Miscellany would stir the blood. Only way to start All-Ireland final day. @RTESunMisc 📻 #GAABelong
Loved this story! Sunday Miscellany on All-Ireland Hurling Final Sunday is the perfect start to this special day. #Hurling #AllIrelandHurlingFinal
Former Cork manager John Allen's piece, the Croke Park warm-up, on Sunday Miscellany would stir the blood. Only way to start All-Ireland final day. @RTESunMisc 📻 #GAABelong
Pure magic from Theo Dorgan.
"My father was a quiet, undemostrative man, soft spoken, not given to showing his emotions. A hurler in his youth, and for a brief while an amateur boxer, he valued stoicism, a certain kind of grace under pressure -- most of the time..." Theo Dorgan, next #NaPiarsaigh #corkvtipp
Sunday morning sorted !
Adventures in hitchhiking and hurlers’ hopes and dreams, a barefoot wonder and an elephant in Phibsboro --Sunday Miscellany 20/07/25 is coming up Doireann Ní Bhriain Joe Whelan Cormac Murray Theo Dorgan Lani O'Hanlon John Allen #HurlingFinal #corkvtipp @RTERadio1 Tune in! @rte
@TheRollingWave The Rolling Wave 20.7.25 @RTERadio1 rte.ie/radio/radio1/t… Ceol Alainn go raibh maith agat Aoife @RTE gd @homesteadpost homesteadpost.bandcamp.com/track/love-and…
"The Croke Park warm-up area is a hive of accumulating tension. Tribes of hurling men, living in their own heads, puck leather against ash, against concrete. Colour, noise, anticipation — all close by, yet it feels a world away..." To close, John Allen: The Croke Park Warm-Up
