Daily Archives: 20 October, 2011

Fools Gold

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Yeah, yeah, yeah. I get it. It’s monumental. You’re pushing forty so when that band you liked back in the Nineties gets back together for a reunion tour, it’s like totallyfuckingaswesome and you have a chance for a last hurrah before you start wearing high-waisted trousers and getting into gardening. BUT, please. The Stone Roses?! 

On Location: way up north

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  Donegal Castle is the family home of the O’Donnells. Not Daniel and his beard Majella but the old Kings of Tir Chonaill. Such as the famous Red Hugh O Donnell, who escaped from captivity in Dublin Castle to fight at the Battle of Kinsale, which he lost, meaning the English finally took control of all of Ireland. The feckin’ eejit.