BINGO: 5 MAY 2013


May the fifth be with you! Or more to the point, may you be with us on the Fifth of May for our Bank Holiday BingO.M.G! Lots of great prizes and a really fun show, so see you at The George from 9pm. Bring Read more

BINGO: EASTER SUNDAY


It's gonna be a religious experience at Bank Holiday Bingo on Easter Sunday so expect to get spiritual (unless you're a beer drinker or a Pioneer). That's cuz we're having an Easter Vigil! (Are you excited? I know I'm meant to be.) To celebrate The Read more

BINGO: 10 MARCH 2013


Why give up a night out with me just because it's Mother's Day? Apart from the ones who wrote in to RTE to complain about me, most mother's love me! So get your Ma in on the act this Mother's Day and get her Read more

SHIRLEY ON PADDY'S DAY


  St. Patrick's Day falls on a Sunday this year and, mainly because I don't fancy swimming to The George through a river of wee and vomit, we're putting on our show at the earlier - and hopefully more sober - time of 6pm. We'll Read more

BINGO: 17 FEBRUARY 2013


Love is a many splendour'd thing. Or so they say. I don't know what exactly a "splendoured" thing is. My guess:  Something that's low in actual sugar but high in Xylitol or Aspertame or some sugar replacement. That's all good if you have Type Read more

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Academy Cup

Academy Cup: 08 JAN 2012

posted on 11 January, 2012 by Shirley Temple Bar in Academy Cup, Drag Academy | 1 Comment

The scores please… WEEK ONE of The Drag Academy Cup climaxed at Bingo in The George on Sunday. The two Houses (Wardrobe Malfunction and No Fixed Abode) took to the stage to earn points and had the theme LOVE to guide them. Their performances were evaluated by the regular mentors and some of the audience, which included TV3′s Family Fortunes presenter Alan Hughes, Eurovision winner Niamh Kavanagh and some girl whom I renamed Mundy. Points were awarded (and deducted) using the criteria Originality, Presentation and Performance.

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ACADEMY CUP KICKS OFF

posted on 3 January, 2012 by Shirley Temple Bar in Academy Cup | Leave a comment

This Sunday (8 January 2011), the under-draguates™ from Drag Academy will begin battling out in The Academy Cup. The idea is that they demonstrate the various skills they have developed over the past months, mainly the skill of taking out all your rage on another drag queen. The competition off-stage is going to be fierce. Here’s hoping there’s not too much bloodshed. To stop it getting too vicious, the under-draguates™ have been split into two Houses, which will compete against each other for points. It’s kinda like the Jets and the Sharks in West Side Story but with mascara and wigs instead of flick-knives and the Jerome Robbins choreography. (What do you mean you’ve never seen West Side Story?!)

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