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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Gay Agenda

Thank You for The Days

posted on 9 December, 2011 by Shirley Temple Bar in Gay Agenda | Leave a comment

This could turn out to be hilarious, romantic or very dangerous…

Every year, Alternative Miss Ireland produces a “full colour, beautifully designed, collectable commemorative Calendar for the year ahead…. This year, AMI is selling off every single day in the 13-Month AMI Calendar, 18 March 2011 – 31 March 2012.

You get up to a total of 280 characters per day, and you can say whatever you want to say. It could be a birthday message, a memory of a love lost, a message to Taylor Lautner, a secret code, or a tranny rant.

Twice as long as a Tweet, but lasts so much longer. Once a date is sold, it will be gone forever. You can even buy a whole week, or spread yourself throughout the year and buy a day per month – so many ways to spread your love (or whatever it is that you are spreading). Don’t miss out on this once-in-a-tranny-lifetime opportunity!

At €20 per day, all proceeds from selling messages on this year’s calendar go directly to HIV/AIDS organisations so it’s all for a very good cause. Go HERE to book your date..

IT GOT BETTER?

posted on 5 December, 2011 by Shirley Temple Bar in Gay Agenda | Leave a comment

At the weekend, a video by a young kid called Jonah who was struggling with being bullied at school went viral. Even Lady Gaga was tweeting about it. Well, another video has surfaced of a much happier kid* explaining that the first video was made 4 months ago and that he is now in a much better place. He brags that “Everyone at school likes me now” while a spooky-eyed girl-friend nods her encouragement. He also mocks the commentators that called him “gay”, saying that it was pretty obvious. Strangely, the idea that he might be in a more confident (if not even cocky) place has sent some people crazy with indignation. Admittedly, he might not have expressed himself as poetically as he did when he tearfully held cards up to the camera revealing his pain but I can’t help thinking how ironic it is that people are hating on him because he seems not to be suicidal anymore.

It seems that the Internet only likes gay kids when they are vulnerable and suicidal.

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What’s goin on

posted on 4 December, 2011 by Shirley Temple Bar in Gay Agenda | 1 Comment

This video of a young boy describing being bullied at school is heart-wrenching: “IM NOT GOING TO KILL MYSELF. I JUST NEED TO GET THIS OUT HERE. ” Read more

Ask Shirley

posted on 1 December, 2011 by Shirley Temple Bar in Gay Agenda | Leave a comment

In my regular online Ask Shirley column for the GCN website, I offer advice. Not necessarily good advice. I am a busy person. This week, I help you lie to your parents, reject a civil partnership proposal and win friends and/or influence people!

Homo Eroticus

posted on 28 November, 2011 by Shirley Temple Bar in Gay Agenda | 2 Comments

Ireland’s rugby team for the gays*, the Emerald Warriors have kicked off their annual fundraising drive to keep them in oddly shaped balls and gear**. The boys came to my show last to launch their calendar for 2012. It’s a slick calendar, with more airbrushing than a Panti poster*** The photos – which these are not! -  are a cross between a Dieux de Stade calendar and images from a Jean Paul Gaultier ad campaign. It comes over all Pierre et Gilles – as, indeed, do I… Regularly. Read more

THIS MADE ME CRY

posted on 26 November, 2011 by Shirley Temple Bar in Gay Agenda | Leave a comment

Mainly because I’m hormonal. And I am a sap. But this made me cry. It’s a beautiful, short from Australian marriage equality group Get Up! It’s called It’s Time. And it is, isn’t it? End marriage discrimination now. Or something.

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