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Falling in love with Ireland again, making cocktail hour happen and how a night in the Merrion can solve anything Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ed Cooney is a legend of the cheffing game. Before joining The Merrion in 1997 and becoming Executive Chef, he worked at some of the finest hotels and restaurants in Scotland and England, including the celebrated Craigendarroch Hotel and Country Club, Royal Deeside, where The Oaks gourmet restaurant held the Michelin Red M. He then joined The Regent Four Seasons London, now known as The Landmark Hotel, before returning to Ireland.During his time at The Merrion, Ed Cooney has won numerous awards, undertaken several culinary tours of the USA and become a popular guest chef on TV.In this week's episode, Ed joins Gary and Gareth to discuss his stellar career, his love of France and his anger at what the government should be doing to help the food industry. Enjoy!If you have any Culinary Conundrums be sure to send them to the lads on food@goloudnow.com

As luck would have it I ended up speaking to someone with the inside track on customer service at the Merrion

Found myself back at the Merrion Hotel in Dublin, last weekend...just 3 days after the deployment of the largest number of Garda in riot gear. (If this podcast was part of the BBCNI offering, Garda would be described as *the Irish Police....) Interesting times on all fronts - but no change at The Merrion where customer service was exemplar. Worth taking a dive into their world over the next 4 weeks - I'm sure they'll make it special for you. Can this level of customer service and attention to detail be applied everywhere? Or is it just the domain of those that can afford it?

Peter McCann, general manager of the Merrion, talks with Benjamin Bass of Insider Travel Report about the history of this five-star luxury hotel in the heart of Dublin. McCann details recent renovations to the property, including a new spa, a two-star Michelin Restaurant overseen by Chef Patrick Guilbaud, and a world-class art collection and outreach to support new artists. For more information, visit www.MerrionHotel.com. If interested, the original video of this podcast can be found on the Insider Travel Report Youtube channel or by searching for the podcast's title on Youtube.

A week has passed since I made the veneration at the altar of Bruce Springsteen whilst making my first stay at the Merrion hotel. It made me think about what good customer service looks like - how good brands not only read the room, they anticipate it. Again and again. Against a back drop of the music, whiskey and craic was the headline dominating domestic abuse claim levied at an inter county manager. An example of how easy it is to misread the room.

 Malachi O'Doherty is a writer and broadcaster based in Belfast, a columnist for the Belfast Telegraph and a frequent contributor to several radio programmes as a respected commentator on Northern Ireland. His last book for Merrion was a novel, Terry Brankin Has a Gun. It was hailed by critics as ‘a superb thriller'. Malachi was awarded a PhD in Creative Writing by Queen's University Belfast and has received a Major Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland .Malachi's new book "Can Ireland Be One" will be published by Merrion Press in September 2022. ★ Support this podcast ★

Ostán Merrion. BAC. Seoladh taispeántas ealaíne Liam Ó Néil. Séamus Ó Súilleabháin, Liam Ó Néil,Lorcán Ó Cinnéide,Cyril Kelly,Ronán Ó Snodaigh,Sinéad Ní Uallacháin,Máire Ní Chonchúir,Caitlín Ní Chatháin,Deirdre Brugha,Risteárd Ó Laoide, Seán Ó Duinnshléibhe,Eddie Hutch,Gearóid Ó Conghaíle,Micheál Ó Maolchiaráin

If you've ever been lucky enough to stay at Adare Manor, Cliff House Hotel or The Merrion, the spas in those hotels were designed by Peigín. She had a glamorous jet-set lifestyle until Covid-19 grounded her, literally and figuratively. A life-long advocate of aromatherapy and essential oils, she put the pot on the cooker and began producing her own blend of balms and oils. The brand 'Ground Wellbeing' was born and 15 months later, it's stocked in Brown Thomas and used in The Shelbourne and Waldorf Astoria Edinburgh among others.⁠ Peigín has brilliant advice around taking the leap, starting a business, coping with failures and managing the dreaded imposter syndrome. ⁠

My guest for today is Desmond Merrion. Desmond is a bespoke tailor and cutter from West Yorkshire's Pontefract. During our conversation we will talk about his journey into tailoring, factory work for wholesale tailoring, freehand drafting of patterns, and more. I hope that our conversation will be as insightful for you as it has been for me!

As women our hormones are all powerful. As mothers they control our cycle, our ovulation our ability to create, grow and birth life. And yet, there is so much unknown about the impact of burnout and balance can have on our minds and bodies in our late 30's & 40's.In this week's episode Sinead is joined by Peigin Crowley, founder of Ground Wellbeing, a wellness expert and entrepreneur who has enjoyed a thriving career developing award-winning spas from Adare Manor to The Merrion and a woman who at age 40 began to notice distinct changes in how her body and brain performed.Her periods were regular. Her knowledge of menopause was limited to assuming it was this unsexy thing that happened much later when her periods stopped and the notion of perimenopause and its intense symptoms never entered her head. Here we talk about why as women we need to make friends with our cycles, our phases and stages of life.We must aim for balance - not burnout. And we must never apologise for it. This season is kindly supported by WaterWipes, the world's purest baby wipes.WaterWipes are purer than cotton wool and water and made with only two ingredients, 99.9% purified water and a drop of fruit extract.As the number one wipe in Ireland* together we are committed to providing more support for parents with trusted products and this podcast.WaterWipes are 100% biodegradable**, plastic free and compostable wipes and the winners of three National Parenting Product Awards 2020 including Best Baby Wipes - so you can do what's best for your baby's skin and help protect the planet.*No.1 wipe in Ireland – *Based on value sales L12W. A.C. Nielsen ROI Scantrack sales to 20 June 2021**Biodegradable - **Within 12 weeks in an industrial setting/plant in accordance with EN13432. Wipe material See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Mícheál Lehane, Political Correspondent, discusses the Government's Housing For All plan and the continued controversy surrounding the Katherine Zappone appointment and Merriongate.

Ger McCarthy joins us live from Croke Park as Meath stun Cork in the All Ireland ladies football championship semi final, and we hear from Rebels boss Ephie Fitzgerald. Cork senior hurling selector Diarmuid O'Sullivan looks ahead to the All Ireland final with Limerick. Cork under 20 boss Pat Ryan previews the All Ireland final with Galway. And Matt Brewster and Ted Williamson of Harlequins Cricket Club discuss their historic win over Merrion.

jQuery(document).ready(function(){ cab.clickify(); }); Original Podcast with clickable words https://tinyurl.com/yjr4ews6 Government subcommittee discussing Covid guidelines. Fochoiste Rialtais ag plé treoirlínte Covid. The Government Subcommittee on Covid-19 is meeting today. Tá an Fochoiste Rialtais maidir le covid 19 i mbun cruinnithe inniu. It is understood that the latest changes to be made to the guidelines in the hospitality industry for outdoor events will be discussed. Tuigtear go bpléifear na hathruithe is deireanaí atá le déanamh ar na treoirlínte i dtionscail an fháilteachais d'imeachtaí lasmuigh. The industry now needs more clarification in light of the controversy that erupted last month when former Government Minister Katherine Zappone organized an event with over 50 people in attendance at the Merrion Hotel in Dublin. Breis soiléirithe atá ag teastáil anois ón tionscail i bhfianaise na conspóide a tharla an mhí seo caite nuair a d'eagraigh an t-iar Aire Rialtais,Katherine Zappone imeacht ina raibh breis is 50 duine i láthair ag Óstán an Merrion i mBaile Átha Cliath. The Government subsequently published advice it had received from the Attorney General stating that it was permissible to organize outdoor events with up to 200 people in attendance. D'fhoilsigh an Rialtas comhairle ina dhiaidh sin a fuair sé ón Ard Aighne inar dúradh go raibh sé ceadmhach imeachtaí lasmuigh a eagrú agus suas le 200 duine i láthair. Based on this advice, Fáilte Ireland, the state agency that sets out the guidelines for the hospitality industry to publish the latest information on Covid events and regulations. Tá an eagraíocht Fáilte Ireland, an áisíneacht stáit a leagann amach na treoirlínte do thionscail an fháilteachais leis an eolas is deireanaí maidir le himeachtaí agus rialacháin Covid a fhoilsiú bunaithe ar an gcomhairle seo.

Today's episode includes the following:https://twitter.com/VirginMediaNews/status/1422966858223951882?s=20https://twitter.com/rtenews/status/1422973809867493383?s=20https://twitter.com/therecount/status/1422960909555838980?s=20https://twitter.com/PaulQuinnNews/status/1422983120127766529?s=20https://twitter.com/RTEsport/status/1423150928128094210?s=20https://twitter.com/RTEsport/status/1423128962604077058?s=20https://www.instagram.com/p/CSHmIZGD1I9/https://twitter.com/BBCTheOneShow/status/1422987733165920257?s=20The Smart 7 Ireland Edition is a daily podcast that puts your brain into gear by telling you everything you need to know for the day in less than 7 minutes. It's a snapshot of the world, covering everything from politics to entertainment, via sport and current affairs.Please follow and spread the word!You need the Smarts? We've got the Smarts.Contact us over at Twitter or visit www.thesmart7.comPresented by Ciara RevinsWritten, Produced and published by Daft Doris. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this programme, looking at an innovative Dublin City Council proposal to protect the heritage of Dublin's old cemeteries. Typically these space have been closed to new burials for decades so have been locked to the public for many years. Labour councillor Dermot Lacey has proposed a way to open these peaceful green biodiverse areas spaces again by sensitively integrating columbarium walls. These are structures used to house urns of cremated remains. This would allow for local families to have an alternative for interments of a loved ones ashes. The cemeteries that are being assessed include old burial grounds in Bluebell, Merrion and Clontarf with the pilot of the proposal being conducted in Donnybrook graveyard. The plan would also include supports for biodiversity in these urban green spaces.

A new survey by Hastings Hotels which includes the Merrion revealed that 10% of people in Ireland rate their first kiss as horrible with up to 20% of women describing it that way. Being Valentine's week, how important is a first kiss and if the spark isn't there can you go further? Henry McKean spoke to relationship expert Amy McKenna from Two's Company and asked you about your first kiss. Was it embarrassing and horrible or rather pleasant?

Seamus Fahy is naturally curious. His curiosity propelled him into a career as an oil trader before a random conversation at a wedding changed his life. In today's episode, you will learn how to start a business in an industry you have zero experience in. We'll uncover the secrets of building a huge waitlist of customers before launching and finally, Seamus reveals how being curious can be a business superpower. 

Harriet talks about her beautiful illustrations, what inspires them, and what it's like doing editorial illustrations to go with important issues.

Episode 004 featuring George Sharpe, Investment Manager at Merrion Oil & Gas (https://merrion.bz/) George was a wealth of knowledge and fascinating to talk to. We loved his perspective shaped by a career of investments - some good, some not so good. We discussed: • George's background in the industry • History of Merrion Oil & Gas • Morrow gas well purchased in a Clearing House auction which eventually turned $360,000 into $10,000,000 • The outreach and advocacy George has done for the energy industry ○ George has made a series of educational videos, and we discuss this one briefly: Climate Change and Our Energy Future • Engaging people about energy without losing them on politics • Lithium math: how much lithium will we need for 2 million electric vehicles vs. how much is available? • Benefits of oil and gas to the United States • ET-Braddock project - providing gas directly from Marcellus wells for a steel mill to use as a heat source ○ Payment in minerals and golf courses is often more lucrative than cash • George's Lessons for Young Professionals: 1. Exploration is for the other guys. Come in later and do the development drilling. 2. When on a winning streak, don't feel like you have to keep investing. 3. Be careful about going into debt. 4. As a professional in the industry, stay flexible, and be able to do as many jobs as you can. George Sharpe's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/george-sharpe-89385713/ George's email: gsharpe@merrion.bz Mark Hinaman's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markhinaman/ Mark's email: mark.hinaman@gmail.com Jake Adamson's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-adamson-ei-git-a3bba4103/ Jake's email: jadamson@ruleengineering.com Ellen Scott's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-scott/

My guest for this episode is . . . T. Greg Merrion! T. Greg is the President of Merrion Oil & Gas and, among many other things, the founder of a foundation in his family's name to provide TONS of help to our community. See this episode and all the rest at http://KensThinkTank.comSupport the show (http://kensthinktank.com/)

Firefighters sent to rescue people trapped on the 14th floor give their account of what happened. Zainab Deen, her son Jeremiah, and Dennis Murphy died on the 14th floor. One of their neighbours, Mohammad al-Haj Ali, was found outside the tower. Producers Kate Lamble and Elisabeth Mahy Researcher Oliver Jones Contact us via email: grenfellpodcast@bbc.co.uk

One good National Murrow winner deserves another. On my last Telling the Story podcast, I interviewed WTVF-TV's Catherine Steward, who won a Large Market TV station National Edward R. Murrow award for Excellence in Sound. She gave an invaluable breakdown of her brilliant production, from her techniques when shooting video to her commitment to gathering audio. Her piece seemed like the pinnacle of a local TV news feature, rooted in traditional storytelling. My guest for this episode went a different route. She told a powerful story as well, but she did it with the foundations of documentary: a steady, slow pace; methodically deployed effects, and a soft bed of music. The piece is called "Recovering from Rehab" - a team-up with Reveal and the Center for Investigative Reporting - and its accompanying investigation became a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In my earlier post about lessons learned from this year's Murrow winners, here's how I described Merrion's piece: It’s just as effective, just as gripping, but nowhere near as sensational as its analogues in TV. Producer Olivia Merrion and reporters Amy Julia Harris and Shoshona Walter triumph here, with a straightforward but thoroughly reported story about a man sentenced to a year in prison but diverted to an alcoholism recovery program (despite no addiction to alcohol) where he mainly worked on a chicken processing plant. The super-tight shots at the start grab attention immediately, and from there Merrion and her team unfold the story with a deliberate confidence in its content. Merrion is my guest on Episode #65 of the Telling the Story podcast. I have worked in local TV news for my entire career, and I have received tremendous opportunities and national honors while maintaining a relatively stable salary and work-life balance. But when I speak to someone like Merrion - or recent podcast guest Emily Kassie - I always marvel at the allure and creative freedom of the documentarian route. I admire storytellers like Merrion who pursue stories with purpose, passion, and few restrictions for how to approach a subject. She has worked with major outlets and produced nationally recognized work, and she's just five years into her career. → The post PODCAST EPISODE #65: Olivia Loomis Merrion, Murrow-winning documentarian appeared first on Telling The Story.

Listen as Giselle and Clif, aboard sailing vessel Sedna, make their way from Mexico to the Marquesas, on their first ocean passage. Episode includes the interview clips of fellow Pacific sailing couples as they reflect upon the highs and lows of passage-making. Cruising vessels featured include S/V Bravo, Ripple, Summer, Merrion and Tioga. Music featured in this episode includes two pieces by Dan Kirkwood of Obiwan Coyote, Les Hayden and Vagabond Mantra. Dan lives in Juneau, Alaska, just released a brand new title album with his group, and their music can be found on iTunes, Spotify and Bandcamp.There is a brief section of podcast “bloopers” at the end of this episode that contains some explicit sailor talk.

This week on StoryWeb: James Joyce’s short story “The Dead.” James Joyce’s “The Dead” is widely considered to be his best short story, called by the New York Times “just about the finest short story in the English language" and by T.S. Eliot as one of the greatest short stories ever written. The storyline is simple enough: a long-married Irish couple -- Gretta and Gabriel Conroy – attend a lavish dinner party thrown by his aunts in celebration of the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6). At the party, they each have a variety of conversations with assorted party guests, and Gabriel gives the evening’s post-dinner speech and leads the toast. As Gabriel and Gretta leave the party, the snow which had been lightly falling when they arrived at the beginning of the evening has become quite heavy. The closing scene finds Gretta asleep at their hotel while Gabriel stands at the window looking at the snow blanketing the city. Gabriel feels, in fact, that the snow is falling over the entirety of Ireland. Before falling asleep, Gretta had shared a memory about Michael Furey, the Irish activist lover of her youth. The reader is left to wonder whether Gabriel feels sorrow or acceptance over his wife’s confession that she still harbors feelings for her former lover. The ending, it would seem, is deliberately ambiguous. Indeed, the ending forces the reader to go back into the story looking for clues as to whether we’re supposed to read the ending as “happy” or “sad.” While “The Dead” is quite a famous story, less well known to the general public is its place as the culminating story in Joyce’s first book, a collection of short stories titled Dubliners. The collection was rejected 17 times over a 10-year period, with some of those rejections being based on what publishers and printers considered to be objectionable material. Finally published in 1914, this collection of 15 stories was Joyce’s first attempt to bring his native city to life. Of course, he would go on to write again and again about the Irish capital, most famously in his 1922 novel, Ulysses, which recounts one day in the life of Leopold Bloom as he makes his way through the streets of Dublin. But Dubliners was Joyce’s initial portrait of a city he both loved and hated. Each story in the collection features a different resident of Dublin, and each tells a different tale of the suffocating, dreary lives lived in this city. The characters presented here suffer from spiritual paralysis, squelched freedom, and ##. Joyce himself admitted that the stories capture some of the unhappiest moments of life. If you’re looking for uplifting literature, Dubliners is not the book for you. When read against the backdrop of these stories, “The Dead” – which is the finale of sorts to Dubliners – takes on an extra richness, an extra dimension. When read in this context, the story’s ambiguous ending becomes both easier and harder to read. Has Gabriel had an epiphany about the ways in which the dead live on in the memories of the living? Or has he succumbed – as the other characters in the Dubliners stories do – to a kind of paralysis, a numbing inability to be fully alive? Is the snow a beautiful phenomenon that brings all of Ireland together? Or is it a symbol of coldness, of death, a killing frost? As one source says, “In every corner of the country, snow touches both the dead and the living, uniting them in frozen paralysis. However, Gabriel’s thoughts in the final lines of Dubliners suggest that the living might in fact be able to free themselves and live unfettered by deadening routines and the past. Even in January, snow is unusual in Ireland and cannot last forever.” To consider the ending yourself, you’ll want to read this powerful story, which you can do for free at Project Gutenberg (and in fact, you can read the entire Dubliners collection here as well). If you prefer a hard copy, there’s an inexpensive Dover Thrift Edition. You might also want to watch John Huston’s 1987 film adaptation of “The Dead.” It starred his daughter Angelica Huston as Gretta Conroy and Donal McCann as her husband, Gabriel. Want to dig deeper? A helpful glossary of terms is available, and a digitized copy of the first edition of Dubliners can be found at Internet Archive. Richard Ellman’s biography of Joyce remains the standard, though its revised edition was published more than 30 years ago. Cornell’s James Joyce Collection is outstanding. You might also want to visit The James Joyce Centre – either online or in person in Dublin! Visit thestoryweb.com/joyce for links to all these resources and to watch the film’s ending. But first, take a listen as I read the opening pages of “The Dead.”   Lily, the caretaker’s daughter, was literally run off her feet. Hardly had she brought one gentleman into the little pantry behind the office on the ground floor and helped him off with his overcoat than the wheezy hall-door bell clanged again and she had to scamper along the bare hallway to let in another guest. It was well for her she had not to attend to the ladies also. But Miss Kate and Miss Julia had thought of that and had converted the bathroom upstairs into a ladies’ dressing-room. Miss Kate and Miss Julia were there, gossiping and laughing and fussing, walking after each other to the head of the stairs, peering down over the banisters and calling down to Lily to ask her who had come. It was always a great affair, the Misses Morkan’s annual dance. Everybody who knew them came to it, members of the family, old friends of the family, the members of Julia’s choir, any of Kate’s pupils that were grown up enough, and even some of Mary Jane’s pupils too. Never once had it fallen flat. For years and years it had gone off in splendid style as long as anyone could remember; ever since Kate and Julia, after the death of their brother Pat, had left the house in Stoney Batter and taken Mary Jane, their only niece, to live with them in the dark gaunt house on Usher’s Island, the upper part of which they had rented from Mr Fulham, the corn-factor on the ground floor. That was a good thirty years ago if it was a day. Mary Jane, who was then a little girl in short clothes, was now the main prop of the household, for she had the organ in Haddington Road. She had been through the Academy and gave a pupils’ concert every year in the upper room of the Antient Concert Rooms. Many of her pupils belonged to the better-class families on the Kingstown and Dalkey line. Old as they were, her aunts also did their share. Julia, though she was quite grey, was still the leading soprano in Adam and Eve’s, and Kate, being too feeble to go about much, gave music lessons to beginners on the old square piano in the back room. Lily, the caretaker’s daughter, did housemaid’s work for them. Though their life was modest they believed in eating well; the best of everything: diamond-bone sirloins, three-shilling tea and the best bottled stout. But Lily seldom made a mistake in the orders so that she got on well with her three mistresses. They were fussy, that was all. But the only thing they would not stand was back answers. Of course they had good reason to be fussy on such a night. And then it was long after ten o’clock and yet there was no sign of Gabriel and his wife. Besides they were dreadfully afraid that Freddy Malins might turn up screwed. They would not wish for worlds that any of Mary Jane’s pupils should see him under the influence; and when he was like that it was sometimes very hard to manage him. Freddy Malins always came late but they wondered what could be keeping Gabriel: and that was what brought them every two minutes to the banisters to ask Lily had Gabriel or Freddy come. “O, Mr Conroy,” said Lily to Gabriel when she opened the door for him, “Miss Kate and Miss Julia thought you were never coming. Good-night, Mrs Conroy.” “I’ll engage they did,” said Gabriel, “but they forget that my wife here takes three mortal hours to dress herself.” He stood on the mat, scraping the snow from his goloshes, while Lily led his wife to the foot of the stairs and called out: “Miss Kate, here’s Mrs Conroy.” Kate and Julia came toddling down the dark stairs at once. Both of them kissed Gabriel’s wife, said she must be perished alive and asked was Gabriel with her. “Here I am as right as the mail, Aunt Kate! Go on up. I’ll follow,” called out Gabriel from the dark. He continued scraping his feet vigorously while the three women went upstairs, laughing, to the ladies’ dressing-room. A light fringe of snow lay like a cape on the shoulders of his overcoat and like toecaps on the toes of his goloshes; and, as the buttons of his overcoat slipped with a squeaking noise through the snow-stiffened frieze, a cold, fragrant air from out-of-doors escaped from crevices and folds. “Is it snowing again, Mr Conroy?” asked Lily. She had preceded him into the pantry to help him off with his overcoat. Gabriel smiled at the three syllables she had given his surname and glanced at her. She was a slim, growing girl, pale in complexion and with hay-coloured hair. The gas in the pantry made her look still paler. Gabriel had known her when she was a child and used to sit on the lowest step nursing a rag doll. “Yes, Lily,” he answered, “and I think we’re in for a night of it.” He looked up at the pantry ceiling, which was shaking with the stamping and shuffling of feet on the floor above, listened for a moment to the piano and then glanced at the girl, who was folding his overcoat carefully at the end of a shelf. “Tell me, Lily,” he said in a friendly tone, “do you still go to school?” “O no, sir,” she answered. “I’m done schooling this year and more.” “O, then,” said Gabriel gaily, “I suppose we’ll be going to your wedding one of these fine days with your young man, eh?” The girl glanced back at him over her shoulder and said with great bitterness: “The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.” Gabriel coloured as if he felt he had made a mistake and, without looking at her, kicked off his goloshes and flicked actively with his muffler at his patent-leather shoes. He was a stout tallish young man. The high colour of his cheeks pushed upwards even to his forehead where it scattered itself in a few formless patches of pale red; and on his hairless face there scintillated restlessly the polished lenses and the bright gilt rims of the glasses which screened his delicate and restless eyes. His glossy black hair was parted in the middle and brushed in a long curve behind his ears where it curled slightly beneath the groove left by his hat. When he had flicked lustre into his shoes he stood up and pulled his waistcoat down more tightly on his plump body. Then he took a coin rapidly from his pocket. “O Lily,” he said, thrusting it into her hands, “it’s Christmas-time, isn’t it? Just ... here’s a little....” He walked rapidly towards the door. “O no, sir!” cried the girl, following him. “Really, sir, I wouldn’t take it.” “Christmas-time! Christmas-time!” said Gabriel, almost trotting to the stairs and waving his hand to her in deprecation. The girl, seeing that he had gained the stairs, called out after him: “Well, thank you, sir.” He waited outside the drawing-room door until the waltz should finish, listening to the skirts that swept against it and to the shuffling of feet. He was still discomposed by the girl’s bitter and sudden retort. It had cast a gloom over him which he tried to dispel by arranging his cuffs and the bows of his tie. He then took from his waistcoat pocket a little paper and glanced at the headings he had made for his speech. He was undecided about the lines from Robert Browning for he feared they would be above the heads of his hearers. Some quotation that they would recognise from Shakespeare or from the Melodies would be better. The indelicate clacking of the men’s heels and the shuffling of their soles reminded him that their grade of culture differed from his. He would only make himself ridiculous by quoting poetry to them which they could not understand. They would think that he was airing his superior education. He would fail with them just as he had failed with the girl in the pantry. He had taken up a wrong tone. His whole speech was a mistake from first to last, an utter failure. Just then his aunts and his wife came out of the ladies’ dressing-room. His aunts were two small plainly dressed old women. Aunt Julia was an inch or so the taller. Her hair, drawn low over the tops of her ears, was grey; and grey also, with darker shadows, was her large flaccid face. Though she was stout in build and stood erect her slow eyes and parted lips gave her the appearance of a woman who did not know where she was or where she was going. Aunt Kate was more vivacious. Her face, healthier than her sister’s, was all puckers and creases, like a shrivelled red apple, and her hair, braided in the same old-fashioned way, had not lost its ripe nut colour. They both kissed Gabriel frankly. He was their favourite nephew, the son of their dead elder sister, Ellen, who had married T. J. Conroy of the Port and Docks. “Gretta tells me you’re not going to take a cab back to Monkstown tonight, Gabriel,” said Aunt Kate. “No,” said Gabriel, turning to his wife, “we had quite enough of that last year, hadn’t we? Don’t you remember, Aunt Kate, what a cold Gretta got out of it? Cab windows rattling all the way, and the east wind blowing in after we passed Merrion. Very jolly it was. Gretta caught a dreadful cold.” Aunt Kate frowned severely and nodded her head at every word. “Quite right, Gabriel, quite right,” she said. “You can’t be too careful.” “But as for Gretta there,” said Gabriel, “she’d walk home in the snow if she were let.” Mrs Conroy laughed. “Don’t mind him, Aunt Kate,” she said. “He’s really an awful bother, what with green shades for Tom’s eyes at night and making him do the dumb-bells, and forcing Eva to eat the stirabout. The poor child! And she simply hates the sight of it!... O, but you’ll never guess what he makes me wear now!” She broke out into a peal of laughter and glanced at her husband, whose admiring and happy eyes had been wandering from her dress to her face and hair. The two aunts laughed heartily too, for Gabriel’s solicitude was a standing joke with them. “Goloshes!” said Mrs Conroy. “That’s the latest. Whenever it’s wet underfoot I must put on my goloshes. Tonight even he wanted me to put them on, but I wouldn’t. The next thing he’ll buy me will be a diving suit.” Gabriel laughed nervously and patted his tie reassuringly while Aunt Kate nearly doubled herself, so heartily did she enjoy the joke. The smile soon faded from Aunt Julia’s face and her mirthless eyes were directed towards her nephew’s face. After a pause she asked: “And what are goloshes, Gabriel?” “Goloshes, Julia!” exclaimed her sister “Goodness me, don’t you know what goloshes are? You wear them over your ... over your boots, Gretta, isn’t it?” “Yes,” said Mrs Conroy. “Guttapercha things. We both have a pair now. Gabriel says everyone wears them on the continent.” “O, on the continent,” murmured Aunt Julia, nodding her head slowly. Gabriel knitted his brows and said, as if he were slightly angered: “It’s nothing very wonderful but Gretta thinks it very funny because she says the word reminds her of Christy Minstrels.” “But tell me, Gabriel,” said Aunt Kate, with brisk tact. “Of course, you’ve seen about the room. Gretta was saying....” “O, the room is all right,” replied Gabriel. “I’ve taken one in the Gresham.” “To be sure,” said Aunt Kate, “by far the best thing to do. And the children, Gretta, you’re not anxious about them?” “O, for one night,” said Mrs Conroy. “Besides, Bessie will look after them.”

@bigfinish #DoctorWho #TinDogPodcast #Podcast www.tin-dog.co.uk #DrWho #Doctor #Who #GALLY1  195. MISTFALL RELEASED JANUARY PRICES CD £14.99 Download £12.99 Synopsis Drawn off-course, the TARDIS passes through a CVE into a closed universe – a hugely improbable event with a tragically obvious cause. In order to escape inescapable E-Space, the Doctor, Nyssa, Tegan and Turlough are forced to venture in the wilds of planet Alzarius.But they're not the only unwanted visitors to this strange world. A Starliner has landed, captained by Decider Merrion – but why would Merrion risk rousing the Planet that Slept, and the monsters in its marshes?Mistfall is coming. The Marshmen are coming. But while Nyssa and Turlough find themselves caught in the open, in the hands of fanatics who model themselves on the legendary Outlers, the Doctor and Tegan discover that the supposedly secure Starliner affords them no protection from monsters both within and without... Written By: Andrew SmithDirected By: Ken Bentley Cast Peter Davison (The Doctor), Janet Fielding (Tegan), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Mark Strickson (Turlough), Jemma Redgrave (Decider Lana Merrion), Nigel Carrington(Pik Solus), Emily Woodward (Fem/Citizen Arana),   

The Republic of Ireland (aka The Irish Free State, Eire) declared neutrality during the Second World War. That wasn't particularly unusual: Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland did too. Yet around 60,000 “neutral” Irish volunteered to fight on one side (with the Allies, in this case). That was unusual. After the war, most of the Irish volunteers remained in the UK. But 12,000 of them came back to Ireland. In Returning Home: Irish Ex-Servicemen and the Second World War (Merrion, 2012), Bernard Kelly tells their story. Like most things in Irish history, it's complicated. On the one hand, the volunteers had served in the armed forces of Ireland's archenemy (at least according to Republicans). On the other hand, they had fought the Nazis and thereby protected the Free World. Bernard explains how the Irish veterans were received and, interestingly, how they are still being discussed in Ireland today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Republic of Ireland (aka The Irish Free State, Eire) declared neutrality during the Second World War. That wasn’t particularly unusual: Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland did too. Yet around 60,000 “neutral” Irish volunteered to fight on one side (with the Allies, in this case). That was unusual. After the war, most of the Irish volunteers remained in the UK. But 12,000 of them came back to Ireland. In Returning Home: Irish Ex-Servicemen and the Second World War (Merrion, 2012), Bernard Kelly tells their story. Like most things in Irish history, it’s complicated. On the one hand, the volunteers had served in the armed forces of Ireland’s archenemy (at least according to Republicans). On the other hand, they had fought the Nazis and thereby protected the Free World. Bernard explains how the Irish veterans were received and, interestingly, how they are still being discussed in Ireland today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Republic of Ireland (aka The Irish Free State, Eire) declared neutrality during the Second World War. That wasn’t particularly unusual: Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland did too. Yet around 60,000 “neutral” Irish volunteered to fight on one side (with the Allies, in this case). That was unusual. After the war, most of the Irish volunteers remained in the UK. But 12,000 of them came back to Ireland. In Returning Home: Irish Ex-Servicemen and the Second World War (Merrion, 2012), Bernard Kelly tells their story. Like most things in Irish history, it’s complicated. On the one hand, the volunteers had served in the armed forces of Ireland’s archenemy (at least according to Republicans). On the other hand, they had fought the Nazis and thereby protected the Free World. Bernard explains how the Irish veterans were received and, interestingly, how they are still being discussed in Ireland today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Republic of Ireland (aka The Irish Free State, Eire) declared neutrality during the Second World War. That wasn’t particularly unusual: Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland did too. Yet around 60,000 “neutral” Irish volunteered to fight on one side (with the Allies, in this case). That was unusual. After the war, most of the Irish volunteers remained in the UK. But 12,000 of them came back to Ireland. In Returning Home: Irish Ex-Servicemen and the Second World War (Merrion, 2012), Bernard Kelly tells their story. Like most things in Irish history, it’s complicated. On the one hand, the volunteers had served in the armed forces of Ireland’s archenemy (at least according to Republicans). On the other hand, they had fought the Nazis and thereby protected the Free World. Bernard explains how the Irish veterans were received and, interestingly, how they are still being discussed in Ireland today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Republic of Ireland (aka The Irish Free State, Eire) declared neutrality during the Second World War. That wasn’t particularly unusual: Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland did too. Yet around 60,000 “neutral” Irish volunteered to fight on one side (with the Allies, in this case). That was unusual. After the war, most of the Irish volunteers remained in the UK. But 12,000 of them came back to Ireland. In Returning Home: Irish Ex-Servicemen and the Second World War (Merrion, 2012), Bernard Kelly tells their story. Like most things in Irish history, it’s complicated. On the one hand, the volunteers had served in the armed forces of Ireland’s archenemy (at least according to Republicans). On the other hand, they had fought the Nazis and thereby protected the Free World. Bernard explains how the Irish veterans were received and, interestingly, how they are still being discussed in Ireland today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Joe O’ Dwyer, Managing Director at Merrion Investment Managers talks about the reasons behind the dramatic shifts in the investment market this year and the impact it has had on Irish investors.  He looks at the choices that face investors going forward and outlines the direction Merrion are taking in the short-term to help investors rescue their portfolios.