Hi all, Norwegian radio journalist Kari Hesthamar wrote a book in 2008 called So Long Marianne which tells the story of Marianne Ihlen and her relationship with Leonard Cohen in Hydra, and elsewhere, in the 1960s. This book has not yet been translated into English but the ‘rights’ are still availabl...

I can be cut from the vine, gently please. Thanks to JudasPriest and An Post the disks have just arrived with me. I will copy them over the weekend and post them on–where next though?

When your turn comes you will be contacted and asked for your name and address

That feels a bit like being outed. Can I use a PO Box! Tá an grian ag taitneamh inniú ach tá na fainleoigí imithe go dti an Aifric.

Recently back from the holliers, so only just discovered this thread. I would like to be added to the list, not sure how it works, but should be up to speed by the time anything reaches me.

I bought 6 VIP tickets front row seats for Lisbon (my wife and I and 4 friends). Unfortunately due to circumstances we will be unable to attend. I paid an insurance sum when buying the tickets to cover this eventuality however the booking company are very hard to contact and do not reply to my email...

burningviolin wrote: Would love to go to this concert but the flight times

Pretty impossible from Cork all right but Aer Lingus daily Dublin Lisbon or Ryanair to Faro?

Quite possibly will not actually swing all the permutations to allow me to go (will probably be in France at the time) but a certain madness took hold and I have booked VIP row tickets for Lisbon anyway!!!

But then you do not have my mobile number!!! Give em a rough idea of where and when and you might find me lurking.

That is an interesting reading of the performance. I am not sure I would agree with the level of cynicism which I feel you are attributing to the lyric but there is no doubt that it is a carefully rehearsed and polished show. I would agree that deification is no good for anyone and a bit of critical...

happy birthday alan (real or imagined) where ever you may celebrate it. You could do some flash mobbing to gather a crowd. I can hardly see the road outside our house but leaving from a fog bound West Cork in half and hour with four new tyres on the car, so I will at least grip the road even if I c...

Yes, they were the latter-day sisters of mercy (but Leonard was too nimble for them). I am sure if there was a story you will find it. If you do not, I will make it up for you. All life is a marketing opportunity now. Read my vacuous life on FB, where I message my partner for the world to read with ...

As someone else once said in a slightly different context, I haven’t gone away you know. Only one great unanswerable question now remains: will the Limerick tunnel be open by this day week? Only eight more sleeps to go (well discounting nodding off on the sofa, none of us are any younger now). I hop...

Thanks to Maarten for his help. Let the voting commence!

carlowmike wrote:There is not much point in me attending the meeting now but I intend to nevertheless.

No, not much point at all, so why bother? And, as the as the anti-war slogan went, 'not in my name'.

Remove all the previous Sligo threads, and start one new one.... I'm serious...

I second that emotion.

Reading all the Sligo threads on this site has made me think about the obsessive behaviour and wonder whether LC fans (myself included in this introspection) are a bit mental or missing something in life. DSM IV Code 300.3 Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder A person with obsessive-compulsive disorder ha...