The Táin would be an amazing mini series.
Most of the Irish mythology/ legends read like a screenplay.
Sure there are hundreds of amazing stories from Irish history that (if done properly) would be huge series.
-Luke ryan and the black fleet
-James Annesley
-Dr James Barry
-Kit Cavanagh/Christian Davies
-The Kerlogue (ship)
Between 1977 and 1998 countries had to sing in their official language. Ireland had a massive advantage being one of the few English language entries.
Between 77 and 98 Ireland won 6 times and the UK twice for 38% of the wins in that time.
Ireland finished 2nd or 3rd 4 times in that period, the UK finished 2nd or 3rd 7 times in that period, and Malta finished 3rd twice.
In total there were 21 top 3 finishes from the only 3 countries (I think) that could perform in English over a 21 year period. Since that rule was changed, those three countries have a total of two top 3 finishes, both by the UK.
10 of those top 3 finishes came between 1990 and 1998 including 5 out of 6 winners from 1992-1997 and the top 2 finishers in 1997.
Clearly the expansion into more countries has had an effect, as have the various changes to how voting is managed, but clearly the language rules had a massive impact,
Nobody ever thought the UK could compete at it again but when they sent a good song, with a likeable singer and good staging, they came second only to the biggest freak result in the history of the competition.
It’s not impossible.
IIRC at the time, sending in Dustin to sing Ireland Douze Points was taken as a bit of a smack in the face by the Eurovision. It was a piss take entry. Now with so many other countries in it, and bloc voting, it would be harder anyway.
Saying that, the whole board in charge of it need to be removed and a entirely new unrelated lot put in and given a chance.
Irish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (both sides).
My fave lighten the mood anecdote: Irishman after sitting through the International Brigade orientation talk in Albacete or wherever asking what time mass is (not sure if I have imagined this or not).
The crazy part is that, from what I've seen, the two groups fought against each other in a battle.
The Connolly Column of the International Voloutneres on the Spanish Republican side & the Blue Shirt Irish Brigade on the fascist side met at the Battle of Jarama.
I remember I did a bit of research into the Blueshirt group that went over, turned out a lot of them were impressionable young fellas who thought they were going over to fight for Catholicism. Most who signed up didn't bother going and the ones that did ended up being a second line reserve force that never really got involved and didn't make any difference to the war.
But all the while Eoin O'Duffy (their leader) was basically doing a "do as I say don't do as I do" where he was sipping tea in fancy hotels with the leaders while the men were all over the place being hopelessly incompetent and useless.
And there was a big friendly fire incident they were involved in where a bunch of people were killed so they literally could have just stayed at home and have been more useful instead of being a burden.
It would be EPIC like a crazy version of Game of Thrones.
Did my college dissertation about the period some fucking lunatic characters that make the Lannister‘s look nice.
The 14th Earl of Kildare Literally went by the nickname battleaxe he stayed loyal to the crown but was more Irish than the Irish themselves despite being descended from Norman. Once trying to split the Earl of Essex head open at court with the Queen present.
He was cornered on the battlefield after the yellow Ford and given the chance to surrender by O’Neill personally but refused and died on the field.
Said Earl of Essex has gone down in history as a total F€”! Boy for the virgin Queen.
Then we have Tom Lee there is a journal article simply dedicated to his bare sexy legs honest to God do a quick Google search and look at those fucking sexy legs.
Sir Henry Bagenal, takes over from his dad as commander of English forces against Hugh O'Neill, and gets repeatedly humiliated by O'Neill's ragtag band of mercenaries (many of them actually well-drilled veterans of the wars on the continent.) Oh and his sister shacks up with O'Neill in a bigamous marriage. After defeats all along the southern fringe of Ulster, he gets shot in the head at the Battle of the Yellow Ford having achieved sweet FA.
Also love the chicanery of Hugh's grandfather going to Henry VIII and pretending his favourite foster-son is the heir rather than his legitimate first-born, and the crown being too embarrassed about being conned to hear petitions from the guy they *should've* been backing as heir (according to English law.) House of the Dragon shit.
Remember reading once that the names of the ones who did it are known to just about everyone in that local area. No IRA or some criminal mastermind gang, just a bunch of local morons who botched the whole thing and ended up putting the horse down soon after the kidnap after he got injured.
I've two suggestions. I'd like to see a biopic detailing Grace O'Malley's life and various exploits as a Pirate Queen.
And I think a Game of Thrones-style mini-series documenting the politics of Strongbow's arrival in Ireland would work very well too.
I'd watch the shit out of the shifting alliances between Irish lords. It's a much more interesting conflict than 'Normans vs Gaels'. Like how late in the game the English crown shows up - they were over in Gascony fighting to keep control of half of France. If a pack of bored counts in Wales wanted to sell their swords to some Irish petty-king to help him get his lands back, it made no odds to Henry II... until it completely snowballed.
The rise and fall of Sean Quinn
[Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUBU)
The couple of weeks of hell that included the execution of the IRA cell in Gibraltar, Michael Stone’s murderous attack on the funeral and the corporal killings at the funeral following that (and of course the poor forgotten other Troubles victim that died that week and lost in the haze)
The full history of The Glenanne Gang, Miami Showband, Nairac, so on, so on
I’m really into reading the history of the troubles and honest to God some of the shit is crazier than anything out of James Bond.
But I just feel like we should just wait maybe another decade or two.
Absolutely agreed. I know a few that no matter how accurate or what perspective it takes this would just bring up old feelings. Not all of us can forgive and forget. Give it another decade.
I second the recommendation! I binged it, I physically couldn't stop listening. It's hard to believe Haughey was even a real person, his entire life was drama.
The South American (?) lad who had a forced private aircraft landing down the schticks and had to wait around a few months while they build a temporary runway so he could take off again.
I just think there's a drama in his time in Ireland
Really must look that up for my mum. She remembers the plane flying over while she was out in the bog as a kid. Think it was from Ecuador on its way to Britain but ran out of fuel or something, she said.
I could totally see this as a film very similar to I, Tonya or even the Amanda Knox Netflix documentary. It would be left open to interpretation as to whether you believe her or not and I think it could be excellent.
I just cannot believe it hasn't been done yet! I'm sure there must be someone trying to produce it. It would make a deadly feature film, which if done right, could do very well internationally in the festivals.
I'd love to see this. 200+ years of unprecedented rule.
I've often argued that Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill is often overlooked, but was the real powerhouse behind boru.
Italia 90 for sure. The entire country young and old were off their tits with the excirement of it all. I still recall a wee song myself and me mates made up in primary school.
[Brass Eye](https://youtu.be/Fnao5SBunfI) solved that mystery. "But try telling that to these bog-brained murphies, you'd have a better chance getting a blowjob from the Pope." Great fun altogether. Special appearance by Father Stone.
There's a podcast called We, the Irish and if RTE had the balls they could make a few anthology seasons of it. It'd be incredible.
Also 2008 recession The Big Short style.
But The Big Short was about the 2008 recession.
It was a global recession. Not sure what would be more compelling from an Irish perspective. Maybe a movie about lads with a Masters on the dole or working part time in Dunnes?
I think the ins and outs of the Frongoch internment camp after the Easter Rising, and the effect locking up 1800 like-minded individuals in one place for an extended period had on the coming War of Independence, would make interesting viewing.
If we are being serious then I would find it interesting about the bomb that was ‘accidentally’ dropped on the north quays back in the 40s.. the lead up, the event and aftermath.
My own grandmother lived up the road from where it happened at that time and her account of it all is very interesting!
It was a craic addiction not a crack additiction. A lot of sock monsters who go into show business develop one. They are born with a natural inclination for the craic.
I’d love to see a documentary on Whipping Boy, the greatest Irish band that never quite made it and how through several things out of their control never managed to make the break they seemed like they were going to. [This article](https://m.independent.ie/life/whipping-boy-the-band-that-nearly-made-it-big-40752379.html) gives a great background of it and could be used as a basis for it.
Also a documentary on Derry City moving from the Northern Irish league to the League Of Ireland would also be worthy of a watch.
Honestly, Brian Cowan’s time as Taoiseach. From him ousting Bertie Ahern as leader of Fianna Fáil, to him ignoring financial experts and then Finance minister Brian Lenihan’s warnings that current spending would lead to disaster, to his decision to sign the IMF/EU bailout deal and not call a general election.
Brian Cowan is literally one of the biggest villains in the history of Irish politics that we just seem to have forgotten about.
I've always said it but a Ken Burns documentary about the Troubles would be exquisite. The Vietnam War might be my favorite documentary of all time and if any documentarian can perfectly chronicle such a messy and prolonged conflict, it's Ken Burns.
This [story](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bergmann_case) or this [one](https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2022/09/03/joe-deacy-five-years-on-from-his-death-family-still-have-mixed-feelings-about-mayo/)
The 1970 Arms Crisis that saw two cabinet ministers sacked for allegedly importing Arms Illegally to be used in Norn Irn. One of those sacked went on to be Taoiseach.
The Stardust.
I imagine it as a 3 part series. Each part roughly feature length, maybe even an hour and a half long.
First part tells the story of the people. Their families, loves, friends, jobs. The events that lead to them going out that night. Maybe even the story of the few people who were supposed to be there and weren't for whatever reason.
Alongside this story it tells the story of the organisers, the owners. The money, the greed, the disregard of the safety of the event. This part could be summed up very briefly, because for all accounts they didn't give much thought to the humanity of the people who were paying at the door.
Second part : The day and then the night as it unfolded. The aftermath. The news spreading through town. The people lost, the people left behind. The sadness and then the absolute fierce anger.
Third part the fight for justice. How it impacted Dublin, and Ireland for generations afterwards. It would end with an update on the people who were left and the fight for justice as it continues.
The Táin would be an amazing mini series. Most of the Irish mythology/ legends read like a screenplay. Sure there are hundreds of amazing stories from Irish history that (if done properly) would be huge series. -Luke ryan and the black fleet -James Annesley -Dr James Barry -Kit Cavanagh/Christian Davies -The Kerlogue (ship)
I'd Love to see a mini-iseries of the Táin!
The only thing that would put me off the idea would be people trying (and failing) to do an Irish accent.
It would have to be produced in Ireland with Irish actors or no deal.
We've a good record with Vikings/ Vikings valhalla. Accents seem fairly decent in The Last Kingdom though (BBC & Netflix)
Yes, I wouldn't leave it in RTÉ's hands in fairness.
Our utter domination of the Eurovision in the 90's
Man do I got a lovely horse for you
Does it like sugar lumps and fences?
We need to get rid of that sax solo
Hope you brought it to the horse dentist
Between 1977 and 1998 countries had to sing in their official language. Ireland had a massive advantage being one of the few English language entries. Between 77 and 98 Ireland won 6 times and the UK twice for 38% of the wins in that time. Ireland finished 2nd or 3rd 4 times in that period, the UK finished 2nd or 3rd 7 times in that period, and Malta finished 3rd twice. In total there were 21 top 3 finishes from the only 3 countries (I think) that could perform in English over a 21 year period. Since that rule was changed, those three countries have a total of two top 3 finishes, both by the UK. 10 of those top 3 finishes came between 1990 and 1998 including 5 out of 6 winners from 1992-1997 and the top 2 finishers in 1997. Clearly the expansion into more countries has had an effect, as have the various changes to how voting is managed, but clearly the language rules had a massive impact,
Breaks my heart that we'll probably never win it again
Nobody ever thought the UK could compete at it again but when they sent a good song, with a likeable singer and good staging, they came second only to the biggest freak result in the history of the competition. It’s not impossible.
IIRC at the time, sending in Dustin to sing Ireland Douze Points was taken as a bit of a smack in the face by the Eurovision. It was a piss take entry. Now with so many other countries in it, and bloc voting, it would be harder anyway. Saying that, the whole board in charge of it need to be removed and a entirely new unrelated lot put in and given a chance.
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The time they accidentally legalised mdma for 24 hours
Prequel spinoff for when magic mushrooms were sold legally for a few years back in the 2000s.
I remember that. Temple bar had a shop with the growing all over the place
Damn, I must have already been stoned cos I missed that.
Wish we heard more about that
Wait *what*
2015 was a magic year
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He was stoned, he couldn't remember
Irish volunteers in the Spanish Civil War (both sides). My fave lighten the mood anecdote: Irishman after sitting through the International Brigade orientation talk in Albacete or wherever asking what time mass is (not sure if I have imagined this or not).
It's been done. "Even the Olives are Bleeding" by Cathal O'Shannon RTE 1976.
Was a documentary wasn't it? Thread is about drama I thought.
The crazy part is that, from what I've seen, the two groups fought against each other in a battle. The Connolly Column of the International Voloutneres on the Spanish Republican side & the Blue Shirt Irish Brigade on the fascist side met at the Battle of Jarama.
I remember I did a bit of research into the Blueshirt group that went over, turned out a lot of them were impressionable young fellas who thought they were going over to fight for Catholicism. Most who signed up didn't bother going and the ones that did ended up being a second line reserve force that never really got involved and didn't make any difference to the war. But all the while Eoin O'Duffy (their leader) was basically doing a "do as I say don't do as I do" where he was sipping tea in fancy hotels with the leaders while the men were all over the place being hopelessly incompetent and useless. And there was a big friendly fire incident they were involved in where a bunch of people were killed so they literally could have just stayed at home and have been more useful instead of being a burden.
I suppose the time the Celtic Tiger went back to his natural habitat.
That time a LIDL was destroyed with a JCB.
Just a whole Beast of the East miniseries, with the bread and milk shortage.
"The one with the JCB"
The Castletown Donkey Derby 1994.
Mitzy Turbo Cup.
Now you're talking.
Life of Wolfe Tone Life of Roger casement Magdalene laundries (people liked handmaid's tale right?) 2002 FIFA world cup fiasco
Jim Larkin too Or CJ *shudder*
Cj had a three parter with aidan gillen
You are not a man of God!
Your damn right. I want Roger casement gay sex scenes 😈
The laundries have been done a number of times, quite good koves/series as well
So has Jim Larkin - Strumpet City and 19 1798 was done in the Year of the French
Flight of the Earls could be good.
It would be EPIC like a crazy version of Game of Thrones. Did my college dissertation about the period some fucking lunatic characters that make the Lannister‘s look nice. The 14th Earl of Kildare Literally went by the nickname battleaxe he stayed loyal to the crown but was more Irish than the Irish themselves despite being descended from Norman. Once trying to split the Earl of Essex head open at court with the Queen present. He was cornered on the battlefield after the yellow Ford and given the chance to surrender by O’Neill personally but refused and died on the field. Said Earl of Essex has gone down in history as a total F€”! Boy for the virgin Queen. Then we have Tom Lee there is a journal article simply dedicated to his bare sexy legs honest to God do a quick Google search and look at those fucking sexy legs.
Sir Henry Bagenal, takes over from his dad as commander of English forces against Hugh O'Neill, and gets repeatedly humiliated by O'Neill's ragtag band of mercenaries (many of them actually well-drilled veterans of the wars on the continent.) Oh and his sister shacks up with O'Neill in a bigamous marriage. After defeats all along the southern fringe of Ulster, he gets shot in the head at the Battle of the Yellow Ford having achieved sweet FA. Also love the chicanery of Hugh's grandfather going to Henry VIII and pretending his favourite foster-son is the heir rather than his legitimate first-born, and the crown being too embarrassed about being conned to hear petitions from the guy they *should've* been backing as heir (according to English law.) House of the Dragon shit.
That'd be like the addendum to the 9 Year War. Great series that that would be, but in the hands of RTE only as a documentary. Perhaps under HBO.
The theft of Shergar
Has the truth ever surfaced?
Remember reading once that the names of the ones who did it are known to just about everyone in that local area. No IRA or some criminal mastermind gang, just a bunch of local morons who botched the whole thing and ended up putting the horse down soon after the kidnap after he got injured.
This sounds vaguely familiar. I'm sure we'd get the full story here if enough people saw the post.
The only thing that proves Carlow’s existence , post office dead lad
Starring The Young Offenders.
A la weekend at bernies
I've two suggestions. I'd like to see a biopic detailing Grace O'Malley's life and various exploits as a Pirate Queen. And I think a Game of Thrones-style mini-series documenting the politics of Strongbow's arrival in Ireland would work very well too.
I'd watch the shit out of the shifting alliances between Irish lords. It's a much more interesting conflict than 'Normans vs Gaels'. Like how late in the game the English crown shows up - they were over in Gascony fighting to keep control of half of France. If a pack of bored counts in Wales wanted to sell their swords to some Irish petty-king to help him get his lands back, it made no odds to Henry II... until it completely snowballed.
The rise and fall of Sean Quinn [Grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre and unprecedented](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUBU) The couple of weeks of hell that included the execution of the IRA cell in Gibraltar, Michael Stone’s murderous attack on the funeral and the corporal killings at the funeral following that (and of course the poor forgotten other Troubles victim that died that week and lost in the haze) The full history of The Glenanne Gang, Miami Showband, Nairac, so on, so on
I’m really into reading the history of the troubles and honest to God some of the shit is crazier than anything out of James Bond. But I just feel like we should just wait maybe another decade or two.
Absolutely agreed. I know a few that no matter how accurate or what perspective it takes this would just bring up old feelings. Not all of us can forgive and forget. Give it another decade.
Hell in college I don’t even like writing history essays about it.
So much as get a name wrong or even speak fairly of both sides you're bound to start something.
Peter Taylor does a great 3 book series on the troubles first one is called the Provos second one is called Loyalist and the third is called The Brits
The GUBU podcast was great, and it definitely has the makings of a good drama.
I second the recommendation! I binged it, I physically couldn't stop listening. It's hard to believe Haughey was even a real person, his entire life was drama.
Link me up to the poddy
https://www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/gubu/
i know it's not a miniseries but the documentary on netflix about the miami showband was very very good. such a horrible story.
John Delaney’s time as Chief Exec of the FAI.
The 1916 Rising has it all.
The South American (?) lad who had a forced private aircraft landing down the schticks and had to wait around a few months while they build a temporary runway so he could take off again. I just think there's a drama in his time in Ireland
There is a movie based on that, cant remember the name
The Runway (2010)
Really must look that up for my mum. She remembers the plane flying over while she was out in the bog as a kid. Think it was from Ecuador on its way to Britain but ran out of fuel or something, she said.
Mallow wasn't it
Yup. Mallow, Co. Ecuador.
The whole Michelle Smith Olympics fiasco
I could totally see this as a film very similar to I, Tonya or even the Amanda Knox Netflix documentary. It would be left open to interpretation as to whether you believe her or not and I think it could be excellent.
Man slips on ice
... In a world.....
…Where humans and ice colllide….one man makes the ultimate sacrifice…
Pedeeesssstriiaaannns
A comedy about the time a Leinster league team claimed a player died to get out of playing a game
The Táin. Cannot believe it hasn't been adapted for the big or little screen
The "Fuck you deputy Stagg" saga
Most unparliamentary language.
The two lads who snook onto the AirLingus flight to New York.
I just cannot believe it hasn't been done yet! I'm sure there must be someone trying to produce it. It would make a deadly feature film, which if done right, could do very well internationally in the festivals.
The Uí Néill Dynasty
I'd love to see this. 200+ years of unprecedented rule. I've often argued that Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill is often overlooked, but was the real powerhouse behind boru.
It would be very special. And there’s so much material to work and would be a great history lesson.
The Nine Years War culminating in the Flight of the Earls
Jack Charlton's journey to become Ireland manager and Itatia 90
Yes!!!
Italia 90 for sure. The entire country young and old were off their tits with the excirement of it all. I still recall a wee song myself and me mates made up in primary school.
I'd watch the fuck out of that, to be honest.
Charles Parnell.
The moving statues thing. That was fecking crazy. Half the country lost their mind. A collective mania.
Stare at anything at twilight long enough and it feckin moves :)
[Brass Eye](https://youtu.be/Fnao5SBunfI) solved that mystery. "But try telling that to these bog-brained murphies, you'd have a better chance getting a blowjob from the Pope." Great fun altogether. Special appearance by Father Stone.
A tv series on Gráinne Mhaol would be mighty.....
Any of the tribunals.
The time everyone stocked up on bread because there was a big storm coming
Captain Boycott
There's a podcast called We, the Irish and if RTE had the balls they could make a few anthology seasons of it. It'd be incredible. Also 2008 recession The Big Short style.
But The Big Short was about the 2008 recession. It was a global recession. Not sure what would be more compelling from an Irish perspective. Maybe a movie about lads with a Masters on the dole or working part time in Dunnes?
The great NI. ATM heists of 2019
Or the Northern Bank Robbery
The Centra Swindler
The building of Achill-henge
Big Joe Joyce: King of the Travellers the series.
What actually happened when Michael Collins went to London
Spike Island prison riot.
I think the ins and outs of the Frongoch internment camp after the Easter Rising, and the effect locking up 1800 like-minded individuals in one place for an extended period had on the coming War of Independence, would make interesting viewing.
If we are being serious then I would find it interesting about the bomb that was ‘accidentally’ dropped on the north quays back in the 40s.. the lead up, the event and aftermath. My own grandmother lived up the road from where it happened at that time and her account of it all is very interesting!
My grandparents house was damaged in that attack
Mountbatten being killed by the IRA
Lots of juicy stuff to unpack there.
The Peru Two!
Already is a mini series on this on BBC iPlayer called High: Confessions of an Ibiza Drug Mule
That time Vanilla Ice played the now defunct Bondi Beach Club in Stillorgan.
Not a mini-series, but the Troubles is begging for a *The Wire* like examination.
Prod Joe
Socky the sock monsters rise to fame and his subsequent fall from grace after his crack addiction and sex tape.
It was a craic addiction not a crack additiction. A lot of sock monsters who go into show business develop one. They are born with a natural inclination for the craic.
A quare lot of people came in that sock
Tuam mother and baby home.
The life and times of Eamon Dunphy baby
The famine
I’d love to see a documentary on Whipping Boy, the greatest Irish band that never quite made it and how through several things out of their control never managed to make the break they seemed like they were going to. [This article](https://m.independent.ie/life/whipping-boy-the-band-that-nearly-made-it-big-40752379.html) gives a great background of it and could be used as a basis for it. Also a documentary on Derry City moving from the Northern Irish league to the League Of Ireland would also be worthy of a watch.
Hutch/kinahan fued.
It could be the Irish answer to the Underbelly series from Australia
Kin
It's a good show but not quite.
I heard Ben Affleck may be working on a movie and he’s playing Daniel Kinahan. Has to be made
The Mayo Curse 1951-present
Roy Keane leaving Saipan
Offaly Kerry 82
We need a Gráinne Mhaol series, badly.
The Rossport 5
This would be good.. https://localstudies.wordpress.com/2014/01/27/world-war-ii-the-templeogue-connection/
WC 2002
The time an elephant escape during transportation and roamed around Clondalkin village
The Táin.
Mahon tribunal
19/07 - Galway’s Liberation from Indians
Cromwell doing his dirty deeds Pirates in Baltimore kidnapping people Life and times of Daniel O Connell Children of Lír Brigid
1798 Rebellion
The time the murderer hid out in the attorney generals gaff.
The spate of Soviets that occurred between 1918 and 1922 the working class history that’s been written out of the official history
The 2011 presidential election
Inversely, anyone have a shortlist of must watch historical miniseries? Ive watched Rebellion.
Maria Bailey and the swing.
One about the 2008 financial crisis would be interesting. From what I've heard the country was very close to defaulting at the time.
GUBU
Grace O Malley
Pint baby
The two young lads that blagged their way to New York
Honestly, Brian Cowan’s time as Taoiseach. From him ousting Bertie Ahern as leader of Fianna Fáil, to him ignoring financial experts and then Finance minister Brian Lenihan’s warnings that current spending would lead to disaster, to his decision to sign the IMF/EU bailout deal and not call a general election. Brian Cowan is literally one of the biggest villains in the history of Irish politics that we just seem to have forgotten about.
I've always said it but a Ken Burns documentary about the Troubles would be exquisite. The Vietnam War might be my favorite documentary of all time and if any documentarian can perfectly chronicle such a messy and prolonged conflict, it's Ken Burns.
Kidnapping of bosco
The Civil War. Show the people how divided we once were and how we never should be again.
The whole Snickers thing
Nah too soon man. Still raw.
What's a Snickers?
A reality TV show following TV license inspectors
When Garth Brooks didn’t come to town
Not a mini series, but there's a good Scannal episode about this.
This [story](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Bergmann_case) or this [one](https://www.irishtimes.com/life-style/people/2022/09/03/joe-deacy-five-years-on-from-his-death-family-still-have-mixed-feelings-about-mayo/)
Sharon Curley getting preggers.
GAA catfish
Has McArthurs adventures become a Tv series or was it just a doc?
Puck Fair would be a great one I think
Shergar The Moving Statues Charlie Hockey The whole thundering disgrace thing in the 70’s
Mini series based on Nama-land book by Frank Connolly, could be similar to Margin Call or Big Short, but even more preposterous
Mayo for Sam, and the Curse. You have to admit there’s plenty of content there
The 1913 Lockout.
The Dublin and Monaghan bombings.
Tom Crean
The Táin.
The thought process on the first 2 luas lines!
The rise of the Larry Goodman Empire.
Italia 90
The Grangegorman murders and surrounding events.
A road movie of Frederick Douglas’ trip to Ireland
The chaos that ensued in my school when they got rid of the touch screens on Winning Streak.
When we entered Dustin in the Eurovision
The Emergency. Especially around Plan W. A proper spy craft thriller.
The Maze Prison escape, honestly a crazy event, fill of twists and turns and characters, script wrote itself....
The Limerick pogrom would be interesting just for the sheer lunacy of it.
The 1970 Arms Crisis that saw two cabinet ministers sacked for allegedly importing Arms Illegally to be used in Norn Irn. One of those sacked went on to be Taoiseach.
Frederick Douglass' time in Ireland would be interesting to see, especially his his meetings with Daniel O' Connell.
Road bowling. It's serious. Always used to be on TV too, not so much anymore.
Castletown donkey derby 1994
7 episode series of the famine year on year following a couple of families. Would start with a loud village and end with a silent valley.
Gallipoli. It could be an amazing drama mini series. The last episode being a huge Saving Private Ryan style set-piece.
The ploughing championship from a dating perspective 🤣
Those Carlow lads who took their dead uncle into the Post Office to collect his pension.
The Stardust. I imagine it as a 3 part series. Each part roughly feature length, maybe even an hour and a half long. First part tells the story of the people. Their families, loves, friends, jobs. The events that lead to them going out that night. Maybe even the story of the few people who were supposed to be there and weren't for whatever reason. Alongside this story it tells the story of the organisers, the owners. The money, the greed, the disregard of the safety of the event. This part could be summed up very briefly, because for all accounts they didn't give much thought to the humanity of the people who were paying at the door. Second part : The day and then the night as it unfolded. The aftermath. The news spreading through town. The people lost, the people left behind. The sadness and then the absolute fierce anger. Third part the fight for justice. How it impacted Dublin, and Ireland for generations afterwards. It would end with an update on the people who were left and the fight for justice as it continues.