Hey, Adrian in Cork

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

There's something on Mooney on RTE Radio 1 this afternoon about the revival of the Cork-Swansea ferry. If you miss it, it will probably be available for download from

[Adrian Brentnall]

Thanks for the 'heads up'....

Things have moved on a bit since the last time I wittered about the Ferry in this group.

As you're probably aware, Christmas came early (25th September) in the shape of a lovely cruiseferry, the MV Julia. She's currently berthed in the centre of Cork City, and shortly to be heading down the river to Ringaskiddy and then on to dry-dock before starting the Cork - Swansea run on 1st March...

More details at the campaign website

and the new company booking website

Strange, really - the campaign started nearly 2 years ago (April 2008) - the intention being to simply embarrass the heck out of 'somebody' and get this vital service reinstated...

....raising 3 million euros by share subscription and going and buying our own ship wasn't part of the original plan - but it's a grand result !

Adrian

[Adrian Brentnall]

HI Again Grim

Managed to catch the back end of the interview - and chasing the nice people @ RTE to see if we can get an MP3 of it for the website

Thanks Adrian

Adrian Brentnall wrote:

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian Brentnall saying something like:

Buggerit, just as it started I thought about capturing it, but didn't get to the record control in time and there's nothing worse than an incomplete recording.

[Adrian Brentnall]

Never mind - maybe it's archived 'somewhere' on a hard drive @ RTE Towers

(used to be a requirement whehn I was vaguely involved with radio years back - just so's to be able to 'rewind' and see if the DJ really did say 'that'.... )

Thanks Adrian

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian Brentnall saying something like:

The Mooney prog is usually podcasted/mp3d so should be available perhaps from tomorrow. Although with RTE, who knows.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian Brentnall saying something like:

I might even try it out next time I want to cross the water.