Lovingly captured on on a videogramatical cylinder this performance formed part of Leviathan in the Mind Field at The Electric Picnic on September 5th 2009. This marked the performance debut of the song “Hey Brian”.
This musical clip features two cariacatures, one of the then civilian journalist George Lee (here named as George Glee) who interviews the then-incumbent head of Irish Nationwide (Nationgrab), Michael Fingleton (Faginton). The interview starts off Dickensian and mutates into WestEndian as Faginton and a chorus of Irish Nationgrab personnell break into a rendition of “You’ve Gotta Have A Pension Or Three”. It was broadcast first in Episode 2 of The Emergency on March 21st 2009.
Cast: Nick Mcgivney (George Glee) Morgan Jones (Faginton) The Emergency (Chorus)
Recorded at Mutiny Studios in March 2009.
This advice to the government on ways to tackle the economic crisis from former Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald is as good now as it was then. Broadcast earlier this year in The Emergency Series 1 Ep.4 on Newstalk 106-108 FM. Read more »
From The Emergency an appeal to Brian Cowen to come off it as we head back towards engagement. Altogether now: “Na-na-na NAMA NAMA; NAMA NAMA. Hey, Brian!”
Recorded by Paddy Meegan at Hollywood Studios
Another Endacentric cut, this time from from The Emergency Series 1 Episode 13 (The June 2009 Local & European Election Special).
The scene is the counting centre the day after the elections and Enda and his tallyman, Count von Count assess the scale of Fine Gael’s gains. There’s an unwelcome interruption by Gerry Adams who appears to have left his “mon bog” in Enda’s office.
Cast: Nick McGivney (TV Interviewer), Morgan C Jones (Enda Kenny, Gerry Adams), Dermot Carmody (The Count)
Continuing our Enda Kenny mini-season, this sketch also features Garret FitzGerald sitting in his house propounding his political anagram theory. It’s from episode 10 of Series one, broadcast just before the June local & European Elections. Fine Gael and Enda are historically high in the opinion polls and Enda calls to his predecessor to bask and wallow in the magnificence.
Cast: Joe Taylor (Garret) Morgan C Jones (Enda) Karen Ardiff (Radio Announcer)
This sketch was written following media reports that Enda had lost the improbably coiffured rag with the emergent Lucinda Creighton (hair envy probably) and with Galway East’s Ulick Burke who took exception to the parachuting into the region of former PD leader Ciarán Cannon.
Enda Kenny With Murphy’s Ice Cream during ’09 Election Campaign
Photo from post on icecreamireland.com
It’s not natural to imagine Enda as a violently furious person, but with reference to the performance of Robert de Niro in the famous “Enthusiasms” scene in “The Untouchables” it becomes all too apparent how things must have gone. You don’t have to have seen that scene to enjoy this, but it doesn’t do any harm and you can catch it here on YouTube.
The sketch was first broadcast in The Emergency Series 1 Episode 4 on April 4th on Newstalk 106-108.
Cast: Morgan C Jones (Enda), Karen Ardiff (Lucinda), Nick McGivney (Cannon), Joe Taylor (Ulick), Dermot Carmody & Eoin Byrne (Various FG members)
Concluding our Green Party mini-series of clips is Eamon Ryan (pictured below in pre-Faustian times).
When we first broadcast this sketch the Green Party on Twitter accused us of believing Pat Rabittes “lies” about Green TDs on bikes being followed in cars by government drivers. This is nonsense of course. We don’t rely on Pat Rabitte for lies. We are self-sufficient in that regard.
Also, it’s not a lie.
Cast: Morgan C Jones: Various Dermot Carmody: Eamon Ryan
Here’s the second in this week’s Green Party Mini-Series in the Media Clips Section.
Running for the Green Party for election as an MEP in the Dublin constituency, Deirdre de Burca launched a campaign poster on Monday March 23rd 2009 promising that “Thouands” of tech jobs would be created in the Dublin area.
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This week we present a special series of clips related to The Green Party, starting with John Gormley, leader of the Green party here talking openly, honestly and bravely about the dire consequences for smaller parties when getting into bed with Fianna Fail.
This sketch was first broadcast in Episode 16 of Series 1 on June 17 2009.
Cast: Dermot Carmody, Karen Ardiff, Joe Taylor
