Eamonn Doherty News Today

The well respected and much loved Duiske Players Drama Group are currently in rehearsals for this year’s production of Robert Harling’s ‘Steel Magnolias’, which takes place in Graiguenamanagh over three nights from Thursday, April 25 to Saturday, April 27.

Duiske Players Drama Group are currently in rehearsals for this year’s production of Tom Smith’s ‘Drinking Habits’, which takes place la...

Drama graduate, who has cerebral palsy, dreams came true as he played an extra in upcoming series

Derry Girls: Drama graduate, who has cerebral palsy, says his dreams came true as he plays an extra in upcoming series

Eamonn Doherty, who has cerebral palsy, got a chance to appear in series three of the hit comedy.

Commercial Radio was the ‘gold rush’ of the late 1980s, and everyone and anyone wanted a piece of the action. There were rock stars, impresarios, lawyers, sportsmen, public relations gurus, stockbrokers and socialites, all prospecting for a licence to print money. These licences, awarded by the Independent Radio & Television Commission (IRTC), were cheap and they held the promise of easy money for the influential, the fortune and the favoured. The reality turned out to be a little different...