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Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show

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TOTM ep81( 2:0:8)       
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Just join Ciaran for all things Irish. Go on.
Published: 9/10/2024 5:58:41 p.m.
TOTM ep80 - A Faith Worse than a Fate Worse than Debt( 2:0:24)       
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Join guests 'Keepers of the Faith, Clarifications, missed class...ifications, corrections and beautifully blurred bluddy blackwaters. How’syourback. From the faithless to the faithful, it's a simple twist, seal it tempt it lose it find it keep it. Either way it can be blind like us in a hazey mazely sideswaddle through a clatter a bangers from all over. The temptation of bass proves too much. Tim and Jeff, father and son, the year of the Cat Shtevenses. DUCK. Finish with the fry and there’ll be no focin shtopping me no focin shtopping me no focin shhtopping me now. Go TELL YOUR FRIENDS BUT MAINLY YOUR ENEMIES and insist on telling them to tell your friends. Ponc. Just join Ciaran for all things Irish. Go on.
Published: 2/10/2024 9:00:00 p.m.
TOTM ep79 - Idols, Idles and the Idler( 2:0:1)       
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the hair of the dog for the lads reeling from too much post punk. Idles feature for every second track to keep us off the nod. A British mix with an Ireland topping. We champion Joey and his new national anthem for the toffs. Max Vershtoppen cursing and many more great tracks. Mo Mowlam and Mo Mentum go hand in hand. Go on sure what else would ya be at tafcoain. Fux galore tonight. TELL YOUR FRIENDS BUT MAINLY YOUR ENEMIES and insist on telling them to tell your friends.Guests this week include Joey Dalton The Ruler. Ponc Just join Ciaran for all things Irish. Go on.
Published: 26/09/2024 1:01:26 p.m.
TOTM ep78 - JaaaaZZZZ Azzzz( 2:0:38)       
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Whether you’re losing your mind or don’t mind losing we’re ar muin na muice on the back of last week’s improv we go all out jazz and watch it with our wide open ears as it morphys inta soul R agus B agus gospel. Not a Pat Harmony or any Gerry Melodie’s just straight up rhythms. The lack of structure suits us the slack lecture mutes us. TELL YOUR FRIENDS BUT MAINLY YOUR ENEMIES and insist on telling them to tell your friends. Guests include The Duke The Miles and the Holiday Ponc Just join Ciaran for all things Irish. Go on.
Published: 18/09/2024 11:43:19 a.m.
TOTM ep77 - 1977isation Through Improvisation ( 2:0:15)       
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We burn the burners, we shred the foundations, we tear up the plan. We tear up. Cut the internet knock over the tower. Unravel the dial up. Go it alone only our thoughts and prayers. Yes and is the new bible all to the soundtrack of 1977. No figures or facts outside of that but only made up ones and we back ourselves to the hilt and fill the show with jazzy soul, catchy pop, rolling rock and primal punk. Sure what else would ya be at? No really? WHAT? TELL YOUR FRIENDS BUT MAINLY YOUR ENEMIES and insist on telling them to tell your friends. Ponc Just join Ciaran for all things Irish. Go on.
Published: 11/09/2024 6:18:07 p.m.
TOTM ep76 - Fontainmental BC( 2:0:35)       
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New album without compare. Dublin City's finest post punk proponents provide the backdrop to tonight perusalism. Belters and bangers unite. Crids and blups don’t fight. Over ta Blighty too for a gander and some bands who lit the torch. We talk the talk and don't have to walk. Went over the word limit but it's in our DNA so help me dog. TELL YOUR FRIENDS BUT MAINLY YOUR ENEMIES and insist on telling them to tell your friends. Ponc Just join Ciaran for all things Irish. Go on.
Published: 6/09/2024 4:55:09 p.m.
TOTM ep75 - Claps & Whishtles and a Good Kneeceapim( 2:0:42)       
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A poppoppop to begin and no goin back in the bottle after that. The history of clapping and the future of whistling we delve deeper than you'd think two grown men could. We celebrate a good kneeceapim, the Piñata of choice for the north of our emerald isle. A subjectively strong finish in all things OST from the fillum we both enjoyed. Best thing to come out of the North since Best. TELL YOUR FRIENDS BUT MAINLY YOUR ENEMIES, tell them to tell you friends Just join Ciaran for all things Irish. Go on.
Published: 28/08/2024 6:20:40 p.m.
TOTM ep74 - Revolver in a Petridisc Under a Macroscope( 2:0:4)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, join Ciaran for all things Irish. twiddle the dial in the middle of your guile bend the aerial to fend the snail or he'll nail your wirelessness. Evolve involve devolve and revolve'r die. A flier of a start with golden Jeff in full Blum. Some buzz. Making maggots in Studio Wan (1) Albums you'd have begged borrowed or stolen in 1966 corner the quarry. We trap the beatles and run amok. Pat and Ciaran dig deeper than ever inta the way they shhhpaaayke in Laytrim. Shhhtop will ya or I'll get me revolver and fill you with 60's bangerZ booyaaa TELL YOUR FRIENDS BUT MAINLY YOUR ENEMIES
Published: 21/08/2024 12:39:33 p.m.
TOTM ep73 - The Folkiest Rockiest Yakiest Show Yet with Ciaran+Patrick( 1:59:23)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, join Ciaran and Patrick for all things Irish. Tonight when the lights come on and the fader slides north the first banger drops hard. We plot and blot a course through the folkier rock and the rockier folk. The Yak and many benefits of owning a large goat are discussed at length. We get word from Leitrim, a real Leitrim accent puts us all to shame and we rock the end in a flurry of gravel. Tune in, tell your friends, pay people to listen. We wont.
Published: 14/08/2024 3:37:32 p.m.
TOTM ep72 - Lovely Leitrim’s Finesht with Guest Co-Host Patrick( 1:58:57)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, join Ciaran with guest co-host Patrick, for all things Irish. Listen! It’s no lie tonight we wax lyrical about Lovely Leitrim in languid listless longwinded loosely linked tales of lore and long-lasting lambs woolly lumpy jumpers. Holy Dog. Let’s have a long leisurely light-hearted luxurious lip leaning lap slapping lung lurching good looking lambasting of Lovely Leitrim. Patrick de main man from de tiny principality sits opposite for a lovely show of guff, gawking and gorgeous maths. Pop, rock and folk feature like never before. A good strong Irish finish to the two hour treat. Crude and crinkly include the wrinkly. Straight and narrow beg shteal or wheelbarrow.
Published: 7/08/2024 2:29:48 p.m.
TOTM ep71 - Mála Muncher( 2:0:1)       
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Without a centre, outwith a point no sides or even edges we surf the musical turf we smooch with the sound hooch we lick the tins and kick the bins. A big spread buffet for all predilections a buffer for all derelict directions. The common denominator man commandeers rest easy in the Fresh Glow. T&Seas apply. Measure wance and cut twice. Ponc
Published: 31/07/2024 5:23:03 p.m.
TOTM ep70( 1:59:7)       
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To describe the breeze of a freezer, to explain the pain and toil of a kettle on the boyle, to lament the dent in the cement from the hungry bent of Lent. We do it all. Then we undo more of the undone. Music is key, front and centre where its meanta tarnish the varnish of the subtle cuttlefish as it takes the piss. More Irish music than our passport conditions demand or even allow. Tune it and leave it.
Published: 24/07/2024 2:01:16 p.m.
TOTM ep69 - Live Inductions Week( 1:57:41)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, join Ciaran for all things Irish. Back behind the new poppy mic lest we briquette. Bord na Moanin about the technological advances at FreshEffEmmm. Tunes galore, many from the Irish shore, shored up for what we really are. A nation of beautifully gifted chancers in all genres. Get your potato peeling hands up in the Éire, bangers to beguile tunes to tantalise and a shadowy presenter telling lies, harmless bie. Wouldn't lie straight in bed.
Published: 18/07/2024 3:24:22 p.m.
TOTM ep68 - Ann Marie Kelly( 1:58:50)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, join Ciaran for all things Irish. Multi award winning broadcaster and documentary maker, Ann Marie Kelly joins us for a chat about radio, music, and chatting. Plus a delicious dessert of delectable Irish music to fill the bill. It's a blast to have AMKelly on the phone ponc. Tune in. Hosts:Serious Ciaran Guests: Ann Marie Kelly (an actual real guest)
Published: 10/07/2024 5:56:37 p.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - Jul 03 2024 ep67 - UTi Pilot 2( 2:0:26)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, join Ciaran for all things Irish. Bit more serious packets no more messing shteamboats with a hint of more messin hedge. The blues set us up and knock us silly. Traversing the Atlantic in a boat made from a guitar we chart the blues in its journey back over and back over again. From the early ground breakers to the bluesbreakers and back again, from Muddy Waters to Slowhand and the Green God. Fleetwood Mac size us up. Pilot uimhir a do goes lovely with a baga minichips. All the best. Lets get Under the Influence. Guests: Hosts:
Published: 3/07/2024 11:00:00 p.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - Jun 26 2024 ep66 - UTi Pilot 1( 1:59:21)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, join Ciaran for all things Irish. New terrain inn't. Watch me flounder with your ears. Pat B sits in the fart warmed seat.Under the Influence is off the ground, in facts it's getting high on its own supply. Meander the bandwidth with a paddle and no canoe. Hosts of Show: The Pats of Least Resistance Guests: Pat B (Day release Post discharge Pat)
Published: 27/06/2024 5:10:38 p.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - Jun 19 2024 ep65 - Re Oh So Tired Retirementalers Listen Up( 1:59:0)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, join Ciaran for all things Irish. My working days are over. If so join me as we flail through the music to set ya striaght as a dye. Flesh out the free time, the misspent ute and the overboard. Harry calls and we hear if he's ever been harried. And so on and so fourth. What if nothing really anti matters or dark matters for that matter. Join me. Ah go on. YoLo. Many musics from American't and the rockers and punks not ta mind the buses of the indiependencers. Hosts: Cyrian and a siren. Guests: Mayor of Louisburg in a glass case
Published: 19/06/2024 1:10:53 p.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - Jun 12 2024 ep64 - Sixty Four Hooleys in the Brendan SunShine( 1:59:29)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, join Ciaran for all things Irish. 64drrrrrives us on a journey. We start with na ciarógaí and give it Wings. Electronica gets its 15 seconds of flame. Supergroups fill in the middle. In a yummy bowl of music muesli... between toast. RDA is set high and we breach it. Guests this Week: The holey ghosht a St. Paul & Walter Ego
Published: 12/06/2024 12:26:47 p.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - Jun 05 2024 ep63 - Rory Gallagher & The Blues( 1:57:39)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, join Ciaran for all things Irish. The Blues and the rest. Rock from your garage and an Irish spin on proceedings. Spin... get it? All rock after the blues tonight in its many guises. Boooooja Guests this Week: Pleaded the Fifth
Published: 5/06/2024 11:00:00 p.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - May 29 2024 ep62 - Slane 1983 Agus Way Mór( 1:59:52)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, join Ciaran for all things Irish. a game a two haves, the haves and the have nots. Haven't we been busy? No need to answer just tune in. Slane is the second half, 1983 with a word from LHMC. We meet all your dietary requirements, and maul the nourished. Soul and the blues. Requests for all ewes. 1983 weaves a web of threads and lightly goes about its business. This is thee day. Guests this Week: Refused to give their name.
Published: 30/05/2024 11:46:07 a.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - May 22 2024 ep61 - Anarchy to the Door( 1:57:58)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, join Ciaran for all things Irish. We ditch the big brother as he doth protest too much. Disordered thinking, chaotic chemistry, messi messages from the likes of Bowie and Curtis, Coen agus Nutini. Pro protestes. We conflate and negate. We contrive and deepdive. A shaft chats to a scan. We celebrate a moral victory, a figuratative victory, a teetotal triumph over Shpotify. Some pop and a big bag a Irish music. Finish off with a belter. Guests this Week: Nobody but Elish Mannion reformed anarchist chimes in.
Published: 23/05/2024 1:44:14 p.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - May 15 2024 ep60 - 666 Bert Burns 1982 Slane Do a Jig Fur Muni( 1:58:7)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, featuring two Irish lads that will have you giggling like a leprechaun on St. Patrick's Day - Daithi and Ciaran. Tanight tanight I am delight Ted to bring Bert Burns back. A trawl through his story and work. The devil fights back. Gives his side of the story. A look back at 1982 after a delicate unwrapping of Van and Bert. It’s subjectively gorgeaous. A rrrrrright good dash of Irish and all tings subjectively good. Object if you dare. Guests this Week: Peter Bunchy & Dr. Needful
Published: 16/05/2024 11:20:29 a.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - May 08 2024 ep59 - Astral for the Weak Inn't( 1:59:17)       
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Introducing Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show, featuring two Irish lads that will have you giggling like a leprechaun on St. Patrick's Day - Daithi and Ciaran. In this episode, Irish at the start Irish at heart. A dim flickering spotlight on Astral Weeks. Bert Burns, we touch on him in a warm up for next week. Soul for you shoe, soul for your dinner. Souls on and funk off. Call back to the great drummers of a few weeks back. Gadd he's good, he's a Ringo Starr. A hidden theme too. Opium for them at mass. Chocolate Jesus. yummmmy Cheeesus lads gawd almighty tanight dog bless
Published: 9/05/2024 12:00:12 p.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - May 01 2024 ep58 Slane Castle has a Party( 1:57:55)       
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Few belters ta start from the UK and the US. The bould Johnnny Cash released American Recordings 30 years ago. We go there and stick Tom Waits on too. A homemade 1981 mix tape then a recap and few headliners from the first gig at the castle. More toasted HErEtIC and Billyam Braggus Bragg protest too much
Published: 2/05/2024 12:12:46 p.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - Apr 24 2024 ep57 Post Punks ( 1:58:42)       
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Fontaines DC set a seeeeeries of events in poguetry motion. We delve into the world that came after punk a time of anger management and experimentation. We head to the UK then for the lads and ladies from Blighty and the post punks shtickin it ta that ghoul Thatcher, landing back in Knock for more scary Eire inn't Toasted Heretic come bawling out of a Galway bedroom. Slam dunk the punk. Ponc
Published: 25/04/2024 1:13:47 p.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - Apr 17 2024 ep56 Drummers Pt.2( 1:58:43)       
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We hit the bang bangs hard with the grrrreats. Tunes from all over the shop ta shnare ya for two delicious hours. Ireland features well just in tomtom. A kiwi or two for your vitamin D. D for drums of course. Finishing with great strength it’s a cymbal.
Published: 18/04/2024 11:23:21 a.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - Apr 10 2024 ep55 Shtall the Ball( 1:57:17)       
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A slightly slower pace to the show tonight. A street full of buskers that made it BIG then we go all indie in Aussie and their answer to Christy Moore. All tings ornithological then dove tailing nicely and without feather ado inta a strong finish with a few heavy hitters top sitters lets not split hair splitters
Published: 11/04/2024 12:34:15 p.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - Apr 03 2024 ep54 Drummers Pt1( 1:57:23)       
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Kurt sends a postcard from Nirvana. Ireland dares me to play less Irish music and I push back. But not really. A pair a complete strangers are welcomed in and treated with love. An open ear and open heart surgery. In stitches a time we crammmmmmm loads in baby radio bursting at the seams taby enjoying the weave. Even the mistakes are woven in where ya cannint see the welds. A rrrrrrright good belt a learning Sophisto pop and all the cousints are ushed in and told to be loud. Some bangers from back in the BOOOOOM timez baaaaa
Published: 4/04/2024 1:53:25 p.m.
Top of the Morning, The Midnight Irish Breakfast Show - Mar 27 2024 ep53 Kneecap Recap, In the Ring and GetMusic( 1:59:51)       
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On the back of the kneecap there is a lack of a recap. We address it up. Fighting songs on the back of last weeks protest too much. Get songs do ya get it? ya get. Is maith liom uachtar reoite fadó fadó in Éireann. Some great covers thrown over the entired proseedlings
Published: 28/03/2024 11:45:28 a.m.