There are a lot of rapists, rapist apologists, potential rapists, rapist dreamers, unconvicted rapists and/or rapist defenders on TFK.
Is the Long Man of Kilfane still open? It was a noble establishment before Kilkenny became a drivethru county.
It opens and closes a lot. I text the sister there now and she says âOnly for tinker weddingsâ. Her words now not mine. The old owner got a bit old/unwell and sold it. The new owners built a big hall. Covid came and went. Might have been sold again. It opened and closed a lot. Summer/Winter. The passing coach tours was a big thing but they lost that with the new motorway junction near Knocktopher/Jerpoint.
I never liked it to be honest. The restaurant had no windows, when I thought that could have been a big selling point.
Do you remember it when it was Phillipsâ?
I donât.
Your father or mother would.
Which ever one of them worked in Carlow and drove that road.
During WWII, Coca Cola created a new drink just for Nazi Germany. US cut off cola syrup shipments to Germany, so Coca Cola Deutschland invented Fanta to keep selling drink under the Nazi regime. It became a global brand after the war.
Nicky Brennan managed Kilkenny Fotbullers
Eurosport is now TNT 1
Is it? I thought theyâve just added the Eurosport stuff to the TNT channels.
Thatâs pretty much it.
When you are pulling a tshirt or top on, the inside label is always on the left (as you look at it).
Mind blown. All that time wasted.
Discovery owned Eurosport.
Discovery bought Warner Brothers.
Warner Brothers owned TNT in the U.S. which was their primary sports outlet.
Discovery became 50/50 partners with BT on their sports channels and rebranded them as TNT Sports.
So Eurosport then had to die.
Also, when Sky originally launched in the U.K., Eurosport was the premium sports channel.
âSky Sportsâ actually originally âThe Sports Channelâ that was owned by British Satellite Broadcasting. BSB was owned by the U.K. government with it launched at the same time as Sky. Sky basically were winning out so a merger was forced, thus we got âBSkyBâ.
The Sports Channel was rebranded and Eurosport was ditched by Sky, becoming a venue for niche sports and leagues for a few decades.
Was Eurosport always free to air on the continent?
For blind people
I donât know actually. It was owned by the European Broadcasting Union (who started it with Sky) at its outset but went through a few lives. Itâs still there in Europe too.
I actually donât think it was an added subscription on Sky, where as The Sports Channel was.
Thus it was more like an ESPN in nature (on basic cable).
Some irony really that Murdoch didnât actually see sports as a premium add on at the outset and it was only getting TSC that changed it.
Yes it was.
Or dumb fuckers like me.
The Setanta Channel is still actually going too.I thought they were wound up years ago.
Itâs Premier now?