The night Derry s Rialto was shaken by Shakin Stevens
Promoter Willie Deery looks back at over 30 years in the entertainment business
Willie s daughter Roisin got to meet Shakin Stevens on the night he appeared in the Rialto.
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s a promoter, Derry man Willie Deery has been bringing international stars – such as Glen Campbell, David Essex, Shakin Stevens and country star Don Williams – to perform in his home town.
Add to that, a host of legendary sporting and home-grown stars, and you can certainly say he has mixed with the top A listers.
A proud Derry man, no matter how big the star, Willie always ensured a local act took part in his shows.
the congress split between republicans and democrats. she s someone of his generation, out of baltimore, knows how politics is played, is not an easy opponent in the way some of his republican rievvals and democrats have been in the past. where is he going to give the speech? there s an irish barer a couple blocks away. is he going to find a regular people s hangout or up to eery, pennsylvania or bucks county? i wouldn t find the dubliner, it would be fine to me. i was at the senate today and the republicans were saying they would be open to him speaking in the senate chambers but they re trying to see if there s a way for him. could he somehow enter the house floor and give a speech from there and if not there, perhaps in the capitol auditorium, the new area they built in the basement.
television. i tell this to people all the time. i was in russia years ago with the miss unveriverse contest, wh did very well, moscow, the moscow area. did very, very well. and i told many people, be careful because you don t want to see yourself on television. cameras all over the place. and, again, not just russia, all over. does anyone really believe that story? i m also very much of a germophobe, by the way. believe me. so, mark, again, these allegations have not been proven at least the salacious ones have not been proven. having to deal with the, quote, what comey calls golden showers. but it has been very important all along for the president to push back on this and hard. and it s also interesting just to listen to that. it s kind of eery. kind of eery. i can t believe that s your takeaway. my takeaway was the miss
and didn t try to get in on it somehow. interesting. susan, jessica reported on the specific email that was sent five days after the trump tower meeting where rob goldstone forwarded a story on russian hacking of dnc emails to a russian attendee. the words were eerily weird. given what was discussed what do you think of that. other source haves tried to characterize this as it was weird because hacking wasn t discussed. i think that s sort of once again we re being asked to ignore the simplest most obvious explanation which the only reason you would say isn t this eery with regard toway we talked about before, was if you talked about something related to the dnc and hacked emails. once again the narrative here and what we re being asked to believe it doesn t hold up. yeah, steve, you find the email to trump s aide, the one where gold steno encourages dan to open a page on the russian
somehow. interesting. susan, jessica reported on the specific email that was sent five days after the trump tower meeting where rob goldstone forwarded a cnn story on russian hacking of dnc emails to a russian attendee of the meeting. describing it as and the words were eerily weird. given what was discussed in the meeting, what do you think of that? apparently other sources have tried to characterize this as oh, it was weird because hacking wasn t discussed. i think that s sort of once again we re being asked to ignore the simplest most obvious explanation which the only reason you would say isn t this eery with regard to what we talked about before, was if you talked about something related to the dnc and hacked emails. once again the narrative here and what we re being asked to believe it doesn t hold up. yeah, steve, you find the email to trump s aide, the one where rob goldstone encourages