The art of penny juggling as demonstrated by Donie Murphy from Cork city.
With a few old coins and getting the angle of a breast pocket just right Donie Murphy makes penny juggling look easy for onlookers in Cork.
This episode of Hall’s Pictorial Weekly’ was broadcast on 12 April 1975.
Frank Hall s amusing and satirical series began on 29 September 1971 with the full title Hall s Pictorial Weekly Incorporating the Provincial Vindicator which became known as Hall s Pictorial Weekly .
The series allowed Frank Hall to follow his own interest in the lives of viewers throughout the country. Regarded as RTE s flagship comedy show, it featured satirical sketches on current news stories and popular culture, as well as parody songs, comedy sketches, re-edited videos, cartoons and spoof television formats.
How the characteristic vocal sounds of cows change according to the county of Ireland they reside in.
Michael Flanagan shares his knowledge about the distinctive sounds cows make in different counties around Ireland. A cow from Newmarket in County Cork,
Prolongs the moo or the loo, and a cow from the Athlone area say, she just says moo and that s all.
He likens it to how people in Cork say the expression hey boy with a prolonged accent, whereas
A cow or farmer we ll say, from the Athlone area, just says hey boy and that s that.
While travelling around the different counties in Ireland, Michael has been observing cattle been driven along the road by farmers.
Cha (Frank Duggan) and Miah (Michael Twomey) discuss the drinking habits of Munster people and the demise of the Cork gentleman.
Cha and Miah take to a park bench to discuss the drinking habits of the people of Munster and how Christmas is
Nothing more than a glorified booze-up.
They discuss the fact that the Irish can no longer handle their drink, especially when it comes to foreign concoctions. However, when Cork people drank alcohol made in Ireland
They were able to lap em up like mother s milk.
Gone are the days of the Cork gentlemen, who are described as a vanishing race as they slop their drinks down their shirts.