Daragh Dukes

A class of his own.🤘🏼

Like many I will really miss Áine’s @aine-lawlor.bsky.social calming and friendly voice steering us through the morning news on #MorningIreland The best. Beir bua with whatever is next. 💚

I need you to understand that if you heard a song you liked in the 80s, you couldn’t Shazam it. You couldn’t Google the lyrics. You had to sing it to the guy at Tower Records.

“We got the chance to show her the completed film it was very special and she was overwhelmed by it”
- Mark Mc Loughlin, Director of Stolen Lives

'Stolen Lives', a documentary film I scored for bang bang teo plays July 10th at @galwayfilm.bsky.social in The Town Hall Galway.

The film has a heightened poignancy given the recent death of the woman at the heart of the piece, Sunny Jacobs, in tragic circumstances.

BBC World Service - BBC World Drama - The International Audio Drama Competition 2026: How to enter How to submit your play for the International Audio Drama Competition 2026

Writers from around the world can submit scripts for BBC Audio Drama with cash prize, and attendance at an award ceremony in the UK to participate in the recording of their dramas for a world premiere. Flight and accommodation expenses are covered by the BBC.

Details in link.

Please share :)

It’s got to the point now where we’ll even try a joke to make this horror story end. Nothing else seems to be working. 🇵🇸

Jaysus wept

Magical performance from Chamber Choir Ireland and @crashensemble.bsky.social at @limetreetheatre.bsky.social this evening. Catch it on tour if you can.

AA Gill and Martin Amis would be over the moon.

The new OpenAI creative writing bot's "short story" has the phrase "democracy of ghosts". It's the sort of phrase that would make me stop and admire it, if I were reading a human author - which, it turns out, I was, because it's from Nabokov's 1957 novel "Pnin".

www.theguardian.com/books/2025/m...

Facebook marketplace listing for "Full Podcasting set up (Hardly used)

new saddest six word story just dropped

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It was a great experience working with some wonderful poets and musicians on this which will be broadcast this Sunday on the Lyric Feature 6pm.

Kate Bush and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists on silent AI protest album Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission

“Profits from the album, which is available on streaming services such as Spotify”…

What a joke.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

The Life Of Brian (Maguire) - watch a preview

Very happy to have made the music for “The Life of Brian Maguire”, which will be showing this Thursday 20th on RTE1.

www.rte.ie/video/id/23117

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To Midnight with Love and Questions, by Headgear from the album Omphalos

That is lovely. I wrote this in 2022 (11 seconds ago!) and listening back I didn’t manage much optimism… marthadigs.com/track/to-mid...

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YouTube video by Sarah Cooper Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing for Secretary of Defense

Pete Hegseth Confirmation Hearing for Secretary of Defense
youtu.be/jci1trmvv8I

For those of you waiting, Fulham have just brought on Godo.

My friends I wish you much luck in 2025. Mind yourselves and each other. 💚

What's next for Irish music? What does the recent trajectory of the arts in Ireland – from Arts Council funding increases to the Basic Income pilot – mean for musicians? And how can we further strengthen music across Ireland?

Much food for thought (while you let the other type of food digest) to ponder here from @tonerquinn.bsky.social

www.rte.ie/culture/2024...

The Burning Question w/ Louise Williams -thoughts/stories on climate activism & the planet: Philippe Sands, Lauren McDonald, Gerry Liston, Youth4ClimateJustice, Imogen Allen, Hannah Brady, Percy Chamburuka. Sound: Chris Watson & Ruth Kennington. Music: @ddukes.bsky.social Thanks: Coimisiún na Meán

And in a new remix of the scheduling process (coz of d’election) The Burning Question will air at 8pm
@rteradio1.bsky.social on Sunday 15 Dec and is already playing in a loop at rte.ie/dramaonone thanks to our amazing guests and team!

Beaut.💚

YouTube video by Klaatu Barada Nectarine Universal Clock: The Resistance of Peter Watkins

“The ‘No’ he stands for is entirely positive”. Universal Clock: The resistance of Peter Watkins is currently on YouTube and you should watch it now youtu.be/mS7vAfKRmmc?...

DRAMA ON ONE Bringing audiences the very best dramatic writing and performances for radio from Ireland.

And we’re back with a new remix of the scheduling process- the Burning Question will air at 8pm
@rteradio1.bsky.social on Sunday 15 Dec and is already playing in a loop at rte.ie/dramaonone

In a case of “real life copying real life”, extended coverage of the general election where the Green Party have been obliterated means this broadcast will be postponed. New date to follow.

The Burning Question, presented by Louise Williams, offering thoughts/stories on climate activism and the planet. With Philippe Sands, Lauren McDonald, the Youth4ClimateJustice team, Imogen Allen, Hannah Brady, & Percy Chamburuka. Sound: Chris Watson & Ruth Kennington. Music:Daragh Dukes.