Rob O’Connor

Absolutely flying here - you’re still sounding fabulous on The Cinematologists. Hope all is good in your neck of the woods.

New book arrived in the post today! Podcast Studies: Practice into Theory edited by Lori Beckstead and @darioll.bsky.social The amount of high quality writing in this area is happily increasing - fair play

[Really finally, kudos to the marvellous people from WIYP who's photos I'm reposting / have stolen 🙀] 6/6

Finally, to the audience who rolled the dice with the weather and came out to witness it all come together - THANK YOU! If there wasn't a bunch of excellent people to perform in front of, the rest of us would just be lunatics roaming the streets. You make it worthwhile. We are all Spraoi 🙏 ❤️ 5/n

To the cast of the show (actors, dancers, pushers - all of you) - Waterford never ceases to delight me with the mad bunch of characters who populate the place and (more importantly) get involved. 4/n

To all the Spraoi and Big Bear crew - you're some of the soundest and chilled people I've ever encountered. You ALWAYS get the job done with plenty of craic to boot. 3/n

To Nick Kavanagh and the whole creative team - we're incredibly lucky to have you here, providing colour, light and shadow on the streets of the City. Let us never become complacent. 2/n

Now that the dust has settled on our Spraoi Siren Sisters show for Samhain 2025, I'd like to thank some people. To my fellow musicians (Fintan, Marc, Andy & Gav) - you're a pack of legends and it's always a gift to play with you! 1/n

Happy Halloween! I’m gonna dress up again tomorrow for our Siren Sisters Samhain Show in Waterford. Will compare with this pic from two years ago and see how much greyer the beard is 😉

This Saturday evening, we’ll complete a triptych of Spraoi Samhain shows in Waterford. The three Siren Sisters will rise from haunted shores and roam the ghostly streets of the ancient city, culminating in a musical finale at John Roberts Square. Put on your make-up and bring your dancing shoes!

Saw Keith Dunphy’s Word Against the Word in Garter Lane Waterford. One man’s story about being a dyslexic actor. Fabulous performance. Fabulous use of sound and visuals. So inventive in its staging! There’s still some tickets left. Go

Podcasts now count towards research impact in world first for Altmetric - Digital Science In a major step forward for tracking the real-world impact of research, Altmetric has added a new attention source: Podcasts.

They'll now be tracking podcasts towards an Academic's Altmetric score. This is very interesting! Blows apart some of the stuff I was talking about at #EPOD25, but it's a step in the right direction for Scholarly Podcasting IMO #podacademics #podcaststudies
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DISCLAIMER I edited this podcast. The audio issues - warts and all - are mine. But I was floored listening to Luke Morgan’s poetry about his family. Jenny did all the real work for the podcast. Every time I listen, I feel enriched having discovered something new

The Nerve The Nerve is a podcast produced by the English department at South East Technological University (Waterford, Ireland). Each episode brings together staff and students to discuss a range of topics, inc...

I REALLY enjoyed listening to the latest episode of The Nerve, which was all about a recent Poetry Lounge event in Waterford. It’s full of interesting voices and beautiful words podfollow.com/the-nerve

I wonder if Mr. Faraci needs to spend a few moments standing in the corner of a room, reflecting on his actions?

Still the greatest achievement listed on LinkedIn.

A fucking banger

But it’s another banger soundtrack

If you can get past the terrible logo, Audacity 4 looks pretty great Over 25 years Audacity has gone from simple audio editor, to a UX nightmare. If you can get past the terrible logo, version 4 looks like it might fix that.

So Audacity v4 is on the way. Excellent stuff! For free beginner software, Audacity is great! Though users run out of road fairly quickly. Reading about the developments in v4, it seems they're addressing a lot of the deficiencies. www.theverge.com/news/792368/...

Yesterday in mushrooms, then today

What happens when an AI-generated artist gets a record deal? A copyright mess ‘Why am I paying you for this, if you have no claim in the copyright?’

Welcome to the slopocalypse! I don't consider myself a luddite, but I fail to hear any appeal to this music. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I mean, there’s a rumour, and I don’t know if it’s so or not, that Antarctica , they don’t have Polar Bears. And they have virtually no Autism, OK. Tell me about that one.

*agree* - stupid fingers. Must have been all the paracetamol my mother took

Absolutely 100% on this

Still time for you to get 20 Oireachteas votes together. Vote for Alan!

The new @divinecomedyhq.bsky.social album is just gorgeous. Hannon’s voice is sounding particularly beautiful. There you go now

No relation I’m afraid. But we’ll claim here!

O'Connor wins historic silver medal in heptathlon Kate O'Connor won the silver medal in the heptathlon at the World Athletics Championships following an incredible fifth personal best from seven events, as she clocked two minutes 9.56 seconds in the ...

Absolutely AMAZING stuff from Kate O’Connor!!!! To finish like that with a knee injury in the 800m is truly inspiring. G’wan ya legend!!! www.rte.ie/sport/athlet...

I’d vote for either of you. Think of the garden parties!

Israel committing genocide in Gaza, world’s top scholars on the crime say International Association of Genocide Scholars resolution backed by 86% of members who voted

Definitively, unequivocally, Israel is committing genocide, according to @genocidescholars.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...