Our Trip to the Mainland

Tedfest 4 comes to Galway in March and we've got our own little piece of it happening in Dominick Street including The Toilet Duck awards show, a Fr Ted Table Quiz & a night of stand up comedy from some of the stars off the Fr Ted series including sickly sweet television presenter and pop singer Eoin McLove (Pat McDonnell) & Fr Damo (Joe Rooney) who we'll all remember as a plucky character and Dougal's role model. More of a football casual than a priest, he sports an earring, loves Oasis, smokes cigarettes and stole a whistle.

Hundreds of Ted fans will come from all around the world to the islands for Tedfest. Now in it's fourth year, the festival celebrates all things Fr Ted.

TedFest in Galway City

Monday 1st March
Massimo presents
TedFest table quiz
First prize 4 x weekend passes to Tedfest 4
& loads of other great prizes...and cups of Tea
8pm, €30 table of 4
To book places - 091 582329

Tuesday 2nd March
9pm, €5
Tedfest '10 presents
Tedfest Toilet Duck Award 2010
Sixteen of Ireland's funniest up and coming comedians go mano a mano, in a comedic war of wits until there's only one left standing. This glorious victor will walk away with the spoils of war – bragging rights, a tidy sum of cash for themselves, a beautiful toilet duck award and filthy looks from their losers friends.

Here's the plan of battle:

At 9pm, on Tuesday 2nd March as part of Tedfest 2010, the sixteen comics will assemble in the Roisin Dubh. Steve Cummins will host the evening and do his damnedest to whip the audience into a froth of unimaginable glee.
Each comedian gets just two minutes to impress the audience, and then half are eliminated by audience vote.
The eight survivors get an extra minute for their next set (three minutes), and then they're reduced by half to four.
Those four semi finalists get four minutes each and then the audience cut it down to two.
In our final round these two fine warriors of wit have five minutes each to impress you. The loser should slink off into the night while the winner sobs ‘You love me, you really really love me.' in a glorious pastiche of some tit at the Oscars years ago.

Comics include Gary Lynch, Damon Blake, Bernard Higgins, Danny Dowling, Vinny McHale, Gerry McBride, Eanna O'Dowd, Ian Perth, Padraig Staunton, John Donnellan, Lisa Joyce, Eoin O'Sullivan, Tomie James, Dave O' Gorman, Johnny (Great Craic) Graham & Ben Buckley.

Bookings www.roisindubh.net

Wednesday 3rd March
9pm, €12.50 / 10 online  (first 25 online at only €7.50)
The Laughter Lounge & Tedfest 2010 presents
A night of stand up comedy from two of the stars of Fr Ted and the First Annual Galway Lovely Girls Competition.
Joe Rooney (Fr Damo from Fr Ted) Joe has recently appeared in the hit RTE comedy series,"Killinaskully" as the character "Timmy Higgins" and also featured in the stand up show "The Liffey Laugh" on RTE 2.
Joe is probably best known for his role as Father Damo in the "Father Ted" series.
He started his comedy career as half of The Quacksquad, a comedy duo that went on to write and perform on"Nighthawks", "The Late Late Show" (with his personal interpretation of Riverdance) and RTE's first sitcom, "Flatheads"
Patrick McDonnell (Eoin McLove) Patrick is no stranger to our television screens from Eoin McLove on Father Ted to his hilarious characters on 'Naked Camera'. However, if you haven't seen his unique brand of stand-up comedy, you're truly missing out.  
Also featuring the winner of the Tedfest Toilet Duck Award 09 - FJ Murray - a former priest turned stand up comedian all the way from East West Meath.

Bookings www.roisindubh.net

Calling All Lovely Girls!
The application process is pretty simply. We want 4 Lovely Girls (free entry if picked) to take part in the competition on the night. To apply all you has to do is to write 100 words in an e-mail telling us why you are a lovely girl plus attach a photo.
Please email:  purcell@tedfest.org

www.roisindubh.net

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