NiallOK’s Blog

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As I said in a recent tweet (wow, I’m so up to date… like, using Twitter, man! That was even on CSI!), … today I was a bar manager - tomorrow I’m teaching 5th class in a local primary school (just standing in, “natch”), tomorrow night, I’m a footballer (getting better at that recently), on Thursday I’m a DJ in (the same) local bar - (YES, my Outlook calendar is gone into overdrive) … may be spreading myself a little thin (hah!)… but hey, at the weekend (well, Friday excluded), I’m free!

So… all that, combined with my recent conversion to “single” status means that after over 5 years of absence from “Boards Beers” (pissups organised by the ‘citizens’ of Boards.ie), this Saturday, I’m going to Boards Beer 19 in Dublin (and I’m dragging my brother along too)…

I’m totally assuming, of course, that it’ll look just like this picture (- that’d be me in the middle)…

Should be fun

I’m a fan of good radio and good radio presenters, and I was appalled to see that RTÉ 2FM DJ Nikki Hayes was hospitalised after being attacked by a stalker.

Nikki presents the “All Request Lunch” show, weekdays from 12-2pm on the national station but Jenny Greene had been filling in for her recently, while she recovered.

Well today - a month after the incident, and after much speculation (including the rumour that RTÉ had let her go), she returned to the national airwaves with her popular show straight after the mid-day news. It would seem she’s recovered fully and is eager to put the horrible incident as far behind her as possible.

It’s great to hear her back and I’m glad that these rumours turned out to be just that. Fair play to ya, Nikki!

Via i-am-bored.com:

Say you’re a DJ and get in anywhere! (Well… almost anywhere).

Nice one

According to reports in the Evening Herald - as quoted on the Radiowaves forum (and as mentioned on the Ray Foley show today on Today FM) and on Boards.ie, RTÉ 2FM daytime DJ/presenter Nikki Hayes was physically attacked by a known stalker in a club where she was doing a gig in, in Temple Bar, Dublin, over the weekend. There’s a lot of banter about it on her Bebo page too (although I can’t see it as I unsubscribed from Bebo)…

Apparently, the stalker approached her, asked her “are you that c**t off the radio?”, and when she replied that she was, he proceeded to head-but her, knocking her to the ground, threw a friend of hers across the room and continued to hit and kick her when she was on the ground. According to reports, she was taken to St. Vincent’s Hospital.

By all accounts, this is an incredible, disgusting and vicious unsolicited assault. It’s shocking the way things seem to be going in society these days, and what some thugs try to get away with (often succeeding, sadly). Are the country’s entertainers not safe? I mean, seriously - if you don’t like somebody’s radio show, you don’t actually hunt them down and deliver a beating to them! - You just change your listening habits! Switch stations until you find something you DO like! (Otherwise Gerry Ryan would spend half his life in Intensive Care… KIDDING!!!)

Anyway, I hope Nikki recovers fully and manages to put this horrible incident out of her mind - and I hope her attacker gets everything he deserves.

Yes, I’m an amateur when it comes to this, but YES, I tried… YES, this is MY work… and YES, I think I did a bloody half-decent job

I created this back in December for the “Top Ten Biggest Songs of 2007″ countdown on the radio show. Here’s Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” mashed up with Rihanna’s “Umbrella”. As far as the show is concerned, they’re the two top songs of last year…

Enjoy… (I hope!)