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I am sitting in my living room watching Prime Time. Elaine Byrne is assuring the nation that all is not lost. This is a prime opportunity, she says, for us all to reinvent ourselves. I can't hear her. A clatter of hail stones has just landed on the roof. This is followed by a flash of blue lighting. Diarmaid Ferriter interjects. It would be lovely if we could reinvent ourselves, he says, but the problem is there isn't anyone talented enough to do it. He is wearing a fleece with a large collar. He looks as if he has just milked a herd of cows.
'Really,' I say to my boyfriend. 'How did they let him on dressed like that?' My boyfriend grunts. An American woman I don't recognise suggests that reinvention is possible if we just take a few practical steps. Eamon Dunphy sucks in his cheeks. 'I...
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...Street G2. Installation of permanent anchor bolt fixings to elevations and display of winter lighti...
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Mother Gill Farrer survived a huge bolt of lighting hitting her while she waited for a bus.
The 45-year-old was hit by electricity as it travelled through her body and she was only saved by the rain, which had soaked her through and conducted the bolt.
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MOTHER Gill Farrer survived a huge bolt of lighting hitting her while she waited for a bus.
The 45-year-old was hit by electricity as it travelled through her body and she was only saved by the rain, which had soaked her through and conducted the bolt.
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The story: DESPERATE residents living near Cheltenham's major car cruise hang-out want the area officially labelled an "accident blackspot".
Comments: I LOVE going through Cheltenham on a Sunday night. There's no better way to end the week. Seeing five chavs huddled together in a Pounds 450 Citroen Saxo that has an exhaust the size of a football which sounds loud but doesn't actually make the car go anywhere. Priceless!
...James A Lighting Bolt, Cheyenne Trail JAMES A Lighting Bolt, Cheyen...
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AS they picked up DVDs of film classic Brief Encounter from the "bargain bucket" at HMV, producers Dafydd Rogers and David Pugh would not have expected it to lead them to another West End hit.
Fast forward a few years and their stage version of the love story has been entertaining thousands of theatre fans during its extended London run and is now touring the regions.
...It was like a lighting bolt - we could do Brief Encounter together." They...
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An eight-year-old boy escaped serious injury yesterday when lighting struck his family home.
Dylan Steadman was in bed when the lightning bolt hit and blew a hole in the roof yesterday. Fire crews, called to the house in Priestley Court, Biddick Hall, South Shields, found the roof alight.
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ANDY Dockerty has a mission - to tell the world that the world of live music is about more than just the people on stage.
While all the attention is on the artists under the spotlights, the real stars of the show are often behind the scenes - those who set up those spotlights, or built the speaker systems, or mix the sound.
... AV department, which organises sound and lighting for corporate events and awards ceremonies, was fo... started offering lighting services as a bolt-on to its core audio work. But as its expertise ha...
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TOP sporting stars lighting up the Commonwealth Games will be in short supply in Delhi over the next fortnight.
Household names like Usain Bolt, Jessica Ennis, Sir Chris Hoy, Andy Murray and Phillips Idowu and Wales' own Geraint Thomas will be conspicuous by their absence in the 12 days of competition.
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A MAN today told how he escaped death when 50,000 volts of lighting ripped through his house.
Kenny Carmichael was asleep in his water bed when the bolt of lightning struck,blowing a hole in the wall and exploding every electrical fitting.