Say hello to Bertie the slippery eel!

He has taken on the Mahon Tribunal …..

Mahon, however, has decided to make mince meat of him!

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Joe O’Donnell, the creator of Bosco, has won the €3,000 RTE Francis MacManus award. The competition is named after broadcaster and novelist Francis MacManus (1909-1965).

O’Donnell’s story ‘Valediction’ also won a Waterford Crystal trophy.

So who was Bosco?

Bosco was a cheeky red-haired puppet that lived in a box, ran on RTE in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Bosco sometimes left his box to visit Dublin Zoo.

“Knock knock, open wide, see what’s on the other side, Knock knock, any more, come with me through the Magic Door”.

I could never figure out if Bosco was male or female ….. anyone care to enlighten me?

• Composer Sergei Rachmaninoff was born in Russia in 1873
• The Royal Air Force was established in Britain in 1918
• Singer Marvin Gaye was shot to death by his father at age 45 in 1984
• Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was arrested on corruption charges after a 26-hour armed standoff with police at his Belgrade villa in 2001

Happy birthday to:

• Jane Powell - Actress - is 79 today
• Ali MacGraw - Actress - is 70 today
• Debbie Reynolds - Actress - is 76 today

Hope you have lots more birthdays!

And a happy fools’ day to you all too!

Happy Fools’ Day!