Gerry Hannan
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Gerry Hannan is a Limerick
-based broadcaster and author. Best known for his criticism of fellow Limerick author, Frank McCourt
, on The Late Late Show
. Hannan claimed McCourt's Angela's Ashes
was riddled with no less than 117 inaccuracies. In response to Frank McCourt's books Angela's Ashes and 'Tis
he wrote Ashes and Tis up me ass.
Radio Limerick One
which is popular among the over-fifties. Hannan won just 65 first preferences (1.58% of total) in a failed bid for Limerick City Council in 1999.
His main campaign issue in the European Elections is reform of the airwave regulator Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, with whom his radio station has been battling since its licence was withdrawn seven years ago. His other campaign priority is to improve Limerick's public image.
source http://www.rte.ie/news/elections2004/profiles/hannang.html
He is manager/broadcaster on Radio Limerick One
.
Limerick
Limerick is the third largest city in the Republic of Ireland, and the principal city of County Limerick and Ireland's Mid-West Region. It is the fifth most populous city in all of Ireland. When taking the extra-municipal suburbs into account, Limerick is the third largest conurbation in the...
-based broadcaster and author. Best known for his criticism of fellow Limerick author, Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt
Francis "Frank" McCourt was an Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer, best known as the author of Angela’s Ashes, an award-winning, tragicomic memoir of the misery and squalor of his childhood....
, on The Late Late Show
The Late Late Show
The Late Late Show, sometimes referred to as The Late Late, or in some cases by the acronym LLS, is the world's longest-running chat show by the same broadcaster and the official flagship television programme of Irish broadcasting company RTÉ...
. Hannan claimed McCourt's Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes is a 1996 memoir by the Irish-American author Frank McCourt. The memoir consists of various anecdotes and stories of Frank McCourt's impoverished childhood and early adulthood in Brooklyn, New York and Limerick, Ireland, as well as McCourt's struggles with poverty, his father's...
was riddled with no less than 117 inaccuracies. In response to Frank McCourt's books Angela's Ashes and 'Tis
'Tis
'Tis is a memoir written by Frank McCourt. Published in 1999, it begins where McCourt ended Angela's Ashes, his Pulitzer Prize winning memoir of his impoverished childhood in Ireland and his return to America.-Synopsis:...
he wrote Ashes and Tis up me ass.
Radio Limerick One
Radio Limerick One
Radio Limerick One, also called Limerick 95FM and RLO at times, was an Irish pirate radio station, which was the licensed radio station serving Limerick city and county. Licenced by the Independent Radio and Television Commission in 1989, its licence was removed in 1996 for misbehaviour, although...
which is popular among the over-fifties. Hannan won just 65 first preferences (1.58% of total) in a failed bid for Limerick City Council in 1999.
His main campaign issue in the European Elections is reform of the airwave regulator Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, with whom his radio station has been battling since its licence was withdrawn seven years ago. His other campaign priority is to improve Limerick's public image.
source http://www.rte.ie/news/elections2004/profiles/hannang.html
He is manager/broadcaster on Radio Limerick One
Radio Limerick One
Radio Limerick One, also called Limerick 95FM and RLO at times, was an Irish pirate radio station, which was the licensed radio station serving Limerick city and county. Licenced by the Independent Radio and Television Commission in 1989, its licence was removed in 1996 for misbehaviour, although...
.