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The Dead Friends, Episode 2

2 October 2018

In this episode you’ll learn what happened to Chill Out Timmy, hear about the trials and tribulations of a Curehead love affair, and encounter the curse of Edmund Spenser.

This is the second episode in my six-episode podcast memoir about five teenagers who gathered at a party in a bedsit in Dunmanway, West Cork during mushroom season in 1993 – a Curehead (me), a couple of ravers, a punk and a mod (Chill Out Timmy).

I’m the only one left on this Earth in 2018. I will delve into each of the four dead friends’ lives, and each of their deaths, in turn – before ending with a demon-haunted climax in Gatsby’s “niteclub”.

New episodes of The Dead Friends will be released each Wednesday from 26 September to 31 October. You can get them here on the Dublin Inquirer website, or via the Dublin Inquirer Podcast on iTunes or Stitcher, or on Libsyn.

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Dave Lordan

Dave Lordan is a multimedia writer, performer, & educator from County West Cork whose entertaining and provocative work has always had a community/social-movement focus and a sharply radical edge. Check out his poems/stories/videos at youtube.com/davelordan, facebook.com/davelordancreativity and davelordan.com.

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Also from the 2 October edition

On Kildare Street, Visit a Time Capsule from 1974

On Weaver Square, Allotment-Holders Get Ready to Pack Up

Why Some Dublin Buses are Smaller Than Others

Some Council Motions Have Been Pending for More Than a Year

Council Briefs: Who Should Get Council Contracts, Housing in Finglas, Delivery Hubs, and More

Two Venezuelan Cousins Dip into the Finger-Food Market

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