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This month Gonzo Nation spent an evening in the company of Gort’s Marty Mulligan, Ireland’s foremost slam poet

Ask a Leaving Cert about poetry, and you’re likely to get a single syllable, four lettered response. To them, poetry is a tedious mess of stony gray soil, where monotony creeks from each greasy till while the [...]

Sorry guys, despite what said in todays paper, there wont be a video podcast this month…

As the Summer (whisper it) finally arrives, Gonzo Nation get put through it’s paces by the lifeguards at Clare’s only all-female lifeguard centre in Kilkee.

Television has ruined us. Without even realising it, our expectations of so many of life’s little mysteries have been weirdly warped and banged all out of shape. It’s like some sort [...]

It’s all about the breathing. In and out. You follow? Wait a second, there seems to be some sort of mistake here. I’m sure, well almost sure, that I signed up for a singing lesson, and not a trip down the prenatal memory lane. Gonzo Nation goes singing with Archie Simpson of the Lismourahaun Singers.

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Gonzo Nation get comfortable behind the decks with Ollie Moore from Pressure Drops

So much in life is about conquering fear. Some are undoubtedly difficult, but there are others, niggly little fears, that are as much bred into you as derived from any rational place in your mind.
“Don’t touch the record player,” I can almost [...]

This month, Gonzo Nation takes on the (not so) wild Atlantic waters at Lahinch and investigates if surfing is just a fad, or whither it can really hold water. With John McCarthy of the Lahinch Surf School.

It’s the little things that catch you. The smell, the sound, the tastes that were once all too familiar [...]

Somewhere deep down in the Irish physique lives a long forgotten and often denied passion for cricket. As the country prepares to awaken repressed memories in this months Cricket World Cup, Gonzo Nation took the crease with the Clare members of the Limerick Cricket Club