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Ciarán Morrison & Mick O’Hara-Puppet wranglers🙌 #ZigAndZag @OfficialPandR Screenwriters🖊 #DangerMouse #OpenSeason #101DalmatianStreet
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This is us! We write for some super amazing animation series broadcast all over the world!
#Scriptwriting
#SelfPromotion
#Silliness
Other places we hang:
For writing enquiries:
@CulverAgency
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Former Zig and Zag Big Breakfast interviewee Donald Trump has been found guilty of 34 felony counts.
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Well, sad news to report today. We found out from the bosses that
#TheDen
won't be coming back after all! Thankz to all the old fans and the new ones for tuning in! We had a blast!
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On this day! 22nd September 1987 - Zig and Zag made their TV debut on
@rte
1 as part of ‘Dempsey’s Den’ - that’s 36 years ago! 😮
#ZigAndZag
#IanDempsey
#DempseysDen
#TheDen
@IanDempsey
#ZigAndZagDay
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When we first went to London in September 1992 one of the Big Breakfast crew asked us “Do you have fashion shops?”
What’s the strangest thing someone has asked you about being Irish? ☘️
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We're in shock today at the news of Simon Young's passing. He was such a brilliant part of
#TheDen
family with his music slot and as one of The Den Dad's - always there to take over manning the madness for Iano or Ray with a laugh, a smile and always a joke!
#RIPSimonYoung
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Back in Jan 1994 we got to meet
#RobinWilliams
and interview him as
#ZigAndZag
- he was so brilliant and gave it his all. A unique genius and much missed! We were so privileged to cross paths with him.
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Just another one of many guests that
#ZigAndZag
have interviewed that have been arrested.
#trumparrested
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ON THIS DAY! 33 years ago - 22nd September 1987
#ZigAndZag
made their TV debut on
@RTEOne
landing in Ireland and joining
@IanDempsey
on ‘Dempsey’s Den’ so we’re claiming this day as International
#ZigAndZagDay
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ON THIS DAY! 34 years ago - 22nd September 1987
#ZigAndZag
made their TV debut on
@RTEOne
landing in Ireland and joining
@IanDempsey
on ‘Dempsey’s Den’
Happy
#ZigAndZagDay
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We didn’t know Sinead personally, but our orbits crossed paths a few times all the way back to 1990. And we’re so grateful they did. Here’s the little stories of our mutual appreciation society and how she made a mark on our lives…
#RIPSinead
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1991 - When you could cycle without a helmet AND crack open a can of Cidona at high speed, both hands off the handle bars!
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Big secret news we'd been holding onto for a while just announced! 👇 AND on
#ZigAndZagDay
of all days!👏👏
The Den will return the first Sunday in November at 6.30pm on
@RTEOne
Set your alarms 🚨 🚨🚨
@DustinOfficial
@DoubleZCreative
@RTERadio1
@rte
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Ah look, only found another clip of
@mariadkennedy
and Kieran who are only 32 years together this week!!💕 Only together 2 years in this clip!
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We worked with Paul as Lily Savage who took over Paula Yates slot on The Big Breakfast in 1995. We’d hang out backstage at the house. He was really nice off air, invited round for a cuppa and proud of his Irish roots. A dry wit like no other! He’ll be missed! 💔
#PaulOGrady
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On this day! 30 years ago! The Big Breakfast made its debut on
@Channel4
with
@achrisevans
@GabyRoslin
@lamarr_mark
#PeterSmith
#PaulaYates
#BobGeldof
#ZigAndZag
and of course the whole crew who worked on the show! 👏👏
#theBigBreakfast
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BEST THREAD EVER!
#POBox2222
Okay, found two boxes in the attic of fan letters sent to 'Dempseys Den' from 1988. Gonna start posting them. Yours could be in there Eighties kids!
#ZigAndZag
@IanDempsey
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Sooooo...
@WeeMissBea
only mentioned The Den
#ZigAndZag
and
@DustinOfficial
on
@LateNightSeth
show last night! How cool is that! 🙌
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1/ So, it looks inevitable that the studios in RTE will be pretty much closed. This is the end of an era for us. We made lots of
@RTE
internal productions from Dempseys Den in 1987 right up until The Den reboot in 2020 all made in the studio building...
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Argentina 😮😂
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I dunno. I have a strange feeling something is brewing with The Den gang…not on TV…but definitely something a little special for Christmas?!! 🤔
#TheDen
#JustSaying
#ZigandZag
#RayDarcy
#SineadQuinlan
#DustinTheTurkey
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The four of us have known each other almost 10 years longer than we didn’t know each other! That’s mad and brilliant! Isn’t it great that we all still work together and make each other corpse with laughter! 🙌😂
#TheDen
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Thanks for all the love for
#TheDen
- we had a ball! Big love to
@cmatbaby
and the awesome Sinead Quinlan Ronan Keating
@daraobriain
and all the team behind the scenes! 👊👏
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It's all kicking off! Petition urges RTE to bring back The Den following backlash over cancellation
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Your daily Double Z boost! Doesn't get better than this Ireland!
#AnEmotionalFish
on
#TheDen
singing the true National Anthem - 'Celebrate' 🇮🇪 Your welcome!
@RadioRayRTE
@VivaJerryFish
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Hello! It’s up!! ‘The Den Christmas Podcast’ available on all your fave podcast services
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We've read the reports, seen the news, but I think RTE forgot that bit about bringing back The Den! Who's going to save Christmas? And have they forgotten it's only 14 days until 'International Francis Brennan Day'? Who's going to celebrate that with the nation?
#BringBackTheDen
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Happy St. Patrick's Day! Now sing along...
🎵. . "With a shillelagh in me ear
and a Shamrock up me nose
I'll be off to Connemara in the morning!" 🎵
#StPatricksDay
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Well that was fun! Great getting the old gang back together! And fair play to uncle Sir Bob Geldof and
@NiallOfficial
for joining in on the night! However, the Ted Free Zone sign failed us! Thanx for tuning in and don’t forget it’s
#Never2Late2Donate
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RTE’s ‘The Den’ is making a comeback for comic relief fundraiser
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Zig and Zag officially announce that they will no longer be interviewing Donald Trump in the future.
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All of us at The Den are horrified at what is happening in Ukraine
#StandWithUkriane
🇺🇦
#SupportUkraine
#StopWarInUkraine
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People still being cautious about Covid, wearing masks in public, not feeling up to going out to crowded events. You’re not alone. Go at your own pace. Stay safe 🙌
#covid
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Today’s timeline cleanser is ‘Zag - the trainee Goth’ from a comic strip drawn by a Den fan in 1991.
#TheDen
This is the greatest thing ever! I wonder if Nessa Johnson from Rathmines is out there?
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How about NOT making a highly publicized three-part documentary about a notorious convicted Irish gangland criminal so that he can tell us his side of the story. Thus giving him the publicity and notoriety that he so desperately craves. 🤷♂️
#JustAThought
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Wishing a big happy Birthday 🥳 to our pal and Zig and Zag’s first Earth dad
@IanDempsey
- the soundest man you could ever meet! The boyz ❤️🙏
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5/She also wrote the Foreword for Podge and Rodge - Ballydung Bible.
We always appreciated her support, we obviously shared a cheeky sense of humour. She’ll be missed by so many in lots of different ways. 💔
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Tis true! It’s the Z Bros birthday! 🎉
A listener to RTE Gold has just informed me that today is Zig & Zags birthday
Is that true
@DoubleZCreative
?
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Not a great day today. We thought we might have some interesting
#TheDen
news to share with you soon. There was a really fun idea suggested about how we'd return and the powers that be seemed genuinely interested. But sadly, it wasn't to be!
#FunWhileItLasted
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The Den Christmas Special listing that could have been... but sadly, isn't.
#FakeTVListing
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On this day! 28th September 1992 the first
#TheBigBreakfast
was broadcast on
@Channel4
with this team of brilliant humans and two aliens!
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Yes. This did actually happen. You weren’t dreaming.
Seven Sundays of silly!
Nov 8th - Dec 20th 2020.
#TheDen
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Jack Charlton appeared on 'The Podge And Rodge Show' and he was in such great form that it ended up being made into a Jack Charlton Special that aired on 14th April 2008 on RTE. What a legend! ⚽️Looking forward to
#FindingJackCharlton
@ 9PM on
@VirginMedia_One
#DonateForDementia
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ON THIS DAY! 35 years ago - 22nd September 1987
#ZigAndZag
made their TV debut on
@RTEOne
landing in Ireland and joining
@IanDempsey
on ‘Dempsey’s Den’ so we’re claiming this day as Intergalactic
#ZigAndZagDay
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If you're Irish and know what 'P.O Box 2222' is then you are officially old!
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That time when
#ZigAndZag
gave Will Smith grief about his boring name compared to his Men in Black co-star Tommy Lee Jones much impressive name.
#TheBigBreakfast
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Imagine the craic we would have had doing a promo if The Den was coming back!
#TheDen
#dunememes
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The very first bits of
#ZigAndZag
merchandise in December 1988 were the 'Nothing to Do with Toast' VHS and soft toys. There was a real push to get the toys done for Xmas so Ciaran did these cool mock-ups for the factory - the ones in the shops were a disappointment...
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The sheer unadulterated horror of the 'Tongue Twister' animations on Bosco! Sleep well!
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Back in 2009
@jimfitzpatrick
the man who created one of the worlds most iconic images ever of
#CheGuevara
was good enough to create a Podge and Rodge version for his appearance on the show! How cool is that!
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4/Then in 2007 we finally got to meet her when she approached us at the IFTA awards to say how much she loved the
#PodgeAndRodge
show. Then she appeared on the show and we got her to rip up a photo of Louis Walsh for the craic. One of our favourite gags ever!
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ANNIVERSARY! On 22nd September 1987 two aliens from the planet Zog crash landed on Irish television!
On this day
#ZigAndZag
made their debut on
#DempseysDen
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From Monday how about I daily tweet a
#POBox2222
letter from the past? Ya know just for a bit of retro joy. What do you reckon? ❤️ if you’d like that!
#ZigAndZag
#DempseysDen
#theDen
BEST THREAD EVER!
#POBox2222
Okay, found two boxes in the attic of fan letters sent to 'Dempseys Den' from 1988. Gonna start posting them. Yours could be in there Eighties kids!
#ZigAndZag
@IanDempsey
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There is nothing more 1989 than Zig and Zag on Dempsey's Den trying to get Bros to sing the theme tune to Skippy on live TV!
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Some of you eagle eyed viewers noticed something last night. We checked back and oh no...Ted snuck in!!!
#TedFreeZone
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In shock today after hearing about the passing of
#GayByrne
. Many's a time we appeared on the Late Late Show with Zig and Zag. Great memories. He was always so welcoming and played along brilliantly! RIP Gaybo!
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An article on the RTE website featuring a picture of The Den, a show that was cancelled by RTE, in an article on ‘Why celebrating Christmas is good for your mental health’ 🤷♂️ via
@rte
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Thanks for all the ❤️ and for tuning in for tonight’s
#TheDen
! Big love to our non-roving roving reporter Sinead Q,
@marywallopers
, the legendary
@stephenfry
,
@jomcnally
Captain Joke, Captain Pillowcase and The Beaked Crusader! 😁
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On this day 30 years ago - we flew to London for meetings to discuss the
#ZigAndZag
segment for the pilot episode of The Big Breakfast which was to go live to
@Channel4
headquarters the following week (9th June 1992) We were to film it in a house in Greenwich!
#TheBigBreakfast
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Bill Murray on a bus to Belmullet is everything today! 🙌
Joining
@gokathrynthomas
now is the one and only Bill Murray who is on a bus to Belmullet with his good pal and writer Tom Coyne 🚌
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We're on the cover, Mum!! 😎
Back by popular demand, this week we catch up with Ray D'Arcy, Zig & Zag and Dustin ten years on about why the time feels right for the return of The Den.
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Tough day yesterday at the funeral of a family friend. Paul Tanney worked as editor for
@rtenews
and
@RTE_PrimeTime
and much more. He fought a brave battle with a cruel illness. Lovely words from
@MiriamOCal
and
@mcculld
💔 Thinking of him this morning and this 🌈 appears. Mick
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Okay, peeps need some cheer so we’re going to initiate the ‘Zagvent’ Calendar - we’ll post a Zig and Zag clip every day up until the 25th.
#Zagvent
🙌
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Today marks the 25th Anniversary of the broadcast of the first ever episode of Podge and Rodge - A Scare At Bedtime! This is the opening that was burned into your retinas and earholes all those years ago on
@rte
Network 2
#PodgeAndRodge
#AScareAtBedtime
@OfficialPandR
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We applied for a blue tick - now let’s see if Twitter believe in aliens 😉🔵
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On this day - 1st November 1988 the greatest VHS ever released in Ireland was released.
Zig and Zag - Nothing To Do With Toast
#ZigAndZag
#NothingToDoWithToast
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It's Monday so I think you need to see Cyndi Lauper and Zig and Zag.🙌
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Missed opportunity-
@RTE2
and
@RTEplayer
should have broadcast a countdown of the 31 best episodes (out of 150) of Podge & Rodge ‘A Scare At Bedtime’ series ending with the Halloween episode on the 31st!
#NoBrainer
#PodgeAndRodge
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WIN! One lucky
#TheDen
fan could win this lot-
A Ted Free Zone sticker - mega rare!
A
#Zigandzag
Valentine card
Dempseys Den promo card
Den promo pic
To enter we need lots of love - LIKE, RETWEET & FOLLOW
Will pick random winner on V-day! (So don't expect the card on the day!)
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What was considered super fancy breakfast cereal in your house when growing up?
Country Store was legit ‘one week of the summer holidays only’ extravagance! I can actually taste it in my mind just looking at that box!
#KillerCereal
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A very special Double Z treat today! When 'Something Happens' used to pop into The Den you wouldn't know what kind something might happen!
@tomhappens
and
@RHMusik
😊
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Just realised, even though we’ve been Skype working everyday since Monday16th of March, this is the first time us two fellas have been physically apart for more than three weeks in a row in 33 years!
#fact
Our 1988 business cards 👇
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Ah live TV where our main aim was to catch each other out! 😂
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Jaysus! If one good thing comes from this lockdown it’s that I keep finding long lost clips I didn’t know we had! Just found the much loved and missed Sean Hughes with Zig and Zag on The Big Breakfast! Will post on YouTube soon! 👍
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It's all about
#Oasis
today. But did you know 30 years ago
#ZigAndZag
were battling it out with them in the charts!
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Yes our big secret news is out! You might have heard on
@RadioRayRTE
today with
@DustinOfficial
that we're recording a Christmas Podcast tomorrow Saturday 18th with
#TheDen
gang!
If you'd like a shout out send us a message to contactdoublez
@gmail
.com 🙌
#podcast
#Dencast
I dunno. I have a strange feeling something is brewing with The Den gang…not on TV…but definitely something a little special for Christmas?!! 🤔
#TheDen
#JustSaying
#ZigandZag
#RayDarcy
#SineadQuinlan
#DustinTheTurkey
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