Episode 71 : Winning Awards and Faking Tans

The sun is shining on the good people of Derry and the TDG's are remembering sunbed sessions and suntans past and present. Did nude sunbathing ever take off in Donegal and what exactly did Pauline witness on a Northern Irish beach this week? Marie Louise has been mixing with the glitteratti once again while winning yet another award at the Royal Television Society NI awards in Belfast. Derry Girls and Derry Girl, Jamie Lee O Donnell also brought home the top prizes.  Meanwhile Jeanie has discovered that there are at least two and a half thousand reasons why being born in Ireland makes living to 100 cause for celebration.  Summer's here, someone pass the tanning mitt.  NOTES:  RTS NI Award - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0b8kqqt (not available to watch on BBC at the moment)  https://www.belfastlive.co.uk/whats-on/be/gallery/rts-ni-awards-take-place-27039768 Louise Gallagher - https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5644255/ The Real Derry - https://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-real-derry-jamie-lee-odonnell The Fake - fake tan story https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/may/14/irish-times-apologises-for-hoax-ai-article-about-womens-use-of-fake-tan Benone Stand - https://www.causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk/see-do/beaches/benone-strand https://www.visitcausewaycoastandglens.com/ Visit Derry https://www.visitderry.com/ Blue Lights https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14466018/ (now available in Australia) Diona Doherty https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sunday-life/news/diona-doherty-tv-star-on-motherhood-ivf-and-why-nothing-is-out-of-bounds/41809430.html Your 100th birthday in Ireland  https://www.citizensinformation.ie/en/social-welfare/social-welfare-payments/older-and-retired-people/centenarians-bounty/ Celtic Media Awards - https://www.celticmediafestival.co.uk/ BBC Dead Hand with Paul Mallon - https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015vls TDGs episodes referred to - https://podfollow.com/1518036400 Episode 36 - Series 3 Episode 1 (The Night before) Episode 1 - Dear Diary Episode 11 - Ballgowns and Let downs  Episode 70 - Work Experience TDGs Style  Episode 4 - It’s all a load of Walls (which has the first scene 29th May 2017  Episode 18 - Ask yer Ma with Tara Lynne O’Neill