The first programme is on itison.tv officially as of 22nd of December 2007 at 06:08 UTC (Winter Solstice). It is called “Tara Saga” (now the third working title for this documentary project!) and is a project to tell the story of Tara from circa 3,000 BC to the present day.

There are still a few glitches to sort out with the site but it is up and running now and I wil fix it and build upon it along the way. The last few months since June of this year has been an amazing journey for me because of taking on this project. I’ve been relatively quite about it on the blog here as it has been taking up a lot of my time and energy. I didn’t want to start the online documentation of the documentary (and that’s what it is, and more) until I was prepared to do so. I been looking for some way to fund this project but nothing in the usual official ways works out for a variety of reasons. So now take the project back to the internet where my interest in the current issues surrounding the preservation of our heritage and culture and better future which have been highlighted by the controversial decision by the Irish Government to build a motorway through the Tara-Skryne (Gabhra) Valley.

So the site is open and the idea being that it is an open media channel. You can participate in the dialogue by uploading video responses to the site or my comment in audio and/or video via your computer’s mic and/or camera.
At present the technology behind the this is not working and it will hopefully be fixed soon. But you can still use Revver to upload pre-recorded pieces from your computer when you log-in to the site.

Here’s the first Revver video I put up which was made in the small hours before the Winter Solstice and the launch of the site.

Please participate in the Tara Saga. The site will be unmoderated for the first few weeks so you can register straight away and collaborate with this new media.

Route Irish is an independent documentary about the use of Shannon airport in Ireland by the US military. Directed by Eamonn Crudden of Revolt Video this film highlights the situation of the use of Shannon and follows the campaign of the protesters there over a number of years. I have uploaded this to Stage6 on behalf of the director. Please distribute freely.

Watch it online here on Stage6 (DivX Required) or download it direct from this download link. (Right click- Save As or Mac Alt Click). the file is just short of 700MB and will play in the swiss army knife of media players, VLC

More info and more download options including a torrent are available from this Indymedia page.

Related to this and just to remind us all, here are some photos on this site from Anti-War protests around the world. LOOK