Snooker Marathon
From the collection of
A Pub With No Beer
- Armagh
- 1984-10
Snooker Marathon (Good Evening Ulster)
Cueing up for a world record?
A Kate Smith report for Good Evening Ulster on two young men embarking upon an unusual endurance test. Paul Hill and James Clydesdale have decided that they will play snooker non-stop for an incredible eight-day stint. Only a five-minute break will be allowed each hour and they hope to break the world record of a 187-hour game. The organiser - who isn't taking part himself - tells Kate why the snooker club decided to host the event, which is for charity.
Pity poor James Clydesdale, however, who had just turned up at the club and, when someone else dropped out of the epic task, found himself roped in on the spot to more than a week of doing nothing but playing snooker. History doesn't record if they succeeded.
Good Evening Ulster was the weekday tea-time local news round-up for Ulster Television throughout much of the 1980s and helped to launch the careers of household names such as Gloria Hunniford and Eamonn Holmes.
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A Walk on the Weird Side
The extraordinary, the absurd and the downright weird combine in this collection of reports from UTV’s nightly Good Evening Ulster news programme.
Despite the often bleak aspect of local news in Northern Ireland during the decades relating to The Troubles, ordinary - and sometimes extraordinary - life continued on. This series of some of the more off-the-wall reports from the UTV news archives shows the citizens of Northern Ireland engaging in unusual schemes, fundraisers, pastimes and humorous events.
From Earl Bird attempting to set a new world record for non-stop yodelling to a nuclear bunker disco, from a pub with no beer to a canine snooker referee, you’ll find this collection full to the brim with the odd, the eccentric and the full-on weird.
23 videos in this collection
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A Pub With No Beer
2
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3
The Garden Tiger
4
Bay City Rollers Fans
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Model Car World Record Attempt
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Buried Alive World Record Part 1
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Buried Alive World Record Part 2
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Cow Pat Throwing
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There's No Business like Gnomes Business
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The Dog Rufferee
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There are Leprechauns in Those There Hills!
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To Heaven and Beyond! A Con Brio Rock Odyssey
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Snooker Marathon
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Hula Hoop Champion
15
Death Dive
16
Come away from the Fairy RIng, O Builders!
17
Whiskey Galore!
18
The Spirit of Radio
19
Laughter is the Best Medicine
20
White Christmas
21
Guinness World Record Breaking Weekend
22
Clown Around at the Community Circus
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