RTÉ One (Irish: RTÉ a hAon) is the flagship television channel of Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ), and it is the most popular and most watched television channel in Ireland. It was launched as Telefís Éireann on 31 December 1961, it was renamed RTÉ Television in 1966, and it was renamed as RTÉ One upon the launch of RTÉ Two in 1978. RTÉ is funded partly by the licence fee, the remainder of the funding is provided by commercial advertising, because RTÉ is funded partly by the licence fee it shows considerably fewer advertisements than most other channels available in Ireland.
Its headquarters is at Donnybrook, Dublin.
RTÉ One is almost universally available on the VHF and UHF bands in the Republic of Ireland (though VHF has mostly been phased out), and it is also available on the most digital television services available in the Republic of Ireland such as Sky Ireland, UPC Ireland, Magnet Networks, and Saorview. It is available in most of Northern Ireland via analogue overspill, Sky and Virgin Media.
Edward Christopher "Ed" Sheeran (born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter who is currently signed to Asylum / Atlantic Records. Sheeran broke through commercially in June 2011, when his debut single "The A Team" debuted at number 3 on the UK chart.
Sheeran was born in Halifax, West Yorkshire to Irish and English parents, before moving to Framlingham, Suffolk; he is a cousin of TV journalist and presenter Gordon Burns. He learned guitar at a very young age, and began writing songs during his time at Thomas Mills High School in Framlingham. His early childhood memories, referred to in a interview on the Zane Lowe show, included listening to Van Morrison on his countless trips to London with his parents and going to an intimate gig with Damien Rice in Ireland when he was 11. He also opened for Nizlopi in Norwich in April 2008 after being one of their guitar technicians. Sheeran began recording in 2005, which led to the release of his first EP, The Orange Room EP. Sheeran also released 2 albums, a self-titled one in 2006 and Want Some? in 2007. He moved to London in 2008 to play gigs, starting off in very small venues, playing every day, to as little as five people. In 2008, he auditioned for the ITV series Britannia High.
The People of the Year Awards is an annual show in Ireland. Organised by the Rehab Group, it is televised by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) and hosted by Gráinne Seoige.
The Awards provide a unique opportunity for the Irish public to honour outstanding contributions made by individuals and organisations to life in Ireland.
The 2011 edition took place on Saturday 11 September.
Gemma Claire Hayes (born 11 August 1977, Ballyporeen, Tipperary, Ireland) is an Irish singer-songwriter and member of The Cake Sale.
One of eight children, Hayes was surrounded by music from an early age, both from any of her seven siblings' bedrooms and being played by her father, a keyboardist in a local band. By the time she left for boarding school in County Limerick, Hayes was already proficient at piano and found that the music used to counter the boredom of living in a small village. Although she enrolled at University in Dublin, Hayes soon left to concentrate on music, working part-time in a laundrette during the day and playing the city's circuit at night.
Hayes signed to the French independent record label, Source Records in 2001, and issued the 4.35am EP and the Work to a Calm EP before releasing her debut album, Night on my Side, in 2002. In 2002 she won Best Female Singer at the Hot Press Awards. The album was nominated for the 2003 Mercury Prize but lost out to Ms. Dynamite's, A Little Deeper. After touring Night on my Side Hayes took two years out from the music industry; "All I do know is that I didn't want to listen to music at all. I stopped listening to the radio. It was like I'd overdosed on music".
Oliver "Olly" Stanley Murs (born 14 May 1984 in Witham, Essex, England) is an English singer-songwriter, musician and TV presenter. Murs rose to fame after being the runner-up on the sixth series of The X Factor. He is currently signed to Epic Records and Syco Music.
In late August 2010, Murs released his debut single "Please Don't Let Me Go", which debuted at number one on the UK Singles Charts, becoming Murs' second number one single after releasing "You Are Not Alone" with the other series 6 finalists. "Please Don't Let Me Go" received a Silver certification by the BPI. He released his second single from his debut album "Thinking of Me" which charted at number four on the UK Singles Charts, however the single also got a Silver certification by the BPI. "Heart Skips a Beat" was released and became his third number-one hit. Murs' second single from his follow up album In Case You Didn't Know, "Dance with Me Tonight", became his fourth to reach number one.
In November 2010, Murs released his self-titled debut album, which entered the UK Albums Chart at number two, with the biggest week one album sales for a debut album in 2010, with over 108,000 albums sold. The album went on to sell over 600,000 copies, and was certificated double platinum by the BPI. In November 2011, Murs released his second album, In Case You Didn't Know. The album entered the charts at number one, and has spawned two number one singles. In May 2011, it was announced that Murs would return to The X Factor to co-present spin-off show The Xtra Factor with Caroline Flack. It was also confirmed that Murs would present a Celebrity Club Classic show on Heart FM. He also has an active Twitter account with over 2 million followers as of May 2012.
Is it a crime to want to be happy in a sick, sick world
If it's the fool who believes in forgiveness, I'm a sick, sick girl
I long to cry on someone's shoulder
To receive a friend's absolution
And I think I know that look I've seen it before
I think you're pitying me
And if you need an emotional score
Then I will be your emotional whore
And when I spit you out at last
You'll understand, try to understand
When is the time to give into mercy and walk from the pain
Where is the will to yearn for out freedom and break the chains
I long to fall into your slumber
You long to slowly pull me under
And I think you know me well, far too well
Too well for my own good
Is it a crime to want to be happy in a sick, sick world
I'm a sick, sick girl
And if you need an emotional score
Then I will be your emotional whore
And when I spit you out at last
All the things I do wrap around me like a blanket
a warm, wool blanket
All the things I do melt off me like icing
on a warm cake
And I'm left standing naked, needing more time to do what I do
And I'm left standing naked, needing more time
I have this hitler list that runs my life
And says good girl, bad girl, worthless worm
I have this hitler list to help me breathe
To be a rock inside my lungs
It makes me scream
All the things I do confine me like bracelets
cold steel bracelets
All the things I do protect me like mother
protects her baby
And I'm left standing naked, needing more time to do what I do
and I'm left standing naked, needing more time
Trip up my stairs ... you can
Turn down my glare ... and you
I was dreaming that I was someone
I was taller, smarter, prettier
I was hoping you could help me
But you consume me, you make me dirtier
Now you'll make all seem better
If I can just give up my sorrow
Glad to hear it's so damn easy
All the time we've wasted using me, tearing me down
I was dreaming I was such a young thing
I held magic in my fingers
Weren't you saying
(Aw, weren't you saying)
How I was special
(Aw, you're so special)
and then you bruised my beyond all reason
I was hoping
that you could hold me
that you could help me
that you could know me
but you consume me
but you confuse me
I never meant to do you harm, I was wrong.
Everything I should have done
Every note I should have sung
Rest in little baskets in a ring about my head
Everything I did was wrong, everything I said was wrong
I say I don't mind the failure but I'm lying
Everything I see is red, everything is bloody dead
and I don't have to tell you that I'm dying
I never meant to lie, never meant to harm
Well, once or twice, I meant to
I never wanted this, never meant to hit
Well, once or twice, I meant to
Every way I've ever failed
Every hope that I've impaled
Rest in little baskets in a ring around my head
Every word I could have spoken
Every promise I have broken
Rot in little baskets in a ring around my head
Singing fast ... I'm guilty
Sinking fast ... crucify me
Sinking fast ... it's what you want
You can tell when everything is shiny new and then you bust your ass there's nothing you
can do to keep it that way.
All the stupid things you said, just looked at me and opened your mouth and all this
ignorance poured out down to the ground
This is my manic pace
This is my manic face
This is what I look like what I don't know what I'm doing
This is my manic world
And I'm your manic girl
This is what I act like what I think I might be crazy.
This is my manic pace
This is my manic face
Somehow it makes me feel kind of dirty inside when I think about things left undone. See,
I'm under the gun
Then I catch myself thinking, you know, I don't even know what I do this for. Then I ask for
more
This is my manic pace
This is my manic face
This is what I look like when I don't know what I'm doing
This is my manic world
And I'm your manic girl
This is what I act like when I think I might be crazy ...
This is my manic world
And I'm your manic girl
This is what I look like ...
when I don't know what I'm doing
what I think I might be crazy
when I wish that I was sleeping
I am your one true voice
I am your only choice
I am the air you breathe
I am the fix you need
I am the salt you sweat
I am the high you hope to get
I am your driving force
I am the need for more and more
I am your private hell, your sweetest smell
your constant, changing voice
I am your best advice, your darkest night
your silent, raging noise
I am, I am
I am, I am
I am your waking thought
I am the prize you want
I am the one who cares
I am your rocking chair
I am the hope you seek
I am the force you think you need
I am your heart's desire
I am the one to take you higher
Ease back into my embrace
Ease back let me touch your face
Ease back into my embrace
It wasn't even difficult, I hardly had to try
Just my human nature, damned hard to deny
And it started with one little white lie
Lie, lie, pretty little lie ... compromising
Lie, Lie, one shade at a time ... one shade at a time
Lie, lie, dirty little lie ... no disguising
Lie, lie, an addiction to crime ... an addiction to crime
And you're no different than me, the disease the same
And you're not different from her, only the symptoms change
Only the symptoms change
The disease ... the disease remains
I didn't think it possible, it's all beyond my shame
That my heart is noble, and I believed this game
Go ahead ... say it again ... you didn't mean to hurt me
Go ahead ... say it again ... you're so very sorry
I'd like to snap your head off your shoulders
Pinch your brain til it smolders
Etch my pain deep into your skin
You're very sorry, you didn't mean it, Oh
Go ahead say it again, go ahead say it again
Did I make you feel better ... Maybe for a while
Did I make you feel normal ... Well you know I'm a liar
Did I make you feel better ... Did I steal your fire
Did I make you feel normal ... Well you know you'll be fine
Go ahead ... say it again ... about how you need me
Go ahead ... say it again ... about how you love me
I'm some kind of diamond on your finger
I'd like to snap your head off your shoulders
Pinch your brain til it smolders
Etch my pain deep into your skin
You're very sorry
You didn't mean it
I could travel to NY City
Dress in black and slump around the Village
Pierce my flesh with jewels and needles
Turn my black hair white or whatever
I could hang out with the mod and the junkie
Sleep all day and run out of money
Put my faith in God or the Beatles
Turn my black hair whatever I needed
whatever I needed
But I'd still be the same to you
My heart would remain for you
I could inject my anger like some venom
Seek revenge then slowly drown in it
Pierce my head with weed or religion
Turn my black thoughts white or whatever
I could thin about all I'm missing
Lift my head and see what I can take in
Put my fears away with a ribbon
Give em more you say like it doesn't cost a dime
Give em what they need, a soothing nursery rhyme
Give it all you've got, like a star that's fading fast
Give em more and more and more as you fade into the past
This is not what I want
.. Don't hold me to my world
This is not what I need
.. Consume me in your world
This is all that I've got
.. This ringing in my head
This is all that I want
.. And I'd be better off dead
Shave it from your bones, extract is from your skin
Give your very soul and then start over again
Make it seem so real as you're spinning out of control
Was it all in my head, the ugly things, you said to me
Now it's all in my hands, do I want to be what you want me to be
Tell me what would you do if I snapped you in two
If I drove you into the ground
Tell me what would you say if I just walked away
Like this is how it was meant to go down
Was it all in my head, the things you ...
You can lay me out
You can nail me down
You can find me waiting
You can lift me up
You can knock me down
You can find me hating there
You can twist & scream
You can be obscene
Then you'll find me laughing
You can make me sweat
You can surely get just what I'm after there
Was it all in my mind, just how unkind, you seemed to be
Now it all falls away, and I'm left blind, like you need me to be
Tell me what would you do if I snapped you in two
If I drove you into the ground
Tell me what would you say if I blew you away
If I left without a sound
Shut up!
You talk too much...
You talk too much...
You talk too much...
You talk too much...
Hey! You over there I know about your kind
You're like the Independent Network News on Channel 9
Everywhere that you go no matter where you at
I said you talk about this and you talk about that
When the cat took your tongue I say you took it right back
Your mouth is so big one bite would kill a Big Mac
You talk too much You never shut up
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never shut up
You talk about people, you don't even know
And you talk about places, you NEVER go
You talk about your girl, from head to toe
I said your mouth's moving fast, and your brain's moving slow
You talk too much You never shut up!
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never shut up
You're the instigator, the orator of the town
You're the worst when you converse, just a big mouth clown
You talk when you're awake, I heard you talk when you sleep
Has anyone ever told you, that talk is cheap
You talk too much You never shut, up!
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!
Talking is the one thing, that you can do best
You told the cavity creeps, to watch out for Crest
You never have the story, right and exact
And then you always try to bore me, with your yakkity yak
You talk too much And then you never shut up
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!
Everyday you are out fighting someone in the street
And you're always fighting someone you know ya can't beat
Then you wonder how, you got in this mess
Just think of what you said, then take a guess
You talk too much You never shut up!
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!
You're always spreading rumors, whether bad or good
You're the damn Walter Cronkite of the neighborhood
The Barbara Walters, and the Howard Cosell
You always come around, with a story to tell
You talk too much And then you never shut up
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!
Said it's everybody's business that you love to mind
And talkin to you, is like dropping a dime
You're spreading the word, like it is your job
You should be a stool pigeon, who works for the mob
You talk too much And you never shut up
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never shut up!
A big blabbermouth, that's what you are
If you were a talk show host, you'd be a star
I said your mouth is big, size extra large
And when you open it, it's like my garage
You talk too much And then you never shut up
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never shut up
You always like to gossip, just like a girl
You talk so damn much, it's outta this world
When you're reincarnated, in your second life
You won't be a man, you'll be a nagging wife
You talk too much Then you never shut up
He said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!
SHUT UP!
SHUT UP!
Twenty-five hours, eight days a week
Thirteen months outta year, is when you speak
I'm tired of listening to the garbage you talk
Why don't you find a short pier, and take a long walk
You talk too much Then you never shut up!
I said you talk too much Homeboy you never SHUT UP!
You talk too much You could be, out of breath
You talk too much Man you naggin me to death
You talk too much Tired of hearing you speak
You talk too much Eight days a week
You talk too much Then you never shut up
I said you talk too much Why don't you ever SHUT UP!
You talk too much Then you never shut up!