Needle 'Thomas Aquinas' Murphy has set up a company in Ballydeelin to make polyphonic musical cards. They've already created 'thank you' and birthday cards, and next week they'll be releasing a 'please' card. Needle says it has the effect of getting down on your knees in tears and saying, "If you don't marry me I'll die alone, and I'll even let you kill that thing in the bathroom."

They're currently working on a range of cards that will provide a musical expression of friendship. Needle told us, "It'll be like when Starsky runs to Hutch and they embrace in the same way those two goats fell off the cliff, not in any intimate sort of a way."

Trucie Gallagher has written a DIY book from an inventor's perspective. It's called 'Honey I balls'd up the microwave'. He'll be signing copies at Leary's bookshop on Tuesday.

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