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Sesame Tree is 'Most Viewed' on YouTube Channel
06/03/09 01:26
Sesame Tree's ‘Share Necessities’ episode is Most Viewed on the Ulster American Society's YouTube Channel which features a selection of broadcast content originating from Northern Ireland.
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Gerry Adams and his Cookie Monster watch
25/02/09 00:11
Gerry and the Cookie Monster
By Mark Davenport
Gerry Adams is in the United States, ostensibly telling Americans about the serious nature of the current deadlock. However I suspect that his real purpose is to go shopping for muppet memorabilia.
Apparently he ran in to the President of Sesame Workshop, Gary Knell, at last month's meeting of the Bill Clinton's Global Initiative group in New York. Sesame Workshop make the legendary Sesame Street and the local version, Sesame Tree with Belfast company, Sixteen South.
The SF President told the SW president that Sesame is "huge" here. Then Gerry showed Gary his wrist, on which he proudly sported a Cookie Monster watch. Mr Knell's view was that this was as good as it gets.
Sesame, of course, doesn't just appeal to republicans. When Gary Knell visited the Assembly earlier in the year, the Speaker Willie Hay presented him with an Ian Knox cartoon of 108 muppets outside Stormont.
Full story here on www.bbc.co.uk