Mal Tattersall

Dec 3, 2024 | thesun.ie | Mal Tattersall

CHECKPOINT Charlie… the name still sends a shiver down the spine of people like me who are old enough to remember the Sixties. For it was here, at this crossing point between East and West Berlin, that the world teetered on the brink of World War Three on October 27, 1961. Twenty Russian and American tanks – 10 from each side – faced each other off over the border, just 100metres apart..

Nov 16, 2024 | thesun.ie | Mal Tattersall

DID you know that most women wearing chastity belts during bygone centuries were not, as commonly believed, ordered to do so by their jealous husband to stop them sneaking off to their lovers? Instead, it seems, wives actually chose to wear one to keep themselves “pure” from other predatory men while travelling far from their homes and hubbies. At least that’s what one exhibit explains at the rather naughty Sex Machines Museum in the Czech capital Prague.

Sep 11, 2024 | travelbeginsat40.com | Mal Tattersall

Albanian strongman Enver Hoxha didn’t pussyfoot around billeting “illegal immigrants” on some off-shore barge or trying to fly them to Rwanda during his country’s Communist era. He just had them shot on sight as suspected saboteurs. On the other hand, if anybody tried to leave the country, he had them shot too – as suspected traitors. For, after all, who but a traitor (or possibly a lunatic totally out of his mind) would want to escape such a socialist paradise?

Aug 23, 2024 | ok.co.uk | Steve Robson |Kara O'Neill |Mal Tattersall |Anna Verdon

An actor who played Tinky Winky in the iconic BBC children's TV series, Teletubbies, tragically passed away just weeks after relocating from London for a fresh start, according to a close friend. Fifty two year old Simon Shelton Barnes reportedly succumbed to hypothermia after being discovered on a Liverpool street on the morning of 17 January, 2018. He played the lovable purple Teletubby from 1998 to 2001. His sudden passing left loved ones reeling and questioning what went wrong.

May 5, 2024 | thesun.ie | Mal Tattersall

Well, if magic is afoot on the island, then I fell under its spell during the few days I spent there ­WHEN rock star Bob Geldof played a sell-out gig on the Isle of Man a few years ago, his Boomtown Rats band were rather bizarrely billed as the Boomtown Longtails. For nobody on the island dare say the word “rat” in case it brings them bad luck. And if some stranger accidentally does, then they must immediately knock on wood and whistle.