Fella took too many punches to the head and that's the long and the short of it.
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Fella took too many punches to the head and that's the long and the short of it.
Yes James but these laws dictate that no-hoper presidential candidates wear a subtle tricolour. How else is he going to be mortifyingly wrong about flag etiquette?
How many times will Farage have his arse handed to him? Does the arse grow back?
Tesla Ireland’s pre-tax profits shrink by 25 per cent in car crash for Musk’s Irish sales
what the heck is peatham?
Everything except Jane's Addiction, which I for one expected to heat
Thank god we're surrounded by water
Terrible sound but the screen ain't much better. Lumens, dude, do you have them?
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Wishing nothing but the very worst for Donald Trump
Live your life in such a way that the entire world isn't F5ing news of your imminent death
John Maguire on Film: The Thursday Murder Club is dead on arrival
I have said before that any film shelved as a tax write-off should immediately and permenantly enter the public domain
Why does my toaster weep? Is the fridge thirsty? Is that the DVD player I can hear sneezing from its dusty shelf in the shed?
Taxi for Amorim
That Bugonia poster is gorgeous. Proper 70s sci-fi vibe.
A fine first night of the week on Arena with new Irish theatre at the Dublin Fringe, one of the voices from Frozen with the @rteco.rte.ie, and picking apart 40 years of Studio Ghibli with @johnmaguire.bsky.social. Listen back here or wherever you get your podcasts. www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...
On the occasion of their 40th anniversary, I'll be paying tribute to Studio Ghibli on RTE Arena in a few minutes, and asking what next for the world's greatest animation house? Do tune in!
Israel is deliberately targeting and murdering journalists to cover up their ongoing war crimes against the civilian population in Gaza and Palestine, including creating the circumstances for mass starvation and famine.
Last season's crop
Too early for parsnips at this latitude pal. Wait until after the first frost if you don't want to be snared by your own lies.
BREAKING: Award-winning Scottish screenwriter Paul Laverty has been arrested after wearing a T-shirt reading 'Genocide in Palestine, time to take action' Police arrested the I, Daniel Blake writer in Edinburgh this morning
John Yorke's Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them. That's it. That's the recommendation.
Two's *company*, Daily Mail. Three is a crowd.
I'll be taking a look at the week's new film and tv on the Brendan O'connor Show on RTE Radio 1 in a few minutes, including Netflix's adaptation of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club and my beloved Fisk. Do tune in!
Back when I used to eat sugar, my favourite dessert to make was fig roll ice cream: allow a litre of good vanilla to melt slightly, chop and crumble half a packet of the bould fig rolls, mix together and re-freeze. My blood glucose levels are spiking just typing this.
I am only now learning that, in the early 2000s, Peter Weir set up The War Magician with Tom Cruise to tell the story, from David Fisher's non-fiction book, of how stage illusionist Jasper Maskelyne helped the Allies win the war in Africa and it is now on my (long) list of Favourite Films Never Made
With Bertie's name being pushed for the Aras it might be finally possible to measure how short Irish political memory is.
Building a Dyson Sphere (a hypothetical megastructure that encloses a star to collect its energy) to wrap our solar system would require more material than our solar system contains; more than ten solar systems contain. How do I get these chimps to send me some of that sweet AI money?
DUM8A55
Ralph Bakshi's Heavy Traffic Paul Mazursky's Blume In Love Alan Bridge's The Hireling Tomas Gutierrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment Karoly Makk's Love Robert Fuest's The Final Programme/The Last Days of Man on Earth Jim McBride's David Holzman's Diary Fassbinder's World on a Wire Pts 1 and 2
Understand the imperative to shorthand an actor's career when announcing their death but Terence Stamp as the "star of Superman films" overlooks one of the greatest, and longest, careers in British cinema.
Sideline Saturdays return. At least it's not snowing.
Dublin. It is lashing
I'll be taking a look at the week's new cinema releases on RTE Radio 1's Arena in a few minutes, including Celine Song's Past Lives follower-upper, Materialists. Do tune in.
This is only the fourth negative story I've read about this chap in the last 24 hours, which is pretty good going for an Irish Presidential election
I was going by Ray Kroc, April 1955.
Pixie's Bossanova was released closer in time to the opening of the first ever McDonald's than today, it's 35 year anniversary
It's giving clear skies tonight and tomorrow for the Perseids, even if that gorgeous moon will limit visibility. www.bbc.com/news/article...
I wouldn't trust Trump to successfully negotiate the crayon maze on the back of a kid's menu, let alone the fate of a sovereign nation and it's people
Was about to say I spotted Donald Clarke wearing it the other day but can see he's beaten me to the news
Struggle to muster much of anything for an Emerald Fennell film, let alone precious outrage
Barbara Kruger at the Guggenheim in Bilbao
It will
This time around, a Kennedy is assassinating Americans
John Maguire on Film: Weapons is a hair-raising horror that will haunt parents most
This time around, a Kennedy is assassinating Americans
I have done the Green Bin stomp more than once
Perhaps in the sequel; AIght
I recently learned that in Norway, when someone asks "how's it going", the standard answer is "up and not crying" and we should adopt this asap
Tea bags Ivan. Turn the car around.
Pioneering filmmaker George Morrison dies aged 102
I was pointing it at Reynards!
this didn't work. maybe I'm not wearing the right Paul Smith suede slip ons?
Catastrophic subtitling on the 1941 movie "Love on the Dole". (It should read "She's a strange lass, is our Sal"...)
Your last saved celebrity is your therapist, you say?
"Pop Princess" Nelly Furtado is a woman in her 40s
Every time I get into any sea anywhere I remember the Caribbean; Anse Chastanet and Sugar Beach, Paynes Bay and Mullins, the little cove with no name that anyone knew in Martinique where I think I'll request to have my ashes scattered, so the tiny irridescent fish can feast and be happy
Balaeric
One of the glories of Dublin
Take a Rennie Descartes
So sorry to hear Sean Rocks has died. He was a lovely man and a consummate broadcaster. My condolences to his family, colleagues, and friends. He'll be terribly missed.
If you've got 5 days and six hours with nothing else to do, relive your teenage years
The Irish would say "aithníonn ciaróg ciaróg eile", literally, "a beetle recognises another beetle", two peas in a pod, birds of a feather. Being Irish, and very old, it can also be used as a riposte to an insult to say "it takes one to know one"
John Cazale mid-70's type run
this is how they came to add "drawn" and "quartered"
Lions win the series (just about)
Hang on...
Hugo Keeeeeenan
Comeback is on lads
B&I Lions in big trouble against a rampant Australian side. 25-5 and the Lions look spent at the half hour mark
I know there were 40+ years between Tír na nÓg studio LPs, seismic in certain circles
Many years ago I witnessed a lunchtime street fight in Limerick City during which a shirtless man ran full pelt down the street and roared HULK HOOOOGINNN as he tried and failed to drop kick one of the combatants.
and the eight billion dollars obvs
And all it cost them was Stephen Colbert's head on a plate
Many years ago I witnessed a lunchtime street fight in Limerick City during which a shirtless man ran full pelt down the street and roared HULK HOOOOGINNN as he tried and failed to drop kick one of the combatants.
A shiny penny for you Sandra
How can any American trust their children are safe with these people in charge?
📖 Comics at the National Library of Ireland: Discovering Irish #comicbook history 🦸 📆 Friday, 8 August at 1pm: www.nli.ie/exhibitions-... ⭐ Join #comic professionals as they discuss how items from the National Library’s collections reveal the history of comic books in Ireland.
Stanley Kubrick’s lavish period drama BARRY LYNDON opens tomorrow at the IFI in celebration of 50th anniversary with a stunning new 4K restoration. 🎟️ BOOK NOW - ifi.ie/film/barry-l...
A firebrand named Zohran, it's true Made the Manhattan nabobs feel blue. Their high-rise abodes, Are now heavy tax loads, So to cheaper locales they all flew.
I was there yesterday and would agree entirely except to swap Knowth for Newgrange...
80,000 years ago, Amoukar would let the discovery of fire destroy the Ulam tribe. We need to cook meat and stay warm but at what cost?
You're not perning hard enough. Maybe add more holy fire.
The peace of the countryside on a warm summer Sunday afternoon
Look forward to seeing Catherine Connolly debate McGregor, Casey, and whatever deluded gobaloon rears their lumpy head in the coming months.
Go outside and look at the Moon
O Superman - James Gunn's reboot reviewed in the Business Post www.businesspost.ie/life-luxury/...
Dune & Duner
Happy ending though
Wordle is an atrocity too
Ooh, this will be good
I'm actually DYING to see it, if it's real, which I suspect it is not
I have no answer for you Annie. The French don't have to put up with this sort of thing. The Germans wouldn't countenance it. We're too nice.
