Just lifted! Embargoes lifting day before release is a huge red flag, the influencer screening being last Thursday and the critics screening being yesterday is also a gigantic red flag

Full review coming in print later this week, but I don't think a movie has pissed me off quite like Michael. An intellectually dishonest movie that jingles car keys at the audience for 2 hours. It also treats John Landis like Thanos. Terrible.

Progressives must learn lessons from Spain, says Bacik Labour leader Ivana Bacik has said that the Irish left "must learn important lessons from governments in countries like Spain" after attending a conference of left-wing parties in Spain

Labour leader Ivana Bacik has said that the Irish left "must learn important lessons from governments in countries like Spain" after attending a conference of left-wing parties in Spain #Speirgorm dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

Interested to hear Bacik say that the Irish left can learn lessons from Spain. The Spainish left used to be spread out with no real cohesion, then Pedro Sanchez managed to wrangle them all into a coalition, twice. Highly recommend people check this book out, maybe a guidebook for our lot?

Catherine Connolly with Pedro Sanchez

Nice photo of Catherine Connolly meeting Pedro Sanchez - like to imagine she is telling him about Spanish Arch back in Galway and no, she doesn't know why they call it that either

Progressives must learn lessons from Spain, says Bacik Labour leader Ivana Bacik has said that the Irish left "must learn important lessons from governments in countries like Spain" after attending a conference of left-wing parties in Spain

Labour leader Ivana Bacik has said that the Irish left "must learn important lessons from governments in countries like Spain" after attending a conference of left-wing parties in Spain #Speirgorm dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

You switched the samples!

Superb

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Oh for f-

Looking up the Galway census from 1926 and finding out there was a townland named Wormhole. This has made my day. Wormhole.

Saw the Michael Jackson movie last night - embargoed on it but can confirm there isn't a scene where Jarvis Cocker gets arrested for mooning MJ at the Brit Awards and Bob Mortimer had to serve as his legal representation

I haven't bought a game at launch since Starfield (yeah, I know) but the Hitman guys doing James Bond is too good to pass up!

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Very much enjoying the Bond theme Lana Del Rey is doing for First Light. I've always been hot and cold on her music and I have particular opinions on what a Bond theme should be. This is a great bridge between a Shirley Bassey theme and a Chris Cornell one

Been acting the bollocks all day!

Government "pathetic" for not cancelling Israel game, Coppinger says Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger has called the government "pathetic" for not cancelling Ireland's upcoming football match against Israel, saying that "even Haughey intervened about South Africa and apart...

Solidarity TD Ruth Coppinger has called the government "pathetic" for not cancelling Ireland's upcoming football match against Israel, remarking "Haughey intervened about South Africa and apartheid; this is so pathetic in comparison." dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

Was great to see Eva Victor introduce Sorry, Baby at the Lighthouse. A film I saw there last August with about 10 other people, the ending didn't leave me for weeks, then I ended up giving it my year-end #1. Seeing it again with 300 people was incredible. A singular talent and film

Real-life Civil War "what kind of American" moment at the protest last week. Did a write-up of what I saw and who I spoke to.
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Carbon tax row reveals another fracture point on the left Sinn Féin want to scrap the carbon tax. Their prospective coalition partners in Labour, the Soc Dems and the Greens want to keep it. Is another fracture point forming on the left, and their bid to for...

Wrote about this at length the other week; Sinn Féin are trying to appeal to the populist voter in rural areas who gets their news from Facebook, and trying to appeal to urban progressives who have bolted to the Soc Dems since 2020. It won't work. dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

Kerrane is my TD from back home in Roscommon-Galway, the same constituency where Michael Fitzmaurice got 12,000 first preferences in 2024. It's very clear to me that rural Sinn Féin TDs are trying to chase that Independent Ireland/Aontú vote (at the expense of progressive voters in the cities)

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Embargoed on Lee Cronin's The Mummy but I will be referencing the music videos of Tool in my review. That may or may not be helpful

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Broke: calling it Lee Cronin's The Mummy
Woke: calling it New Line Cinema presents Lee Cronin's The Mummy

The Irish premiere screening of The Mummy

The artist formerly known as Lee Cronin's The Mummy (I am not putting the full title in a print headline, let's not be silly)

Clannad - Theme from Harry's Game (Official HD Video) YouTube video by ClannadVEVO

Clannad's 'Theme From Harry's Game' reached no. 2 in Ireland in 1982. It's also the only song in Irish to have got into the UK top ten: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zHT...

Joy Division, Oasis, and Wu-Tang Clan Inducted Into Rock Hall’s Class of 2026 Phil Collins, Sade, Iron Maiden, Billy Idol, and Luther Vandross also made the cut

Joy Division and New Order mean an awful lot to me personally so I'm delighted they are finally getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (Wu-Tang Clan and Iron Maiden making it in is also class, likewise with Sade)
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Unranked, but broadly expect this to be my top 20 come December 2029

Neil banging out the tunes April 13, 2006

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

Viktor Orban, a man who was inexplicably Hungarian Prime Minister for the best part of 20 years

Brenan Fraser in The Whale, a role he inexplicably won an Oscar for

Why does this photo of Viktor Orban look like that one screenshot of Brendan Fraser in The Whale

Ken Loach revisits I, Daniel Blake: ‘We were asking if food banks are tolerable. Now they’re an institution’ The scene at the food bank, recalls the director, where Katie is so hungry, she pours baked beans into her hand from a tin and eats them cold, came from a real story

Ken Loach revisits I, Daniel Blake: ‘We were asking if food banks are tolerable. Now they’re an institution’

Made Sorry, Baby my year-end number one film last year. A film I'd reccommend that everyone sees.

Dublin politicians welcome resounding Orban defeat Dublin politicians from both government and opposition parties have welcomed the resounding defeat of Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban

Dublin politicians from both government and opposition parties have welcomed Viktor Orban's defeat
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