One of my favs

6. The delayed hangover is perhaps the most vicious of all, you wake, a bit bleary eyed maybe but on collating your faculties you realise there is no pain, no rumbling, no intense burning weight labouring on your head. The day proceeds however and come the 11 o’clock mark, terror strikes, you suddenly realise you […]

How often are we presented with a story of fleeting glances turned to intense moments of passion, with our protagonists caught up in a world where their love cannot survive against the odds dictated by the world around them? Following my viewing of ‘Evening’ I can offer an answer of at least once too often. […]

The Irish Film and Television Academy (IFTA) has announced that Tom Collins’s Kings, starring Colm Meaney, Donal O’Kelly and Brendan Conroy, has been officially selected by an independent IFTA jury for submission to the 80th Academy Awards for the Best Foreign Language Film category. This is the first time that an Irish language film is […]

I’m sure it was important to somebody that records be kept of sightings of strange objects in the sky and indeed todays story in the Irish Times reports that such a dossier was kept by the Defence Forces until 1984. So too it must have seemed important to someone in the Times to give up […]

Tuesday night…sitting at the laptop…brain numbing project to have done by tomorrow…room too small and messy to jump around…air guitar from your chair recommended!

Tonight on RTE 1, The Naked Election looks back on the experiences of 9 candidates in the run up to the election this past summer. Obviously the promos running on RTE are designed to promote but nevertheless they look good and the programme may deliver some interesting insight.

Tonight (Tuesday), 10.15 RTE 1

Hat tip Godwhacker

In the London times last week Daniel Finkelstein wrote an article disputing the fact that it was possible to spend your way out of terrorism that solving social inequality and poverty will not solve stop terrorism.

A study of the country of origin of terrorists reveals that lower-income countries are no more likely to […]

Israel hit suspected Syrian nuclear sites last week. I really need to read the news more