Pricewatch
Tue, 9 Feb 2010, 10:29 pm | Conor Pope
It’s a cold morning and I’m in a n shockingly decorated hotel room on a leafy road in Dublin, trying to sell my wedding ring to a lonely man with a thick Geordie accent. He’s been in this place for more than five hours waiting for a gold rush which has yet to materialise. [...]
outsidein
Tue, 9 Feb 2010, 9:25 pm | Bryan
George Lee speaking outside Leinster House yesterday, following his resignation from both the Dáil and Fine Gael. Photograph: Eric Luke. It pains me to think of myself as jumping onto the George Lee bandwagon, but jump on it I shall. Actually, I’m not really jumping on the bandwagon. I don’t have very much to add to [...]
Politics
Tue, 9 Feb 2010, 8:30 pm | Deaglan
The issue of nation-building is an important one for any society seeking to overcome major problems such as racial division, economic collapse, class differences, etc., etc. Share This
Fash Mob
Tue, 9 Feb 2010, 5:49 pm | Rosemary Mac Cabe
Honestly, you have no idea that headline took me to come up with. I was trying to think of something that rhymes with “Kling”, in that it has an L in it and really, I’m stumped. Fling? But, like, what headline can I come up with there? Really, who cares. . . And I finally [...]
On The Record
Tue, 9 Feb 2010, 4:46 pm | Jim Carroll
The benefit gig featuring Cathy Davey, Julie Feeney, Villagers, The Chapters, The Chakras and many more which was to be held in Dublin’s Vicar Street on February 11 has been cancelled. The reason cited is “unavoidable circumstances”, which is a new one on me. Wonder how many tickets were sold for this gig and if [...]
Pursued by a Bear
Tue, 9 Feb 2010, 3:02 pm | Fiona
I love country music. I’m also very fond of Jeff Bridges, so I was particularly well disposed towards Crazy Heart, the film that’s already garnered him an Oscar nomination, as well as one for his co-star Maggie Gyllenhaal. Based on a novel by Thomas Cobb, it’s the tale of one Bad Blake, a whiskey-sluggin’, geetar [...]
Six Nations
Tue, 9 Feb 2010, 2:46 pm | Frankie Sheahan
Ireland Team v France announced. My reaction….. Last weekend asked a lot of Cian Healy. Locking horns with seasoned campaigner Castrogiovanni is no mean feat and he stepped up to the plate in a big way. As I mentioned in my post-match blog on Saturday, Italy were targeting the scrum as the one area they could [...]
Ultach
Tue, 9 Feb 2010, 12:39 pm | Pol Ó Muiri
Minister for the Gaeltacht, Éamon Ó Cuív TD, has approved €21,900 over three years to fund the teaching of Irish in Beijing Foreign Studies University in China. Beijing is the first university in China to seek funding to teach Irish and joins over 30 centres outside of Ireland which have Irish-language courses as part of their academic [...]
Current Account
Mon, 8 Feb 2010, 6:13 pm | John Collins
The people’s favourites, the New Orleans Saints, may have won the Super Bowl in Miami last night but for many the real action doesn’t take place on the pitch but during the ad breaks. Share This
The Book Club
Mon, 8 Feb 2010, 11:53 am | Rosita Boland
The creative process is an endlessly fascinating one. How does the book emerge from the head and onto the page? Nobody really know that, apart from the individual writer. This is the study where Colm Tóibín works. He writes long-hand, which is highly unusual these days when most writers of novels opt for computers - however, lots of poets still [...]
Screenwriter
Sun, 7 Feb 2010, 9:43 pm | Donald Clarke
Last autumn, when the first of several release dates for Shutter Island loomed, Martin Scorsese unveiled a list of his favourite 11 horror films. It’s an eccentric collection but, oddly, quite a few entries — the British ones for starters — might appear on my own list. Even Peter Medak’s undervalued The Changeling is worth [...]
Minibyte
Sat, 6 Feb 2010, 9:58 am | Ciara
There are several things that will remain certainties for me: I will always lose the USB camera from my at least once; despite owning about 16GB of memory cards, I will always run out of space too soon ; and photographs from holidays will, if not uploaded almost immediately, get forgetten about until I find [...]
Mechanical Turk
Mon, 1 Feb 2010, 6:07 pm | Hugh Linehan
Behold Bertie Ahern watching his beloved Man U trashing the Gooners in glorious 3D yesterday, courtesy of those astute marketing people at Sky, who pitched up in Fagan’s with their fancy new gear and two sackfuls of cheap plastic specs. Share This
