James Cotter

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Sisu is a doctor-led clinic focused on treatments that include botox and fillers
Pat Phelan’s Sisu chain raises additional funds as it eyes US launch

Irish cosmetic treatment chain Sisu has secured investment from backers that include Greycroft Partners, a venture capital firm that has previously ba(...)

Photograph: Alan Place
Blindboy: ‘Being recognisable is absolute hell’

BLINDBOY BOATCLUB – PODCASTER, AUTHOR AND HALF OF THE RUBBERBANDITS – TALKS POLITICS, ANONYMITY, HIS NEW BOOK AND ANGRY MEN WITH PATRICK FREYNE (...)

The imposing ruins of Tyrone House, near the village of Kilcolgan, Co Galway, January 1968. The house was destroyed by the local IRA unit during the War of Independence. Photograph: RDImages/Epics/Getty Images
Galway, 1920: Black and Tan with revolver shot in all directions during gunfight

The Revolution Files is a collection of articles detailing one incident in each of Ireland’s 32 counties during the revolutionary years, from 1916 to (...)

A Public Sector Pay Commission report proposes a €10 million annual package to address pay issues, with the Military Service Allowance being increased by 10 per cent. Photograph: Alan Betson
Defence Forces offer is ‘missed opportunity’ to show respect

The increased allowances offered to soldiers and naval personnel are a “missed opportunity to show the Defence Forces the appreciation and respect” th(...)

Des Bishop is ‘smart, fast, informed and compassionate; he just needs a position to shoot from’
This is Ireland review: Only satire can save us now, but it needs to be sharper than this

You would think, as 2016 draws to a pitiful close, that the only people who could salvage anything from this annus horribilis would be satirists. For(...)

‘A show that looks like it could have been shot on a borrowed phone while someone keeps sketch for the security guards’
TV review: The Blindboy leads the blind in the Rubberbandits Guide to Money

“Don’t try and make sense of something that doesn’t make sense,” insists a talking fish. “It’s completely arbitrary.” A trout, with a molasses-thick L(...)

Since January of this year, EU regulations have made it illegal to discharge or return pelagic fish such as herring, mackerel or horse mackerel to the sea after they are caught.
‘Record penalty’ for Dutch captain breaching regulations in Irish waters

The skipper of a Dutch factory ship has received one of the largest ever penalties for breach of fishing regulations in Irish waters when he had his c(...)