I profiled Kneecap for The Face - over Tunnocks wafers, tea and a few Guinnesses pulled by Móglaí Bap.
On their forthcoming album, the biopic that stormed Sundance, and a united Ireland for everyone.
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My dispatch from the auction of Jane Birkin’s original Hermès Birkin bag at Sotheby’s Paris—10 heated minutes, 9 bidders, a €7 million sale (final price €8.6 million). As one collector told me: “This is my Super Bowl.” https://t.co/mxbdOb06Fj
If I could read Helen Garner all day every day, I’d regard it as a life well-lived. I revere all her writing, but it’s her non-fiction I return to most and, to distil it further, for me it’s her diaries that show her to be the absolute killer writer that she is. I think it was speaking of Elizabeth Strout that Hilary Mantel said she had a prose style of such lucidity it was a moral virtue in itself, and that’s exactly how I feel about Garner. All three diaries are now available in the UK in a single volume (they’re actually published here tomorrow, the 13th, by @wnbooks) and in them is revealed, in sometimes agonising detail, the life of a writer, of a woman, of a person so vividly engaged with both the everyday and moral struggle of just being in the world. Her gift simply for paying attention is – to use a horribly blurby word – just luminous. She may not be as widely read here as she is in her native Australia, but she bloody well should be!
Lola Petticrew's acceptance speech after winning Best Actress in a Drama at the #IFTAs for their role in Say Nothing.
Watch the highlights of the 22nd annual IFTA Awards Ceremony, hosted by Kevin McGahern, on #RTEPlayer.
Seven years seems like a long time but it really is not. It feels like only a few weeks since we last saw each other..so many great memories and so many great songs. We still miss you every day Dolores.
Love,
Ferg, Noel and Mike
Photo by Theodore Wood, licensed by Camera Press
NEW: Statement by President Higgins on the death of Gearóid Ó Cairealláin
A major figure in the Irish language movement, Gearóid Ó Cairealláin’s death is a great loss for all those who work for the use of the Irish language: its rights, its literature, and its place in the daily life of people. He served as President of Conradh na Gaeilge, but his contribution was much wider than that. Sabina and I send our sympathy to his family, including his sons Ainle, Cairbre and Naoise.
Good first step but as I've been saying for years, we need a stalker's register to track serial offenders. Stalking has high recidivism rates and is often tied to domestic abuse, homicide, etc. Gov won't do it as so £ because sadly these men are everywhere https://t.co/y6dJuB7WRf
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