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Posted in Interviews, Ireland, Media, Radio, Television on Jul 29th, 2011
When I moved to Dublin in 2007, it didn’t take me long to find Ryan Tubridy on my radio dial. What I hadn’t banked on was just how difficult it would be to avoid him everywhere else. To English friends, I used to describe Mr T , in terms of reach at least, as ‘like [...]
Posted in International, News, Travel on Jul 28th, 2011
Recent tragic events in Norway brought to mind a wonderful holiday I enjoyed there a while back and just how amazing, resilient and heroic the Norwegian people can be. Here are some of my impressions of Oslo and her heroes. If you get the chance I urge everyone to travel there and enjoy this beautiful, peaceful [...]
Posted in Anti Room Film Club, Film on Jul 28th, 2011
Well, the votes are in, the people have spoken, and they say they’d like to watch Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell trading quips in the utterly brilliant His Girl Friday in the Workman’s Club on Wednesday, August 10th. So come join us to watch the film, have a drink from the bar, and maybe sample [...]
Posted in Art & Culture, Film, LGBTQ Issues, Relationships on Jul 28th, 2011
Choosing the title for my and Zlata Filipovic’s new short documentary Hold on Tight was difficult. Usually when I make a film, I know the name even before I’m certain what it is about; a title sort of inspires me to discover the story beyond it. For whatever reason, I really struggled to sum up [...]
Posted in Art, Art & Culture, Film, LGBTQ Issues, Women on Jul 27th, 2011
!Women Art Revolution, made by Lynn Hershmann Leeson, is a documentary that explores the Feminist Art Movement of the late 1960s and ’70s. Hershmann Leeson is a celebrated media artist and has gathered 42 years worth of archive materials. Through intimate interviews with the likes of Judy Chicago, B. Ruby Rich and the Guerilla Girls, and [...]
Posted in Body image, Religion, Society, Sport, Technology on Jul 27th, 2011
Being something of a weight lifting fanatic myself, it was with genuine consternation and confusion that I read the following article about a 35-year-old woman who wishes to compete in weight lifting competitions. Kulsoom is Muslim, and as such unwilling to bare her arms or legs. She is now pressing for a change to the [...]
I cried today. Not in sorrow but in anger. Those hot, prickly tears that you can feel behind your eyes before they start to drop. The reason was guilt. Or rather anger at someone poking at the residual well of maternal guilt which is all to easy to access. The conversation was well-intentioned – the [...]
Posted in Art & Culture, Books, Guest Posters, Technology on Jul 25th, 2011
At the turn of the millennium (the most misspelt word of 1999), I was in my first term of a MA in Journalism, a return to fulltime education after fifteen years of work, and loving every minute of it. Mobile phones were common enough, but not everyone had one. I was considering whether to get [...]
Posted in Anti-Heroines, Music, Women on Jul 24th, 2011
I’ve never been one for raw pain. It’s the quality that was, some claim, the essence of Amy Winehouse, her life, her songs. This is musical hindsight. What I heard at the time had more notes than that. The winter of 2003 was fading into 2004 and I would stay in bed late on weekends to listen to [...]
Another dark chapter in our nation’s history began to come to light today. One which has been quietly, desperately brewing out of the public eye. An email from the CEO of Superquinn – which has gone into administration – spoke out about the actions of the receivers. Our nation is still reeling from our previous [...]
