In the meantime, I suggest keep singing Merry Christmas loud and proud
ET is that you – the benign two-foot-tall creature from space with a long neck and big loveable eyes, who ended up in a family home in the Hollywood Hills against your original want? No, it’s Lisa Smith, an ex-member of the 27th Infantry Battalion and Air Corps, who served as a flight attendant to […]
If you lived through it, you’d have to have been an apathetic stoic with no soul, not to shed a tear at the sight of East Germans flooding into West Berlin on the night of November 9th, 1989. As a (half) native German, it was pivotal moment in my motherland’s history and one I remember […]
Halloween used to be so easy. Kids would get dressed up, go trick or treating, eat too much chocolate, wear disposable costumes and wear ghoulish makeup. Adults – especially young adults – would get dressed up too – go hell raising for a night wearing whatever they wanted. The more outrageous, the better. But alas, […]
Yesterday, two thugs attacked and robbed a woman at gunpoint in broad daylight in the centre of Dublin. It’s a far too regular occurrence. You go online or read the paper and there’s an article about yet another random act of violence where someone was stabbed or beaten up on a night out, at a […]
If it weren’t so weird, the Extinction Rebellion would be hilarious. Watching a bunch of entitled middle class morons who are convinced that they have insider knowledge of our imminent demise is comical. But once you get a group of brainless, time rich hysterics from a foliage wearing death cult together in one place, things […]
The veritable nail has been hammered into the coffin of Irish TV comedy with RTE’s newest attempt to pander to the cultural Zeitgeist. If you haven’t seen ‘Comedy Showcase’, don’t bother. It’s dreadful. After watching one clip of ‘Bump’ I couldn’t help but wonder- what the hell happened in the seven years since The Savage […]
Each year after Wimbledon tennis tournament, a champion’s dinner takes place. Suffice to say, it’s a rather prestigious event and great fun if you just happen to have won Wimbledon. Novak Djokovic probably had a fantastic Champions dinner this year after his epic victory over Roger Federer. Boris Becker and Steffi Graf attended in 1989 […]
I’m currently sitting in a cafe beside a sea of breastfeeding mums, chatting away to each other, enjoying precious bonding time with their babies. It’s magical and because it’s so fleeting, I feel a pang of nostalgia, remembering the wonderful ten months I spent feeding my now four-year-old daughter. Suffice to say, they are minding […]
And just like that, politicians were outraged, upset and angry about the forest fires in Brazil and surrounding countries. It’s heartening that rabid deforestation, and in this case, slash and burn is making news and causing politicians to feign interest- for a few days at least until something else comes along. With the world watching, […]
When the harrowing news was confirmed that Nora Quoirin’s body was found just 2.5 kilometres from the Dusun resort where she was holidaying with her family, it was difficult not to shed a tear. We hear horrible news everyday- wars, humanitarian crisis, gang rapes, disenfranchisment, famines, floods, mass shootings, bombings, gratuitous, unneccessary violence, terrorism, climate […]