Browsing Archive: August, 2011
Posted by Lisa McInerney on Friday, August 26, 2011,
In :
Updates
You should know by now that just because I haven't been writing sulky pieces here, complaining about what fuckers my countrymen are, doesn't mean I haven't been busy over on Culch scribbling much fluffier posts about what fuckers the Kardashians are. I've also been delving into my past with a new and nostalgic feature on retro video games and how they were all harder than a frozen vindaloo, starting with Paperboy and followed, this week, with Gauntlet. More to come there. And lastly, I wrote ... Continue reading ...
Posted by Lisa McInerney on Wednesday, August 17, 2011,
In :
Pop Culture
Ryan Tubridy: Can I talk to you about your last year? You’ve described it yourself as a nightmare year personally. In essence, what happened?
Ronan Keating: What happened … It was … it was a crazy year. I guess the press went pretty crazy on me and I think they were only too happy to jump. They were waiting for an opportunity, I guess, and they got it and they went crazy and, you know I’m … We’re just trying to move on positively now as a family, and, you know, move forward, you k... Continue reading ...
I don't remember what it was that sparked my national pride; for as long as I can remember I've been cheerfully smug about being Irish. I do recall being very, very small, and watching an Ireland vs. England match on TV with my oldies, and announcing that I was going to cheer for England because they had decided to cheer for Ireland."You can't do that," I was told. "You're Irish. You can't cheer for England."This puzzled me; it was obviously before we learned the 800-years-chant at school (if... Continue reading ...
Posted by Lisa McInerney on Tuesday, August 2, 2011,
In :
Politics
It is with more than a measure of dismay I watched David Norris' presidential campaign fall apart over the last few days. I had been eager to see his name on the ballot paper and thought that he would bring a warm, likeable vigour to the role of our head of state. While I was agonising over how to put into words how I felt about the weekend's revelations, the brilliant Sinéad Keogh saved me the hassle. ~ LisaAs Joycean scholar David Norris would know, the old Ulysses quote goes that "Suffici... Continue reading ...
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