Posted by Lisa McInerney on Wednesday, August 17, 2011,
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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 ...
Posted by Lisa McInerney on Tuesday, July 26, 2011,
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Last weekend left a lot of us battling with conflicting empathic traumas, once removed from personal experience and filtered through the lenses of strangers. In Norway, a broken terrorist successfully carried out a cold, horrific plan to take the lives of those he considered a threat to his warped ideals. In England, a brilliant young musician died after years of well-publicised struggles with dependency and self-harm. Both events were subject to immediate media dissemination and public consu... Continue reading ...
Posted by Lisa McInerney on Thursday, May 12, 2011,
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I haven’t been as good and forthcoming with the blog posts as I should have been. It’s because I’m writing fiction and, therefore, couldn’t give a fuck about anything else, including my job, my fitness level, my mother’s aching for a chat, and the length and condition of my hair. Were there not other people relying on me to bring home the bacon, I would most likely have been holed up for the last couple of months, under a blanket, under a boulder, blissfully flipping words between m... Continue reading ...
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