Yearly Archives: 2013

comic cast[Liam Geraghty and Craig O’Connor after winning the Best Independent Podcast at this year’s Realex Irish Web Awards ]

After five and a half years reading comics and promoting Irish animation, Liam and Craig of The Comic Cast, Ireland’s #1 Comic Book Podcast, are calling it a day.

The final episode is online now.

Five and a half years.

A pair of Marvels.

Picture: Ben Keenan

9032450690324504Members of The Anti-Austerity Alliance (AAA), including Dublin City Fingal Councillor Ruth Coppinger (above), on Saturday afternoon marking the exit of the Troika in Dublin’s city centre.

The Anti-Austerity Alliance is a new group “arising from campaigns against household and property taxes” and plans to stand candidates in the local elections next May…

…Uniting around a programme which includes opposition to all austerity measures and cutbacks, refusal to engage in council junkets and for alternative economic strategies to austerity, which is causing hardship & damage to the economy.

FIGHT!

Anti Austerity Alliance (Facebook)

(Laura Hutton/Photocall Ireland)

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What you may need to know:

1. McConaughey! Cryface!

2. It’s the new Chris Nolan flick. Kind of a big deal.

3. What’s it all about? None of your beeswax.

4. Yes, Michael Caine’s in it.

5. Broadsheet Prognosis: what do you mean it’s not out until next November?

Release Date: November 2014

StrumpetCity-PeterOToole

Peter O’Toole, who has died aged 81, as Jim Larkin in a scene in episode 3 of RTÉ’s Strumpet City (1980), also featuring Bryan Murray and Donal McCann.

Meanwhile…

telegraph

[Peter O’Toole obituary, Daily Telegraph]

Schlock?

It was a bit though, in fairness.

Fight!

Raise a glass to Peter O’Toole, last of the 60s hellraisers (Dominic Rushe, Guardian)

(RTÉ)