Just think what he’ll save on razors.
Yearly Archives: 2013
What you may need to know
1. Chompsky’s really excited about this one.
2. When we heard the title, we thought it was a biopic of Phil Lynott’s mammy. It isn’t.
3. Yes, it’s based on a true story.
4. It’s directed by Stephen Frears, who did The Grifters (1990), The Snapper (1993), The Van (1996), The Queen (2006) and some other films that don’t have the prefix ‘The’.
5. Steve Coogan also co-wrote the script. So… what did we think of the Partridge movie?
6. And what about Judi Dench’s accent?
7. Broadsheet Prognosis: There will be tears.
Release date: November
Quantum Pirate tweetz:
These new twitter email notification settings are quite good.
Previously: Mad About Mambo
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Jonathan Healy tweetz:
Cutlery with winner’s name shown on #roseoftralee on MONDAY night. Festival says it was a ‘coincidence’…
The inscription appears to show O’Sullivan, the surname of last night’s winner Haley O’Sullivan.
More as we get it.
Earlier: The Sash My Mother Wore
Thanks Shane
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Francis Doherty of the Peter McVerry Trust writes:
This shows the scale of the homelessness issue in Dublin for 2012. It’s the first infographic to be produced on homelessness in Ireland.
Douglas Newman Goode (DNG) agent Brian Dempsey told the Irish Independent in reference to the volume of prospective buyers at a house viewing of a four-bed semi in Glenomena Grove, Booterstown;
“”I haven’t seen anything like that since 2006.”
Dempsey adds further;
“People are [now] coming to us with huge wads of cash – 20pc to 40pc of the money in cash for a €500,000 house.”
Wads.
Any excuse.
‘I haven’t seen anything like this since the height of the boom (Louise Hogan, Irish Independent)
An impressive short by animation students Josiah Haworth, Joon Shik Song and Joon Soo Song about a hot date hijacked by the conflicting analytical and emotional sides of a young man’s brain.
Breaking Bad star Bryan Cranston appeared in an early 1980s commercial for Preparation H haemorrhoids treatment.
Earlier: I Am The Ranger
“Three all-nighters in a row, eight all-nighters: if someone’s in single digits for all-nighters, they’re one of the lucky ones… It’s a glamorous, high octane facade but when you’re working it’s 12 weeks of 24 hrs. Six and a half days is standard. You will go in at the weekend, you might get a Sunday afternoon off.”
An intern describes the working condition which apparently led to the suicide of Merrill Lynch intern Moritz Erhardt, above.
Barra Mac Giolla Iasachta writes:
A sickening tragedy that will have particular resonance here in Ireland given our own sorry record. The obscene hours that young people are made to work, particularly in the banking, legal and medical sectors, are not only in complete disregard of their health, but also of their human rights, legislation and the company’s own business objectives.
How on Earth is someone – be they a banker, lawyer or doctor – supposed to be able to work to any kind of decent standard on the back of ‘eight all-nighters’? To say nothing of the conditions – no natural light, no fresh air, generally poor diet… This poor guy’s death is not the first in such circumstances – not the first casualty of this wretched culture of greed and inhumanity.