Yearly Archives: 2014

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What you may need to know:

1. It’s the new movie from Terry McMahon, director of the controversial Charlie Casanova (2011).

2. It premiered at the South X Southwest festival in Austin earlier this year.

3. We’re hearing good things.

4. McMahon enjoyed an entertaining creative discourse with Irish Times critic Donald Clarke over Charlie Casanova – we’re looking forward to Donald’s thoughts on this one.

5. In an interview with Clarke in today’s Times, Frank director Lenny Abrahamson suggests that Ireland makes too many feature films. So what do YOU think?

Release date: TBC

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBpnPc2Kec4

The chap who you’ve seen on Top Gear,
Likes to joke and to shock and to jeer,
But it’s hard to escape,
When your words are on tape,
And it’s looking bad for your career

John Moynes

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Earlier on Newsnight, Helen McKendry (daughter of Jean McConville) told Kirsty Wark that she will name the four women and eight men who abducted her mother in 1972.

She said:

“I do not fear the IRA anymore. I will happily give the names that I know to the police”


Jean McConville’s daughter: I’ll name names over IRA killing (Henry McDonald / Nicholas Watt, The Guardian)

Previously: They Haven’t Gone Away

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Gavin Fogarty writes:

I live in Stoneybatter. This is just under two weeks worth of junk mail. I’m thinking of starting a take penny leave a penny system, where any politician who wants to leave me their info has to take another one I’ve already read away with them. Seems fair, no?! Also probably going to get a pizza rolly later. Whatever that is.