Ivana Bacik is running in the #DublinBaySouth by-election tomorrow. She will be getting the Hot Press vote. And we are urging Hot Press readers who live in the constituency also to give her their No.1…@ivanabacik @Labour #VoteIvanahttps://t.co/J9l6gQwJ8K
— Hot Press (@hotpress) July 7, 2021
From top: Niall Stokes, editor and founder of Hot Press; the magazine endorses Ivana Bacik, Labour candidate in today’s Dublin Bay South by-election
Kevin writes:
In the 2016 General Election Hot Press also endorsed the Labour Party, who had at that stage been in government for five years, implementing austerity, attempting to impose water charges, and getting the housing crisis going. Hot Press did this on the basis that only with Labour in government would the 8th amendment be repealed. This turned out not to be the case. Labour lost all but 7 of its 37 seats and were out of government. But the 8th amendment was repealed in any case in 2018. Labour actually were in government when the 8th amendment was introduced in 1983…In this poem I pay tribute to the intellectual giant that is Hot Press Editor Niall Stokes. This poem should be read while prostrating oneself in front of a large colour photograph of Michael D. Higgins, or failing that Ruairi Quinn, preferably while naked.
Soliloquy in Voice of Ageing Rock Journalist
There I was on the meditation mat
Jackson Browne gave me to mark
the year of the rat, naked apart
from what’s left of my tremendous
hair, incantating the word
“progressive” to my holy self
and the tiny birds at
the window, who are always
my best first audience,
when the truth came to me:
no other combination of parties
can deliver the certain
(and required) surge
inwhole family suicide
among those made live in the kind of hotels
not frequented by Keith Richards,
that will occur
if this government is returned,
as it must be.
I’m most famous
for having once, allegedly,
shared a hot tub, and my thoughts
on the heroic death
of Salvador Allende,
with Ireland’s baldest
living intellectual.
I’m what happens when you take
not quite enough cocaine.
During a session at Lille’s Bordello,
I once pulled Bono’s finger;
or what I thought was
Bono’s finger.
I offer these words as evidence
that I’m not actually dead yet. Satan
be good to me and what remains
of my hair.
Proving that Labour are as irrelevant as hot press
Excellent poem Kevin, Hotpress like the non representative Labour party is totally Donald Ducked but I would prefer a dose of eczema or Bacik than the loathsome FG candidate be elected
Niall stokes Kevin’s ire…
Very good!!
+1 :)
Niall Stokes endorsement, kiss of death.
Move over William….
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McGonagall
ha
How well we remember the poet William MacG. And the heroic compositions of his famous poetry. His lines on the bridge over the silvery Tae. Filled us with admiration that was far from dismay. So buy a book of his poetry without delay. Because t’would make more sense than what politicians say
Oh, he’s brilliant.
I haven’t read it in many years, but I remember in the early 80’s looking forward to Hotpress every second Thursday. I would often call in to local shop on Wed evening in the hope that it arrived early! It broke new ground in Ireland at the time and included many revealing unconventional interviews – most notably Haughey. There was nothing else like it here.
Sounds like it’s past its sell-by date, and if so I’m sorry to hear that.
Hot Press gave us one of the most detailed accounts of the shadowy dysfunctional world of Youth Defence in the 1990s which spawned some of the most loathsome creeps that are still around today, be it the National Party and some of those behind “Grift Media”. A fascinating insight into an Ireland before some Broadsheeters’ time: https://www.hotpress.com/opinion/i-was-a-member-of-youth-defence-10023271
Didn’t they get bricks thrown through their office or car windows after that? Dangerous people, that lot
Yeah, I read that they terrorised schools when anything to do with sex ed was being discussed, using violence as a threat. Some YDers were convicted of assault in the District Court but released on appeal. At the time it looks like a lot of the top brass were heavy drinkers. Dangerous indeed and shameless.
old friends of yours no doubt
Ooh! Lol.
ugh
as a youngfella I only used to read Hot Press in an effort to be able to have any remote chance of participation in conversations amongst ex schoolmate music nerd tossers drinking in The International (whom I learned many years later were just regurgitating pretentious dirge they’d read the previous week in NME) once I was away from that scene I started to enjoy music properly for what it was to me, picked up an instrument and found my own groove sans Hot Press
obsessive, creepy, over the top, downright nasty, offensive and yes vindictive as well
A brilliant effort, well done!
A bit like you so.
The former hippy & publisher of the music magazine (& website) recommends that his readers in the “left-wing” candidate’s constituency vote for her. A typically Irish leg-up for his mate, a Message that is overtly apolitical, just plump for the Bat-chick, it might be too, like, political to recommend where other preferences might go or provide a reason, perhaps even two, why anyone should cast their worthless ballot thus.
The fact that the “left-wing” candidate carries out her search for another pension in leafy South Dublin, rather than some skangerborough or knackeragua zone highlights the fact that her party & their Blueshirt “rivals” are now, bar a few inconsequential “economic” policies, identical, globalist, neo-liberal blobs of smelly cat-puke.
Despite my sentimentally quixotic commitment to Liberal Parliamentary Democracy, I would search long & hard to find a reason to get up off your ass to have a say in which whip hand will be whipping it, which bourgeois air-head will be hectoring you with platitudinous drivel about the wonders of Globohomo & Fake Greenery or which scammer will be pushing the Scamdemic narrative down your oesophagus with a cotton schwab.