Neeson!

Grant!

Nighy!

McCutcheon!

Nicole Osborne writes:

ODEON and Pigsback.com have partnered up to bring another classic film to the big screen.

On Thursday, 20th December at 6.30pm, ODEON Cinemas Nationwide will screen the iconic Christmas romantic comedy, Love Actually (2003).

For only €15, this package deal includes a cinema ticket, popcorn combo (medium combo with a dispensed soft drink or bottle of water) and one small tub of ice cream. A saving of €9.25! – Tickets are limited so get booking at Pigsback.com

We have a pair (yes TWO) tickets to a screening near you to giveaway to a Broadsheet reader.

To enter, please complete this sentence:

‘While wary of romantic comedies generally, the most memorable scene in Love Actually would have to be____________________________’

Lines MUST close at 5.55pm MIDNIGHT!

Love Actually ODEON offer (Pigsback)

ODEON

Gulp.

This afternoon.

Leinster House, Dublin 2

Fianna Fáil Leader Micheál Martin shares his pleasure at extending his party’s Confidence and Supply Agreement with Fine Gael that could keep Leo Varadkar in power into 2020.

Impotent rage.

Can kill a man stone dead.

Any excuse

Rollingnews

Meanwhile…

Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney (in red tie) speaks to the press this afternoon.

He’s screaming inside.

Fianna Fáil renews Confidence and Supply Agreement (RTÉ)

Independent Wexford TD Mick Wallace reads a statement from the sister of  Kenneth Rowe (top left), a beloved resident of Bridgetown, County Wexford, who took his own life last January.

Via The Wexford People, January 16, 2018:

‘In a eulogy, Kenneth’s father Peter said his son grew from a dearly loved baby into a loving, mischievous, free-spirited young man, full of life and love was always determined to overcome any obstacle in his way.

‘As a child he was obsessed with tractors and machinery and very often up to no good. As young adult he got through some difficult times with the love and support of close friends and family,’ said Peter.

His early twenties were years of amazing adventures. He travelled near and far – Mexico, India, Thailand, Vietnam, Cuba, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Italy, Spain, Portugal, Algeria, Morocco, New Zealand and many other countries.

His favourite form of transport was a motorbike and when he visited other countries his loved to head off into the countryside and see how ordinary people lived.

‘He always wanted to meet real people. When he finished his travels, he went about getting every other vehicle license he could, from motorbike to artic.

‘And then he bought his first horse ‘Manny’ and that was the beginning of a whole new phase in his life with Eddie, Queenie and Millie joining the scene. In the middle of all this he worked as a rigger, a lorry driver amongst other things.

‘Between the horses and dogs he found lots of time to hang out with friends, neighbours and anyone who would stop and talk to him. If you said hello to Kenneth you could end up talking to him two hours or two days later.’

Kenneth (32) Kind, Thoughful And Respectful (Wexford People via Press Reader)

” On the North Circular Road there is a building with 16 families living in apartments. Many young children are living there, looking forward to Santa coming, but before Christmas all those families have been issued with notices to quit.

The landlord is not a small accidental landlord but a businessman with multiple properties.

Yesterday, he told the tenants they were great tenants but said the market dictates the rent.

The ground for eviction is the supposed need for substantial refurbishment.

In reality, the tenants and the landlord know – I presume everyone here knows this and has seen it happen time and again – that this is yet another renoviction, something that deserves a word for itself now because it is so widespread, with the need for refurbishment used as a pretext to kick out tenants and hike up rents.

If these tenants are evicted, they will mostly be evicted into homelessness.”

Paul Murphy TD (top) in the Dáil this afternoon.

Avril Rushe – Ten Years On

‘it wouldn’t be Christmas without hot ones and stories and charm And it wouldn’t be Christmas without tryna get you into my arms’

Maria writes;

This is a new christmas song… It’s nostalgic, honest and catchy AF…I’ve no doubt your readers will enjoy it!

Ryan Tubridy (top) and from left, Joe Duffy , Ray D’Arcy and Marian Finucane

Christ.

Via RTÉ:

RTÉ today publishes the fees earned by its Top 10 highest-paid presenters. The fees cover earnings for 2016, and as in previous years, are published two years in arrears.

The latest earning figures for 2016 demonstrate a reduction of 32% as compared to fees earned in 2008. The reduction continues to exceed the publicly-stated commitment given by RTÉ to reduce fees to on-air presenters by at least 30% compared to 2008 levels.

Rollingnews

Thanks Doug Whelan

Petrified.

A horror anthology podcast from a darker Ireland.

Written by Peter Dunne and produced by Peter and  Liam Geraghty.

Liam writes:

These are the chilling tales of people who heard something. Something they really shouldn’t have heard. Listen at your own risk. You could be next.

Episode 1 (above) is Dead Air – A late night radio show host in a remote station receives increasingly disturbing calls from his listeners out there in the dark.

Subscribe now on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever you listen to podcasts.

Petrified

This afternoon.

Good to know, in fairness.

May could offer to stand down before election to win support in confidence vote – politics live (The Guardian)

Broadsheet.ie