Statement issued by the Reynolds family confirms the sudden death of music promoter John Reynolds pic.twitter.com/WnX39h4BKy
— Fran McNulty (@franmcnulty) October 25, 2018
Tonight.
Legendary concert promoter John Reynolds, of the POD nightclub, creator of The Electric Picnic and co-founder with Louis Walsh of Boyzone, has died aged 52.
RIP.
Staying in tonight?
Broadsheet on the Telly returns at 10pm streaming LIVE above and on our YouTube channel.
Join old friends, surprise guests and domestic pets as we devour the news from home and ‘abroad’.
Matters under discussion will include the Tuam exhumation, Maurice McCabe and Airbnb.
Plus watch as we flirt dangerously with the Presidential election broadcasting moratorium like people who don’t care about democracy.
Swearing likely.
Previously: Broadsheet on the Telly
Peter Casey and Helen Casey at RTÉ Television studios on Tuesday
Readers of Iconic Newspapers websites, which include the Limerick Leader, have voted overwhelmingly in favour of Peter Casey in a Presidential Election Poll that has been running over the past few days.
Websites in the group include: limerickleader.ie; kilkennypeople.ie; leinsterexpress.ie; offalyexpress.ie; leinsterleader.ie; longfordleader.ie; leitrimobserver.ie; donegaldemocrat.ie; tipperarystar.ie; nationalist.ie; dundalkdemocrat.ie; carlowlive.ie and waterfordlive.ie.
Almost 10,500 votes were cast in the Presidential Election poll that ran on all 13 websites, including the Leader, in the Iconic Newspaper group, with Peter Casey winning the overall poll with 51.2% of the votes cast.
LEADER POLL: Landslide win for Peter Casey following Iconic Newspapers poll (Limerick Leader)
Thanks Eamon
Meanwhile…
A poll this afternoon on Boards.ie.
Meanwhile…
Forum poll puts @CaseyPeterJ mid 60’s – holding steady (albeit small sample base) got 8th right – Poll still open click here to vote: https://t.co/mfmmd3oWvr @davidmcw @karldeeter @broadsheet_ie @paddypower #referendum #Presidential #Election #Aras18 #Aras2018 #BlasphemyRef pic.twitter.com/uSRE1fVmk7
— The Property Pin (@dailypinster) October 25, 2018
Via The Property Pin website.
Meanwhile…
Current odds at Paddy Power.
More as we get it.
From top: Sir Philip Green; Wednesday’s Daily Telegraph
Lord Peter Hain, who identified him in the Lords, said it was his duty to name him, given the “serious and repeated” nature of the allegations.
…the Telegraph ran an article accusing an unnamed businessman of racial and sexual abuse of staff.
A legal injunction prevented the Telegraph from publishing his identity.
The legal injunction has not been lifted, but Lord Hain’s statement, made under Parliamentary privilege, has been widely reported in the UK media
Sir Philip Green named over harassment claims (BBC)
Top Pic: Getty
A visually arresting Royal College of Art graduation short by Heeson Kim – a story of manipulation and violence in an uncaring world.
Bad times.
https://youtu.be/oJajqsLrmaA
What you may need to know:
1. Do “They” still make big-budget Christmas movies? The 80s and 90s was riddled with them, but I can’t name any from recent years that have penetrated the public consciousness in the same way.
2. Until now. After a decade in apparent semi-retirement, our greatest living actor Kurt Russell has been quite visible the past few years, in particular with Tarantino in The Hateful Eight (2015) and S. Craig Zahler’s exceptional and brutal western Bone Tomahawk (2015). Two intensely violent roles clearly called for a professional digestif, so here he comes in the role of…Santa Claus.
3. Is it Kurt himself winning these roles, or his facial hair? It’s hard to tell if that beard is real, but going by the frankly incredible moustaches he sported in the above two roles, I would not be surprised.
4. For what it’s worth, having Chris Columbus in the producer’s chair does give it an air of Christmas movie legitimacy. It’s not Netflix’s first Christmas outing (e.g. see last year’s diabolical surprise hit A Christmas Prince), but as with hiring all those A-list directors, the streaming giant seems to have identified another niche: genuinely watchable Christmas movies for children of all ages.
5. There’s no point talking about the plot though. It’s Christmas, Santa’s gonna Santa. That’s about it. But Santa is Kurt Russell. What else do you need to know?
6. Could have done without the CG elves, but the kids will probably love it.
Doug’s verdict: Did we mention Kurt Russell is playing Santa Claus?
Release: November 22.
A music video for ‘Platonic’ by Max Cooper made by director Páraic McGloughlin who locked off a camera on a motorway bridge outside Sligo for 19 hours, then manipulated the footage to create a kaleidoscopic visual montage.
Fair play, in fairness.
We are not.
The Blog Awards tonight at the Tramline, D’Olier Street, Dublin 2.
7,348 nominees (approx).
Narrowly edged out then.
We wish all of them the very best
Maybe next year.
Meanwhile…
We are looking forward to attending the @BlogAwardsIE tonight! Thanks to all our readers and supporters #Bloggies18 pic.twitter.com/SYQrNfRIxg
— Garda Review (@GardaReview) October 25, 2018
*dry swallow*
Actually…
Patrick McHugh, of PrayforPatrick design, writes:
Hopefully this enamel pin that I made might be of some interest to your more discerning readers. They are available on my Etsy store, along with several other prints that will no doubt have widespread appeal.
FIGHT!
Anti-British Irish-made stuff to broadsheet@broadsheet.ie marked ‘irish-Made Stuff’. No fee.
