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What you may need to know:

1. British director Ben Wheatley put himself on the radar with outre hitman flick The Kill List (2011). We recommend you track it down immediately, along with his earlier lo-fi gangland saga Down Terrace (2009). Think Mike Leigh with a body count.

2. Sightseers was written by its stars, Steve Oram and Alice Lowe: if you can’t quite place the faces, they’ve been in various episodes of Might Boosh, The IT Crowd and the sublime Horrible Histories.

3. Extra points for splendid use of not one, but two ’80s classics.

4. Psychotic gingers are so in this season.

5. ‘He’s not a person, Tina, he’s a Daily Mail reader.’

Release Date (Ireland): November

Some septic tanks from Notre Dame,
Are all coming here for a game,
And yet nobody knows,
The name of their foes,
Which I think is rather a shame.

John Moynes

Unless you can do better (with the same subject)?

Oh yes, it’s a Thursday ‘Rick Off.

A prize [we are currently sourcing] for the limerick judged ‘finest’.

Lines close at 1pm

(NBC)

Update:

The winner

The yanks are back in the auld sod
To play their football so odd
But while they’re all cheering
The locals are sneering
Cos Céad Míle Fáilte’s a fraud.

ReproBertie 

Runner Up

Though not fans of the Yanks on the whole,
This old nonsense has tickled the soul.
They’ve caught “football” fever,
And they’ll pack the Aviva,
Yet they wonder, “Who the hell is in goal?”

The Old Boy

 

Honourable mention

Once again, it’s the great Gary Flood,
Drawing more winning limerick blood,
They appeal to the masses,
Except for the asses,
Whom he brings down to earth with a thud…

ZipAhDeeDooDah

 

ZipAhDeeDooDah was disqualified because Gary Flood is not a game of football between Notre Dame and Navy.

John Paul Frenett writes:

Rather delightful typo in the ‘Alive!’ Catholic newspaper given to me on my doorstep. Made even better that it was during Kathy Sinnott’s rant about her disagreeing with the UN Convention on Children’s rights because it gives children “freedom of thought, conscience and religion”.

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