A BONAFIDE Hollywood legend but more importantly than that Keanu Reeves is clearly a top, top bloke if viral internet stories are anything to go by. His life serves as a goldmine of first and secondhand accounts of random acts of kindness and general soundness. We’ve all heard the story of him buying gifts for… Read more »
PLAINTIVE piano soundtrack and emotionally manipulative edits building to a crescendo with a string quartet – all elements US broadcaster ABC say will delight sick and twisted viewers rubber necking on the shooting which resulted in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins. “Ooh, honey look it’s like a movie trailer,” one enthusiastic viewer said of… Read more »
“YOU’RE all just pissing into the wind, no one is actually interested in the fact you’re most popular genre was Clown Organ Indie Rap” – the words of lead music researcher at the University of Oldham, Trevor Chairn, in response the internet being crushed under the sheer weight of Spotify Wrapped sharing. Chairn’s research is… Read more »
IT’S that time of year again where the nation’s hearts are warmed by the appearance of adorable children on RTÉ’s flagship The Late Late Toy Show cute-a-ganza. “Oh can’t wait, they’re too cute” remarked viewer Triona Kenny, who honestly can’t take how adorable the kids on the show are when they talk about how they’ve… Read more »
IT WAS the news they were fearing, but it was also the news they had learned to come to expect. Garth Brooks has announced a third, forth and fifth date at Croke Park for September 2022, and there are fears the country music fundamentalist won’t stop there. No, someone will have to stop him. While… Read more »
AS part of WWN’s opinion series, we give a platform to those who don’t really deserve it. This week is the turn of Dublin man Tim Kelly who goes out of his way to promote television shows that have been suddenly cancelled and left without any conclusion. It was an accident at first. I began… Read more »
PUTTING BEHIND the bad taste his abandoned five date residency at Croke Park left in the mouth of everyone in Ireland back in 2014, Garth Brooks was on site at GAA HQ for an easy PR exercise to launch his two 2022 dates at the venue. “I’m honoured to playing at Croke Park, the historic… Read more »
UNLESS you’ve been hiding under a rock the last three weeks or you’ve just woken up from a coma, by now you’ve already heard about the secret Kin episode on the RTÉ player that everyone is raving about. Without spoiling it, WWN has put together this handy guide for all three player apps which will… Read more »
NOT WANTING to be the only person missing out on the sure thing investment that is build-to-rent accommodation in Ireland, Hollywood titan and acting great Glenn Close was in Waterford to officially unveil new leafy housing estate, Glenn Close. “It’s got everything young families could want, there’s green spaces over at Albert Nobbs Park, the… Read more »
WHILE the world-changing advert aired in April 2017, it was in November 2016 that Pepsi commercial which consigned racism to the dustbin of history emerged as a thought in the head of an all-white marketing team. We assess the legacy, talk to both the doubters and those who have benefited from the eradication of racism… Read more »
