RAISING their fists in anger to the sky, knees sinking into rain sodden soil on a dramatic cliff’s edge amid a thunder storm, the nation’s Aoifes, Sinéads, Niamhs, Ciaras, Síobhans and Caoimhes screamed in anguished union “no, not the Rose of Tralee you bastarding virus”. It is proving to be the one pandemic-related cancellation gone… Read more »
GRIZZLED art veteran Don Conroy thought he was out. He thought his days of drawing were over. He thought he was at peace. Don Conroy thought wrong. Conroy was splitting logs outside his home in the mountains yesterday when a number of unmarked black vehicles pulled up, with an urgent message from the highest levels… Read more »
FOLLOWING up from the success of its sister series Love Island, a brand new reality dating show based on the never tiring format is expected to take the lethargic twentysomethings demographic by storm, WWN can reveal. Much like its predecessor, Platonic Island will involve a group of young contestants, referred to as Islanders, living in… Read more »
WITH the romantic Netflix hit ‘You’ leaving women swooning over the epic tale of a man willing to go to all manner of lengths for the women he loves, more and more people are looking at their boyfriends, staring on with a mix of wonder, worry and hope; what if I’m not going out with… Read more »
NERVOUSLY TAPPING her leg with the TV remote, clearly in the throes of some mental anguish, local woman Emma Kennedy is currently urging herself not to throw away the next two months of her life by getting addicted to watching Love Island all over again. “You know you’re better than this Emma, don’t become a… Read more »
WE’VE had our film and music lists of the decade and now is the turn of TV, a medium which has transformed in the last decade to arguable usurp film, theatre, art and music as the dominant and most influential cultural forms of the 2010s. In a change from the conventional, stuffy and needless esoteric… Read more »
“MORE GLITTER! No, more than that! Where’s the feckin’ glue gun?” a visibly stressed Late Late Show host Ryan Tubridy barked from within the confines of a small shed on the grounds of RTÉ. The host is facing the unenviable task of making every single toy that features on this year’s show from scratch, such… Read more »
WITH ITS ‘Excitable Edgar’ ad John Lewis has abandoned cynically ‘soppy ads’ used to get the public to buy things they don’t need in favour of a brave and powerful message warning against the rise once more of fascism and far-right extremism. “Obviously, any idiot knows this isn’t about a dragon – it’s a metaphor… Read more »
RTÉ have unveiled a number of new environmentally-focused schemes that will kick into action over the next few weeks, starting with an update to the creaking old diesel-powered RTÉ Player, which currently dumps tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere as it tries to keep up with the nine people who still use it. The player had… Read more »
THE continuing debate over whether or not you should vaccinate your kids is a sure-fire way to attract interest on social media, to the extent that Minister For Health Simon Harris has stated that social media companies should ban accounts that spread anti-vaccination propaganda… but forget all that, has anyone been watching HBO’s hit show… Read more »