My efforts this week to astroturf a Gilbert O'Sullivan revival have been noticed. Column by @sweetoblivion.bsky.social in today's @thetimes.com Irish edition:

We loved this gorgeous piece on CTRL: Essays on Video Games in last weeks @thetimes.com 👾 A massive go raibh maith agat to @sweetoblivion.bsky.social (brilliant writer and future gamer) for the write-up in her column (which you should read) ✨

Another excellent episode of Get Around To It with @sweetoblivion.bsky.social and @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social . They’ve had some excellent interviews and this one with author Louise O’Neill is no exception. sponsored by us! #speirgorm podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/g...

Thanks so much for all the support Gary! You can find our Deep Dive interview with Jan here - she's such a great interviewee and a fab writer! podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/d...

If your favourite part of a table quiz is the arts & culture round... well how about a table quiz that is nothing but arts & culture rounds?! That's the Get Around To It table quiz. Our next one is 13 May in Madigan's on Leeson St. Pick up your tickets here: www.eventbrite.ie/e/get-around...

Your culture fix for the week - the latest Get Around To It includes reviews of Inside the Manosphere, Love Story, Good Boy and La Grazia, previews of The Pitt, Chris Fleming: Live at the Palace & more! podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/p...

Your culture fix for the week - the latest Get Around To It includes reviews of Inside the Manosphere, Love Story, Good Boy and La Grazia, previews of The Pitt, Chris Fleming: Live at the Palace & more! podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/p...

We love to see it!! The support from @imbibecoffee.bsky.social is essential to keeping Get Around To It podcast up and running. It's amazing to have Irish businesses supporting the arts like this!

ELLIE O’NEILL Time Of Fallow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “There’s so much we can say about how beautiful this record is” @sweetoblivion.bsky.social @rteradio1.bsky.social Arena 👂🏻to Time Of Fallow ⬇️ open.spotify.com/album/5iAURo...

Thoroughly enjoyed being on The 250 pod as always!!

We're holding a Get Around To It arts & culture table quiz on 11 March! Tickets here - profits to MSF: www.eventbrite.ie/e/get-around...

We also review Eureka Day which is on at @gatetheatredublin.bsky.social at the moment!

On our latest Get Around To It (sponsored by the fab @imbibecoffee.bsky.social!) we review These Sacred Vows, preview Wuthering Heights and ask whether its press campaign is TOO much, and review the Tyler Ballgame album - for starters. Plus: John Butler interviewed podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/p...

If you haven't heard our interview with the one and only Aidan Gillen about the culture that made him... whatcha doin'? :)

Had a lot of fun at this! Talked about Mrs Caliban by Rachel Ingalls, Just Kids by Patti Smith and Cal by Bernard Mac Laverty (themes: romance, art, falling in love with unavailable men/sea creatures, people trapped in grim lives). So good to hear about Jane and Dave's books!!

Choice Music Prize 2025: CMAT and Amble among shortlisted nominees for Irish Album of the Year

Yes I went there - why women are so obsessed with Heated Rivalry (contains the phrase 'horny toads') sweetoblivion.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

Wondering how Heated Rivalry became such a *massive* phenomenon? We explain all on Get Around To It - plus reviews: Marty Supreme/Sentimental Value/Dove Ellis album and previews: A Knight of the 7 Kingdoms/Ye Vagabonds podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/p...

This is a great primer on the history of AI - it goes back much further than we often are led to think

We're SO excited to have Maggie O'Farrell (!!!!) on the pod this week to chat about Hamnet! This is a special short bonus episode with just the interview. Thanks for resharing @imbibecoffee.bsky.social :) podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/b...

There'll be a fresh new Previews & Reviews episode next Monday!

This week's episode of Get Around To It (sponsored by @imbibecoffee.bsky.social ) is a replay of our Deep Dive where we spill what it's really like to interview celebrities... includes when @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social met Enya & I was mesmeriesed by Paul Mescal podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/d...

Couldn't get Marty Supreme out of my head, so after a long unintentional break, here's my latest newsletter about this film: sweetoblivion.substack.com/p/marty-supr...

Couldn't get Marty Supreme out of my head, so after a long unintentional break, here's my latest newsletter about this film: sweetoblivion.substack.com/p/marty-supr...

Late to @sweetoblivion.bsky.social and @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social Get Around It podcast this week. It's a great one for book/TV lovers. Interviews with @ronanhession.bsky.social , Andrea Mara and Catherine Ryan Howard about their novels that were adapted to hit TV shows. linktr.ee/getaroundtoit

Thanks so much Jackie! I learned TONS from them all about it!

What's it like to have your book adapted for screen? Delighted to have @ronanhession.bsky.social, @andreamara.bsky.social and Catherine Ryan Howard on this week's episode of Get Around To It! Co-presented by me and @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/d...

The Get Around To It podcast highlights of 2025 are here! Plus our disappointments of 2025… podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/g...

The Get Around To It podcast highlights of 2025 are here! Plus our disappointments of 2025… podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/g...

Catching up on end-of-year best-ofs here! With @sweetoblivion.bsky.social including @oonaf.bsky.social on her "10 Irish writers you should read" list, dusting off my short review of her very deserving work — This Interim Time — for @commonmag.bsky.social: www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...

Brand new Get Around To It podcast for your enjoyment: Which new series did myself & @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social find so bad we had to abandon it? Is the Simon Cowell series good... or bleak? Should you go see Hamnet? Sponsored by @imbibecoffee.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/p...

Thanks so much Darach! So shocked about his and Michele’s death… awful

You can find all the podcast providers here: linktr.ee/getaroundtoit - We also have an interview with the fab David Kitt! @imbibecoffee.bsky.social. Enjoying the pod? Please do spread the word :)

Brand new Get Around To It podcast for your enjoyment: Which new series did myself & @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social find so bad we had to abandon it? Is the Simon Cowell series good... or bleak? Should you go see Hamnet? Sponsored by @imbibecoffee.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/p...

Donald Clarke interviews Elizabeth Olsen about the excellent Eternity by David Freyne (apparently related to me) which is in cinemas from tomorrow www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

New episode of my TPOE music podcast is out today featuring Maykay in a 45-minute chat about her debut solo album Link in bio or just search for 'The Point of Everything' wherever you get your podcasts

We cover a lot on GATI on our Previews & Reviews episodes - think of it as akin to a magazine radio show. Plus there's a shorter deep dive every second week

On the latest Get Around To It podcast ep we chat: Plur1bus (is it the best thing on streaming?), Joanne McNally's 3Arena date, the live show of The Dead at MoLI, and ask - is Stranger Things past it? Sponsored by @imbibecoffee.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/p...

We're delighted too! :) Thanks as always for the support Gary! linktr.ee/getaroundtoit

This is a really nice piece in Hot Press about how we're differently to other businesses and why. It'd be great if you could read and share. My perhaps naive hope is that a big business might see it and copy us. It works. #speirgorm www.hotpress.com/lifestyle-sp...

Basically, please subscribe to the "Get Around To It" podcast and put it on your pod rotation. it's really good! #speirgorm linktr.ee/getaroundtoit

Thanks so much @imbibecoffee.bsky.social! So delighted to have them as our sponsor :) We currently do two styles of podcast - preview/review and deep dives, alternating weeks - find the full list here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/g...

Was out of work 17 years ago, watched a documentary about coffee farmers and trade unions and decided to start a coffee business. It was a big struggle for a long time. Really grateful we got mentioned yesterday in Irish Times 50 great brands. Never underestimate timing, dumb luck and persistence.

My column is online too - read it here: www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Missed out the word 'ONE' before 'wild and precious life', undermining the fact that you only live once and I've spent far too much of my life writing about/thinking about this shite

Using some of the minutes of my wild and precious life to write about the state of the commentary on 'masculinity returning to fiction' after the latest Booker win. Full column is in the Sunday Times today - Culture mag www.instagram.com/p/DRZHOgZjV6d/

Sorry to hear this - people put a load of work into their shows on RTE's digital stations! I hosted a show, Sweet Oblivion, on 2XM from 2009 till around 2011 (?). (When I started it was unpaid work if I remember correctly!)

Was the Department of Justice using experimental chatbots to give immigration advice? It has now retired its asylum chatbot Erin, but has infused Tara, the non-asylum immigration chatbot with AI. Read more here www.dublininquirer.com/was-the-depa...

AI slop - is it making people accept low-quality 'content' when it comes to shows and films? We discuss this and more on the latest Get Around To It podcast podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/p...

great timing for this to drop :)