The millennial urge to pretend you're Ed Harris when you're put in charge in work. Print editions of Northside and Southside People just sent off to the printers 🚀

Holly Cairns has followed suit, calling Carroll MacNeill's comments about Connolly "desperate" and "cheap" #Áras25

Ivana Bacik has criticised Jennifer Carroll MacNeill's remarks about Catherine Connolly this morning as a "smear campaign" #Áras25

Finding out that November Rain was released as a single in March in the UK and Ireland is just wrong; that is not a March song, vibes are all off

the city of los angeles burned in january in part because of a man who couldn’t stop generating images of burning cities on ChatGPT, and then after he lit the fire he asked if the fire he started was his fault

Blanchardstown had a dreadful turnout of 32.5% in last June's locals and elected a far-right councillor. I went along to a Catherine Connolly campaign event in the area last Wednesday to see how she plans to win over those disillusioned voters #Áras25 dublinpeople.com/news/northsi...

Spoke to Dublin man Diarmuid Mac Dubhglais, one of the Irish activists who was captured and later deported by Israeli authorities after he tried to bring aid into Gaza. He said the flotilla aid effort was "something that was bigger than me, bigger than all of us" dublinpeople.com/news/northsi...

Predicrably, Soc Dems not happy with the Budget. Cian O'Callaghan has dubbed it the "McBudget," noting that McDonald's is getting a VAT cut this year but the cost of living crisis hasn't been meaningfully addressed dublinpeople.com/news/dublin/...

Interesting tidbit from the Journal's liveblog about the Budget. Sinn Féin continuing to show absolutely no interest in winning over the Green/environmentally-minded progressives they need to win 60 Dáil seats. Good to see they haven't learned their lessons from last year and are doubling down

The Irish shitposting left versus American liberals

Quo Vadis Fianna Fáil? @mikecjf.bsky.social of the Northside People discusses the fallout for the Taoiseach following the withdrawal of Jim Gavin from the Presidential campaign #Áras25 listenagain.org?p=57482

Just filed my review for A House Of Dynamite, and I'm really flaunting the fact I studied film and international relations in college (I mention Andrei Tarkovsky and Robert McNamara in the review)

Billy Kelleher this morning #Áras25

Humphreys promising to learn Irish if she becomes President. Just like how she promised to learn Irish when she became Minister for the Gaeltacht, let's see if we can make it a hat-trick #Áras25

Genuinely think it will come down to how much will voters want the next President to be able to speak Irish. FF voters from the country (think Ò Cúiv, Pat The Cope Gallagher, the Cowen voters) would be willing to hold their nose and give their 2nd preference to Connolly over Humphreys

Nearly a tenner for an issue of FourFourTwo at Eason's

Just out of House Of Dynamite, a movie that literally gave me an anxiety attack. 5/5, should be the Oscar frontrunner instead of OBAA, Bigelow never left exactly but she is BACK

Amazon have removed the guns from their Bond posters, giving the tantalising impression that Sean Connery and Pierce Brosnan think you’re a wanker.

When are we going to apologise to Razorlight for making fun of them for America, because history has vindicated them

Unnamed former Tánaiste writing his next Times column:

Covering the Catherine Connolly event in Blanchardstown. The only room that unites Sockies, Labour, Greens, Sinn Féin, independents and socialists in D15.

RIP Renato Casaro, an Italian artist known for his film posters. He passed away yesterday at the age of 89.

Happy October, the only month of the year where it's acceptable to listen to John Carpenter, Goblin and Danny Elfman scores on the way to work

Watching Suspiria on the BFI Player it asks, "Are you over 18?" No, I'm a ten-year-old with a subscription to the BFI Player.

Facebook pushing right-wing, anti-immigrant stuff into my home feed, is it

THE MEME IS REAL

Bizarre carry on from the papers this weekend, trying to paint Steen as the voice of this "silent majority". If enough people voted for 20 TDs and Senators/4 councils who agreed with her views, she would be on the ballot. Media wanted a Steen campaign because it would have been good for business.

Google taking me on a real trip when I looked up November Rain

Well don't I feel stupid

I'm less high on One Battle After Another than my critic peers but still a good movie people should check out. Insane that PTA got 150 million to make a studio film inspired by The Weather Underground and Angela Davis. That's the victory, a movie this radical making its way through the system

"Why Maria Steen should have been allowed to run" "Liberals are oppressing the silent majority" "It's a sad day for democracy" "Because of this, there'll be a bigger backlash at the next general election" "Why the left shouldn't be gloating over Steen's failure"

"Bell them TDs again lad"

One Battle After Another has some of the best stuff PTA has ever done and is worthy of the hype - until the second half, when it runs out of steam. My review is now live. dublinpeople.com/news/arts-cu...

Someone please bring this to the attention of Adam Curtis

Why is everyone talking about The Rapture, has everyone finally come to their senses and realised they were always a better band than The Strokes

SF source has indicated the party has been leaning towards a Connolly endorsement since late July/August and they wanted to avoid the narrative of "we are being controlled from Belfast" by running someone like MLM, O'Neill, Finucane. This means Connolly was the easier sell (and less work for SF)

Portishead briefly reunited to make a rerecording of Roads in support of Palestine www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2Am... togetherforpalestine.org

Champions League matches being played on a Thursday night

The government are reliant on the support of a TD who thinks that autism is something to be cured and a problem ala RFK Jr. I know they don't take disability and neurological issues seriously but this takes the cake.

They said it couldn't be done, but we have finally reached leftist unity: a left-wing party splits before they are even officially formed

Full review next week but One Battle After Another has maybe the best stuff PTA has ever done, first half is astonishing. Then the rest of the movie happens and it writes cheques it can't cash.

One Battle After Another press screening time, first time reviewing a PTA

Some lesser-seen Robert Redford recs: Sneakers (masterful caper movie with an amazing cast) The Candidate (really captures cynicism and distrust with Nixon-era America) All Is Lost (a great late period performance, lean, tense thriller) Truth (dramatisation of the John Kerry swiftboat row, solid!)

The Quiz Show community is in mourning. RIP to a giant, Mr Robert Redford

When FF negotiated the confidence and supply deal with FG in May 2016, homeless figures in Ireland stood at 6,906. They supported Eoghan Murphy's "co-living" debacle in 2017/18 and lifted the no-fault eviction ban in 2023. So yeah, I can see how it's "more complex than presented"

I hate to hand it to the boomers but they really went off when they sent The Joker by Steve Miller Band to number one this time in 1990

The Pitt, I'm sure it's a great show and it won all these Emmys last night, but if Sky/Channel 4 can figure out a way to make it legally viewable for Irish and UK audiences that would really be swell

Bluesky isn’t perfect but at least its owner isn’t demanding violent insurrection in the UK from thousands of miles away

Haaland captain on fantasy football but I'm also a lifelong United fan