Happy New Year from me. If we all work together, it will all work out. #Canada

"If you say anything negative about the mediocre entertainment that is making the most powerful entertainment company in the world richer, you are mean." OK, I can live with that.

Mo chairde - Nollaig shona dhuit... The Bells of Dublin/Christmas Eve. www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMNR...

Happy to add to @glennsumi.bsky.social reco' - Two more performances of "Bug" at The King Black Box, this Wed & Thurs Astonishingly raw, nightmarish, this picture-of-America, written long before Trump elected, anchors USA's delusion & depression in one motel room. Brilliant work #Toronto #TheatreTO

Powerful & sensitive reporting in the Globe and Mail & an essential read on matters Irish #Ireland www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...

Don't wanna jinx anything. But. But, i got a feeling that the good old days are back... #football #Ireland #soccer #WorldCup #COYBIG Astonishing few days www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...

Too bloody true. Today: Agents emails Actors emails Invoices emails Venue booking emails Pay venue email Zoom request email More Agents emails Funding query email Bookkeeper query email Jeeze Louise (no one named Jeeze or Louise is involved)

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

Last Friday we did a short presentation of “Shelter” at the Wilde Party, the annual Gala for the Canada Ireland foundation. We left them wanting more. “Shelter” will have its world premiere at the Bealtaine Theatre Festival in May of ‘26. #TheatreTO #Theatre #Ireland

Steven Gerrard's remarks deeply revealing on #England #football. I covered the 'Golden Generation' - Beckham, WAGS, Sven etc at #WorldCup 2002 in Korea/Japan, #Euro2004 in Portugal, #WorldCup2006 Germany. V overrated team. Didn't even qualify for #Euro2008 www.theguardian.com/football/202...

In Ireland the government already shows remarkable support for the Arts. Now this: "The scheme is currently a pilot project. It pays 2,000 artists a basis income of €325 per week." www.rte.ie/news/budget-...

Well, you've got "the most powerful person on earth." And then, you have FIFA. “With all due respect to current world leaders, football is bigger than them and football will survive their regime and their government and their slogans.” apnews.com/article/worl...

One of the interesting things about following the news from #USA today is I'm obliged to think: #Liverpool got hammered by #Galatasaray in Istanbul today. Now that is a truly interesting turn of events..it's a big, big world... www.independent.ie/sport/soccer...

I will always hear @judyberman.bsky.social out.

In #Toronto Do see one of the final perfs of Romeo Pimp, at tiny King Black Box Theatre directed by Sophie Ann Rooney, written by Jesse McQueen. A teen drama becomes sinister & heartbreaking. Terrific young cast in powerful, disconcerting Play. #TheatreTO

House of Guinness - Guardian: 5 Stars! Like Peaky Blinders meets Succession. Globe and Mail: Succession meets Peaky Blinders. Irish Times: "Like Succession with shillelaghs" One barrel of cliches after another. Irish Independent: "Clichés arrive thick and fast in boring and predictable series"

Like Rabih Alameddine in the @nytimes.com I am so, so done with Dostoyevsky. Time & events have transcended that stuff...going back to #Shakespeare now (& Leonard Cohen)

You don't say...#Kimmel www.cnn.com/2025/09/25/m...

Saw #Sapian at #TIFF50 & It's kind-of brilliant. A quirk or a cheat here/there. But captures strangeness of Roy Keane (Éanna Hardwicke) & battles with Mick McCarthy (Steve Coogan, great) & climactic scene is scathingly about Irish identity. #COYBIG #Ireland www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2Dr...

"Champagne football" they're saying about Canada men's team casually destroying Romania 3-0 in Bucharest today. And they are correct - brilliant display. Well done the lads. #Canada #Soccer Half the lads are from #Brampton www.tsn.ca/soccer/ali-a...

Well, Atwood is on the ball. (Not everybody is.)

The 'Mare of Easttown' creator is back with another small-town Pennsylvania crime drama, 'Task,' which I liked even better. Also: Tom Pelphrey in this!

I simply cannot understand how a full-time culture journalist could be disconnected enough from the experiences of others in their field to write a "state of criticism" piece that neglects to engage with the dismal economics of critical work right now.

Absolutely delighted to see this: Trailer for The Pitch, a doc about the creation of the Northern Super League @NorthernSuperLg Well done filmmaker Michèle Hozer et al #canada #CanWNT #Soccer vimeo.com/1105234433?s...

The allure of certain Lists: www.rte.ie/culture/2025...

Noted with proud interest: Canadian Olivia Smith today won the Professional Footballers' Association women's young player of the year award. #CanWNT The first non-England player to win that award www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

Has the current administration changed how you feel about travelling to the U.S.? globalnews.ca/news/1132962...

The number of Americans looking to move to Canada right now is astounding. (And under-reported.) Ask any genealogist... #Canada

Also: People don't seem to realize that "thumbs up, thumbs down" (esp. numerical rating systems) are not the way good critics, like the ones NYT reassigned, prefer to approach most reviews. Context, analysis and synthesis are more rewarding for the writer, too. They also take more time and knowledge

This chap is correct. Certainly, #Toronto looks utterly unprepared. ( I say this as someone who has covered 4 World Cups, 3 Euro tournaments & in total soccer from 17 countries on 4 continents.) #WorldCup2026 #Soccer #FIFA www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

‪What I said. #ENGSPA Spain's ability to keep possession is astonishing & Bonmati is glorious to watch. But #England have this knack of coming back, over & over. This #Euro2025 Final ended with high drama in the penalties & Chloe Kelly is #England's best player. A great tournament.

#ENGSPA Spain's ability to keep possession is astonishing & Bonmati is glorious to watch. But #England have this knack of coming back, over & over. This #Euro2025 Final not over 'til it's actually over.

Somehow, this makes sense. Flatley, star of Riverdance & Lord of the Dance to stand for election as President of Ireland. An artist, an innovator & successful business person & he sure can dance. #Ireland www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

Hard to believe. #media

NEWS about my play “Shelter” Shelter will be staged in Toronto in May of 2026. 3 nights, 4 performances. Directed by Richard Rose, starring Vivien Endicott-Douglas & Daniel Giverin. Exact dates, venue & the Festival involved to be announced later. #TheatreTO #Theatre

ICYMI: Toronto clouded in forest fire smoke, air quality now among worst in world

Friends & rellies in Ireland: Make sure you see The Smuggler, starring Mick Mellamphy, brilliant in a biting, rhyming thriller - Cork, Belfast, Dublin in July...well done Mick.

On July 1, 1968, the debut album from The Band, Music from Big Pink, was released. The album is not only considered one of the greatest albums ever made, but it also had a major influence on The Beatles, The Grateful Dad, Elton John and Pink Floyd. This is its story. 🧵 1/10

Good. Force Brasil! www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

A postmortem on #CanMNT loss to Guatemala & exit from #GoldCup should be grim reading. Sure Canada lacked a few normally-key players, but this team had no cohesion, just a lot of running. Worse, succumbing to CONCACAF-style niggly fouls & theatre, is jejune. www.theglobeandmail.com/sports/socce...

Must Read.

The #USWNT have beaten Rep of Ireland 15 times out of 15. Still the Irish women live in hope. #CoyGIG www.rte.ie/sport/soccer...

Coming soon, from the producers of Cocaine Bear & Kneecap, the movie Saipan, about the most polarizing event in recent Irish History. The civil war over Roy Keane. #Ireland #RoyKeane www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eyxj...

Good idea #TheaTO

For #Bloomsday All the lyrics here taken from The Wandering Rocks part of Ulysses.. Scullion | The Fruit Smelling Shop (James Joyce) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HoiC...

Oh look: @thestar.com piece about me & the team taking my play "Shelter" to NYC for off-Broadway Origin Theatre's 1st Irish Festival.. online now, in print Saturday... #theatre #Toronto #playwrights www.thestar.com/entertainmen...

Well, we did it. Went to NYC & did 2 public Readings of my play “Shelter”, part of Origin Theatre’s 1st Irish Festival, a big deal in off-Broadway theatre. Went v well, v engaged audience twice, some people in tears. Vivien was stunning. And everyone there knew it. #Theatre