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Grand Designs

Post by CM “State” and “Visit” are the words on everyone’s lips and the hashtag of choice this weather. And it’s not down to the debut of Bonny Prince Georgey’s public engagements in New Zealand (that’s merely a Royal Tour), but the much lauded historic visit to England of our own favourite poet-President Michael D […]

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Fresh as Daisies

Post by CM Last weekend I was improbably, but pleasantly surprised to be introduced to 1960s Czechosolvakian New Wave Cinema and now I’m going to tell you all about at. And you’ll like it. No really, you will! Daisies is an ambitious and surrealist response to the regime of the era, starring two amateur actresses (let’s […]

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Little Red

Post by T.M. There once was a spoilt little brat who ordered her nice adoptive mother to buy her a pair of gorge red shoes. Once in those shoes the girl felt so totally fabulous she didn’t even care about what was being said in church (What?) When she actually misses her mama’s funeral a […]

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Smokin’ Hot

Post by T.M. On March 29th 2004 (which will be a whole decade ago this Saturday) something happened that changed Irish society forever. The government introduced a ban on smoking in the workplace – meaning all places of work – although most people remember that date as when all cigarettes, cigars and pieces of apparatus that can […]

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