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@FilmUpdates

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AI can't do hands

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Buying books online for Christmas: Kennys dot ie is invariably cheaper than Amazon, offers free delivery in Ireland, and keeps your money out of Bezos' pocket.

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No Irish person should attend a church for services, funerals, weddings, or christenings until the Catholic Church pays the €1.3b in reparations long overdue to the women and children who suffered horribly at their hands. And if they still refuse, nationalise their landholdings.

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Will be having a press conference from the Rose Garden in 15 minutes.

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When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer #NZLvIRE

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News arrives that An Cailín Ciúin has broken the €1m ceiling at the Ireland/UK box office: a remarkable achievement for an independent Irish-language film.

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Don't cry 4 3 Argentina

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You see this fucking place? I built this fucking place with my bare fucking hands. Every light socket, every piece of tile - me, with these fucking hands. RIP Danny Aiello

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@BethRigby Socially distanced farewell gathering

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By the way, The Book of Kells belongs to the people of Ireland and is a national treasure. It shouldn't be behind a ticket desk in Trinity and a cornerstone of the college's commercial offering.

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@DiscussingFilm FALL 2: I LEFT MY PHONE UP THERE

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Just because you're sick and tired of living under lockdown doesn't mean the virus is sick and tired of killing people. Tomorrow is just the start of making the last 7 weeks mean something.

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Cathedrals are nice but have you seen Dublin's stonehenge?

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Does humanity have any greater architectural legacy than the Gothic cathedrals of Europe?

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Alex Cox's Moviedrome was my film school, and I never missed a class: here's all 141 films he screened, and brilliantly put into context. How many have you seen?

Moviedrome - The Alex Cox Years (Cult Movies)

All 141 of the movies that aired during Alex Cox's stint hosting BBC Two's cult film strand, Moviedrome. Notes - i) Certain films

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Cillian leaving his seat at the Oppenheimer premiere

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So my lovely mum passed away yesterday. It's often said at these times but is absolutely true: talk to them while you can and leave nothing unsaid. For them and for you.

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its fierce humid

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Paul Mescal and Colin Farrell both in Best Actor. This is unprecedented. Just phenomenal. #OscarNominations2023

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4 years

It amazes me that an individual like Johnny Ronan, whose spectacular property gambling debts were paid by the Irish state and will be paid by your grandchildren's Irish state, is not barred from being a director of a property company let alone anyone's landlord.

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@steveohrourke I know what all these words mean but cannot make sense of how you have put them together

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Farewell then, Max von Sydow, owner of one of cinema's greatest faces

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I had no idea Chadwick Boseman was terminally ill. Everyone you meet is climbing a mountain that's not on your map. Empathise and understand, support when you can.

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The greatest living British filmmaker is now the greatest living Irish filmmaker. Terence Davies holding up his new passport having become a citizen through his Dubliner grandfather to protest "the disgusting, disastrous Brexit."

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The woman who recorded 30 years of American TV, from the mid-70s, on 71,000 tapes that she stored in 9 apartments she paid for with ground-floor Apple investments: Marion Stokes' is some story, soon to be a doc

The Remarkable Story of a Woman Who Preserved Over 30 Years of TV History

Thousands of hours of Marion Stokes's personal recordings will now be digitized, one tape at a time.

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I've seen some horrible tweets about the tragedy that has struck Sinead O'Connor and her family. If inhumanely mocking the bereaved is all you have to contribute then you should shut the fuck up and fuck the fuck off

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Strong urge to eat everything in the house then find a quiet spot in the garden, cover myself in leaves, and wake up in the springtime.

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6 years

That's what Americans want in their Supreme Court judges: self-righteous chest-beating and spittle-flecked rage #KavanaughHearings

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3 years

Back to the office, back to traffic, back to lost time, back to stress, back to missed emissions targets, back to overpriced sandwiches and terrible coffee, back to face time, back to normal, back to back

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Changing the duvet cover

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Ulick O'Connor has died. I met him once at a thing, years ago, and asked him if he had any thoughts about the decline in popularity of the name Ulick. He looked at me and said "fuck off".

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@dril Just wear your 2009 3D glasses

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First, they came for the journalists and we don't know what happened after that

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Not a vanity project as much as an act of autofellatio, Blackbird is a disasterpiece - so much worse than you had feared and so much better than you had dared hope. Full review in Sunday's Business Post #Blackbird #BlackbirdMovie

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7 years

RIP Sean Hughes: a funny man. "I saw my brother fight at the National Stadium. It was at a Depeche Mode concert."

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@suzseddon I see a hateful person spreading poison for likes on social media

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Kids missed the Toy Show so letting them stay up late to watch the Leader's Debate #rtept

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2018 IFTA Best Actor: Film winner John Connors' acceptance speech

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3 years

Disposed of my 20 year old George Foreman grill yesterday, 19 years and 11 months after its last use

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@stephknee The Joe Rogan rule

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Simone Segouin died today at the age of 97. You might not know her name, but here she is liberating Paris from the Nazis in 1944

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An Cailin Ciuin makes it! Jesus tonight! #OscarNominations2023

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5 years

This is just the poster Imagine - I mean, imagine - what the film is like

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6 years

May I be the first to extend a warm fuck you to President Trump who will visit Ireland in November

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An Irish filmmaker sharing a stage with a far-right rabble rouser and assorted conspiracy grifters and cranks to spew hatred while the crowd screams for the assassination of the nation's president should mean the end of the publicly-funded element of their career.

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@ICanSeeForever1 Would normally jump in with a correction when an Irish person is mistaken for an English person but happy to let this one stand

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Thread: #PiersMorgan makes me sick to my stomach.

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6 years

Waaait a minute

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Stand aside and let racist, fascist agitators burn homeless migrant tents and they will eventually and inevitably burn the city.

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2 years

An Cailín Ciúin passes €400,000 at the UK/Ireland box office. A phenomenal (running) total for a phenomenal film

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5 years

Clocks go forward on Sunday. God, remember clocks?

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@thetimes What about adults who ask homeless people at food banks if they're in business? Should they be embarassed?

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I wouldnt want Peter Casey moving in beside me #PKDebate

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Gavin Duffy, former chairman of the Hunting Association of Ireland, member of Meath's Ward Union hunt, and a vocal advocate for hunting with hounds, uses Ireland's countryside and it's wildlife as playthings in his barbaric "sport". He is not fit to be President.

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@MatthewKeysLive @HelenORahilly The police literally opened the gates for them to pass through. That's not a failure of security, it's aiding and abetting sedition.

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@BootstrapCook unless "400 chews" is the recommended number of mastications.

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Seamas O'Reilly, @shockproofbeats , wrote a piece in the Examiner about how terrible Twitter is now and got suspended for "platform manipulation". Everything's so cool around here.

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Paint me like one of your French girls

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6 years

Where No Lost 1) Their position was, and remains, inhumane 2) Their leaders were awful; more alt-shite than alt-right 3) They answered expert testimony with spiteful pieties. 4) Empathy and understanding will always, always win over judgement and shame 5) We're sick of it

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After eight months of work, the first modest 3-bed semi we'd found that doesn't require a complete teardown and renovation just went Sale Agreed at 145K over asking, in case you were trying to gauge the temperature of the shitshow.

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I believe he's a flight risk

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R. Kelly is denied bail

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@WarrenIsDead I've told this story for a long time, since about two hours after it happened, including on this site, and I swear it's true. Watching Titanic, years ago, as the ship hit the iceberg the girl sitting behind me said "Shit! What's going to happen now?"

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The forced closure of libraries is a mark of the absolute failure of this govenment to deal with nazi bullies. The far right want the rest of us to be as ignorant as they are. We must resist.

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This is intolerable

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Best of 2019: sorry me hole

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Oh the unbleeped #sorrymehole is *spectacular*. Profanity warning!

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Hearing a lot about pubs and a little about schools.

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@LettersOfNote A couplet from F.C. Meyer's poem 'Maori Maiden' "I think - I understand thee well, Rub my nose now for a spell!"

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Electric Picnic looks pretty good this year #EP2022

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@OOCCouchGags Very few cartoons are broadcast live. It's a terrible strain on the animator's wrists.

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Kids don't want to go to training because it's lashing rain. I was born in the rain, moulded by it. I didn't see a dry pitch on a Saturday morning until I was already a man.

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@MNateShyamalan All those balloons and no condom

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Three and a half thousand children are homeless in a country whose government is crowing about a $16b surplus. The rainy day is today.

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5 years

When are Audi going to put indicators on their cars I mean it's 2019

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Well it's a marvellous night for a loon rant

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Van Morrison to release lockdown protest songs

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@BootstrapCook Fruit Salad self-identify as "chews"

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HUDDLED AROUND A BURNING TYRE IN A BLASTED WASTELAND, YEARS FROM NOW SCATTERED URCHINS: Tell us when you knew you were old Grandda ME: Tell you? I can show you a picture

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Not for the first time, I find myself writing Nutella! on a note and placing it on a snow white hotel bedspread, with a little unnecessary arrow.

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The people asking me to "do my best" have no idea that I'm performing at some distance beyond my best and have been for 8 of the last 12 months.

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@xeni @BoingBoing O the sean hannity!

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Remembering Jack Torrance, trapped in an endless loop of suffering 100 years ago today

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The 1970s Jacques Tati movie starring Sparks mentioned in @edgarwright 's very entertaining Sparks Brothers documentary is going on my list of Movies That Should Have Been Made But Never Were

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Hero

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@Rafaelalv2002 Movies are a good way to pass a couple of hours, especially with a date or a pal.

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@FineGael You - and I can't emphasise this enough - are the government.

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Is zere somezing I can 'elp?

The French History Podcast 🇲🇫

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Who is the best fictional French character of all time?

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@stkirsch If you told me the person sitting next to you, specifically you, was wearing a full Hazmat suit and saying a decade of the rosary, Steve, I wouldn't be surprised.

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This is like the people who gathered at the top of the skyscraper to welcome the aliens at the start of Independence Day

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Lots of Patriots at today's Freedom Rally in Brookfield!

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@jonathanchait If your schtick is based around a conservative dog-whistle, it would be a smart idea to have a ready definition for that dog-whistle to hand, especially since it is your platform, and doubly especially when being interviewed on live TV. She didn't. It's nobody else's fault.

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@PaulOnBooks @Shayan86 I'm using mine to get a better wi-fi signal in the kitchen. Much improved after the second jab.

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@EponymousBreeze @LettersOfNote Thank FC Meyer, the great lost Poet Nauseate

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@carlalockhart @JohnnyMercerUK @J_Donaldson_MP @duponline A young man with learning difficulties was shot in the back while running away. Wouldn't he like to have lived to see 80? Take your oil.

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@JNRaeside Eventually he left the room to "get a glass of water", despite there being bottles on the table and I heard him saying to the PR outside that he wasn't going back in. Wrote it up exactly as it happened.

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WELL MARY. OUT FOR D'AULD WALK?

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5 years

Reading about how local councils have been cutting hedgerows across the country at the height of nesting season, at the same time as the UN report warns of mass extinctions and a plummeting biomass, and wondering when Irish government, national and local, are going to cop on

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