Article Category: The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

March 10, 2022

She is a legendary activist, a thought leader, a culture changer and one of the most well-known music industry publicists there is. New... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

February 24, 2022

I think I’ve put in a very good shift in getting a lot of things right on behalf of the Irish people. Eddie... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

February 10, 2022

There’s an argument for travel being covered under health insurance – it really can be a salve on a wounded psyche. Stephanie Preissner,... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

January 27, 2022

I was praying Dancing With The Stars would come back this year because the whole country needs it in these months. Lorraine Barry... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

January 13, 2022

You know what? I had the best year of my life in 2021. I moved to London, then to Dublin, and back again,... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

December 16, 2021

Eating simple and ‘natural’ foods was a way of revolting against the hedonistic excesses of capitalist consumption. Vegetarian self-control was a rebuff to... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

December 2, 2021

I am also working on expanding the range with well-thought-through additions that make sense to the brand’s story and ethos. Aimee Connolly, ‘Emerging... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

November 4, 2021

I’m an artist. I’m a creative. An empath. I’m sensitive and most artists are. A lot of people forget that … we undress... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

October 21, 2021

Bob Geldof is one of the coolest people ever – a fearless force of nature who makes me proud to be Irish. Larissa... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

October 7, 2021

The short-term view to this crossroads where we have come to in Irish football – and it is a crossroads and has been... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

August 26, 2021

I always describe The Late Late Show to foreign guests as being the Tardis and I’m just the latest Doctor. Ryan Tubridy, RTÉ.ie,... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

August 12, 2021

If Tinder did provincial championships, I’d be swiping right to Ulster. Pat Spillane, The Saturday Game Live, RTÉ Two Curves are the new... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

July 29, 2021

It was very rock ’n’ roll. I used to go to the Hootenanny with Jools Holland every year and the rock stars thought... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

July 15, 2021

Celebrate these men and their team. They are giants, kings, heroes. Up and on. What a force they will be at the next... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

July 1, 2021

That I feel at my most decadent now when I eat cheese. Ciara Kelly on embracing middle age, ‘Life magazine’ Sunday Independent Lineker... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

May 20, 2021

Ringrose has more creative flair, footwork and passing range than any of the centres chosen. His missed tackle count has always been misunderstood,... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

May 20, 2021

Ringrose has more creative flair, footwork and passing range than any of the centres chosen. His missed tackle count has always been misunderstood,... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

May 6, 2021

And I think it’s easy to say this about work when you’re promoting it, that you’ve never read anything like it before, but... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

April 22, 2021

That’s what Prime Time’s new look – and its new set – is designed to do. To help us explain what’s really going... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

April 8, 2021

Trawl through my past columns and you find my favourite writers are lesbian feminists. Eoghan Harris, Sunday Independent, submitted by reader If there’s... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

March 25, 2021

I’d so wanted a Simone Rocha x H&M capsule piece. They weren’t just clothes. They were hope. Rosita Boland, Irish Times, submitted by... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

March 11, 2021

I discovered the other day that they have a fully chocolate-coated Hobnob. I was excited, but I was on my own at the... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

February 25, 2021

I didn’t actually want to talk to her and increase the trauma over a nice lunch. Mary Robinson reflecting on lunch with ‘troubled’... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

February 11, 2021

Take note, Stephen Donnelly: the ‘thumbs-up’ emoji is the most passive-aggressive of all. Tanya Sweeney, Irish Times When O’Connell swept into his Irish... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

January 28, 2021

It’s not only billionaires who can work and travel at the same time. Kathryn Thomas, Irish Independent But somehow, Tubridy’s spiel doesn’t drag.... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

December 16, 2020

Look at the adversity of Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali and many others like him who were on their backside a few times too –... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

December 3, 2020

What I had started to do with online corporates, I had started to talk about “massive action”… I started talking publicly about how... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

November 5, 2020

If you have any leftover zabaglione, try folding into it chunks of broken meringue and crushed berries for an Italian take on the... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

October 22, 2020

I can have a laugh. And then I can talk about feminism. But I can also get covered in shit by Keith Lemon... Read more »