Article Category: The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

July 16, 2020

On a personal level, we felt some guilt we’d let the team down – but with entrepreneurship you have to embrace failure. And... Read more »

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July 2, 2020

You may still be wet and rainy, but Ireland, you’re buff now. You’re hot. Gina London on Ireland getting a UN Security Council... Read more »

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June 18, 2020

The business is too big to fail. It plays too important a role in the Irish media scene. Niall McGarry’s detached analysis of... Read more »

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June 4, 2020

You need a big house to have a collection of a few hundred paintings, which is what I had. Michael Smurfit on the... Read more »

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May 21, 2020

Bono may be the first Irish person since Bernard Shaw to have become a truly global celebrity. Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times Matt, I... Read more »

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April 23, 2020

I am trying my best to be 100% present in whatever is happening right now, aiming to be totally and utterly ‘forcibly’ present.... Read more »

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April 9, 2020

While other celebrities are collectively losing it, Vogue Williams becomes a quarant-icon. Ciara Kelly, Irish Independent, submitted by reader At the end of... Read more »

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March 26, 2020

I don’t watch Love Island. I’m one of the only people in Britain that hasn’t watched it. Vogue Williams blows the lid on... Read more »

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March 12, 2020

You’re listening to Radio Luxembourg and the improbable microstate lowers down the golden thread and I grabbed hold of it. Bob Geldof reminisces... Read more »

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February 27, 2020

Paul Hewson’s top three moments have to include encouraging Dylan to record the 1989 album Oh Mercy, his own band’s The Joshua Tree... Read more »

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February 13, 2020

In the year 170, at night in his tent on the front lines of the war in Germania, Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of... Read more »

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January 30, 2020

Hello my fellow citizen, this is my first time running in, The General Election but it’s now time to bring about change &... Read more »

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January 16, 2020

The Domestic Goddess ordered various puddings and wines and insisted – almost matronishly – that I taste all of them with her. She... Read more »

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November 28, 2019

People only ever say to me, ‘My god, you work very hard and all those children’. Miriam O’Callaghan, RSVP magazine, submitted by reader... Read more »

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October 31, 2019

While Agatha Christie is known as the queen of crime, Cathy Kelly has built a reputation as the queen of romance. Pavel Barter,... Read more »

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October 16, 2019

Is it just me, or has anyone else wondered where do we go when we die? Stephanie Preissner asks the big questions no... Read more »

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October 3, 2019

What are some of the hallmarks of paganism? Obvious examples include nature worship, ritual sacrifices and doomsday prophecies, all of which are present... Read more »

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September 5, 2019

Some people can read Finnegans Wake and come away thinking it’s an easy-peasy love story. Others can read the ingredients on a chocolate... Read more »

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August 22, 2019

Women are great at politics, this is the gas thing, we’re great at it. If you believe our future is best served in... Read more »

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July 25, 2019

‘Hallowed’ featured May within the “sensory space” of an illuminated, reflective cube in the festival’s woodland, where she wrote both within and on... Read more »

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July 11, 2019

Maura was both a symbol of modern Irish femininity, loudly opinionated with sexual agency to spare; and a colonial parody of the savage... Read more »

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June 27, 2019

But when I started finally reading it… I realised I’d been a Muslim all my life and I didn’t know it. Sinéad O’Connor... Read more »

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June 12, 2019

I don’t think it’s a bad thing – being an outsider is not the same as being an outcast. It isn’t, for me,... Read more »

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May 29, 2019

I grew up on the sideline of a GAA pitch. I play fair, I don’t play offside. Fine Gael TD Maria Bailey on... Read more »

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May 16, 2019

The bullies who run @DublinAirport banned me from filming the ‘multi faith’ room today, which is effectively a mosque. Tweet by Dublin MEP... Read more »

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May 2, 2019

I think the most important thing here is the fact that it was an interesting line in the sense that people look at... Read more »

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April 18, 2019

As a human being, the disconnect between how I see myself and how I’m seen by those around me can feel almost dehumanising,... Read more »

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April 4, 2019

It’s not nimbyism, it’s simply appealing for a more considered, sensible solution within our existing built heritage. Fine Gael TD and Rathgar resident... Read more »

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March 21, 2019

The key difference between England and Ireland is class dynamics and education. A lovely expression of this is the cheese counter at the... Read more »

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March 7, 2019

Roz Purcell has become what is known as a ‘multi-hyphen’ force to be reckoned with. Rachel Farrell, Sunday Independent Shorts are comfortable, they... Read more »

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February 21, 2019

But what the congresswoman’s post shows is how, in the past two years, the concept of skincare has changed beyond all recognition. The... Read more »

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February 7, 2019

I think a lot of people who have the opinion that pageants are outdated, they haven’t really been involved in one or watched... Read more »

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January 24, 2019

Brian Ormond and Pippa O’Connor, meanwhile, were in Dubai for 10 days just after Christmas. Looking fresh and tanned, Brippa were in the... Read more »