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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Carl Kinsella
EVERY FEW WEEKS, in the minutes and hours immediately after I file this column, something will happen that I would have really liked to write about. Last week, that ‘thing’ happened to be Paul ‘Bono’ Hewson — you may be aware of him — who is promoting his new book and trying to convince the world that he has cared deeply about Gaza this whole time that he hasn’t been talking about it or doing anything about it in any meaningful way.
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2 weeks ago |
thejournal.ie | Carl Kinsella
AFTER NEARLY TWO years of writing a weekly column rounding up Ireland’s more catastrophic stories, one learns that there are two layers of catastrophes in Irish news. There is the surface layer of ambient catastrophes, which are chronic and ongoing. Then there is a substrate of more acute and once-off catastrophes, which are often more whimsical. Our first story of the week, for example, is a continuance on a previous travesty.
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3 weeks ago |
thejournal.ie | Carl Kinsella
LET’S START WITH the good news. A team of Dutch scientists has discovered this week that the universe will come to an end much sooner than previously anticipated. What a relief. Researchers from Radboud University, a little-known but definitely real university, found that we’ve still got 10 to the power of 78 years (that’s a one with 78 zeroes on the end of it). That may sound like a long way away, but it’s actually been revised downwards from 10 to the power of 1,100 years, so let’s call it a win.
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1 month ago |
thejournal.ie | Carl Kinsella
A GOOD RULE of thumb for writing up the stranger events of any given week is that if both Gript and Massive Attack are writing essays about the same thing, then that thing is probably worth looking into. Belfast rap group Kneecap have remained at the forefront of the public consciousness, at least by that oddly specific criteria.
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1 month ago |
thejournal.ie | Carl Kinsella
CONTROVERSY AT THE Freemasons’ Hall? Preparations underway for a conclave as the late Pope lies in state? Yet another escalation in the geopolitical turmoil that has defined the last several years? Ladies and gentlemen, it appears that somewhere along the way we left behind the world we knew and entered… the Dan Brown zone. Please be careful, this is a world in which you can be assassinated by a monk at any time.
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Not a Gen Z fan but have to admit the phrase "we're cooked" really nails it
“Fine Gael ended up deselecting her as a candidate for the 2020 general election. You can tell they really meant it, too, because they waited nearly five whole years before making her Ceann Comhairle.” This weeks’s column on Verona, Israel and RIP dot ie. https://t.co/4LhaWc9ZLE
RT @daithigor: As far as I can tell, The Journal is the only major media outlet highlighting whats going on in Athlone? https://t.co/YWaX…