David Roy
Features Reporter at The Irish News
David, not Roy. Semi-serious person writing about music, movies, TV, comedy, books, theatre, cars, travel, stuff...
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6 days ago |
irishnews.com | David Roy
Cowabunga, dudes: The Surfer is a totally wild cinematic ride that has, like, Stuff To Say about modern issues - toxic masculinity, late-stage capitalism, hypocritical colonial racism - while tipping its salt-encrusted cap to the Ozploitation classics of the 1970s and 1980s.
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6 days ago |
irishnews.com | David Roy
OVENS are an essential part of kitchens across the world. However, ‘cleaning the oven’ is often the dirty job that’s put off for another day - if it ever gets done at all.
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1 week ago |
irishnews.com | David Roy
THE annual Belfast Book Festival has revealed the programme for its latest instalment. The 15th edition of the Belfast Book Festival will bring “a celebration of poetry, fiction, crime writing, journalism, screenwriting, an exhibition and expert-led discussions and workshops” to The Crescent Arts Centre in Belfast next month.
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1 week ago |
irishnews.com | David Roy
BACK when I was a lad, ‘van’ versions of cars used to be a thing. Some were clearly just estate models with the rear seats deleted and the rear side glass replaced by metal panels onto which sign-writing could easily be applied – the two-door Ford Escort and Vauxhall Astra estates being cases in point – but even humble hatchbacks like the Ford Fiesta and VW Golf could be had in similarly adapted ‘commercial’ form.
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1 week ago |
irishnews.com | David Roy
WELCOME back to Noise Annoys, where your host has been in a melancholy mood this week due to various Real Life Goings On.However, in a rare occurrence of literally happily coincidence, a great new single from the irrepressibly upbeat Derry-bred art-pop duo Beauty Sleep has just dropped, which finds Cheylene and Ryan preaching the joys of - wait for it - Radical Happiness.
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Hands up if you hate having to clean your oven?🖐️ Here's a few expert tips to help make sure this dirty job gets done quickly and easily... https://t.co/ZohfKj8tZL
RT @irish_news: Trad musicians aged from 18 to 23 are being invited to apply for a fully-funded residential bursary for the Summer School o…
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