Roe McDermott

5 days ago | irishtimes.com | Roe McDermott

Twelve years ago I had a short, intense and passionate relationship with a man I completely adored. We were in our late 20s and he ultimately ended it, claiming he loved me but that he was too young to commit. I was devastated, and it took me years to recover. I did date again and go on to have a long-term, reasonably happy relationship, which has also recently ended. I thought constantly about this man.

6 days ago | hotpress.com | Roe McDermott

Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer is a sun-scorched psychological trip masquerading as a B-movie beach thriller. Brutal and hypnotic, the film traps its protagonist - and its audience - in a dreamlike purgatory of sweat, sand and simmering male rage. With lurid colours, looping structure, and deliberately disorienting atmosphere, The Surfer channels the existential entrapment of Luis Buñuel and the surreal logic of Finnegan’s own Vivarium.

1 week ago | image.ie | Roe McDermott

Y2k is back – and it’s hurting feminism. Space flights, slimness, the regression of gender equality – Blue Origin’s recent all-female spaceflight wasn’t just a PR stunt. It was a distress signal from the centre of a feminism that has lost its radical edge, writes Roe McDermott. There was a moment not long ago when feminism felt dangerous again. When the #MeToo movement wasn’t just a hashtag but a reckoning.

1 week ago | irishtimes.com | Roe McDermott

Dear Roe,I am a 32-year-old woman and have been dating a man for six years. I have felt uncertain for quite some time about the relationship and whether I see a future with this man. I would like to get married and have children but I’m unsure if this should be with him. I have been seeing an excellent therapist but I’m unsure whether couples counselling would be beneficial for the relationship.

1 week ago | hotpress.com | Roe McDermott

Mark O’Connor has quickly become something of a veteran of Irish social realism and bleak crime dramas that focus on disenfranchised characters and the underbelly of society. In Amongst The Wolves, he returns to the street-level grit that defined Cardboard Gangsters and King of the Travellers, inviting his audience into the bruised and blistered world of Ireland’s margins.