Seamas O'Reilly

Sep 6, 2024 | irishexaminer.com | Seamas O'Reilly

This week, the Government made us all experts in building manufacture. This was a surprise to me, personally, since I am no great loss to the construction trade. My house is a grisly graveyard of wardrobes dragged screaming from flat packs, crucified into place like medieval apostates, a warning to planks everywhere that they are not safe within my home; shelves that undulate like marble runs, projecting nails at torture angles, kept in place now only as a testament to my hubris.

Sep 6, 2024 | irishexaminer.com | Seamas O'Reilly

“I have a question for you,” says Patrick Kielty. We’re not yet two minutes into a free-ranging chat that will eventually cover everything from his teenage start in comedy, to getting hired to host the longest-running chat show on the planet. “I did the comedy club in The Delacroix in Derry,” he says, referencing a pub well known to me from a misspent Derry youth.

Aug 23, 2024 | irishexaminer.com | Seamas O'Reilly

Since the Queen of England’s death nearly two years ago, the UK’s money has retained her image, presumably because the government believed the psychic shock of changing it any sooner would’ve been too much for the country to bear. They might be right. It would stretch things to describe my feelings for the British royal family as fond, but even I would find it odd to see someone else staring out at me, after a lifetime spent looking at Elizabeth Windsor any time I had to put cash in my hand.

Aug 16, 2024 | irishexaminer.com | Seamas O'Reilly

Nicole Richie and Paris Hilton were seen filming scenes for a reboot of The Simple Life last week, amid news that the mid-00s reality show that made their names was staging a comeback. This has been warmly received by fans who miss the show, as well as those who’ve backed Hilton during the reappraisal of her reputation we’ve seen in recent years.

Aug 9, 2024 | irishexaminer.com | Seamas O'Reilly

Rios spread across England for the past week, their purported launchpad being the horrific murder of three young girls in Southport. Fake reports from online disinformation accounts claimed that the attacker was a Muslim migrant who had arrived via small boat, but he was soon revealed to be a Cardiff-born teenager whose parents are Rwandan Christians. This clarification did nothing to assuage the rioters, whose growing violence remained aimed universally at migrants and Muslims.