Stuart Clark

1 week ago | hotpress.com | Stuart Clark

Lurking with considerable intent on Dublin 8’s brand spanking new Le Pole Square, the Old Town Wine Bar does the Mediterranean-y tapas and small plate thing brilliantly. With lots of polished wood, mahogany leather, marble-topped tables and a wall of gleaming bottles – the 70-plus vintages on offer include an exceedingly cheeky Zeno Tempranillo – the first wow factor is the room, which has plenty of seats at the bar if you just want to grab a drink.

1 week ago | hotpress.com | Stuart Clark

ADOLESCENCE (Netflix)Not content with starring in pugilistic Peaky Blinders spinoff A Thousand Blows – the boxing drama is a total knockout – Stephen Graham plays a father whose world is turned upside down when his 13-year-old son is arrested for the murder of a girl who goes to his school. As good as Graham, Game Of Thrones’ Faye Marsay and The Responder’s Christine Tremarco are, it’s newcomer Owen Cooper who steals the acting honours as the young killer (or is he?) in question.

2 weeks ago | hotpress.com | Stuart Clark

The shock news this morning is that legendary Blondie drummer Clem Burke has passed away aged seventy, following a 'private battle with cancer.'A rock n' roller through and through, he cut his teeth during the late 1960s/early 1970s with one of New Jersey's premier covers bands, Bayonne, before moving to New York in '75 and joining the first Blondie line-up.

3 weeks ago | hotpress.com | Stuart Clark

A fundraising stint at the GOAL Ireland aid agency; Head of Social Action and Manager, Learning & Development gigs at Google; three years as MD of Assume Nothing Media, which produced social justice and human rights documentaries and factual content; and spells as first Director and then Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, the latter ending in February 2024. Sinéad Gibney’s route to Dáil Éireann has been a circuitous – and fascinating – one.

4 weeks ago | hotpress.com | Stuart Clark

On the same day that their Earache Records labelmates Napalm Death are laying waste to the Dublin Academy, ALT BLK ERA – AKA Nottingham sisters Nyrobi and Chaya Beckett-Messam – are conducting their first Irish interview whilst speeding down the motorway to London’s Heathrow Airport.