@Bill_Linnane I really enjoyed my visit to spike island… did you also complain when guiness store house won.. lol — The Grunts (@thegrunts) October 4, 2017 Wee 23 of the column, in which I drop a steaming deuce on all of Cork and all religions ever. Little Nellie Of God has worked another miracle. […]
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Culottes, Varadkar looks like Bob Hope, Malaysia, water charges
Here's that hot take on culottes that absolutely nobody ordered. pic.twitter.com/HMnPbA725s — Bill Linnane (@Bill_Linnane) September 28, 2017 Week 22, how did we get here? How have I managed 22 weeks of writing for the biggest newspaper in the country? WTF is going on? In the ongoing nuclear soap opera that is the US […]
The clown’s pie, the zodiac killer, drunken foetuses, branson’s pickle
Week 20 of the column. My parents were strict. Products of the Forties and Fifties when Catholicism ruled supreme, they took a somewhat North Korean approach to cultural products they deemed unsuitable for me. I have fond memories of my father switching off an RTE matinee showing of Black Narcissus when I was ten […]
Coffee, Uranus, gas, spoilers
Because I like my coffee like I like my music – dark and full of ket. pic.twitter.com/AxNOkDcDhb — Bill Linnane (@Bill_Linnane) July 2, 2017 ‘Week 18 of my column’ – words I thought I would never write. Finally science is starting to give us some good news. After a week of terrifying weather events, […]
Twitter, Caravaggio, eclipse, swearing kids
Column week 17: Twitter gets a lot of stick. In existence for eleven years, it has been accused of everything from facilitating Nazis to allowing anonymous abuse and harassment. But its enduring contribution to modern culture is the hashtag. Used as a means of linking discourses across the platform, the hashtag turned ten years […]
No Pain, No Gain
Wrote this for the Examiner: When it comes to achieving your sporting dreams, there are no shortcuts. Except obviously there are – steroids. Aside from big name busts like Lance Armstrong, there are more and more whispers of big names across the sporting world using pharmaceutical enhancements to gain an edge on a […]
Public transport, not driving, Nazis in America, Ed Norton
Column, week 16: In 1988, the British director Tony Kaye made an advert for British Rail. Titled ‘Relax’, it showed a soft focus world of comfort aboard the train, where all the ills of the world whizzed by the window, and commuters drifted off into a peaceful slumber. Unsurprisingly, there were many complaints […]
Of human bonders, manifesto, faerie folk, perseids
Week 15 of the column, and somehow it still is a thing that exists: Few things in this world escape the oily touch of gender politics – not even our precious booze. From the manly pint of Guinness to the ladylike bottle of West Coast Cooler, marketing firms have yet to fully retract their […]
Snakes on an astral plane
So the Indo asked me to write a bit for Paddy’s Day. It was meant to be 17 signs you’re Irish, or alternatives way to mark the day, so I got confused and ended up with something between those two. Of all the things I wrote for the paper this was the one I stumbled […]
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