Indo col week 30 I quite like paying taxes. This is partly because, as a low earner, I don’t pay a lot of tax. However, it is also because I have been so well supported by the State over the course of my life. In my 20s, I went from work to the dole to […]
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Cars, freedom, men, Weinstein
Week 29: I am driving. Not as I write this – I’m not quite at that level of proficiency just yet, where I can stare down at a glowing screen in my lap while careering across lanes at 105kph. In fact, I’m not even at the stage where I can confidently pick my nose when […]
Gods, death, poppies, war
Week 28 of the column. Being an atheist is a lonely old slog. Most people will cling to the belief that there is something out there watching over us, be it Jesus, Yaweh, Allah or whatever MechaGodzilla the Scientologists funnel their taxes towards. Few people will actually offer such a bleak world view as the […]
RTE, Supremes, JFK, Duchas
Week 26, six months of being an opinionista and nobody has threatened to kill me yet, WTF am I doing wrong? It seems odd that I grew up in the age of one TV channel. It doesn’t seem like a million years ago, but I can still remember the excitement when Network Two […]
Powercuts, offaly, ophelia, sean hughes
Now facing the prospect of being stuck in Dublin for 24 hours and the name Ophelia sounds really terrible in their accent, please send help. — Bill Linnane (@Bill_Linnane) October 16, 2017 Week 25 of the column! Who woulda thunk it? Certainly not my guidance counsellor in school, who said I should be an engineer […]
Norovirus, flu, maccie d’s, Mickey d
Week 24 of the column and I finally get around to talking about my ass. Also, check out that layout up top: They used my name, like you would with other important thought leaders like David Quinn, John Waters, Ronan Mullen, or any of those other great guys who I am totally friends with on […]
Brain Kerr
Wrote this for the Indo: Miranda Kerr knows a thing or two about marriage. This is partly because the 34 year old model has been married twice, firstly to Orlando Bloom, and now to the world’s youngest billionaire, Evan Spiegel, head honcho of Snapchat, AKA the biggest threat to today’s youth since cooties. In […]
Little Nellie, Leo vs LCD, guns, marilyn manson
@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. […]
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 […]
Goodnight sweet prints, myanmar, fake news, nuclear war
Week 21 of the column, in which I perform a remarkable about-face on my attitude to print media, now that I am making some money from it. Lol jk – journalism is actually important. Stories are great, but there has to be facts. When I left the newspaper industry three years ago, I thought […]
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