Recent Posts:

Categories

Archives:



    • Archive for the 'Rants' Category

    How not to deal with a bad review

    Wednesday, June 10th, 2009

    PR companies naturally crave good reviews for their clients’ products and are bound to be disappointed when that doesn’t happen.
    Different companies seem to have different ways of dealing with bad reviews. Some just take it on the chin, some go cold with the journalist for a while and others simply assume the journalist doesn’t know […]

    Dear RTÉ

    Wednesday, March 25th, 2009

    To whom it may concern,
    I am writing to express my sadness at the apology made by RTÉ News (Nine News, 24th March 2009) for their coverage of the ‘Brian Cowen nude paintings’ story. I also wish to express my anger at the censorship and revisionism undertaken by the broadcaster in the removal of the news […]

    Cock the vote

    Friday, April 11th, 2008

    Young Fine Gael have just launched their poster campaign for the Lisbon Treaty and its vaguely risqué nature is causing quite a stir… well, not really, but a few people are talking about it.
    Young Fine Gael’s press release on the campaign states that the organisation aims to “Excite Electorate on Lisbon Treaty” however as Damien […]

    There Will Be Blood at the Dublin International Film Festival

    Sunday, February 17th, 2008

    I was lucky enough to have a ticket to last night’s Irish premier of ‘There Will Be Blood’, shown as part of the Dublin International Film Festival in the Savoy cinema.
    I won’t review the film - there are plenty of professionals out there to do that - but I will give my opinion of it. […]

    How Kevin Myers is the Bill O’Reilly of the Irish media

    Thursday, July 19th, 2007

    I don’t read Kevin Myers’ columns; not anymore anyway. The simple reason is that they generally provoke a deep-rooted rage in me due to their ignorance, simplicity and disconnect with reality or rationality. To my mind, this reaction is exactly what Myers aims for and as such I increasingly suspect that not even he […]

    Rant: UPS are useless

    Tuesday, June 5th, 2007

    I’m going to take a page out of Damien’s book and rant about some terrible service I’ve been enduring lately.
    A week or so ago my iPod shuffle kicked the bucket having worked perfectly up until then. I did the usual troubleshooting recommended by the Apple site and got nowhere so decided to get it replaced […]

    Rants: Changing a film’s setting in an attempt to pander

    Saturday, May 19th, 2007

    I recently picked up Regina Spektor’s Begin To Hope, an acquisition largely based on the opening track ‘Fidelity‘ which piqued my interest in her after just one brief listen. As tends to happen when I listen to a new song or album, I go searching for more information, for lyrics, backgrounds and meaning.
    It turns out […]