Article Category: The Hot Air Brigade

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

July 15, 2021

Celebrate these men and their team. They are giants, kings, heroes. Up and on. What a force they will be at the next... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

July 1, 2021

That I feel at my most decadent now when I eat cheese. Ciara Kelly on embracing middle age, ‘Life magazine’ Sunday Independent Lineker... Read more »

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May 20, 2021

Ringrose has more creative flair, footwork and passing range than any of the centres chosen. His missed tackle count has always been misunderstood,... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

May 20, 2021

Ringrose has more creative flair, footwork and passing range than any of the centres chosen. His missed tackle count has always been misunderstood,... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

May 6, 2021

And I think it’s easy to say this about work when you’re promoting it, that you’ve never read anything like it before, but... Read more »

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April 22, 2021

That’s what Prime Time’s new look – and its new set – is designed to do. To help us explain what’s really going... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

April 8, 2021

Trawl through my past columns and you find my favourite writers are lesbian feminists. Eoghan Harris, Sunday Independent, submitted by reader If there’s... Read more »

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March 25, 2021

I’d so wanted a Simone Rocha x H&M capsule piece. They weren’t just clothes. They were hope. Rosita Boland, Irish Times, submitted by... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

March 11, 2021

I discovered the other day that they have a fully chocolate-coated Hobnob. I was excited, but I was on my own at the... Read more »

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February 25, 2021

I didn’t actually want to talk to her and increase the trauma over a nice lunch. Mary Robinson reflecting on lunch with ‘troubled’... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

February 11, 2021

Take note, Stephen Donnelly: the ‘thumbs-up’ emoji is the most passive-aggressive of all. Tanya Sweeney, Irish Times When O’Connell swept into his Irish... Read more »

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January 28, 2021

It’s not only billionaires who can work and travel at the same time. Kathryn Thomas, Irish Independent But somehow, Tubridy’s spiel doesn’t drag.... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

December 16, 2020

Look at the adversity of Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali and many others like him who were on their backside a few times too –... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

December 3, 2020

What I had started to do with online corporates, I had started to talk about “massive action”… I started talking publicly about how... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

November 5, 2020

If you have any leftover zabaglione, try folding into it chunks of broken meringue and crushed berries for an Italian take on the... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

October 22, 2020

I can have a laugh. And then I can talk about feminism. But I can also get covered in shit by Keith Lemon... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

October 8, 2020

Every morning, when you get out of bed, stand in front of a full-length mirror and give yourself some unconditional love: say out... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

September 10, 2020

I did very well in my Leaving Cert and surprised quite a few people as I was a bit of a devil. Ciara... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

August 27, 2020

All of us must display solidarity as we try to stamp out this common plague. Phil Hogan, Twitter, submitted by reader “What would... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

August 13, 2020

We were looking for a giant and found a man whose life made all our lives bigger. Bono commemorates John Hume, Irish Times... Read more »

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July 30, 2020

Consumer spending is chatty. It likes to go out, have face-to-face contact and it loves mingling. David McWilliams, Irish Times Only a month... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

July 16, 2020

On a personal level, we felt some guilt we’d let the team down – but with entrepreneurship you have to embrace failure. And... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

July 2, 2020

You may still be wet and rainy, but Ireland, you’re buff now. You’re hot. Gina London on Ireland getting a UN Security Council... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

June 18, 2020

The business is too big to fail. It plays too important a role in the Irish media scene. Niall McGarry’s detached analysis of... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

June 4, 2020

You need a big house to have a collection of a few hundred paintings, which is what I had. Michael Smurfit on the... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

May 21, 2020

Bono may be the first Irish person since Bernard Shaw to have become a truly global celebrity. Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times Matt, I... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

April 23, 2020

I am trying my best to be 100% present in whatever is happening right now, aiming to be totally and utterly ‘forcibly’ present.... Read more »

THE HOT AIR BRIGADE

April 9, 2020

While other celebrities are collectively losing it, Vogue Williams becomes a quarant-icon. Ciara Kelly, Irish Independent, submitted by reader At the end of... Read more »

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March 26, 2020

I don’t watch Love Island. I’m one of the only people in Britain that hasn’t watched it. Vogue Williams blows the lid on... Read more »

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March 12, 2020

You’re listening to Radio Luxembourg and the improbable microstate lowers down the golden thread and I grabbed hold of it. Bob Geldof reminisces... Read more »

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February 27, 2020

Paul Hewson’s top three moments have to include encouraging Dylan to record the 1989 album Oh Mercy, his own band’s The Joshua Tree... Read more »