Article Category: The Hot Air Brigade

The Hot Air Brigade

November 30, 2017
They contacted me and were like, “Would you like to have a speaking part in a movie?” And I was like,... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

November 2, 2017
We were uncouth; we were like wild beasts. We didn’t know how to pose for a photo, we were only there at events for... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

October 19, 2017
We are really focusing on the individuals’ experience of news. This is not just about saving journalism. Mark Little discusses his new company, Neva... Read more »

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October 5, 2017
But I suppose our signature style is kind of rustic, country French with varying degrees of château glam and a touch of rock ‘n’... Read more »

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September 21, 2017
Death, too, feels like the most acute and terrible type of failure; a failure of living. Nadine O’Regan, Sunday Business Post Magazine, Submitted by... Read more »

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September 7, 2017
I as a philosopher am qualified to say that her argument isn’t well reasoned. Tweet by Irish Times scribe and “philosopher” Laura Kennedy Mr... Read more »

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August 24, 2017
Dermot Bannon The aim of the project is to reach out and become embedded in the landscape, but more importantly, finally create a home,... Read more »

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August 10, 2017
Aine Lawlor I think Morning Ireland has a soul – a heathen soul- but a noble soul and I think it’s his. Áine Lawlor... Read more »

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July 27, 2017
Colm Toibin The page is not a mirror. It is blank when I start to write, but it contains a version of the world... Read more »

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July 13, 2017
Who knows really, but yesterday, amid all the excitement of Canadian Prime Minister (and all-round dreamboat) Justin Trudeau’s State visit to Ireland, our very... Read more »

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June 29, 2017
The flat white is the coffee order du jour that places Miriam firmly in the now. She has the air and flair of a... Read more »

The Hot Air Bridage

June 15, 2017
We really haven’t seen anything like Leo Varadkar in Irish politics, ever. He’s a sensation… a superstar… full of charisma… He’s got the X-Factor.... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

June 2, 2017
I was in the jacks at about 2.30am and two lads, who were leaning up against the urinal, started giving me a lecture on... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

May 17, 2017
I had a very clear idea that I wanted to save journalism. Mark Little in an ad for RTÉ’s MojoCon or Mobile Journalism Conference,... Read more »

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April 19, 2017
This is female power. How can we have the Eighth Amendment when we have this in our culture? Look at how she’s baring her... Read more »

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April 5, 2017
I’m just human. I’ll be human at best, and I’ll try to be the best human I can be, but it doesn’t mean that... Read more »

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March 23, 2017
What O’Connor does is select the right people with the strongest voices, it plays to his strengths and allows him freedom of movement.... Read more »

The Hot Air Brigade

March 9, 2017
And then I thought, I can’t take my girls to a country where abortion is illegal. How could you do that? It’s like having... Read more »

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February 23, 2017
Everyone that’s worked in government knows that there’s such a thing as government bandwidth. Alastair Campbell interviewed on RTÉ Radio 1 Because this is... Read more »

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February 9, 2017
We were those emigrants who first saw Ms Liberty appearing out of the Hudson fog and said we had realised our ambition to be... Read more »

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January 25, 2017
From the real source of religion to the infinite reach of rock ‘n’ roll; from the puzzle of the human ‘I’ to the true... Read more »

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January 12, 2017
“A lot of it is personal, a lot of it sadly is misogynistic as well because I am a female – the first female... Read more »

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December 1, 2016
“I began a new chapter where I posited that a young man with a six-pack and an even longer appendage might distract me from... Read more »

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November 3, 2016
“The Garda Commissioner would have all her Gestapo in Garda headquarters, in the Kremlin, searching my phone,” he snarls. “That’s when I get angry.”... Read more »

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October 20, 2016
“But if I had to work with , if he is the president of the US, I will absolutely work with him and... Read more »

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September 21, 2016
“Far from being airy-fairy, his highly intellectual approach has allowed him to take on the biggest global issues.” Fintan O’Toole on Michael D Higgins,... Read more »

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September 7, 2016
“In my case, gaining a stone pretty quickly was a huge knock to my self-esteem, as I hadn’t really struggled with my weight that... Read more »

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August 10, 2016
“I absolutely love and adore children. Sometimes when I see a child, I go up to them and say ‘I’m your Minister’.” Katherine ‘Zapper’... Read more »

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July 28, 2016
“We don’t do Abba. We don’t do Robbie f*****g Williams. Brentwood, we are the Boomtown Rats. We are mega.” Bob Geldof fooling nobody at... Read more »

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July 15, 2016
“Twitter changed my life. I mean, I loved Twitter before it was even invented. I used to sit around in places like Afghanistan wanting... Read more »

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June 17, 2016
‘It always seems impossible until it’s done.’ #Mandela #RSAvIre Tweet from Sunday Business Post columnist Elaine Byrne after Ireland’s rugby win against South Africa... Read more »