Article Category: The Hot Air Brigade

The Hot Air Brigade

March 22, 2018

Makes me unutterably proud… our country entrusted to three wise men and their 21st century leader. Letter from Bono to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar.... Read more »

HOT AIR BEAST FROM THE EAST SPECIAL

March 8, 2018

Why is everyone always so worried about our staff?? Half of them live on the same block, it’s their choice if they want... Read more »

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February 22, 2018

I must own a hundred pair of denim jeans, each serving their different purpose. Fashionista and designer Pippa O’Connor quoted on her website,... Read more »

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February 8, 2018

The earth is like a gigantic battery that contains a natural, subtle electric charge – a special kind of energy present in the... Read more »

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January 25, 2018

Rest In Peace, Dolores O’Riordan. She and the Cranberries were so overtly pro-peace and her voice unapologetically Irish. Just a month and a... Read more »

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January 11, 2018

The person who wrote best about love in the Christian era was Paul of Tarsus, who became Saint Paul. He was a tough... Read more »

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December 14, 2017

I shop local – and I eat Tayto! Saoirse Ronan on the Late Late Show, submitted by reader If you’re writing or speaking... Read more »

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November 30, 2017

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

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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... Read more »

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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,... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »

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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... Read more »

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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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »

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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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... 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... Read more »