Timeless and universal: Three Billboards… is modern masterpiece of cinema.
By Barry Lord @bazneto Martin McDonagh’s Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri is a classic. A key movie of the year,
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Don’t underestimate the power of creative arts in troubled times.
By Barry Lord @Bazneto Has it really been twelve months since we said slan to 2016? It was a year
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Social media can be unforgiving and poisonous. Just ask Cyrus Christie.
By Barry Lord The realisation that your national football team will not take its place among the cream of the
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Left or right, not right or wrong. This is the world in 2017
By Barry Lord @bazneto Welcome to the world in 2017. In this place of intense social and political division, the lines
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An appeal to the new Taoiseach
By Barry Lord Congratulations Mr Varadkar, you are our new Taoiseach – the position you have coveted for so long.
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Tragedy of Chris Cornell proves the ‘black dog’ of depression doesn’t discriminate.
By Barry Lord Say what you will about depression, at least it’s an equal opportunist – it doesn’t care if
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Does whistle-blower deserve better than a cold shoulder?
By Barry Lord Who is Jonathan Sugarman? It’s likely you may not know, but that could be about to change.
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Beauty Queen of Leenane is a dark delight, but watch without mother.
By Barry Lord Martin McDonagh’s multi award winning The Beauty Queen of Leenane – first staged to wide critical acclaim
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Elle is provocative & disturbing: what cinema should be
By Barry Lord It was perhaps fitting that Paul Verhoeven’s film ‘Elle’ (‘She’) was released in a week when the
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Sadness & despair at events in Tuam
By Barry Lord The horrific discovery of the bones of nearly 800 babies aged between 35 foetal weeks and 2
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