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TV Viewpoint: St. Patrick’s Day proved there’s nothing better than the green, green grass of home
This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 23rd March, 2022. IT WAS the best of times, emerging from the worst of times, it was a date centuries in the making and two years in waiting. The stars aligned to have St. Patrick’s Day fall on a Thursday in the Year of the […]
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TV Viewpoint: Even in Paradise, you keep your friends close but your enemies closer
This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 16th March, 2022. A FAMILY holiday to Malta alongside three of your oldest university friends and their spouses and offspring, what could possibly go wrong? Quite a lot, as it happens, considering ancient secrets coming to light amidst current dodgy text messages on supposedly devoted […]
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TV Viewpoint: To everything there is a season, and the show must go on
This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 2nd March, 2022. IT’S no wonder that the Irish are so preoccupied, consumed, obsessed with the weather. This small country of ours, perched at the edge of Europe and barraged by the wiles of the Atlantic ocean can have four seasons in a day, with […]
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TV Viewpoint: I went on holiday and all I brought back was a refreshing dose of daytime TV
This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 23rd February, 2022. THERE IS nothing like a week away to re-charge your batteries. I was fortunate enough to have been whisked away for a few days to a hotel up the road in Ballina, for what was first and foremost an opportunity to rewind […]
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TV Viewpoint: Ceol agus comhrá in Galway’s enchanting Black Gate
This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 16th February, 2022. IT’S no huge revelation that businesses and industries have had to adapt over the course of the pandemic, and the dynamic team behind the Black Gate Culture Centre, Galway city’s premiere cultural space, is one of those that has pivoted most innovatively […]
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TV Viewpoint: Pam & Tommy is as far from Saturday evening entertainment than you can get
This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 11th February, 2022. SOME SAY the golden age of television dawned with the likes of The Sopranos, Mad Men and Breaking Bad, but readers of a certain vintage will emphatically agree that its glory days were in the mid-90s and broadcast between UTV and our […]
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TV Viewpoint: Post-pandemic speculation and modern thriller satire are this week’s TV picks
This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 02 February, 2022. YOU WAIT for one genuinely captivating TV shows to come along for what feels like an eternity, then two come along at once. Last week I wrote about Yellowjackets and raved about its ability to evoke deliriously rabid curiosity from its growing […]
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TV Viewpoint: Everyone’s Talking About Yellowjackets
This article was first published in The Tuam Herald on 22nd January, 2022. EVERY so often a television show comes along that slow-burns into a phenomenon. It can happen when the budget is big, the showrunners are ambitious and experienced, the actors are established as safe bets. It can also happen on a wing and […]
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TV Viewpoint: Christmas has come and gone, leaving ghosts and ghouls in its wake
This article was fist published in The Tuam Herald on 05 January, 2022. DESPITE being an avid TV watcher, I don’t tend to watch a lot over Christmas, tending more towards eating, drinking, sleeping, occasionally reading, generally being merry and catching the odd awful blockbuster shown at convenient times of the day between lunch, dinner […]
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The Candy House by Jennifer Egan review
Interconnected narratives drive this story of tech weariness and connectivity. Published by Corsair. RRP €19.60. A TECH entrepreneur roams through the city in disguise. A little girl gets her hair pulled into a ballet bun by a hitherto absent father. A man takes a hot-air balloon ride, a teen connects with her peers, a woman […]
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