- More Westlife than Westies
TV REVIEW: Love/Hate RTÉ1, Sunday; DCI Banks UTV, Monday; Horizon: The Death of the Oceans? BBC2, Tuesday; Modern Family Sky1, Thursday
- Surrealism and a cement truck: the perfect mix for a protest?
PRESENT TENSE: WHEN IT COMES to a good protest we’re not ones for burning effigies or shooting bullets in the air or charging for the local McDonald’s. We prefer the more traditional approach: wave placards, chant slogans, listen to speeches drift in the gale. We perform that usual trick of briefly making it look as if the Socialist Workers Party is the biggest party in the State and not simply its most dedicated placard-maker. Then we go back home or to work and tune in to the news to see if we can spot ourselves on the telly.
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TV & Radio »
- Waking up the nation with a happy head
RADIO REVIEW: IT WAS one of those seemingly random exchanges on the radio that stops you dead in your tracks halfway between a biscuit and a cup of tea. The John Murray Show (RTÉ Radio 1, weekdays) on Wednesday was coming live from the IFSC after a pre-breakfast screening of the Michael Douglas sequel Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps . Murray interviewed a hand-picked bunch of commentators. The exchange in question was between Michael Soden, former chief executive of Bank of Ireland, and Dublin City Councillor Bríd Smith, an activist with the People Before Profit Alliance. Smith said the movie “doesn’t show you the millions of people who were left unemployed and jobless”, though, as a movie, she enjoyed it.
- Dusting off the costumes
TV REVIEW: Downton Abbey UTV, Sunday Whites BBC2, Tuesday Panorama: The Secrets of Scientology BBC1, Tuesday The Home RTÉ1, Tuesday
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