"South Boston shines in St Patrick's Day parade," read the Boston Globe's coverage of this year's St Patrick's Day parade. In the same article, I could not help but notice a picture of Boston mayor Michelle Wu and Massachusetts governor Charlie Baker marching through the parade – directly in front of a group of neo-Nazis.
In the 1970s,US writer Bob Bernen and his wife Satia settled in the Blue Stack Mountains (Na Cruacha Gorma) of south Donegal, where they observed a way of life slipping into the past, old-timers becoming shades and their values and ways of thinking disregarded. Breandán Mac Suibhne tells the story.
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has featured on every social media platform. This conflict is the first one of this scale to unfold online, in real time, and unfiltered. The invasion of Ukraine has shown how connected we all are.
The first episode of the all-new Kardashians (Disney Plus) is entitled Burn them All to the F*cking Ground and I applaud the family for going there. Someone has clearly been reading their Lenin.
Emmanuel Macron's grand experiment faces its defining test in the runoff for the French presidency next weekend. If he wins, he will have performed one of the most remarkable feats in modern French politics. If he loses, he will be remembered as the man who cleared the extreme right's way to the Élysée Palace.
Michael O'Sullivan remembers the day in 1986 when he first encountered Christy Kinahan. Then a 28-year-old, unemployed father of two, Dubliner Kinahan was already thinking big. He was caught with more heroin than anyone had ever seen in Ireland at that time.
A lot has gone on since I last met Robert Eggers. At a Q&A following a screening of his already legendary The Lighthouse at (where else?) The Light House Cinema, he talked enthusiastically about his recent recreation of 10th century Norse communities in meteorologically appropriate Ulster.
Thierry Frémaux, director of the Cannes film festival, has confirmed a return to relative normality with the announcement of a strong line-up for the upcoming 75th event. As expected,Top Gun: Maverick, featuring Tom Cruise, and Baz Luhrmann's Elvis, lavish biopic of the King, will play out of competition.
