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"All society was complicit" The clergy who made our theatres, dancehalls, pubs and homes their business. Who marauded around lanes, streets and roads intimidating young couples. A culture of fear that was hardwired into decent people. And they were complicit? Get ta fuck.
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"Magdalene Laundries are ultimately a service provided by the state. It's not the same thing as thousands of children being sexually assaulted by the clergy" - John Bruton in 1996, presumably.
Leo Varadkar concedes some Direct Provision accommodation is substandard but it is "ultimately a service provided by the state… free accommodation, food, heat, lighting, education, and some spending money. It's not the same thing as a man being killed by the police."
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I know it's a cliché for people to say that they hadn't prepared a speech but I genuinely had not prepared a speech so massive thanks to
@AcornTV
and the cast and the crew. I'm so sorry, I'm not used to this craic at all and was wearing trackies from the waist down, forgive me.
John Morton wins Best Television Episode Teleplay for Episode 1, "Photochemistry" from Dead Still (
@AcornTV
).
#Edgrs2021
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Still hilarious that they rushed Game Of Thrones because they were so keen to get to their Star Wars show and fucked it up so badly that they lost their Star Wars show.
Game Of Thrones co-creators D.B. Weiss and David Benioff confirm they're not involved in the spinoffs
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Wolfwalkers opens in Irish cinemas today. It's a tonic for the soul courtesy of
@tommmoore
,
@RossStewartArt
and the team at
@CartoonSaloon
. I got to do a fun double act with Jon Kenny which was very cool. It's a gorgeous film, go see it.
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Beyond excited to bring this macabre craic to the screen. I'm a very lucky man to be working with such a cracking cast and crew. 6 episodes of death and photography in Victorian Dublin landing next year.
RTÉ and
@AcornTV
commission new Dublin-set Period Mystery
#DeadStill
- Currently filming on location in Dublin. Starring
@mrmichaelsmiley
@KerrLogan
@eileenohiggins
. Co-produced by
@deadpanpictures
. Directed by
@ImogenMurphy
and written by
@mohnjorton
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Everyone excitedly up at 6 in the morning to open our hurricane presents under the hurricane tree that has blown through our front window.
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This last month has me so mentally beleaguered, bereft of joy and all hope crushed to pieces that I’m finally in the perfect state of mind for an Ireland play off match.
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Wolfwalkers, the new feature film from
@CartoonSaloon
, premieres at
@TIFF_NET
next month. I'm positively howling at the moon to be part of such a cracking cast.
@tommmoore
and Ross Stewart have created something very special.
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What a day for the parish. Unbelievable haul of Irish Oscar nominations. Can we please rebrand as 'the best little country in which to make films'
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Wasn't expecting the first Dead Still preview/review to come from
@VanityFair
but hey, I'll think twice about writing in tracksuit bottoms and thermal vests again.
#deadstill
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I am both excited and honoured to be doing the adapting. Asylum, Abbey Theatre and Kilkenny Arts Festival will present the production next August.
An adaptation of Thomas Kilroy's The Big Chapel for Kilkenny Arts Festival 2019.
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Dead Still hits
@RTEOne
and the RTÉ Player from this Sunday night at 9.30pm. Fierce excited to finally get this one out on Irish telly.
#deadstill
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What lovely news! Absolutely delighted for the entire
#DeadStill
team and congrats to all the other nominees on the
#IFTA21
nominations.
Over the moon for the
#DeadStill
crew with 7
@IFTA
nominations for Best Drama, Lead Actor, Director, Writer, Editor, DP, Hair & Make-Up 🙌🖤
#IFTA21
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Just in time to lift the nations spirits, here's a show about corpses! Dead Still airs on RTÉ One from Sunday November 1st at 9.30pm.
#deadstill
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Here's the trailer for our macabre wee TV show. Suppin' tae, crackin' wise and solvin' mysteries in Victorian Dublin.
#DeadStill
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ABBA really went and set one of their new songs in Kilkenny. What a time to be alive.
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If there’s water there, Jim Fogarty will find it. Jim Fogarty Well Drilling, Bodalmore Co. Kilkenny, just a few miles out the Waterford road. Phone 22279 for Jim Fogarty Well Drilling. Over 50 years well drilling experience.
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Never saw this little peach before. What a waste of a theatre space. When the dickying up times come back, this would be prime for a deep dickying up.
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Best of luck to everyone in
@CartoonSaloon
for the Oscars tonight. No matter how it goes down, it's an amazing achievement and everyone there should be so proud of the film.
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Adam Driver, not yet 40 and he's worked with Scorsese, Eastwood, Spielberg, The Coens, Jarmusch, Soderbergh, Gilliam, Lee, Carax and Scott. Got to swing a lightsabre for 3 movies and all. Next level run.
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Thanks to everyone for all the kind words about the show since Sunday. First episode can be watched on the
@RTEplayer
and there's a new episode coming along this Sunday night.
#deadstill
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I wrote a short film based on my old summer job of tracking down illegal dumpers in a bin truck and it's getting a premiere this autumn. Directed by the always brilliant
@ImogenMurphy
and starring John Connors and Ann Skelly.
Very pleased to announce that
@ImogenMurphy
's SEANIE & FLO (written by
@mohnjorton
starring John Connors and Ann Skelly) will enjoy its premiere at
#IndieCork
this October!
More details soon 😊👏🍾🎬
#ShortFilm
#IrishFilm
@GearrScannain
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The legendary Tom Murphy out the gap. A hell of a writer and a giant of the Irish stage. May he be pouring curries over the heads of sex pests in heaven.
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Have playwrights forgotten to think big? Never have I wanted a headline to go fuck itself more. But shur, how could we ever come up with big ideas unless we’re thrown into the fucking Hunger Games? If we didn’t have that we’d be making our poxy cheap two person shows forever!
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€345g at previous Storyland rates would commission nearly 12 episodes of a half hour show. You could get two different 6 x 30min series on TV and employ a lot of people. It's not massive money but would help develop and elevate new screen talent. Never much of a priority though.
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First episode of Dead Still is on at 9.30pm tonight, directed by the most brilliant
@ImogenMurphy
.
#deadstill
A brand new show to lift your spirits... 💀
The critically acclaimed murder mystery Dead Still starts Sunday at 9.30pm and on
@rteplayer
.
#deadstill
|
@mrmichaelsmiley
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Lookit, at least they've the Pope's visit to look forward to.
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The Regent in Kilkenny. First film I saw there was Harry and The Hendersons and the last was Lost In Space, the final film to screen there.
#myfirstcinema
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I will be laughing at this all day because my taste in comedy is the simplest shit always.
From the latest episode of Alan Partridge – a piece about the SAS. Check out the edit at the very end.
#ThisTimeWithAlanPartridge
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Episode 3 of Dead Still airs tomorrow night, directed by
@ImogenMurphy
. In which Blennerhasset finds himself stranded and stalked in Dublin's most colourful red light district. We're taking her up to Monto. Lan-ge-roo. 9.30pm on
@RTEOne
.
#deadstill
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Derelict because tenants were booted out to make way for this shit. Boycott Wetherspoons forever and always.
Eight derelict buildings have gained a new life as Wetherspoon's latest bar in Dublin
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Sunday night crossover game on
@RTEOne
is strong. Can’t wait to see what japes these two get up to with their old timey camera.
#theden
#deadstill
#denstill
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In 5th class, in order to get me to shut the fuck up each week, I was given 10 minutes at the end of Thursday’s class to perform sketches with some of my classmates.
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Act cool act cool act cool act cool act cool act cool
Really enjoyed
#DeadStill
ep 1 last week. Looking forward to the rest of series! 👍
@deadpanpictures
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Episode 2 of Dead Still airs tonight, directed by
@ImogenMurphy
. In which Blennerhasset and Molloy are forced to have a most uncomfortable sleepover during a thunderstorm.
@markohalloran
and
@normasheahan
are just wonderful in this one. 9.30pm on
@RTEOne
.
#deadstill
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The sun is out! Summer has surely arrived. Here are four nice things you can do in the sun today.
1. Not watch Eurovision.
2. Say to yourself, aloud and often '"Fuck Israel"
3. Not support apartheid and genocide by watching the Israeli shit show unfold.
4. Buy an ice cream.
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Dead Still lands on
@AcornTV
on May 18th with the first two episodes straight out the gate. Entirely relatable viewing fodder for anyone who has lost their camera back ups and/or been stranded in Dun Laoghaire when they don't want to be.
#deadstill
Coming to Acorn TV! Photographer Brock Blennerhasset photographs the dead in Victorian Ireland. When a series of murders threatens to sully Brock's reputation, a detective drags him into an investigation of Dublin's criminal underbelly.
Dead Still premieres May 18! 📷⚰️
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My sister just told me she couldn't get into Kilkenny Garda Station with the queues of younger folk lining up to register. Keep it lit y'all.
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My short film Two Cats is free to watch as part of the
@irishfilmlondon
online programme for anyone who wants to give it a spin.
😹😿
Shortlisted for Best Irish Short
@KerryFilmFest
2018, Two Cats by
@Mycrofilms
is a dark comedy about a young woman’s attempts to scatter her brother’s ashes in their hometown despite the unwanted attentions of some suspect characters
#IFFH
#freetoview
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Just ate the first of what I anticipate will be 7 toasted sambos tonight.
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Lovely plug for the show. But it also spoils the wacky Muppets crossover episode, which we had managed to keep under wraps.
#deadstill
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I’m honoured as all hell to be writing the stage adaptation of Thomas Kilroy’s novel The Big Chapel which will premiere at this years Kilkenny Arts Festival. 11th-17th August around the streets of Callan. Bring your own riot gear.
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Lyric FM going hard on Led Zeppelin right now. No one gives a fuck anymore.
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Episode 4 of Dead Still airs tonight, directed by Craig David Wallace. In which everyone heads off to a seance.
@Lauramurray30
and
@marmurray
are on hosting duties for "the most off-the-rails seance sequence you will see on television" -
@TheMarySue
. 9.30pm on
@RTEOne
.
#deadstill
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How we described the show in funding applications when we didn’t want to say “the women have guns and shoot gangsters’ for fear it’ll sound too entertaining.
The Roaring Banshees is an original, stylish and funny new play highlighting the forgotten role of women in the political landscape of the early 20th century.
@devioustheatre
brings the production to
@smockalley
next month.
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Did a wee interview with
@IFTN
about
#Deadstill
. Big shout out to
@ClaireEGormley
who initially took this project on and got it moving back when it was a Storyland submission in 2014. She's an absolute boss of a producer and the show wouldn't exist without her.
We caught up with writer
@mohnjorton
, creator of
#DeadStill
for
@deadpanpictures
, to discuss his inspiration for the new series, productivity during quarantine, and some advice for aspiring writers. The show released
@AcornTV
last week; on
@rte
this autumn
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Watching Irish TV shows illegally and complaining about the lack of original Irish TV programming are not mutually compatible.
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Done and wrapped and now very hungover. Well done to the epic cast and crew on Dead Still. Very excited about the episode where they commandeer an ice cream van. 😵📷🍦
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Getting to play a lead role in a feature is one of those actor bucket list things to do and
@LOCfilm
is one of my favourite things I've worked on. First Dublin screening is March 7th at
@SilkRdFilmFest
in
@filmbase
. Here's the brand new trailer.
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The queue for Krispy Kreme out in Blanchardstown is one of the most disconcerting things I’ve seen in a long time. Hundreds of people, dead eyed, waiting for their bog standard donuts. Burn the world down.
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Got up at 7am to read Ulysses for the first time. Just finished it there. Breezy read. Funny enough in parts.
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Willie Meighan was a friend, mentor and honestly, the pure creative heart of Kilkenny. He embodied the best of the place. He'll be missed beyond words.
Willie Meighan of Rollercoaster Records in Kilkenny has passed away, RIP.
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Walking into a theatre when you get a sniff of audience participation in the air.
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The whole series of Dead Still is there now for a bingeing.
#DeadStill
Kick-start the week with a new box set 🙌
Macabre comedy,
#DeadStill
, follows the strange adventures of Blennerhasset and Molloy, Dublin’s most famed memorial photographers.
Full box set now streaming on
#RT
ÉPlayer
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Such a treat to get back into a real life theatre yesterday. Working with Marie, Ian and
@gaznicholls
on the play was a joy. An audio version of the play will be available from September 7th. Thanks to
@LyricBelfast
and
@traversetheatre
for putting this together.
We are delighted that today we will have our FIRST performance in over five months, although without a live audience just yet! It’s a reading of 'Denouement', a new play by
@mohnjorton
starring theatre giants Marie Jones &
@IanMcElhinney
Full details
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Ah, this is cool.
5 stars in
@scotsman_arts
for
@mohnjorton
magnificent Denouement
@LyricBelfast
@traversetheatre
- “features an unforgettable double act from real-life couple Ian McElhinney and Marie Jones, two of the most powerful theatre artists Northern Ireland has ever produced.”
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Here’s a nice wee preview of Dead Still. 💀 📸
A surprise
#Halloween
treat! The set of the all-new Acorn TV Original mystery series
#DeadStill
might be haunted, but take a look, if you dare...
Dead Still arrives on Acorn TV next year. ⚰️
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This is a really lovely, and impressively thorough, review of Dead Still from
@TheMarySue
. Delighted with the well deserved praise for all the actors.
#deadstill
Trust me, Dead Still is the Victorian murder mystery you didn't know you needed
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The final episode of Dead Still airs tomorrow night, directed by
@ImogenMurphy
. In which Blennerhasset gets ensnared in a most murderous photo shoot. 9.30pm on
@RTEOne
. You can catch up with the rest of the series on
@RTEplayer
.
#deadstill
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Maeve Ingoldsby was one of the first mentors I had and she taught me so much about writing plays. Some of my first acting gigs were in her wonderful plays for children. She was an amazing person and such a brilliant writer. She’ll be sorely missed.
Our incredible Mam has passed away at home surrounded by our family . I don’t know what we are going to do without her. Go easy Mam ❤️❤️❤️
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Episode 5 of Dead Still airs tomorrow night, directed by Craig David Wallace. In which some very bad people just want their photo album back. 9.30pm on
@RTEOne
.
#deadstill
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Thinking of the night this is over and people descend into town in droves like the last day of the Leaving, Christmas Eve and a good World Cup result all in one, blitzed to heaven and you end up on a packed dancefloor with 100 people you know, everyone deranged with pure joy.
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There's something very uncomfortable about watching Bono's daughter playing a working class, single mother, from the flats, in her new film Flora and Son.
I know its made to tailor to an American audience, but my god. It's a shocking, out-dated, out of touch performance!
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Very bleak when the Arts Council application process breaks even poor Bosco.
Our Puppet Theatre was refused arts Council funding
Who’s getting €80 millions?
XxBosco
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Was looking forward to doing my first Edinburgh show this year but lookit, for the best. Gutted for all the artists having to down tools.
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If we can't shift tickets for a play about a rogue Cumann na Mban unit taking on Al Capone's Outfit, we might as well give this craic up and start bootlegging.
Here's The Roaring Banshees revealed in all their glory.
@WatergateKK
1-3 Aug /
@smockalley
12-31 Aug.
#noletup
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This is an excellent thread that articulates so well what many artists go through. May the well worn "we're all in this together" maxim be given a wee rest for a while in place of some actual listening. Also, I would add, answer your emails.
Today I'm mostly feeling angry at the amount of work artists are expected to do for free by people who are being paid.
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It only takes 15 minutes waiting for the green man on the Parade now, down considerably from its pre Covid time of 3 years. I hardly recognise this new Kilkenny.
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Don Conroy only has 185 followers on Instagram. I feel like we need to be doing more as a nation.
#drawwithdon
#owls
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My play 100 Everyday Menaces won some gold over at the New York Festivals International Radio Awards and
@mcdonagh_gus
and meself got to go to a reception and eat fancy pastries.
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Forget the pubs and clubs, just get me into the middle of a big sweaty crowded loud as hell housing protest. 🥰
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Set in the office of Irish Equity over the last 7 days and directed by Armando Iannucci. Steve Buscemi gets €200 quid and a sandwich for his cameo.
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I have never uttered his name once on social media, never given him a breeze. I just wanted to save it all up for one truly petty, cathartic tweet at the end of it all.
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Sitting in my bedroom in my togs for an awards ceremony, beamed to the nation on the telly. Nightmare fuel. Nothing can hurt me now. Big congrats to Normal People.
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A lot of my research for Dead Still often involved the fun game of “which person is the dead one in the photo?” Great fun for all the family. I recommend.
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Me with only one bullet and having to choose between ending coronavirus or the word ‘staycation’
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Nobody has ever run from the smoking area to the dancefloor as quickly as I did when Voulez Vous came on last night. Communties ravaged in my wake.
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My wee short is getting another spin on RTE 2 tonight for anyone near a television.
Drowning their various sorrows at a housewarming party, four friends trade stories about a near mythical girl from their past-
@mohnjorton
's short comedy Daffney Molloy & Other Catastrophes screens tonight on
@rte
2
@Shortscreen
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Delighted to be part of this years Druid Debuts!
Announcing this year's
#DruidDebuts
📣
For this year's rehearsed reading series, we've selected three plays from over 550 submissions!
✏️ Denouement by John Morton
✏️ Unnerved by Róisín Coyle
✏️ We End Up Breathing Rust by Sebastian Schlecht
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Ah this is a lovely nod, thanks! Big shout out to
@LyricBelfast
and
@traversetheatre
for supporting the hell out of me and to
@totalnightmairs
, who is the absolute best. Hup plays!
Our wonderful shortlist for the
#popcornawardfornewwriting
AUTOPILOT by Ben Norris
BURN by Chris Thompson
DADDY by Camilla Whitehill
DENOUEMENT by John Morton
ES AND FLO by Jennifer Lunn
LITTLE MISS BURDEN by Matilda Ibini
SILKWORM by Vlad Butucea
STICKY DOOR by Katie Arnstein
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Am willing to talk to anyone from the Irish Secret Service. Reveal yourselves please.
'Dead Still,' 'Mental' Writers Pen Paris-Set Cold War-Era Spy Thriller 'The Continental Method' Boarded by Red Arrow Studios Intl. (EXCLUSIVE)
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So proud of and delighted for this motherfucker
@costello_fergal
that I have tears in my eyes. The hardest grafter I know. What a result.
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Still having a wee chortle to myself every time I see the title of Nick Cave's new album. Here's hoping that Ghosteen is indeed about a tiny, adorable Irish ghost.
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I spent a good ten years in rehearsal rooms, on stages and making films with Ross Costigan. He was the loveliest.
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I wish I unconditionally loved anything as much as Hot Press love U2.
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Fair play to Nicola on calling this shit out. She's one of the hardest working people I know and has busted her ass to get where she is. To be critiqued in this manner is disgusting and tantamount to bullying. Fuck that guy.
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A chap called Andrew Egan reviewed Locus Of Control in which I play a character named Andrew Egan. And boy did he knock my movie star aspirations down a few pegs.
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Me screaming at people to come see The Harvest in
@WatergateKK
on March 28th. It’s been a few years since I’ve gotten a runout on the Watergate stage so I’m looking forward to coming home for this one.
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Gonna have a McDonagh opinion here. Wasn’t mad on the film but that type of article has been done a million times already, it says nothing that hasn’t been said since the mid 90’s. All it does is feed into a tired narrative of begrudgery.
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It was the coolest bloody thing to see Michael bring this part to life. The last episode of the series lands on
@AcornTV
today and the entire series will be on
@AcornTVUK
from June 29th.
#deadstill
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Mr. Burns at
@projectarts
is the best thing I've seen in a theatre all year. Phenomenal cast, impeccable direction and the songs, oh the songs. It turns The Simpsons into Shakespeare and frankly, that's the post apocalyptic future I want to live in. Take a bow
@RoughMagicIRL
.
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My radio play 100 Everyday Menaces makes the Drama shortlist at
#IMRO18
. Delighted with that result.
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