War Dogs (15) ★★★ Directed by: Todd Philips Starring: Jonah Hill, Miles Teller & Bradley Cooper What’s the story? Life is going nowhere for David Packouz (Miles Teller). Sure, he has a beautiful girlfriend who is expecting their first child, but David isn’t exactly raking the dollars in with his part-time job as a […]
Archive | September, 2016
Rags to riches but with a bitter twist
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A dragonfly for every county
This a creature that inevitably creates a smile on everyone’s face. And it’s probably that we are all thinking: just how can nature produce something so beautiful? This dragonfly landed on the hand of a West Belfast hillwalker who goes by the name of Rob Smith and he was able to take this incredible […]
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‘Solid Man’ who ensured crowds flocked to view Alhambra acts
On the morning of Tuesday, March 11, 1873, crowds of people made their way to Lower North Street. They went there to see the damage done by fire to the Alhambra. The Royal Alhambra Music Hall, probably Belfast’s first, was opened in 1871. In two short years it was playing to full houses every […]
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Praying to the lamppost Lord
‘Do not touch God’s word’ reads the bottom of this very odd sign nailed to a telegraph pole halfway between Saintfield and Ballynahinch. Squinter was on a 14-mile rambling loop between the two towns on Sunday and very pleasant it was too until around 4pm when the skies opened. Before long man and dog […]
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Men’s lib in Liverpool
This sign outside a bar in Liverpool didn’t impress Squinter’s mate. “Typical everday sexism,” he moaned. “The pintglass ceiling still exists.” Yes, very funny. Squinter thought it was a laugh, quite frankly, if for no other reason than, like all the best jokes, there’s more than a grain of truth in there. Does Squinter […]
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Tiocfaidh ár lamb
This here thing here is a dish called Klephtiko, which Squinter had last week in a Greek restaurant in Liverpool. Squinter’s had a few lamb shanks in his time (right, okay, have you all stopped sniggering now?) but this one took the biscuit, to employ what’s in the circumstances probably an ill-advised culinary metaphor. […]
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