celebrities

Why, who are you anyway? – Casual encounters with celebrities…

Terry Maguire on May 18, 2020, 10:53 am | Readers 1901

I’m with the good people of Dalkey going that extra mile to keep superstar celebrity Matt Damon in his box. Graham O’Toole and Nathan O’Reilly, hosts of Spin 1038’s morning radio show, should not have been so mawkish and sycophantic after hounding Matt out of his Dalkey lockdown hideaway and he telephoned the show. It is simply not the Irish thing to do. Chasing ratings is one thing but these boys have let down the side and all the stoical …

‘Celebrity’ candidates shouldn’t give up the day job

Blank on May 7, 2010, 6:54 pm | Readers 3

In this election we had six candidates with hopes and decent media profiles beyond their political exposure (in three cases their political background was essentially non-existant). All of them failed to translate this into anything approaching a successful campaign: Fearghal McKinney – ex-journalist Mike Nesbitt – ex-journalist, ex-victims commissioner Eamonn McCann – columnist (also a political activist) David Vance – political pundit and blogger Harry Hamilton – singer Trevor Ringland – former rugby player Seems being known doesn’t guarantee being …