Motley’s Luke Luby looks at Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan’s decision to run in the up and coming European election. Luke ‘Ming’ Flanagan, the outspoken pro cannabis Independent TD, has announced that he is planning to run for European election this coming May, in a largely anti-Euro campaign. Making the announcement via Twitter, he said that:”I have made the decision to contest the European Election Constituency of … Continue reading Ming Runs for European Parliament
Luke Luby examines the Garda phone tapping scandal, which is believed to date back to a Gsoc investigation in 2010. Revelations have been brought to light that show An Garda Siochana took part in the systematic and illegal bugging of calls from the public to certain Garda stations for almost three decades. These revelations have sparked a number of questions about why such bugging took … Continue reading Garda Phone Tapping
Motley’s Luke Luby looks at the latest on-goings in Crimea. “The Russian people became one of the biggest, if not the biggest, split-up nation in the world.” That’s how Russian president, Vladimir Putin, is trying to justify his annexation of Crimea, which he announced on Tuesday, March 18th. The comment came as a part of a speech Mr Putin made at a speech made to … Continue reading Crimea
Motley’s Luke Luby examines the activities of Alaa Abdel-Fattah and Ahmed Abdel-Rahman, two demonstrators charged with holding an illegal protest last year, upon reports that they have been released on bail. Alaa Abdel Fattah and Ahmed Abdel Rahman, left-wing organisers of the 2011 uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak have been freed on bail, according to reports published on Sunday March 22. The pair, who … Continue reading Alaa Abdel-Fattah and Ahmed Abdel-Rahman
Louise Clancy chats to Youtube sensation Elyar Fox about his meteoric rise to fame. 2014 is set to be a big year for 18 year old English singer Elyar Fox (real name Elyar Afshari) after peaking to number five in the UK charts. After gaining huge success from his acoustic covers of pop songs posted on Youtube, he was signed with RCA records in 2013. … Continue reading What Does the Fox Say?
Resident Motley film buff Kieran Doyle looks at Wed Anderson’s latest outing. Wes Anderson’s eighth film, The Grand Budapest Hotel shows us the story of Ralph Fiennes’ M.Gustav, the charismatic concierge of the eponymous hotel. Through the eyes of various interpreters of the story, but mainly his newly employed lobby boy Zero Mustafa (Tony Revolori/ F. Murray Abraham), we follow the fearless Gustav as he … Continue reading The Grand Budapest Hotel
In David McKenzie’s Starred Up, the tremendously named Eric Love (Jack O’Connell) finds himself transferred, ‘starred up’, from captivity with his fellow young offenders and into the general prison population. Sharing a wing with his estranged father, Neville (Ben Mendelsohn), Eric defines himself through his violent opposition to the rules but is offered the chance no one thinks he deserves by the group therapy sessions … Continue reading Starred Up
