The Dubliner Magazine

The Dyson Paradox

Cleaning up at the box office

In the future the vacuum cleaner will grow so advanced that it will gain sentience. You can blame James Dyson.

Boyz n the Priesthood

Pop your clerical colllar

There's irreligious rapping, posturing in a cassock and clerical breaking, but the best part by far is the wall flip. Camera trickery at its finest.

Welcome to Fade Street

Population YOU

An Irish version of The Hills?

Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

OK technically it just involves following a bunch of Assets models around D2 and watching them pretend to look for a job. But BY GOD, yes.

The Rubberbandits Guide to Limerick

Bag yourself a new home by the Shannon

The best thing about upping sticks, getting out of Dublin and moving to Limerick is that you can now buy a house for just around E45,000. Quite a bargain if you don't mind the threat of shootings, arson or firebombs.

But even more of an incentive is that local gentlemen are more than willing to give a bit of advice to prospective new residents. It's Limerick city kid.

The Battle of Thermopylae

... in Japan... on a football pitch... with kids

Say what you want about the rigid social structure, the prevailing anxiety about dishonour and the incredibly competitive schooling system, at least the Japanese know how to make good television.

While we're gathered around our giant flatscreens watching a Brazilian named after a fascist composer butcher hits, our friends in Tokyo are asking the big questions.

Like who'd win a football match? 11 men or 100 kids.

Economic Terminology

Kasabian codology

Kasabian named their band after a member of a murderous gang of psychopaths. Dead Cat Bounce named their group after an obscure economics term refering to a small increase in the value of a decreasing stock.

In my day, bands named themselves after their members or bad puns.

Aisle Confuse Them All!

Supermarket Dadaism

This was of course right next to the Cereal, Screwdrivers and Mermaids aisle.

Transformers

Nissans in Disguise

People be rolling on chromes, on rims and with superchargers. They be rolling in Benzos, Caddies and Beamers.

But all that is for naught when held up against the one, the only: the Transformer decal.

Boom!

Hardy Bucks

Drinkin', Shmokin' and Fightin'

After emerging from the web chrysalis of RTE's Storyland, Mayo mockumentary Hardy Bucks  is finally hitting our plasma screens tonight at 10.50pm.

So after watching Keano gavotte around the Slovakian penalty box, you'll be able to watch some of the most exciting comedy to come out of the Wesht since the construction of Knock Airport.

 

Leno on Cowen

A look at our Taoiseach from abroad

There was a time, not so long ago, that when Ireland was mentioned in the American media it was for the robustness of the economy, the quality of its art or the friendliness of its people.

Nowadays it's for this kind of thing. Thanks Brian.