Furious on Disney is really good. The cast are amazing.
Patrick Freyne
@patrickfreyne.bsky.social
Irish Times writer & author of OK, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea & now, out in June, Experts in a Dying Field. You can preorder here: https://linktr.ee/expertsinadyingfield
Here's a weird, horrory short story I wrote for issue 8 of the excellent @bansheepress.bsky.social, which they've just put online: bansheepress.org/read/the-red... (It's quite different from Experts in a Dying Field)
‘The Red Child’ by Patrick Freyne — Banshee Press
My child was born in the time when newborn babies would leap from the womb and run for higher ground. This was new then and it was shocking to us, though it seems like nothing compared to all of the t...
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'My child was born in the time when newborn babies would leap from the womb and run for higher ground.' From issue 8 (spring/summer 2019): fiction by @patrickfreyne.bsky.social 📖 bansheepress.org/read/the-red...
‘The Red Child’ by Patrick Freyne — Banshee Press
My child was born in the time when newborn babies would leap from the womb and run for higher ground. This was new then and it was shocking to us, though it seems like nothing compared to all of the…
bansheepress.org
Weirdly AI is making me a more productive writer because any time I get stuck, or run out of momentum on a document, I ask myself "What are you going to do, Richy? Ask the machine for help?" and then I'm suddenly fueled by sufficient spite to keep going.
Here's a weird, horrory short story I wrote for issue 8 of the excellent @bansheepress.bsky.social, which they've just put online: bansheepress.org/read/the-red... (It's quite different from Experts in a Dying Field)
‘The Red Child’ by Patrick Freyne — Banshee Press
My child was born in the time when newborn babies would leap from the womb and run for higher ground. This was new then and it was shocking to us, though it seems like nothing compared to all of the t...
bansheepress.org
One week until my event at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Tickets & info here: www.kilkennyarts.ie/festival/pro... #kilkenny 🇮🇪
Sally Hayden | Kilkenny Arts Festival | 6-16 August 2026
After her enthralling Hubert Butler Lecture at last year’s Festival, we’re delighted to welcome back Sally Hayden for another unmissable event, as she talks about her new book, This is Also a Love1
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As a cyclops truther I like that Homer’s Odyssey is listed as non-fiction
Does anyone know if Christopher Nolan has a film out? I would like to see something grey filmed at incredibly high resolution.
Somewhere out there a teenage fascist is calling his parents "traitors to the west" for making him to tidy his room.
🙂 NEW EPISODE 🙂 Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie talks to @msmirandasawyer.bsky.social about the highs, lows, euphoria and dark side of smashing together rave and rock’n’roll in the ’90s 🎸 Get loaded and have a good time 👉 linktr.ee/talk90stome
Why don't you fucking pieces of shit buy some fucking tickets to my fucking show (Trying to do more aggressive marketing) www.edfringe.com/tickets/what...
Babes in arms policy: Babies are not allowed in the venue, please refer to the age suitability for the show
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In November, a lobbying firm approached me and asked to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. Filmed undercover, their staff admitted secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Lobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national press
Exclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion
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I went here this week which was fascinating. There were a lot of young people there. I didn't really editorialise in the piece but if it's a resurgence of Catholicism (in an Irish context), I think it's resurgence as a minority religion for true believers www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Fr Mike Schmitz show in Dublin: ‘It’s like going to see a celebrity and the celebrity we’re talking about is God’
Fr Schmitz, the social media star, digital evangelist and Catholic chaplain, attracts youth groups, culture warriors and apolitical people seeking some form of healing at the National Stadium
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Right, I'm looking for Westlife fans. (That sounds like I'm hunting them, change tack). I'm looking for longtime Westlife fans to interview them.
Just finished reading "Experts in a Dying Field" by @patrickfreyne.bsky.social Wonderful book - gently drawn characters, great sideways look at music and musicians, with twists and scenes that are by turns hilarious and desperately sad. Recommended!
I wrote about solutions to antisocial behaviour involving scramblers & e-scooters. The short version: without gardai being resourced to properly enforce existing laws it’s down to youth workers, community workers & diversion projects. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...
Scramblers scourge: ‘People are dying because of it’
Using scramblers in public places has been illegal since April. The Garda Commissioner supports an outright ban on e-scooters
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I interviewed the great Brenda Fricker back in September - she was a lovely, fascinating and supremely talented person www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...
Brenda Fricker: ‘It was real violence, and I needed protection. Where was my father? There was blood all over me’
Parental abuse, sexual violence and mental health struggles: the Oscar-winner has endured more than most. She explains why she decided to write a memoir
irishtimes.com
My second favourite response to this article (from Richard on Facebook) “is this degenerate’s middle name “woke”?” www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...
Patrick Freyne: Look at these kind colonisers, stealing people’s land and feeling sad about it
Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie feeds into the fantasy that settlers have a great moral message (‘finders keepers’)
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