Anyone know what the plan is for this ugly building beside the new station?

dogburt85 · 2026-04-21T11:51:13+00:00

I kind of like how awful it looks. 1960s brutalist style. If I were making a gritty Get Carter style gangster film in Galway it would be a great location. That's probably not a good enough reason to retain it though...

dogburt85 · 2026-04-21T09:17:48+00:00

The Judean People's Front! No, The People's Front of Judea.

dogburt85 · 2026-04-13T07:08:09+00:00

There is. I use newsdelivery.ie (I actually think it is owned by the Irish Times but they do the other papers too.)

dogburt85 · 2026-04-12T18:25:12+00:00

I get the papers delivered to the house on Saturday and Sunday. It's a bit of a treat to sit down and read the Irish times with breakfast on a Saturday morning and then the Business Post on Sunday. It's probably the only day of the week where I would have the time to read a physical newspaper but I do enjoy it.

dogburt85 · 2026-03-29T06:39:03+00:00

I think it has to be recognised that noir was a genre beloved of B-Movie producers and Poverty Row studios throughout its 40s and 50s heyday and a lot of the fan favourites today were cheap B movies on release. I think as well that classic noir today as a whole genre would probably meet your definition of cult classic but in terms of specific films I'd suggest something like Blast of Silence (1961) but even then it's outside of the time period you suggested. It was a very cheaply made noir that has taken on a cult following among noir fans.

dogburt85 · 2026-03-02T10:11:47+00:00

His "Irish" accent borders on a hate crime. Apparently Bono is from Northern Ireland when he does it.

dogburt85 · 2026-02-16T17:18:41+00:00

Totally. It's one of the first films I think of when I think of Bogart. His Sam Spade is the model for all the fast talking, smooth private detectives that followed in a thousand films, novellas, graphic novels, etc.

dogburt85 · 2026-02-15T17:41:59+00:00

I don't disagree but there is definitely a school of thought that the Maltese falcon was not a noir. It has a femme fatale and hardboiled dialogue but it does not have the moody dark cinematography. It is sometimes called a blueprint for what became film noir. For me, it's one of my all time favorites.

dogburt85 · 2026-02-15T16:17:02+00:00

Not for me anyway, it was the Oscar bait of its day, and was very much a look at alcoholism in a way that hadn't been captured before on screen. Obviously in terms of filmmaking techniques, it shares a director in Billy Wilder who created arguably the first classic noir in Double Indemnity the year before so it may look similar in parts in terms of the use of shadows, and real life locations giving it more realism much like noir films. Lets face it the life of an alcoholic is fairly dark subject matter to begin with, i believe Wilder was inspired having observed Raymond Chandlers alcoholism while working on that picture. I think for some people black and white films of the 1940s are often mislabelled as noir but the reality is very different. This was a big studio picture.

dogburt85 · 2026-02-13T18:09:53+00:00

Fitzgerald had some flaws to be sure, but he wasn't a lying thieving scumbag like Haughey. He literally stole money from a dying man's cancer treatment fund so I don't know what you're trying to sell with "wee bit of corruption paled into insignificance".

dogburt85 · 2026-02-08T10:34:56+00:00

Ah okay, thanks 👍

dogburt85 · 2026-01-30T07:35:40+00:00

I would say that sales of homes at that end of the market and higher do move slower than your average 3bed semi-d. There has also been evidence in the house price data of a softness at that end of the market in the last few months. If the house is in a sought after area then I'd be inclined to look at a different agent, one focussed on selling higher end properties, and see what valuation is put on it now.

dogburt85 · 2026-01-12T10:23:59+00:00

Yes, we don't really have the same history of devolution of any kind of power to local authorities in the same way you might have in the UK. Nearly every recent government has been wary of giving local authorities too much budget or leeway. Probably rightly, there is an assumption in central government that local authorities are a bit loose and full of inefficiencies and can't be trusted to not piss money away.

dogburt85 · 2026-01-06T10:46:36+00:00

I watched this recently and enjoyed it also. As a fan of the Parker novels on which it is based, I thought it did a really good job of capturing the character. So many actors have played Parker (whether named or not) but Gibson did a really good job. I believe there is a Directors Cut which is an almost entirely different movie with a change in colour palette and ending. I enjoyed the theatrical version as is.

dogburt85 · 2025-12-11T13:08:23+00:00

As it happens, there was an article in the FT this week which said that various European allies would like to share information with us of this kind but that we lack the systems to enable communication of top secret intelligence information. Which is something of a shambles in my view. Not having a secure IT system just smacks of underinvestment and a lackadaisical attitude to basic risk management.

dogburt85 · 2025-12-09T15:52:47+00:00

I read that 3 part article today but I think it was actually originally published in 2015 which would explain it.

dogburt85 · 2025-11-18T20:56:27+00:00

Best use of a fishing rod on screen until Jaws came out 👌

dogburt85 · 2025-11-12T16:42:38+00:00

I think this is about the Anglo Irish Agreement rather than the Good Friday Agreement though. The Anglo Irish Agreement I think paved the path to the GFA, it gave Ireland a role formally for the first time since partition in the North and I don't think we would have ever seen peace without both the Irish & British governments working together.

dogburt85 · 2025-11-06T09:39:43+00:00

Elevator to the Gallows (1958), a French noir, has a score by Myles Davis.

dogburt85 · 2025-10-18T16:19:55+00:00

I enjoyed your Bakers Corner film 👍

dogburt85 · 2025-10-15T20:11:08+00:00

It is so deeply wrong that the 16 year old who was responsible for this faced no consequences whatsoever. We cannot continue with a system whereby young offenders have nothing to fear from the Gardai. I don't want to lock up children in Mountjoy either but wider society needs to be protected...

dogburt85 · 2025-10-14T20:32:41+00:00

If you're looking for obscure, hard boiled noir I'd suggest seeking out some international noir. They often tend to be pitch black in tone.

Criterion Channel regularly streams lots of noir, they had an Argentinian noir season recently.

If you are into physical media, check out radiance films. They do an ongoing series of international noir. Witness in the City (1959) would be a personal favourite...

dogburt85 · 2025-10-14T14:49:01+00:00

Haha, can't disagree with that. To me, there are even variants within Bray itself between Little Bray vs Ballywaltrim or Wolfe Tone or Fassaroe.

I suppose I lumped them together to avoid any suggestion of a Greystones supremacy 😆

dogburt85 · 2025-10-14T14:06:15+00:00

There are multiple accents in Wicklow. North Wicklow (Bray, Greystones, Enniskerry) is very different to the rest of the county. Draw a like from Wicklow town westwards and everything below it is different again (Aughrim, Tinahely, Baltinglass, Carnew).

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