Daily Archives: December 9, 2009

Hazel wins prestigious international photography competition with “No Future” photo

  By darraghdoyle | December 9, 2009 - 10:05 am | The Culch
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Just wanted to say congratulations to the wonderful Hazel Coonagh who has won the best photo in the People category of the Metro Global Photo Challenge. Image taken from Pix.ie/hazel - all rights reserved and all that good stuff. Her photo, above, from her pix.ie account, is simply entitled “No Future” and she snapped it last January on the quays in Dublin. It was chosen from more than 130,000 entries to be named best photo by a panel of international judges. From the Metro article this morning: ‘I was coming home from Clondalkin on a January morning, and it had started to snow. I got on the bus, I had loads of gear with me. ‘I sat down the back and was looking through my camera at some of the shots I had taken, and just started taking pictures out the bus window, I do that quite a lot sometimes. … There’s more →

Sweary’s Jaw

  By Lisa McInerney | December 9, 2009 - 9:15 am | Celebs, Featured Post, Gossip, Sweary's Jaw, The Culch
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Surreptitiously on Tiger’s side, so you don’t have to be… … although it is hard to be on Tiger’s side when you’ve got a gossip post to write and he and that all-encompassing libido of his have a monopoly on everyone’s attention. Jennifer Aniston could set fire to her personal chef in the middle of Times Square and no one would notice, such is the magnitude of Tiger’s mauling. I’d feel terribly sorry for him, if it wasn’t for the fact that a million hotties are pawing at his back pocket. I mean, that’s not bad going, for a bloke who was christened Tiger, has teeth the size of Peter Schmeichel’s hands, and wears pastel polo shirts all day; the hayters just jealous, y’all! Anyway, because I’m intrepid like that, I managed to put together some non-Tiger-related gossip for you hungry, hungry hippos. Bully for all of us, I’m sure … There’s more →

Christmas Countdown: Top 25 Movies of 2009 – No.17

  By Niall | December 9, 2009 - 9:14 am | Movies & TV, The Culch
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These little intros are becoming increasingly more difficult to write. I picked today’s movie simply because I think it’s a marvellous piece of cinema. I bowed to public pressure somewhat in not placing it higher, as a great many people were disappointed with the final result. I think this had more to do with the expection of a gangster movie from this director rather than with the quality of the actual movie itself. In at Number 17 it’s…