Paulie Doyle

Years before my job with The Ditch, I worked freelance for Irish and British magazines. The subjects I was assigned were often interesting, but putting together articles could be  mechanical.

There’s a revisionist Irish history that goes like this.

I like to work The Sopranos into classes I teach. Earlier this year, while teaching a module on narrative studies, I played one of my favourite scenes for some undergraduates.

I knew things were about to get pretty Serious when I saw Stephen Collins. The Irish Times columnist had written yet another piece explaining we’d better start acting like adults because our betters in Europe and the United States aren’t looking at us favourably right now.

Ivan Yates was at least honest about the tactics he would need to use to get a candidate like Heather Humphreys elected president.