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Your Pain Is Mine Now

Title Fight press photo, ANTI- records, 2025

YOU GAZE OUT your bedroom window in the doldrums of suburbia. Rain slashes at the glass, pummels on the rooftops. Each house looks like the one you’re standing in, hidden lives unspooling behind...

a month ago
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Fifteen

AT FIFTEEN MY life transformed. An explosion of influences—social media, illegally streamed cinema, punk rock, cannabis, and binge drinking—plus moving from my drab community college in suburbia to a peculiar school in the heart of Dublin c...

a month ago
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It's Just a Ride

Bill Hicks in Cardiff, 1992. Photo: Rob Watkins/Alamy.

BILL HICKS SAVED my life, probably. In my darkest moments I have found salvation in his words. He was a funny motherfucker, but he was also punk rock to the core and spiritually enligh...

a year ago
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Prelude to the End of Humanity

Hell has come to Gaza. Photo: AFP.

IT’S MY BIRTHDAY. As I celebrate another year of life, of living in relative comfort and safety, I’m thinking of Gaza.

I don’t want to. Who does? We glimpse a headline which mentions that place and we a...

a year ago
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Living with/out Hope as an Artist

William Holden and Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, 1950

A SCREENPLAY I wrote is out to some production companies and agents as I type this, among them my dream studio and the rep for a fairly legendary actor. I’ve been down this road b...

a year ago
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    I write books about desperate people on the fringes of society and the systems that swallow them. Screenplays too. Editor by day.

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