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# director - Thursday 25 April, 2013
# director - Wednesday 24 April, 2013
9 things Michael Bay needs to say sorry for
Michael Bay, you have a lot of explaining to do.
# director - Thursday 28 March, 2013
Public interest directors at Permanent TSB step down
Margaret Hayes and Ray MacSharry were asked by the government in 2009 to fill the roles to ensure that the bank was acting in the public interest.
# director - Wednesday 23 January, 2013
Irish folk furniture film wins top award at Sundance festival
Irish Folk Furniture won the prize for Best Animation at the festival, while another Irish film has been nominated for the Cinema Documentary Award.
# director - Wednesday 9 January, 2013
So what does Transformers’ Michael Bay think of Irish actor Jack Reynor?
The What Richard Did star has just been cast by Bay in Transformers 4, and the director thinks he’s “pretty ballsy”.
# director - Friday 14 December, 2012
Special Delivery Unit director’s consultancy paid €50k for advice
The SDU has spent €1.7 million in total on consultancies since it was set up in 2011 by Health Minister James Reilly.
# director - Monday 5 November, 2012
Who will direct the new Star Wars films? Here’s a wish list
JJ Abrams? Christopher Nolan? Ben Affleck?
# director - Tuesday 30 October, 2012
New Irish horror film animated by children
The film itself isn’t for children – but the animations by Irish young people add another edge to this scary tale by a talented director.
# director - Sunday 21 October, 2012
Documentary sheds light on Teresa Treacy’s fight for her trees
The Co Offaly landowner is still fighting to stop her trees from being cut down so that an overground power line can be put in place.
# director - Thursday 4 October, 2012
VIDEO: Three-trailer Thursday
Cinema trip this weekend? TheJournal.ie brings you snippets from three new releases to help you decide where to put your money…
# director - Saturday 29 September, 2012
Credit Union bill criticised as “anti-democratic”
The Irish League of Credit Unions has expressed concern about proposed laws that would ban volunteers from joining boards.
# director - Monday 20 August, 2012
The 9 at 9: Monday
The nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
# director - Wednesday 15 August, 2012
Scrabble player caught cheating at US event
“It’s unfortunate. The Scrabble world is abuzz. The internet is abuzz”.
# director - Sunday 5 August, 2012
Column: I filmed a horror movie in Ireland. Here’s why.
How many movies about giant tentacled aliens have been filmed in Ireland? Jon Wright explains why he made the first.
# director - Saturday 4 August, 2012
Clint Eastwood and Jenna Jameson endorse Mitt Romney
Barack Obama can console himself with the fact that he still has George Clooney’s support. That counts for something, right?
# director - Wednesday 13 June, 2012
Column: The problems with Richard Tol’s ESRI working paper
Are economists better placed than psychologists to explain why people go to work? Nat O’Connor looks at the controversial ESRI working paper.
# director - Wednesday 23 May, 2012
Mullen tells RTÉ critics to ‘stop calling for heads’ in Reynolds dispute
The independent NUI senator says calling on Tom Savage and Noel Curran to step down shows a “PR approach to politics”.
# director - Tuesday 22 May, 2012
Call for RTÉ Director General to resign
RTÉ faced an all-party Oireachtas Committee today for the second time, where calls were made for Director General Noel Curran to resign – and where Tom Savage was quizzed on his role as a communications guru outside of RTÉ.
# director - Monday 14 May, 2012
VIDEO: Dark Shadows director Tim Burton falls off stage…
…and is caught by a quick-thinking handler.
# director - Monday 30 April, 2012
# director - Sunday 29 April, 2012
Sports film of the week: Dogtown & Z-Boys
This Sean Penn-narrated tale of The Zephr team in 1970s Venice Beach, California is about more than skating.
# director - Monday 26 March, 2012
James Cameron dives to Earth’s deepest point
National Geographic says that Cameron’s expedition is the deepest ever solo sub dive.
# director - Thursday 1 March, 2012
New suicide prevention boss to be appointed “shortly”
The last Director of the National Suicide Prevention Office retired last year – and a replacement has yet to be appointed.
# director - Monday 28 November, 2011
Director Ken Russell dies at age 84
The director of films such as Women in Love and The Music Lovers died following a series of strokes. His son said he died “peacefully”.











































