Róisín Lanigan
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social
I WANT TO GO HOME BUT IM ALREADY THERE (March '25)
i HATE let them theory observer.co.uk/news/columni...
The Let Them Theory may be ‘non-fiction’ but it has no facts
Mel Robbins’s bestseller has sold seven million copies and even been anointed by Oprah, but it’s the worst kind of advice for young women
observer.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
i HATE let them theory observer.co.uk/news/columni...
October 12, 2025 at 5:07 PM
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@roisinlanigan.bsky.social on Irish accents on the screen.
After more than 35 years away, my accent is apparently so diluted and distorted that I've lost count of the times my fellow Irish ask me what part of Germany I am from. (I have never lived in Germany).
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
After more than 35 years away, my accent is apparently so diluted and distorted that I've lost count of the times my fellow Irish ask me what part of Germany I am from. (I have never lived in Germany).
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents
From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:19 PM
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social on Irish accents on the screen.
After more than 35 years away, my accent is apparently so diluted and distorted that I've lost count of the times my fellow Irish ask me what part of Germany I am from. (I have never lived in Germany).
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
After more than 35 years away, my accent is apparently so diluted and distorted that I've lost count of the times my fellow Irish ask me what part of Germany I am from. (I have never lived in Germany).
www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Do u think u do “a good Irish accent”? Consider this: u do not
Wrote about this for the guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Wrote about this for the guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
‘If you get it wrong, it’s sacrilegious!’ TV’s problem with Irish accents
From James Norton’s ‘terror’ at playing a Dubliner in House of Guinness to Helen Mirren doing an impersonation so atrocious it went viral – why do actors struggle to play people from Ireland?
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Do u think u do “a good Irish accent”? Consider this: u do not
Wrote about this for the guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
Wrote about this for the guardian www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio...
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Why is Belfast thronged with megaphones and placards? @roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from home.
www.the-fence.com/titanic-stre...
www.the-fence.com/titanic-stre...
Titanic Street Preachers
JESUS SAVES FROM HELL
www.the-fence.com
September 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Why is Belfast thronged with megaphones and placards? @roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from home.
www.the-fence.com/titanic-stre...
www.the-fence.com/titanic-stre...
i wrote about the golden age of vice for the ft www.ft.com/content/8e39...
Vice Is Broke and the risky business of selling cool
A new documentary from former Vice presenter Eddie Huang charts the media powerhouse’s rise and fall
www.ft.com
September 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
i wrote about the golden age of vice for the ft www.ft.com/content/8e39...
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Labour's decline in support is remarkable.
Support for Labour has fallen more sharply after this election than it has for any other winning party covered by the BESIP (though the timings between waves are not identical).
Support for Labour has fallen more sharply after this election than it has for any other winning party covered by the BESIP (though the timings between waves are not identical).
September 3, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Labour's decline in support is remarkable.
Support for Labour has fallen more sharply after this election than it has for any other winning party covered by the BESIP (though the timings between waves are not identical).
Support for Labour has fallen more sharply after this election than it has for any other winning party covered by the BESIP (though the timings between waves are not identical).
column this week is about flegs
August 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
column this week is about flegs
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observer column this week: make musicians poor again observer.co.uk/news/columni...
It’s our fault that Oasis are now the status quo
Liam Gallagher took a pop at the establishment in Edinburgh – but isn’t his band part of it?
observer.co.uk
August 18, 2025 at 8:57 AM
observer column this week: make musicians poor again observer.co.uk/news/columni...
wrote some things about THE PUB for @thefence.bsky.social’s book about THE PUB
August 5, 2025 at 10:29 AM
wrote some things about THE PUB for @thefence.bsky.social’s book about THE PUB
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Rumour has it that Tommy Robinson has fled to Spain after reading @roisinlanigan.bsky.social's dispatch from Benidorm.
Latest here: dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
Latest here: dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
Benidorm's greatest patriots
A Glorious Twelfth • On the Costa del Ulster • Pass the Buckfast
dispatch-media.com
July 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Rumour has it that Tommy Robinson has fled to Spain after reading @roisinlanigan.bsky.social's dispatch from Benidorm.
Latest here: dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
Latest here: dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
I went on the Money's No Object podcast to talk about winning the lottery and becoming benevolently evil as a result open.spotify.com/episode/3Tvg...
Money's No Object #8: Róisín Lanigan
Money's No Object · Episode
open.spotify.com
July 24, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I went on the Money's No Object podcast to talk about winning the lottery and becoming benevolently evil as a result open.spotify.com/episode/3Tvg...
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Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC, Reuters
July 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC, Reuters
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A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
‘We faced hunger before, but never like this’: skeletal children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza
For months Israel kept food shipments to Gaza far below starvation rations. Now the death toll is rising rapidly
www.theguardian.com
July 24, 2025 at 2:12 AM
A Palestinian mother in Gaza: “My children have become skeletal, skin and bone. Even the slightest effort makes them dizzy. They are asking for food, and I have nothing to give. I can’t lie and say I’ll bring them something when I know I won’t be able to.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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We dump vulnerable people (not just asylum seekers, but the homeless as well) in inadequate conditions where you can’t even store a pint of milk, and in the case of the asylum seekers, leave them to rot, and make it harder for them to integrate. Then people claim they’re living in luxury.
July 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
We dump vulnerable people (not just asylum seekers, but the homeless as well) in inadequate conditions where you can’t even store a pint of milk, and in the case of the asylum seekers, leave them to rot, and make it harder for them to integrate. Then people claim they’re living in luxury.
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What a feeling to see Fórsa on the jersey for our rising Palestinian GAA stars!
While we wish they were here in Ireland, they're instead at a summer camp in Jordan. Some of the Dublin hurlers also went over for a training, class acts.
One day we'll meet, a chairdre! 🇮🇪🇵🇸
While we wish they were here in Ireland, they're instead at a summer camp in Jordan. Some of the Dublin hurlers also went over for a training, class acts.
One day we'll meet, a chairdre! 🇮🇪🇵🇸
July 24, 2025 at 8:09 AM
What a feeling to see Fórsa on the jersey for our rising Palestinian GAA stars!
While we wish they were here in Ireland, they're instead at a summer camp in Jordan. Some of the Dublin hurlers also went over for a training, class acts.
One day we'll meet, a chairdre! 🇮🇪🇵🇸
While we wish they were here in Ireland, they're instead at a summer camp in Jordan. Some of the Dublin hurlers also went over for a training, class acts.
One day we'll meet, a chairdre! 🇮🇪🇵🇸
in the new issue of @thefence.bsky.social i wrote about belfast's street preacher mania and also some status symbols for the vibeless
July 24, 2025 at 8:17 AM
in the new issue of @thefence.bsky.social i wrote about belfast's street preacher mania and also some status symbols for the vibeless
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This is a fascinating essay on Paul Ray, the founder of the EDL – a strange and troubled sounding bloke @dispatchmedia.bsky.social
dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...
dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...
The forgotten founder of the EDL
Paul Ray lit the fuse • Then disappeared • From Luton to Ukraine
dispatch-media.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:59 PM
This is a fascinating essay on Paul Ray, the founder of the EDL – a strange and troubled sounding bloke @dispatchmedia.bsky.social
dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...
dispatch-media.com/the-forgotte...
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Putting the 'sham' in shamrock:
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social on the problem of Irish chic
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social on the problem of Irish chic
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
‘Cool Eire’ puts the sham in shamrock | The Observer
All of a sudden, it’s cool to be Irish – but only if you talk about Ireland in a certain way
observer.co.uk
July 20, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Putting the 'sham' in shamrock:
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social on the problem of Irish chic
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social on the problem of Irish chic
observer.co.uk/news/columni...
Last week I went semi-undercover in Benidorm for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
Benidorm's greatest patriots
A Glorious Twelfth • On the Costa del Ulster • Pass the Buckfast
dispatch-media.com
July 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Last week I went semi-undercover in Benidorm for @dispatchmedia.bsky.social dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
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What happens when you mix Benidorm, Buckfast and Loyalist zeal?
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from the Costa Del Ulster for the Glorious Twelfth:
dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from the Costa Del Ulster for the Glorious Twelfth:
dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
July 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
What happens when you mix Benidorm, Buckfast and Loyalist zeal?
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from the Costa Del Ulster for the Glorious Twelfth:
dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
@roisinlanigan.bsky.social reports from the Costa Del Ulster for the Glorious Twelfth:
dispatch-media.com/benidorms-gr...
Mormon Wives in the Ft?? This could be the end of momtok www.ft.com/content/c25b...
The money-spinning surprises of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives
The hit reality TV show has returned for a second season, with its cast of ‘MomTok’ influencers still pushing boundaries
www.ft.com
June 4, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Mormon Wives in the Ft?? This could be the end of momtok www.ft.com/content/c25b...
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Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex.
The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness, writes @roisinlanigan.bsky.social.
Read more: bit.ly/43bl8Jp
The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness, writes @roisinlanigan.bsky.social.
Read more: bit.ly/43bl8Jp
Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex | The Observer
The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness – one that suggests a smiling, darkly sexy bunch with flattened political views
bit.ly
May 22, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Send Kneecap to prison? This moral panic has reached its ridiculous, feverish apex.
The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness, writes @roisinlanigan.bsky.social.
Read more: bit.ly/43bl8Jp
The band are mostly guilty of refusing to conform to a sanitised and twee idea of Irishness, writes @roisinlanigan.bsky.social.
Read more: bit.ly/43bl8Jp