Trailer for my film The Swallow, which is in select cinemas from Sep 19th

Bring Them Down is so bad.
Up there with Wild Mountain Thyme and God’s Creatures for silly dramas set in an imaginary rural Ireland of ruggedly confused men with no mobile phones

youtu.be/7pIKR6UBogs?...

Should have been called The Praying Game

Rural Ireland beyond the towns and villages can be thought of as a very very dispersed city - one more populous than Cork. But one with zero political representation outside of its main industry (farming).
As such the lack of action/interest since the storm makes total sense.

If I was a teen who lost access to tiktok I would simply learn to appreciate the professionalism and higher production values of linear broadcast television

Said to the postman that I’d have something small for him on Monday by way of Christmas thanks - he looked at me very seriously and asked that instead I ‘put a few bob into the Gaza appeal’.

I had a wee thing on the radio earlier about anonymity, death ships and stinkin' badges, if any or all of those are interesting to you www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Very happy to have a chapter in this new book by the brilliant film scholar Scott MacDonald about my film 'To the Moon'.
Too late for Christmas sadly, it's out in January via Oxford University Press.