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Finn McRedmond

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I’m with Andrew Scott and Phoebe Bridgers. If you’re at a gig, put your phone away

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By Finn McRedmond
| The Irish Times
We are facing an epidemic of bad manners. I do not spend much time in the theatre, finding the medium too often boring and now simply too expensive. But those who still bother will tell you that phone calls, conspicuous texting, unembarrassed chatter and broadly obtrusive behaviour have become commonplace. Rosamund Pike – star of a weighty play about reckoning with sexual violence – made an encore of sorts at the end of one performance in May.
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The Leaving Cert is dense, demanding and far superior to the UK’s A-levels

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By Finn McRedmond
| The Irish Times
Like all adults with a job and dealing with the regular banalities of life – bills, forgotten dentist appointments, missed flights – I still find Leaving Certificate season anxiety inducing. Because columnists are show-offs by nature, I like exams more than most. And yet, there was something that felt peculiarly malign about those two weeks in June 13 years ago: the timetable was dense, the stakes vertiginous and the weather taunting. There was also rather a lot to memorise.
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Arsenal has become the club of the Irish diaspora

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By Finn McRedmond
| The Irish Times
The cliche has already been done to death. But it is true – what else could flood the streets of north London late at night on a random Tuesday with so many people? Plenty showed up to the various people’s vote marches in 2018 – but that was during the day and on the weekend. The Iraq war inspired big crowds too, but again, not on a school night. No, this was Arsenal winning the Premier League for the first time in 22 years.
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