Vivienne Clarke
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Media monitor with The Irish Times. Jill of all trades, equality and hiv activist, proud mad mammy, views all my own
Joined May 2015
Lily Allen: West End Girl review – unflinching account of doomed relationship is a tough listen. I listened to the album at the weekend. It is heartbreaking.
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Songs are grim portraits of living through disaster but a pop album is not the most suitable conduit for such heavy emotions
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‘We will not accept their erasure’: Irish artist Oliver Sears reclaims his family’s Holocaust story
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Oliver Sears returns to Łodz with an exhibition honouring his murdered grandfather – and confronting Poland’s uneasy memory of its vanished Jewish community
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If you can donate, please do so. Blood transfusion service appeals for donors as supplies run critically low
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‘High hospital demand and increasing illness mean we need help’ – IBTS
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Shocked and saddened to read about this. Books Upstairs is a wonderful business, so supportive and inclusive. Hopefully they reopen promptly. ‘Really shocking’: Independent Dublin bookstore damaged in arson attack
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Books Upstairs was set alight at around 3am on Monday, with Garda investigations ongoing
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Manchán Magan: Writer and documentary maker dies aged 55
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Author spoke of terminal illness in recent radio interview, saying he did not feel despair
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‘How the f**k do you know me?’ the Ginger Patriot asked as he filmed from behind the security barrier
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YouTuber could not have been more polite at a recent asylum hotel protest. Now he was snarling at me across a security barrier
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Hazel Chu on her cancer diagnosis: ‘I came out of the scan, sat in reception and cried’
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No matter how many people love you, inevitably you are alone when sick
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La Voix and Pink Pony Club - a match made in heaven #Strictly
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Slow Horses, the very British hit about misfit spies, is back and its budget is showing
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The BBC passed on the show, according to Apple TV’s Europe boss. It was a mistake worthy of Slough House
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Miriam in top form. Handbag at the Dáil for Maria Steen as her Áras run comes to an end
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Catherine Connolly continues her duties as a TD while Heather Humphreys hits the campaign trail ladder
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Lovely story that made me smile too. "This story involving Mary Robinson and a historical wrong made me smile, so I thought I’d share it"
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Sometimes the most satisfying of happy endings can take decades to come to fruition
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Gareth Sheridan walks tall as his presidential dreams lie in tatters in Tullamore
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Businessman fails to get endorsement from Offaly County Council, but vows to continue to advocate on housing and climate issues
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In Heather Humphreys country: ‘It was hard to find a Protestant not in the Orange Order’
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Monaghan folk shy away from questions about identity but a leading Orangeman is not afraid to give his verdict on Michael D Higgins
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Fintan O'Toole: The pain and shame that Bertie Ahern caused this country is not forgotten
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Does Fianna Fáil really want to nominate him for the Áras and deliver us a sharp reminder of what that felt like?
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Thank you Victoria McGarry for this beautiful wedding portrait x
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I would love to live "above the shop" ... but perhaps not on O'Connell Street as it currently exists.
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Generations of Cafollas, Borzas and DiVitos worked and lived over the shop on O’Connell Street, but some are starting to leave as the city’s main street changes
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As an Irish Jew my Star of David is no longer a badge of pride but a mark of shame
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I’m aware that by writing these words, I’ll alienate members of my family, friends and wider community
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