May 2025

‘Sinners’ and ‘Moonstruck’ – Movie Pleasures of the Old and New School – Episode 205

In this week’s episode, Dara reviews Ryan Coogler’s rip roaring ‘Sinners’, a movie that defies easy categorisation but is infused with the director’s characteristic heart, immersive world-building, and brilliant lead performances. Of particular delight was a thread of Irishness that leant the movie an unexpected and resonant depth. There’s also an Irish connection to the movie that Dara recommends as a double bill partner for ‘Sinners’.

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Minimising, Maximising, and Getting the Balance Right – How We Deal with What Challenges Us – Episode 204

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In this episode Dara is thinking about challenging moments and situations and the places we put them to help us cope better. After a very unpleasant accident that sent him to hospital, Dara laughs at the way men can fail to offer care, depending on their assessment of the urgency involved – everything can be laughed at until it can’t.

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Have You Done Your Homework? Oppression, Conflict, and the Pursuit of Truth – Episode 203

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In this episode Dara tries to thread the needle between domestic and personal crises and those of a much larger, humanitarian nature. Taking in current events in Gaza as well as historic instances of grievous abuse by Catholic institutions in Ireland, the question of truth seems to be of primary importance when a larger power treats others with such callous impunity and indifference to the consequences.

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This Is Not a Performance (It’s My Life!) – Episode 202

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A hiatus imposed on Dara by life’s steamroller has reminded him how non-performative the podcast continues to be. He reflects on the circumstances that rendered him incapable of recording over the last few weeks and reiterates his conviction that being judiciously transparent is of more use to his listeners, and to him, than jazz hands and soft shoe shuffles.

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‘Sinners’ and ‘Moonstruck’ – Movie Pleasures of the Old and New School – Episode 205

Minimising, Maximising, and Getting the Balance Right – How We Deal with What Challenges Us – Episode 204

Have You Done Your Homework? Oppression, Conflict, and the Pursuit of Truth – Episode 203

This Is Not a Performance (It’s My Life!) – Episode 202

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