(My take on the Jyllands-Posten controversy, from back in the days when I used excessive labelling in my cartoons). Gardaí have arrested five people in Waterford and two others in Cork in connection with an investigation into a conspiracy to murder a Swedish cartoonist. The cartoonist, Lars Vilks, has been threatened over his drawing depicting … Read more
Cian at Irish Election has made my caricature into this year’s sartorial musthave. I’ve asked for proceeds to go to the Rape Crisis Network Ireland. UPDATE: Spreadshirt won’t print the tees any more so we’re going to find another printer had some legal issues and it’s all hunky dorey again.
The Dáil bar has gone to Galway and Oireachtas authorities are not pursuing it A Galway publican opened The Dáil Bar in Cross Street in the city last November and despite the association of the name with Leinster House, authorities there have decided not to take any legal action. A Leinster House commission sought legal … Read more
It’s been a week of iconic gentlemen passing away. Tony Hart has died aged 83. Patrick McGoohan and Ricardo Montalbán, The Prisoner and Khan respectively, also left us earlier this week. I can identify Tony Hart as the single biggest influence on my becoming an artist. Family members were simply not allowed to talk when … Read more
A friend of mine, Aine Rynne, is a founder member of Bluepatch Productions, and they’re doing Portia Coughlan by the mighty Marina Carr next month. They’re having a table quiz in the Ha’Penny Bridge Inn on the 26th January at 7.30pm to raise funds: “Come along and support our fundraiser for Bluepatch’s production of Portia … Read more