EXCLUSIVE: Colin Quinn has announced a new stage show – his seventh – and an opening night. Colin Quinn: Small Talk will play the Lucille Lortel Theatre Off Broadway beginning January 6 with an official opening scheduled for January 23.
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A businessman was the victim of a vicious attack carried out by a machete wielding gang who jumped on him as he left a gym in Dublin. The victim, who is in his 40s was continuously stabbed in a car park in broad daylight after he had visited his local gym in Finglas and has been left with severe injuries on his face along with multiple stab wounds on his chest.
The victim, who is said to have remained conscious after the assault, was rushed to Mater Hospital after locals rushed to his aid. The brutal incident is the second machete attack incident this month, the Daily Star reports.
A source said: “It’s absolutely shocking, he was walking back to his car when he was attacked. This happened in the morning. There were lots of people going about their business where it happened.
''The attackers jumped out of a car and carried out the assault before fleeing the scene. People can’t believe it.”
Gardai cordoned off the scene yesterday and were carrying out a technical examination. It’s not yet known if the brutal attack is related to a machete attack in the same area on October 2, in which a mugging victim had his finger almost severed.
A 49-year-old man, named by the Irish Independent as Sam, was mugged by an assailant with a machete at around 6am as he was on his way to the gym in Finglas. The attacker put the machete to his throat and shouted “give me your f***ing money”, according to the victim.
“I think he was on drugs,” Sam added. “He kept the knife to my neck. It was a big blade, like one you would use for cutting sugar cane.
“He kept on asking for money and I told him I had none. I had a backpack with my towel and my gym card, but I had no money, and he got really aggressive."
A scuffle followed and Sam said: "I was using the
EXCLUSIVE: Colin Quinn has announced a new stage show – his seventh – and an opening night. Colin Quinn: Small Talk will play the Lucille Lortel Theatre Off Broadway beginning January 6 with an official opening scheduled for January 23.
A mum couldn't stop laughing after receiving a banner for her son's christening - and realised that the shop her taken her wording request a bit too literally. Denise Smith had ordered the sign for her son Raymond's baptism celebration and told staff at the printing store: "I just want 'On your Christening day' printed on a banner, please."
Marcus Mumford‘s solo tour featured a performance with his Mumford & Sons bandmate Ben Lovett at The Midland Theatre in Kansas City last night (October 18) – watch footage of the show above.After travelling out to the show, Lovett got on stage to perform the band’s singles ‘I Will Wait’ and ‘Ditmas’, taken from their 2012 album ‘Babel’ and 2015’s ‘Wilder Mind’ respectively.Marcus Mumford is scheduled to embark on a UK and Ireland headline tour in November – you can find any remaining tickets here and see the full list of dates below. It’ll follow his current run of North American concerts – you can buy any remaining tickets here.NOVEMBER 202214 – Leadmill, Sheffield15 – 02 Shepherds Bush Empire, London18 – The Nick Rayns LCR, UEA, Norwich19 – 02 Institute 1, Birmingham20 – Uni Great Hall, Exeter22 – Marble Factory, Bristol23 – Albert Hall, Manchester24 – Invisible Wind Factory, Liverpool26 – SWG3 Galvanisers, Glasgow28 – Olympia, DublinThe singer previously performed the single ‘Grace’, taken from his new album, on The Late Late Show With James Corden earlier this month (October 1).In an interview about the album with NME, Mumford spoke of how ‘Grace’ was written about the moment he told his mother of the sexual abuse he experienced as a child, which is explored on debut single and album opener ‘Cannibal’.Reviewing ‘(self-titled)’ upon its release in September, NME wrote: “While it is undoubtedly an emotional and often heart-breaking listen, it’s also a record full of defiance, hope and faith.
It's a subject that's troubling everyone from industry leaders in Greater Manchester to the likes of Major Tim Peake and Carol Vorderman.
Liam Neeson is in talks to star in an upcoming “The Naked Gun” reboot directed by Lonely Island musician, comedian and filmmaker Akiva Schaffer, according to Deadline. The original “Naked Gun” movie was released in 1988 starring the late comedian Leslie Nielsen as the clueless Detective Frank Drebin and went on to become a worldwide success spawning two more movies.
Liam Neeson for Paramount’s “Naked Gun” remake. Neeson is in talks to lead the film, Variety confirms. “Chip ‘n Dale: Rescue Rangers” director and Lonely Island member Akiva Schaffer will direct and executive produce the movie. Schaffer wrote the script with “Chip ‘n Dale” scribes Dan Gregor and Doug Mand. MacFarlane and Erica Huggins are producing via their company Fuzzy Door.Earlier this year, Neeson sparked chatter online after telling “People (The TV Show)” that McFarlane and Paramount had been pursuing him to resurrect the “Naked Gun” films. “It’ll either finish my career or bring it in another direction. I honestly don’t know,” Neeson told “People (The TV Show)”.
A mum and her baby were found dead at their home in a suspected murder-suicide over the weekend. The discovery was made in an upstairs bedroom by gardai and emergency services at a property in Clonee, West Dublin, on Saturday afternoon (October 8).
A five-year-old girl and her dad are among ten dead after an explosion at a gas station in County Donegal.
Tributes have been paid to some of the 10 people killed in a horrific gas explosion in Ireland.
Retired rugby player Damian Browne of Galway, Ireland, became the first person to row from New York City to Ireland after his boat made a treacherous arrival on the coast of County Galway in the early morning hours of Tuesday, Oct. 4, 2022, Irish broadcaster RTE reported. Browne left New York City on June 14 in his Cushlamachree, a 20-foot ocean rowing boat that was custom-built for this journey. The term "Cushlamachree" means "darling" or "sweetheart" in Irish, according to Merriam-Webster.
EXCLUSIVE: Bernie Ecclestone has slammed Formula 1 documentaries currently on the market and said audiences will prefer the “reality” of his upcoming series Lucky!, which Deadline can reveal has added a trio of broadcast and streaming partners.
Tame Impala have shared a remix of Confidence Man’s single ‘Holiday’, dropping the track last week as part of the latter’s group’s just-released ‘RE-TILT’ EP.As implied by its title, the ‘RE-TILT’ package comprises remixes of songs that appeared on Confidence Man’s second album, ‘TILT’. It was released last Friday (September 30) via I OH YOU, and also includes a new take on ‘Holiday’ by Erol Alkan, a remix of ‘Angry Girl’ by CHAI, and other remixes from Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs, X-COAST, CC:CISCO! and Daniel Avery.In a press release, the duo said of Tame Impala’s ‘Holiday’ remix: “It’s not every day one of your heroes casually hits you up on Instagram, asking if they can remix your track.
#SNL pic.twitter.com/RYtpIDt452Cecily Strong Irish exiting SNL I have to respect itWait. Cecily Strong wasn’t in the opening credits.#snl pic.twitter.com/7yusHRfvZfNo Cecily Strong in the SNL opening credits, and she was never announced as one of the longtime cast members who was leaving.
Arctic Monkeys frontman Alex Turner has looked back in a new interview on his infamous speech at the 2014 BRIT Awards.Turner memorably gave a speech about “that rock’n’roll” and the “cyclical nature of the universe” while collecting the band’s award for MasterCard Album of the Year at the ceremony, before dropping the microphone and walking off stage.The frontman previously addressed the speech in 2018, telling Mojo: “I maintain that I didn’t really have another way around it. Another way of justifying getting up in that room.
Arctic Monkeys‘ huge 2023 UK and Ireland stadium tour went on sale this morning (September 30) – see reaction below and buy your tickets here.The returning Sheffield four-piece, whose seventh album ‘The Car’ lands in October, will tour in the UK and Ireland in May and June next year.