Stephen Quill

What is your favorite Western film?

@Ben_Scallan Fair enough,but I think that many people believed that there would be a subsidy for everyone. Not just users of industrial diesel.

You do realise that the price of haulage, shipping, food production, etc. impacts every single citizen in society? When you buy food at the supermarket, the bottom line of the producer, distributor, etc. all contributes to the price. If they're screwed over, you're screwed over.

@PadraigBelton What restaurant does good Carbonara in Dublin?

Carbonara has officially taken over Ireland. It's served in Carlotta and Liam's school canteen at lunchtime. My children, beloved niece, MiL are suddenly all about chicken carbonara, which as someone who had an Italian mum I implore you to understand is an abomination. But discarding this fowl play, there’s a brilliant back story though. Rome and its hinterlands have a long tradition of guanciale and Pecorino pastas (and Pecorino + pepper, yielding the quintessentially Roman cacio e pepe). Carbonara itself however pops up in postwar Italy, when there’s abundant bacon and powdered eggs from Brit and Yank military occupation, and a market (because Brits, Yanks) for people happy to offer the bacon and eggs from their rat packs to their local Italian restaurant, to work away with on their brunch (or breakfast) pasta. Basically it’s the Nato origin story on a plate… Young Bolognese chef Renato Gualandi laid claim to concocting it first, at a 1944 headquarters lunch between the UK's Eighth Army and the US's Fifth Army Division in newly liberated Riccione: "The Americans had fantastic bacon, delicious heavy cream, cheese and powdered egg yolks. I put it all together and served this pasta to the generals and officers for dinner." The name first appears in a film: 1951's "Cameriera bella presenza offresi", when an employer asks Elsa Merlini's waitress if she can make it. Fellini was one of the scriptwriters. Here's a more recent example – from a few summers back in Giardino di Roma (in southwest Rome's Municipio X, the frontier between Rome and the rest of the Lazio regione. Lazio is none other than modern Latium, birthplace of the Etruscan civilisation: and Latus - and therefore Latin - comes from 'flat land'.) Now off to finish a Times piece which is on absolutely none of this. But I'll fix up some Rome-by-way-of-South Dublin carbonara (holding the chicken) for my incipiently Italian-speaking daughter Carlotta, when I finish. And there is something beautifully European about doing just that.

@TheMarcitect @PrivateFCKelly So, Angel Eyes was bad. Tuco was ugly Man with no name good?

@PrivateFCKelly Good call.

Literally one of the most underrated bad guys in a movie that you can't help liking by the end.

@ATRightMovies Atlantic City

@EwanMacKenna They might decide to block the motorways until Govt sorts out a shambolic health system and housing crisis. I doubt it though.

I hope I'm wrong but I always think us Irish have a gombeen streak. What will folk think if the truckers and farmers come out of talks with subsidies for themselves rather than reduced costs for all? In other words inconvenienced everyone else to get some of their taxes?

@Trickstersworld If we did not have to spend so much money in foreign aid to the likes of Cork then we would be swimming in diesel.

Not the main point here, but deploying the Irish army on foreign soil surely should require some sort of Dáil debate?

@Ginger_Tucci You are taking panadol for someone else's headache.

There’s no bigger ick than seeing a grown adult on holiday sporting a full football strip and having a full English breakfast. Gross. Eww. Can you just…. Not? Like why are you in another country without enjoying that countries culture and dressed like a 10 year old?

@DonegalDunedain I heard a lad I know being interviewed on radio. Plant Hire/Groundworker. Sound guy. It doesn't help that Tommy Robinson supports them and one of their leaders got done for Animal cruelty.

"Muck Savages" "Sheep Shaggers" "Boggers" "Mud People" When are we gonna call out the west-brit hatred and pure evil attitude toward rural folk, call it for what it is: Classism, snobbery and cultural prejudice. #fuelprotest

@IOnlySayFacts That was for Joe.

Slim Charles really was the winner of The Wire.

@EwanMacKenna We should leave the moon alone.

Am I the only one who couldn't care less about the Artemis 2 mission? Does nothing for anyone other than distract from the shit show back on earth.

@izdatyofaceee @SteveWildzNB

@SteveWildzNB Who you got

The worst character in The Wire. Agree or disagree?

@izdatyofaceee @SteveWildzNB Poot was one of the best.

@QuintsVessel Hickey and Boggs. Good luck finding it now though.

Recommend a film from the 70s The Seven-Ups (1973) One of the unsung gems of the 1970’s. If gritty, NYC based cop films like The French Connection, Serpico, and The Taking of Pelham One Two Three are your thing then this should turn your crank.

@ger_cosgrove @defenceforces

At no time in the history of the @defenceforces have they failed in their duty, either at home of in foreign parts. The @defenceforces have always put country first, and have died doing so. No farmer, truck driver, or white-van-man has every put country first. #fuelblockade

@Cantona_Collars We almost won it after that. I think replay suited us because of suspensions though.

32 years ago today – In the 119th minute of the FA Cup Semi Final, Mark Hughes scored a ludicrously good equaliser 💪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇾🇪

@Gibboanxious What we have here.....

Cool Hand Luke is NOT better than Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid

@Super70sSports Gotta smoke?

What’s the best one-liner in movie history?

@JosephBottum Catch 22.

There has never been a truly great movie made from a truly great novel.

@BrendyBoyle It wouldnt be like El Pupas to blow it.

Atleti wouldn’t have been too upset with a 1-goal deficit heading back to Madrid. They have a 2-goal lead. They’ll swarm all over Barça in the Metropolitano, and Barça’s terrible defence won’t keep Atleti at bay. Tie over.