John Meagher

How I caught my catfish: ‘It’s a surreal conversation. At one point he bursts into tears’ When I revealed in the Irish Independent last Saturday that my photo was being used on a fake profile on Bumble, I wondered if the same thing was happening on the biggest dating app of them all, Tinde...

After John Meagher wrote about his catfish mystery last week, he discovered his photo was also being used on a second dating site. He reveals how he reeled in ‘fake John’ and confronted the man who stole his identity

FKA Twigs: Eusexua review – Mysterious, playful, witty, sensual and catchy The mercurial Cheltenham talent is on a mission to make pop weird again

FKA TWIGS
Eusexua on young records

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@katebh.bsky.social ★★★★½
“everything about this album is immersive”
@johnmeaghermedia.bsky.social ★★★★

@independent.ie "Sex, connection, dancing and meditation are all present in dazzling return"

★★★★
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I will be on RTE Arena shortly to review albums from Mogwai, FKA Twigs and Sam Amidon

Album review: David Gray’s Dear Life reaffirms his knack at getting to the heart of human emotion David Gray and Ireland: a mutual love affair. Not only is the Wales-raised Mancunian’s White Ladder the bestselling album in Irish chart history, but his last one, Skellig, was named after our most ha...

Dear Life
DAVID GRAY

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Christmas No 1 History John Meagher, Irish Independent Journalist, breaks down what makes a Christmas No 1 hit.

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The best album, songs and gigs of 2024… plus the biggest comebacks, trends and duds: John Meagher’s end-of-year music awards From monster shows courtesy of Taylor Swift and Coldplay to the inexplicable popularity of the Wolfe Tones, from Kneecap’s unstoppable ascent to Fontaines DC’s remarkable reinvention, 2024 had it all.

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Boys are back in town

Podcast on Nikita Hand's victory against Conor McGregor after 12 dramatic days in the High Court. 🎧🎙

Such a brave woman. Delighted that Nikita Hand has been given justice - at last

On the latest Indo Daily @irishindependent.bsky.social I chat with Kevin Doyle about the life and times of Barry McGuigan

U2’s Atomic Bomb ‘shadow album’ makes you wonder why they didn’t release these tracks sooner It has been seven years since U2 last released an album of new material — by far their longest hiatus. To put it another way, they released five studio albums — from Boy to The Joshua Tree — in the sa...

My @irishindependent.bsky.social review of the new U2 ‘shadow album.’ www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

As today is #InternationalMensDay, another mention for this.

Thanks to @johnmeaghermedia.bsky.social for asking me to suggest someone.

Forget the toxic ‘manosphere’ – these are the real-life male role models who inspired some of our best-known names Today is International Men’s Day. Too often, there’s an emphasis on the negative, on men being lost and disaffected, on the corrosive impact of the ‘manosphere’, on the destructive nature of toxic mas...

Seems fitting to share my latest story - and first post - on a platform that, hopefully, is a world away from the ‘manosphere’…

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