For a time as a teenager, Brendan Courtney thought he might want to be an actor. But then the TV presenter realised something.
“I didn’t want to play a role being somebody else. I’ve spent so long trying to be myself,” he says, sitting in the sunny apartment he shares with boyfriend Adam Maryniak, who he met seven years ago in Mother nightclub. “I knew so many closeted actors, and I always felt it placed more layers on them.”
Instead, after school he worked in accountancy, then production, before getting a job in RTE when he was 26, as a researcher.
For a time as a teenager, Brendan Courtney thought he might want to be an actor. But then the TV presenter realised something.
“I didn’t want to play a role being somebody else. I’ve spent so long trying to be myself,” he says, sitting in the sunny apartment he shares with boyfriend Adam Maryniak, who he met seven years ago in Mother nightclub. “I knew so many closeted actors, and I always felt it placed more layers on them.”
Instead, after school he worked in accountancy, then production, before getting a job in RTE when he was 26, as a researcher.
Daisy Edgar Jones, of Normal People fame, models Simone Rocha x H&M
Women s Wear Daily recounts an anecdote of Lagerfeld being accosted in a restaurant after news of the collaboration had been announced and asked: It is true.? But it s cheap. What a depressing word, Lagerfeld is said to have replied. It s all about taste.
Chanel might have had nothing to do with Lagerfeld s collaboration with the high-street giant, but the brand s 2.55 handbags are among the most coveted designer items. By buying a piece of his H&M line, it felt like being allowed a piece of something you might otherwise never have been able to afford.
Thursday, February 25th, 8pm, â¬8/â¬12, The brilliant Bray trio are not waiting around for restrictions to be lifted â theyâre going to perform a special show at the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray, and you are virtually invited. The gig is to celebrate the launch of their second album, Awake You Lie, which reawakens many of the trioâs musical obsessions from the 1990s and noughties, running the gamut from R&B bangers to indie anthems. The icing on this musical cáca milis is the soulful voices of Caoimhe Barry, Karen Cowley and Saoirse Duane, proving that three really is a magic number. Who needs Haim when weâve got three of our finest women in music right here on our digital doorstep. The band will preview tracks from the album a day before its official release, with Bray visual artist 1iing Heaney bringing her digital artwork for the album cover to life right there in the venue.
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