Mick Clifford: Banshees and shrieking at stereotypes

CHORUS OF BOOZE: Colin Farrell responded to an ‘offensive’ Saturday Night Live sketch during the Oscars ceremony, but a little introspection is maybe in order before we all climb on to the cross of national typecasting.

IN ANOTHER lifetime, on the far side of the world, I once applied for a job in a handbag factory. Myself and a friend from Cork named Phil were down on our luck in Sydney.

We heard there was work going in this factory so in we trotted, one by one, and made a pitch as to why we each and both had a passion for making handbags. Phil got the job, but I didn’t.