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The Irish Sun
27-06-2025
- Entertainment
- The Irish Sun
Ireland AM star Muireann O'Connell rocks ‘incredible' 00s throwback live on air as fans cry ‘never been more jealous'
IRELAND AM star Muireann O'Connell has made fans "jealous" after she stepped out in a major 00s throwback. The popular presenter is renowned for her fantastic 2 Muireann O'Connell looked incredible on Ireland AM 2 Muireann wore a pair of vintage shoes Back in April, Muireann told fans that she had made a "drunk purchase" on Ebay. The 41-year-old had purchased a pair of 00s Red or Dead stiletto heels, which she admitted she The throwback shoes had a pointed closed toe and a striped rainbow print all over. Today, Muireann finally decided to style the shoes with an outfit to host the hit breakfast show. READ MORE IN MUIREANN The excited star posted a clip of herself getting ready backstage and wrote: "Finally wearing the Red or Dead shoes I found on eBay a couple of months ago. "When I bought them it made a former pint swilling, Shop Street dwelling, arts student very happy!" Of course, Muireann didn't wear the shoes with any old dress, she styled the heels with a bright pink puffy maxi dress. The fabulous frock was from Nomi Ireland and was a real statement item. Most read in News TV The standout dress had a ribbed t-shirt design on top with a cute puffball skirt on the bottom. Muireann's vibrant vintage Red or Dead shoes looked sensational tied in with the baby pink dress. 'This won't be for everyone', says Muireann O'Connell as she steps out on air in unusual look The TV star strutted her stuff in the Virgin Media studio, delighted to be wearing her dream shoes. And fans were all left swooning over the amazing look as they raced to the 'FAVOURITE OUTFIT' Pamela wrote: "OMG you look amazing, that dress is gorgeous the shoes are giving major 2000s vibes." Nora said: "My most favourite outfit you've worn. Those shoes are the bomb." Annie remarked: "Never been more jealous, need those shoes." Camille exclaimed: "Those shoes were everywhere back in the day! What a blast from the past!" And Izzy gushed: "I so want those shoes! You always look stunning!"
Scotsman
09-05-2025
- Business
- Scotsman
Charity Super.Mkt marks 1-year milestone with longest-serving location in Glasgow
The 'department store for second-hand style', Charity in Buchanan Galleries is celebrating one year this May, proudly marking its longest-running store to date. Sign up to our daily newsletter – Regular news stories and round-ups from around Scotland direct to your inbox Sign up Thank you for signing up! Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Learn More Sorry, there seem to be some issues. Please try again later. Submitting... Since opening its first store in January 2023, Charity has expanded its reach across the UK, generating almost £4 million in sales to date - almost double since the launch of the Buchanan Galleries store last May. Charity was first launched in 2023 by Maria Chenoweth and Wayne Hemmingway, the co-founder of Red or Dead, a popular 1990s fashion brand that once occupied a space on the adjoining Buchanan Street in Glasgow. Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad Now operating a number of pop-up stores around the UK, Charity offers guests a unique opportunity to shop curated collections of high-quality, affordable second-hand fashion provided by some of the UK's best local and national charity retailers under one roof. Charity co-founders Wayne Hemmingway and Maria Chenoweth As well as generating additional income streams for a range of UK-based charities such as Shelter, Cancer Research, Age UK, and TRAID, Charity is dedicated to promoting more sustainable fashion choices by giving clothing and accessories a second life, helping reduce waste, and lessen the strain on landfill sites. Since launching in Buchanan Galleries, shoppers have saved over 12,500 kilograms of pre-loved fashion, footwear, and accessories from being sent to landfill, and over 113 tonnes of harmful CO₂ gas has been diverted from the atmosphere — the equivalent of driving more than 429,233 miles or planting 377 trees. Wayne Hemingway, co-founder of Charity said, 'The Charity store in Buchanan Galleries may just be our best yet! Advertisement Hide Ad Advertisement Hide Ad 'We see a real cross-section of Glasgow's most stylish – from students hunting for cool vintage pieces, to fashionable folk seeking out designer bargains, and shoppers wanting to be a little thriftier. The positive social and environmental impact has been second to none. 'We're grateful for the support from Buchanan Galleries, and from the public who continue to donate such incredible items. It's a real testament to what can be achieved when people come together.' Kathy Murdoch, Centre Director of Buchanan Galleries, added 'Charity has brought something truly unique to our guests, and we're proud to celebrate its one-year anniversary in Buchanan Galleries. 'It's great to see the positive impact the brand has made – not only in supporting great causes but also encouraging our guests to make more environmentally conscious choices. We're excited to see what's next as Charity continues to lead the way in sustainable, feel-good fashion.'
The Guardian
13-04-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Red or Dead review – Peter Mullan tackles Bill Shankly in uneven adaptation
Moments before Red or Dead begins, we watch Peter Mullan warming up. At the edge of the stage, arms windmilling, his face set in concentration, he looks like a footballer waiting to take to the pitch. In fact he's Liverpool manager Bill Shankly. In writer-director Phillip Breen's new play, adapted from David Peace's book, we see Shankly take the club into the first division and on to FA and Uefa Cup victories between 1959 and his retirement in 1974. Narration is passed from one actor to another in a 52-strong cast, rippling across them like a chant around a stand. This huge ensemble moves over the stage like a shoal of fish, gravitating towards Shankly. Mullan stands, solid as a tree trunk, as if defending a goal; squinting into the distance like someone sizing up a shot. His hand flicks forward while motivational lines fire out of his mouth like the blasts of a whistle. He constantly calls the players 'boys' and 'son', but Breen's script doesn't unpack the psychology of the team, and Shankly's wife, Nessie, is also sidelined. A scrappy stampede of scenes plays out like a series of match reports, declarative rather than dynamic, so the show loses the dressing room at the end of each wordy long half. Its visual language is more eloquent. As Shankly assembles a team and legacy at the club, wooden planks are gradually slotted into a wall behind him until it stands complete. Empty space grows when he retires and is forced apart from the team by Les Dennis's stiff and thinly drawn chairman Tom Williams. Slumped on a chair, Mullan's precise verbal strikes are now stutters. It's as if he has been punctured, slowly deflating before us until he resembles a boy, looking up wistfully, waiting for someone to guide him. Like one of the players after all. Red or Dead is at the Royal Court, Liverpool, until 19 April
Telegraph
03-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
Red Or Dead: Peter Mullan makes a monumental Bill Shankly
The red carpet was rolled out at Liverpool's Royal Court theatre for the press night of Red or Dead, Phillip Breen's stage adaptation of David Peace's novel about the legendary manager of Liverpool FC, Bill Shankly. Local heroes – including former England and Liverpool player John Barnes, and comedian John Bishop – were among those who came to see TV and film star Peter Mullan's return to the stage as the beloved Shankly. Merseyside is renowned for its love of football, so it's no surprise that Liverpool's Royal Court – as a purveyor of popular theatre – taps into that passion. Forthcoming productions include a comic musical fantasia titled The Legend of Rooney's Ring (about Wayne Rooney, who played for Everton) and The Derby Days (a play made for supporters of both Liverpool FC and Everton). Red or Dead is first-and-foremost for fans of Liverpool FC. From the midst of an excellent, 52-strong cast (including a community chorus of 40) Mullan is superb as Shankly, the sometimes gruff, often witty, always driven Scotsman who led the club from the second tier of English football to success in both domestic and European competition. From his no-nonsense negotiations with club chairman Tom Smith (played with necessary composure and formality by Les Dennis) to his interactions with his friend and mentor, the great Manchester United manager Matt Busby (Gordon Kennedy on dignified form), Mullan impresses mightily. Indeed, he delighted the press night audience by recovering a slipped line, and bantering with the crowd, in character. Breen has fashioned a play with numerous songs, and the fabulously voiced Jhanaica Van Mook leads the cast (and a considerable proportion of the audience) in singing the Liverpool FC anthem You'll Never Walk Alone. Allison McKenzie – who is tremendous in the role of Shankly's supportive and long-suffering wife Ness – is in similarly fine voice, both in song and the reciting of the poetry of Shankly's beloved Robert Burns. The piece is peppered with moments of laugh-out-loud humour. Comic treats include the long, black wig that identifies Kevin Keegan and a scene involving the groin of the celebrated Liverpool player Ian St John, some boot polish and a camera. Breen – who also directs the production – has addressed himself imaginatively to the thorny problem of transposing a detailed prose narrative into a play. His solution – having multiple narrative voices step out from within the huge cast – is a clever one. However, whilst the various voices help to distract from the structural conundrum that is so often inherent in stage adaptations of novels, the play (which runs to two-and-a-half hours, including interval) struggles to find a theatrical rhythm. Still, this nicely-acted, unapologetically sentimental celebration of one of Liverpool FC's greatest ever heroes is sure to be a crowd-pleaser for its intended audience.
The Guardian
27-03-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Red or Dead review – Peter Mullan never walks alone as Liverpool FC hero Bill Shankly
In 2016, an adaptation of David Peace's The Damned United was staged in Leeds and Derby where its pugnacious subject, Brian Clough, is still viewed as villain and hero respectively. Peace's next football novel was Red or Dead, a 700-page opus about Liverpool FC's eternally beloved manager Bill Shankly. It is similarly adapted on home turf: the Royal Court has laid out the red carpet, serving Shanks pies and Shanks pints, honouring the man who transformed the club. The Damned United had a cast of 11 and was bulked out with human-size Subbuteo-style mannequins. Red or Dead assembles a whopping 52-strong ensemble who almost continuously fill the stage, adapter and director Phillip Breen evidently taking his cue from the anthem You'll Never Walk Alone. In the lead role is film and TV star Peter Mullan, finally returning to the stage in a casting coup that gains resonance from a career as entwined with socialism as Shankly's. There are no spotlit soliloquies: Shankly is consistently accompanied by players, boot-room staff, board members or by his wife, Ness (Allison McKenzie), who is given more prominence than in the novel and beautifully sings Robert Burns's poetry. Mostly it is the fans, so often sidelined in footballing dramas, who flock around him. Peace's novel is punctuated with poetic match reports, accompanied by a precise record of the thousands in attendance. It is an inspired move, then, to use a community company who switch from narrators to chorus to Kopites. They hang on Shankly's words: when he calls chairman Tom Williams (Les Dennis, measuring out fatigue and frustration) to accept the job, leaving his post at Huddersfield in 1959, the ensemble draw close with pricked ears and bated breath. The play captures the sense of a life lived in the public eye, each move scrutinised. Emphasising the all-consuming nature of the job, Max Jones's spare set design serves as the Shanklys' home, Anfield's dressing rooms and boardroom, the training ground and occasionally the pitch – though match action is usually described not choreographed. After all, how could it compete with strikes such as Kenny Dalglish's 1978 European cup winner – a clip of which is projected across the set to cheers from the audience. Peace's novel finds Shankly returning to the kitchen table, strategising with cutlery – here those utensils are also used to recreate a match, ending with a knife stabbed in a block of butter. Peace's sentences are short. Short and repetitive. Repetitive and maddening at first. Maddening but with a momentum from the repetition. A momentum that is methodical. It's representative of day-to-day training, game-by-game slog, the drive and stamina of Shankly. It becomes incantatory in the manner of Peace's Red Riding quartet. But sharing the lines across a huge cast gives them colour and lightness, emphasising Shankly's collectivism encapsulated by his belief that Liverpool was Liverpool's best player, not one individual. Chants merge with pop songs, including Jhanaica van Mook singing as Cilla Black, and a group rendition of the Beatles' She Loves You that bleeds into a match commentary, 'yeah! yeah! yeah!' becoming a cry on the Kop. In a fittingly unshowy performance, often still amid a whirl of movement, Mullan captures the manager's rapid patter, warmth and no-nonsense approach, his voice switching from assertion to whisper in lines like 'First is first, second is nowhere.' Some of Shankly's witticisms don't have the space to land, and while his Desert Island Discs appearance is recreated to sketch in some backstory, you miss his extended meeting of minds with Harold Wilson from the novel (although various political upheavals are pithily recorded). This Shankly can be inscrutable and the second half, which finds comedy in his inability to fully retire, needs a touch more tragedy. Still, it establishes a quietness that contrasts with the frantic first half. A coda deftly reflects on how fans have been priced out of the game. The cast take on multiple roles including Kevin Keegan (Matthew Devlin in a fright wig), Brian Clough (a preening Paul Duckworth) and Ian St John (George Jones, capturing the player's sense of betrayal when dropped). Dickon Tyrrell is excellent as Bob Paisley, Shankly's deferential yet triumphant successor. Admirably ambitious, Breen's production is both inspired and inspiring, told with the quick humour, community spirit and full force of the Kop. At the Royal Court, Liverpool, until 19 April
