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Search Results   Found 201 matches. Hot Features | Sam Snort 26 Apr 2007 Keef, Snoop and Jim Morrison: the missing link Sam Snort They are three great icons of contemporary culture. But in fact Keef Richards, Snoop Dogg and Jim Morrison have a lot more in common than that… Hot Features | Sam Snort 12 Apr 2007 Of knots and knighthoods Sam Snort What an average week for Irish rock. Shane MacGowan in marriage rumours, Brian McFadden explains why he refused to squirt all over Kerry and Bono gets it from the Queen. Hot Features | Sam Snort 29 Mar 2007 Pyro for pornos Sam Snort Introducing The XXX Factor, a talent show that auditions wanna-be young things for a future in the porno industry. Oh, and a guy from Wisconsin sets fire to his todger. No, really. Hot Features | Sam Snort 15 Mar 2007 Fry like you mean it Sam Snort Ordering chips at a high class restaurant can be more fraught than you might imagine. As can posing for a fashion shoot on your fiancé’s table. Hot Features | Sam Snort 1 Mar 2007 The trouble with Johnny Sam Snort They’re not the best looking bunch in the world. But what’s really off-putting about our political elite is the tosh they spout. Hot Features | Sam Snort 15 Feb 2007 Romancing the stoned Sam Snort Love will tear us apart. Or at least it will, if Sam Snort is involved. Hot Features | Sam Snort 2 Feb 2007 Stop making censorship Sam Snort Sam aims a critical exocet from Snort Towers at his colleagues in the Hot Press editorial bunker. Hot Features | Sam Snort 18 Jan 2007 Hot to trot for 2007 Sam Snort What connects Britney Spears, Sean Haughey, Dundalk FC and John Deasy? They’ve all sparked the ire of the indefatigable Sam Snort. Hot Features | Sam Snort 4 Jan 2007 Tokes of Christmas past Sam Snort Annual article: Sam J had a hell of a year...unfortunately he can’t remember any of it. Hot Features | Sam Snort 7 Dec 2006 Have yourself a very X-Y Xmas! Sam Snort Not even the little fairy on top of the tree is safe. Hot Features | Sam Snort 23 Nov 2006 A real fame in the ass Sam Snort Failing to make the latest Who’s Who of Ireland’s great and good ruffles our hero’s feathers – but at least he’s in good company. Hot Features | Sam Snort 9 Nov 2006 Coke is it Sam Snort Dublin’s apparently awash with the white stuff – not that any of it is coming our hero’s way Hot Features | Sam Snort 26 Oct 2006 Blowing my wad in strumpet city Sam Snort Never mind SSIAs, it's the price of Dublin's prossies that Eddie Hobbs ought to be worried about. Hot Features | Sam Snort 12 Oct 2006 Nice one, big fella Sam Snort This week our correspondent explains why Liam Neeson is apparently a big fella in more ways than one. Hot Features | Sam Snort 28 Sep 2006 The ride-her cup Sam Snort Golf may have captured the imagination of the masses, but your columnist has saucier thrills on the brain. Balls at the ready, chaps. Hot Features | Sam Snort 18 Sep 2006 Last dance with Mary Jane Sam Snort There’s a marijuana famine goin’ on, and our columnist is jonesing like nobody’s business. Hot Features | Sam Snort 1 Sep 2006 Boy trouble Sam Snort Why Boy George has lost Sam’s respect. Meanwhile, Bono has taken some flack for moving his swag to the Netherlands – but it’s better than letting the Irish government fritter it away. Hot Features | Sam Snort 18 Aug 2006 Sam Snort's horrorscopes Sam Snort Dusting down his crystal ball and charting the mysterious course of the stars, your correspondent peers in the murky future. Hot Features | Sam Snort 2 Aug 2006 No more Mr Vice guy Sam Snort The flags at Snort Towers are flying at half-mast to mourn Colin Farrell going on the wagon. Hot Features | Sam Snort 19 Jul 2006 Haze of glory Sam Snort A serious deadline and Ernesto’s Purple Haze. That’s the answer to the perennial question: What’s Sam on? Hot Features | Interview 5 Jul 2006 Sam Snort's rollercoaster fortnight Sam Snort In which our columnist gets his grubby paws on some of Michael Jackson's yardsale junk and says goodbye to an old comrade. Hot Features | Sam Snort 21 Jun 2006 Sam Snort's investment advice (SSIA) Sam Snort In a tizzy over how to spend your SSIA swag? Fret not: Sam Snort has the definitive guide. Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 Jun 2006 And the Ted arose Sam Snort When rock'n'roll seems to have finally lost all sense of meaning and purpose, you can always rely on The Axeman Who Ate Detroit to save the day. Hot Features | Sam Snort 22 May 2006 All dead, yet still alive Sam Snort Sam on the only man who can out-Sam Sam. Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 May 2006 Future shock Sam Snort In which our Astrology Correspondent is badly let down by the stars. Hot Features | Sam Snort 28 Apr 2006 Sabbath bloody Sabbath Sam Snort “Ever feel so suicidal you hate your rock ‘n’ roll?” - John Lennon said that. “Not exactly, but” - Sam Snort said that. Hot Features | Sam Snort 10 Apr 2006 Your sweet lips Sam Snort Never mind the GPO in 1916. For hundreds of years to come, they’ll boast about being in a studio in RTE when The Greatest Irish Band In The World Ever arose from the grave. Hot Features | Sam Snort 3 Apr 2006 The sound of music Sam Snort Being a fiendishly appropriate headline for a column in which our hero reveals how easy it is to win an Oscar and offers his suggestion for the ultimate musical instrument of torture. (And no, it’s not the accordion). Hot Features | Sam Snort 20 Mar 2006 The greatest story ever told Sam Snort And this time it’s true. No, really. Hot Features | Sam Snort 6 Mar 2006 The panic shroom Sam Snort Having failed to ignite hostilities with his broadside against religion, our Controversy Correspondent turns his sights on a poison much closer to home. Hot Features | Sam Snort 13 Feb 2006 No divine like the present Sam Snort In this foul year of loony toons our Theology Correspondent finds solace in the wisdom of the ages. Hot Features | Sam Snort 6 Feb 2006 Eros is just a four letter word Sam Snort In which our Vatican correspondent gets the hottus poopus on Pope Benny’s first big release. Hot Features | Sam Snort 23 Jan 2006 The leader of the gang Sam Snort In which our correspondent stuffs it to the politicians and all things MOR before things suddenly take a very strange twist indeed. Hot Features | Sam Snort 5 Jan 2006 Look back in wonder Sam Snort The world’s hippest rock crit reviews a year when music rediscovered its power to inspire – and reveals his nomination for Artist of 2005. (You’ll never guess). Hot Features | Sam Snort 12 Dec 2005 The end of Christmas as we know it Sam Snort In which our Seasonal Correspondent announces the shock news that there will be no Christmas festivities in Snort Towers this year. Hot Features | Sam Snort 28 Nov 2005 Everything but the girls Sam Snort In which our gender equality correspondent pays tribute to the frankly enormous contribution of women to rock ‘n’roll. Hot Features | Sam Snort 14 Nov 2005 For Whom Nobel Tolls Sam Snort From hurricanes to the big peace prize, it's been on elet deon after another for our World Affairs Correspondent. Hot Features | Sam Snort 28 Oct 2005 Waiting for the man Sam Snort Our literary editor, Sam Snort, argues that not enough has been done to celebrate Ireland's great victory in the Man Booker stakes. Hot Features | Sam Snort 17 Oct 2005 The flight of the hawk Sam Snort In which our own larger than life rock'n'roll legend pays tribute to another. Let us now praise famous men. Hot Features | Sam Snort 17 Oct 2005 The flight of the hawk Sam Snort In which our own larger than life rock'n'roll legend pays tribute to another. Let us now praise famous men. Hot Features | Sam Snort 17 Oct 2005 The flight of the hawk Sam Snort In which our own larger than life rock'n'roll legend pays tribute to another. Let us now praise famous men. Hot Features | Sam Snort 3 Oct 2005 In praise of older men Sam Snort Sam Snort asks: will Keef go on forever? Hot Features | Sam Snort 20 Sep 2005 The college of essential knowledge Sam Snort Forget everything else: our education correspondent contributes the only article about being a student you’ll ever need to read. Hot Features | Sam Snort 6 Sep 2005 Slane alive! Sam Snort Rejoice. Eminem may not be coming but Ireland's greatest rock festival will still go ahead this year. Hot Features | Sam Snort 6 Sep 2005 Slane alive! Sam Snort Rejoice. Eminem may not be coming but Ireland's greatest rock festival will still go ahead this year. Hot Features | Sam Snort 28 Jul 2005 The Truth About Oasis Sam Snort In which our popular music correspondent suggests that Oasis may not exactly be all they have been cracked up to be – by Oasis. Hot Features | Sam Snort 26 Jul 2005 Hat's entertainment Sam Snort In which the rock journalist whose stated goal it is to make his own poverty history, outlines his ambitious plans to get his wardrobe back. Hot Features | Sam Snort 27 Jun 2005 Stoned Again Sam Snort Why American rock writing has disappeared up its own arse – and the true story of the creation of Bob Dylan's most famous song. Hot Features | Sam Snort 14 Jun 2005 Money Makes The Ball Go Round Sam Snort Our sports correspondent salutes the sale of Manchester United and tells the devastated fans to get a life. Hot Features | Sam Snort 31 May 2005 The Unforgettable Fire Sam Snort As the Summer festival season kicks in, our Nostalgia Correspondent recalls the heady, pioneering days of rock in the great Irish outdoors. Keep a hose handy. Hot Features | Sam Snort 16 May 2005 Hey Joe! Sam Snort Our resident theologian hails the new Pope as a real zinger. Hot Features | Sam Snort 3 May 2005 Park Life Sam Snort Our sports correspondent has a winning answer to the vexed question of Croke Park. Hot Features | Sam Snort 20 Apr 2005 They Did It Their Way Sam Snort Yeah, the Pope was the star of the biggest gig ever in Ireland. But the warm-up act were another story... Hot Features | Sam Snort 1 Apr 2005 The Code To Nowhere Sam Snort Our Theological Correspondent on why the Catholic Church is right to attack The Da Vinci Code – but for the wrong reasons. Hot Features | Sam Snort 23 Mar 2005 The Doctor Has Left The Building Sam Snort Sam Snort pays tribute to Hunter S. Thompson. Hot Features | Sam Snort 2 Mar 2005 Stiff Upper Dick Sam Snort Our royal correspondent explains why, with great reluctance, he is unable to give his blessing to the marriage of Chas 'n' Cam. Hot Features | Interview 2 Feb 2005 Don't Watch This Space Sam Snort In which Sam Snort, our resident cosmologist, finally tells the cosmos to bugger off with itself. Hot Features | Sam Snort 14 Dec 2004 Do They Know It's Christmas Time At All? Sam Snort Our Special Correspondent is fed up with people who are harshing his Xmas mellow (man). Hot Features | Sam Snort 1 Dec 2004 Where Were You When The Fun Stopped? Sam Snort Our religious affairs correspondent leaps to the defence of binge-drinking and bad language. Well, someone has to do it. Hot Features | Sam Snort 11 Nov 2004 The Missing Words Game Sam Snort Exclusive! Our crime correspondent gets to the bottom of Bono’s briefcase. Hot Features | Sam Snort 1 Nov 2004 Turning Over A New Leaf Sam Snort After a word on a recent controversy, our bloodstock and literary correspondent is forced to turn his attention to some new rock titles. Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 Oct 2004 I don't Sam Snort In which our celebrity columnist attacks the rumour-mongers who have been spreading malicious gossip about the state of his marriage. Hot Features | Sam Snort 29 Sep 2004 Park Life Sam Snort Our political correspondent wonders if the Irish presidency isn’t just a little bit boring. Hot Features | Sam Snort 14 Sep 2004 Born to boogie Sam Snort Our sport and entertainment correspondent writes in defence of Ireland’s very own marathon man, Fr Neil Horan Hot Features | Sam Snort 23 Aug 2004 The Kerry Joke Sam Snort In which our political correspondent fears that John Kerry might actually succeed in making George W. Bush look good. Hot Features | Sam Snort 4 Aug 2004 Stuck inside a Popemobile Sam Snort Our Religious Affairs correspondent is concerned that the head of the Catholic Church may be taking on one gig too many. Hot Features | Sam Snort 26 Jul 2004 Acropolis now! Sam Snort Our tourism correspondent tells you all you need to know about the flavour of the month that is Greece. Hot Features | Sam Snort 2 Jul 2004 The beast with two backs Sam Snort In which our newly-appointed wildlife correspondent celebrates those animal passions. Hot Features | Sam Snort 28 Jun 2004 Sheer Art Attack Sam Snort Our arts correspondent wades into the incendiary debate sparked by the fire which recently destroyed 50 million quids’ worth of modern art in London Hot Features | Sam Snort 28 Jun 2004 Sheer Art Attack Sam Snort Our arts correspondent wades into the incendiary debate sparked by the fire which recently destroyed 50 million quids’ worth of modern art in London Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 Jun 2004 A vision for Europe Sam Snort In which our international affairs correspondent puts forward a radical proposal to restore Ireland’s credibility in the Eurovision Song Contest. Hot Features | Interview 13 May 2004 The blues had a baby Sam Snort …and they called it rock ’n’ roll. Recovering from the shock of his own ‘nannygate’, Sam is cheered up by his old mate, the leader of Libya. Hot Features | Sam Snort 4 May 2004 The Answer is Blowing on the Line Sam Snort Some people reckon that Bob Dylan has sold out by flogging his music on a lingerie commercial. but our consumer affairs correspondent disagrees and has some even better ideas for Irish rockers Hot Features | Sam Snort 20 Apr 2004 Water on the smoke Sam Snort In a way typically thoughtful piece, our health correspondent questions the merits of the smoking ban. Hot Features | Interview 31 Mar 2004 Chucky Bob Sam Snort According to our political correspondent, Bob Dylan’s upcoming gig in Stormont marks a diefinitive end to the war. Hurray! Hot Features | Sam Snort 22 Mar 2004 With god on their side Sam Snort In which our resident theologian takes issue with George Bush and Mel Gibson and manages to get in a reference to “energetic humping”. Praise the lord. Hot Features | Sam Snort 26 Feb 2004 Better late than never Sam Snort Not so says our controversial columnist, who reckons his old mate Warren Zevon deserved better than a posthumous Grammy. Hot Features | Sam Snort 16 Feb 2004 The passion of the snort Sam Snort In which our hero lays claim to being the first sex columnist. And then lays everything else… Hot Features | Sam Snort 3 Feb 2004 A dead loss Sam Snort Our controversial columnist fails to share in the widespread enthusiasm for Lost in Translation. Hot Features | Sam Snort 20 Jan 2004 A Complete Waste Of Space Sam Snort Our resident Cosmologist is not exactly bowled over by the latest missions to Mars. Hot Features | Sam Snort 5 Dec 2003 All back to Sam's crib Sam Snort What time is it fans? Yes, it’s that time of year again – the time of the Sam Snort Christmas party, the hooliest hooley of them all. Hot Features | Sam Snort 1 Dec 2003 One ring to rule them all Sam Snort Confronted at every turn with the idiocy of mobile phone users, our fragile columnist finally snaps. Hot Features | Sam Snort 17 Nov 2003 Talk On The Wild Side Sam Snort Our showbiz columnist suggests that rock stars like Bono and Bob may be prone to occasional exaggeration. Hot Features | Sam Snort 31 Oct 2003 The hell it is Sam Snort Our health and beauty correspondent questions the hellraising credentials of Ireland’s newest wild man of showbiz Hot Features | Sam Snort 31 Oct 2003 The hell it is Sam Snort Our health and beauty correspondent questions the hellraising credentials of Ireland’s newest wild man of showbiz Hot Features | Sam Snort 17 Oct 2003 Rock Around the Clock Sam Snort A concise history of rock music from 1973 to 2003 - and back again Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 Oct 2003 Sex Farm Sam Snort With an appreciative nod to the mighty, we present our showbiz columnist's vision of proper reality TV. Hot Features | Sam Snort 1 Sep 2003 Something to get cross about. Sam Snort A stirring defence of Mother Church by one of her fallen sons. Hot Features | Sam Snort 27 Aug 2003 Stoned Again Sam Snort With the Stones out on tour again and Keith Richards approaching 60, our showbiz correspondent pays tribute to the human riff. Hot Features | Sam Snort 12 Aug 2003 Fire Without Smoke Sam Snort Okay, enough is enough. The bastards have gone too far this time. Thus far and no further shall they encroach upon my personal liberties. It is time to take a stand. And if that doesn’t work, Sam Snort will take up arms and blast the whole bloody lot of them off the face of the earth. Then they’ll really find out just how bad smoking can be for your health. Hot Features | Sam Snort 21 Jul 2003 If the capsule fits Sam Snort As ever, our special correspondent has a much better idea of what should be buried in the spire’s time capsule Hot Features | Sam Snort 10 Jul 2003 The empire strikes back Sam Snort Never mind the Osama lookalike – our royal correspondent argues that the big story about Willie’s birthday was that the Windsors didn’t go far enough with their ‘out of Africa’ theme Hot Features | Sam Snort 26 Jun 2003 Coitus interruptus Sam Snort How the new puritanism has come between one man and his art Hot Features | Sam Snort 13 Jun 2003 Why the Beatles had to stop Sam Snort On the occasion of Mr McCartney’s recent visit to this country and in a welcome contribution to the on-going debate on the merits or otherwise of popular culture, our Mr Snort explains why the Beatles were a load of shite. Hot Features | Sam Snort 23 May 2003 Holy shit Sam Snort Our man with the wig and gown on the shocking implications of a Christian rock band being put to the legal sword Hot Features | Sam Snort 15 May 2003 The black box Sam Snort With yet another of his great ideas rejected, our TV critic turns a baleful eye on what currently passes for entertainment on the telly Hot Features | Sam Snort 1 May 2003 Sheer art attack Sam Snort In which our leading aesthete is struck by the familiarity of some of the paintings in Saddam’s love shack Hot Features | Sam Snort 17 Apr 2003 Up the tubes Sam Snort The world’s only stay at home war correspondent is glad to be reminded that, apart from in the world of golf, things were much better in the 1970s Hot Features | Sam Snort 3 Apr 2003 Never mind the botox, here’s the Rolling Stones Sam Snort In which our foreign correspondent wonders if the Chinese know what they’re letting themselves in for as rock’s old guard go east Hot Features | Sam Snort 20 Mar 2003 The footage they didn’t want you to see Sam Snort Our columnist responds to his recent trial by television Hot Features | Sam Snort 6 Mar 2003 Blast from the past Sam Snort Our war correspondent assesses the geopolitical ramifications of the proposed gulf war with special regard to its likely impact on sales of the new Foghat album Hot Features | Interview 20 Feb 2003 Taking the mick Sam Snort Our showbiz correspondent on yet another bad week for pop. Hot Features | Sam Snort 6 Feb 2003 Up and coming Sam Snort Sam Snort’s only quibble with the Dublin spire is that it doesn’t go far enough. Hot Features | Sam Snort 23 Jan 2003 Big wheels keep on turning Sam Snort Our agricultural correspondent is less than impressed by the farmers’ latest ‘spectacular’. Hot Features | Sam Snort 12 Dec 2002 The twenty-two towers Sam Snort Making Lord Of The Rings look a little less like an epic – yes it’s time for the annual christmas party at snort towers Hot Features | Sam Snort 28 Nov 2002 Wham, bam thank you ma’am Sam Snort Our royal correspondent reports on what the butler didn’t see. Hot Features | Sam Snort 14 Nov 2002 The not so hot one hundred Sam Snort The world’s greatest columnist is less than impressed with how our neighbours voted in their poll of greatness Hot Features | Sam Snort 31 Oct 2002 Changing the times Sam Snort How a national media institution got it badly wrong. By someone who didn’t get the job of editor Hot Features | Sam Snort 3 Oct 2002 Welcome to the pleasuredome Sam Snort Our white knight unveils the Snortbowl Hot Features | Sam Snort 19 Sep 2002 With or without me Sam Snort Ireland's most controversial columnist finally falls out with himself Hot Features | Sam Snort 5 Sep 2002 Lancing the boil Sam Snort Ireland's leading ghostwriter on the book everyone is talking about Hot Features | Sam Snort 22 Aug 2002 Farce of nature Sam Snort Gutting squirrels and other tales from the rock 'n' roll jungle with our columnist's dear friend Ted Nugent Politics | Message 8 Aug 2002 Deep impact Sam Snort Niall Stokes is opposed to asteroids wiping out life on earth Hot Features | Sam Snort 25 Jul 2002 Under covers Sam Snort There's only one man who can write the book of love Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 Jul 2002 Accounting For Myself Sam Snort How Ireland's most beloved rock journalist was brought low by idle gossip Hot Features | Sam Snort 31 May 2002 A brand new ball game Sam Snort "Like Ronan Keating before them, Ireland will do well to get out of the group". Our resident football expert tells you all you need to know about the forthcoming World Cup Hot Features | Sam Snort 20 May 2002 Electile dysfunction Sam Snort The mainstream parties will do whatever they can to prevent the inexorable rise to power of The All Night Party Hot Features | Sam Snort 3 May 2002 Peck us pray Sam Snort A nation holds its breath as our top man sustains an alarming bone injury Hot Features | Sam Snort 22 Apr 2002 At home with the Snorts Sam Snort An exciting new documentary series will give television viewers an intimate look at Sam and family at work, rest and play Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 Apr 2002 Towards a new republic Sam Snort Sam delivers the proclamation for a new Ireland Hot Features | Sam Snort 25 Mar 2002 Time bandits Sam Snort So how come Little Bob Story or Manmountain Dense didn’t make the cover of Time like the great Sam? Hot Features | Sam Snort 11 Mar 2002 Further Ted Sam Snort In a move unprecedented in history, Sam hands over most of his column to the man they call 'The Fuckin' Nuge'. Hot Features | Sam Snort 25 Feb 2002 Everybody wants to save the world Sam Snort Our top showbiz columnist applauds the new rock/politics interface Hot Features | Sam Snort 11 Feb 2002 Tyrannosaurus sex Sam Snort The strange but true story of the making of the hit TV series Rock Stars. Hot Features | Sam Snort 17 Jan 2002 The stamp of disapproval Sam Snort How Irish rock has been led from pillar to post Hot Features | Sam Snort 14 Dec 2001 Good riddance to all that Sam Snort In common with many other people, Sam Snort finds himself in reflective mood around the changing of the year Hot Features | Sam Snort 6 Dec 2001 The Xmas files Sam Snort The greatest Christmas party in the world ever - well, since last year's at any rate - starts here Hot Features | Sam Snort 29 Nov 2001 The habits of a lifetime Sam Snort Okay, it may be a short life, but the Sam Snort Easy Way To Quit Quitting will help you get the most out of your addiction Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 Nov 2001 Don't legalise it! Sam Snort Why the relaxation of the laws on cannabis would be a disaster for all mankind Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 Nov 2001 Don’t legalise it! Sam Snort Why the relaxation of the laws on cannabis would be a disaster for all mankind Hot Features | Sam Snort 25 Oct 2001 White line fever Sam Snort Our bio-chemical correspondent on the latest threat to rock ‘n’ roll as we know it Hot Features | Sam Snort 11 Oct 2001 Pull up to the bunker Sam Snort The world’s greatest humanitarian reveals his plans to save Ireland from nuclear disaster Hot Features | Sam Snort 27 Sep 2001 Little Richard and the big dicks Sam Snort Why Marilyn, Slipknot and Eminem are one horseman short of an apocalypse Hot Features | Sam Snort 13 Sep 2001 An almighty upheaval Sam Snort In which our award-winning columnist puts the Supreme Being to the test Politics | Message 30 Aug 2001 The rock of Ages Ago Sam Snort You know, many young people come up to me in the street and then, when they see that I’m Sam Snort, start to shriek and run very quickly in the opposite direction. Hot Features | Sam Snort 2 Aug 2001 Don't Boycott Jeffrey Sam Snort Unlike all the others, our Sam is prepared to stand by his man Hot Features | Sam Snort 19 Jul 2001 Keeping The Status Blow Sam Snort Our resident expert on everything, controversially argues that it is vitally important not to decriminalise dope if we are to make any gains in the war for drugs Hot Features | Sam Snort 5 Jul 2001 I snort, therefore I am Sam Snort Finally, from the pages of the world’s greatest newspaper comes proof positive that our Mr Snort is the real deal Hot Features | Sam Snort 21 Jun 2001 A Day's Hard Knight Sam Snort Our Famous Columnist explains why you can call him ‘Sir’. Hot Features | Sam Snort 7 Jun 2001 Naughty but nice Sam Snort In which our controversial columnist says Oui to Europe Hot Features | Sam Snort 26 Apr 2001 Highway 60 visited Sam Snort A birthday tribute to Bob Dylan by the man who knows him best Hot Features | Sam Snort 12 Apr 2001 I was totally out of my gourd at the time Sam Snort In which our star columnist attempts to set the record straight about his recent controversial autobiography Hot Features | Sam Snort 29 Mar 2001 The House Of Horror Sam Snort Or how our correspondent barely survived the inaugural Rock 'n' Roll Big Brother Hot Features | Sam Snort 1 Mar 2001 MAD HATTER BOXED Sam Snort In which our resident theological correspondent is moved to contemplate matters temporal and spiritual in response to the recent, unsavoury outbreak of inter-church handbags. Hot Features | Sam Snort 15 Dec 2000 Unholy Night Sam Snort The stars, dealers, limos and choppers are already gathering for the high point of the social calendar the annual Christmas/New Year party of parties at Snort Towers Hot Features | Sam Snort 7 Dec 2000 The Story Of S. Sam Snort In which our resident sage claims that it was he who first wrote the book of leurve. And drugs. And, oh yeah, rock n roll. And outlaw Scrabble Hot Features | Sam Snort 23 Nov 2000 President Ted! Sam Snort Or how the axeman who ate Detroit became the surprise new leader of the free world Hot Features | Sam Snort 9 Nov 2000 Sam s The Man Sam Snort His appointment may have surprised some observers but there s a simple explanation why, for the first time, a rock journalist has been appointed manager of the England football team Hot Features | Sam Snort 26 Oct 2000 FEELING LIKE A PROPER CHARLIE Sam Snort A most untimely dose of galloping knobrot may prevent our star columnist from finally telling all Hot Features | Sam Snort 12 Oct 2000 Hacked To Death Sam Snort Our revered columnist is horrified by Hollywood s take on the life and times of a rock scribe. (Not that he s seen the movie, of course) Hot Features | Sam Snort 28 Sep 2000 The Poisoned Phallus Sam Snort Masculinity in crisis? Only if they mean the great poontang famine, suggests our resident brain chemist Hot Features | Sam Snort 14 Sep 2000 The Free Drug Olympics Sam Snort In which our columnist makes a modest proposal to salvage the true Olympic spirit Hot Features | Sam Snort 31 Aug 2000 BIG BOTHER Sam Snort The world s greatest tv critic is not one bit impressed by the small screen sensation of the summer Politics | Message 3 Aug 2000 A Spacer s Odyssey Sam Snort SNORRRRTTTTT whewwww SNORRRTTT whewww SNORRRTTT whewww Ah, it s yourselves. Excuse me while I remove this mask and put the cylinder to one side. Yes, folks, it s that time of year again. Esteemed Ed is off on his annual hols leaving me, Samuel J. Snort Esq world s leading rock journalist, porn movie stuntman and brain chemist in charge. Hot Features | Sam Snort 20 Jul 2000 Pull Up To The Bunker Baby Sam Snort The world s foremost rock journalist goes clubbing in a different style Hot Features | Sam Snort 6 Jul 2000 The Rogues Gallery Sam Snort SAM SNORT has had it up to here with modern art Hot Features | Sam Snort 22 Jun 2000 BLOOMIN GREAT Sam Snort SAM SNORT relives a day of personal tribute to one of the great cultural icons of our time Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 Jun 2000 It s A Mag s Mag s Mag s World Sam Snort SAM SNORT unveils his bumper new organ Hot Features | Sam Snort 25 May 2000 Better Late Late Than Never Sam Snort SAM SNORT reflects on a memorable tv tribute show Hot Features | Sam Snort 11 May 2000 AS TRAD AS IT GETS Sam Snort Sam Snort on his contribution to the world of sex n drugs n jigs n reels Hot Features | Sam Snort 27 Apr 2000 BRIBERY, CORRUPTION & THE THIRD LEG BOOGIE Sam Snort Sam Snort answers those allegations in full Hot Features | Sam Snort 13 Apr 2000 Free At Last Sam Snort SAM SNORT on the strangely unreported news that he was recently the recipient of the Freedom Of The City. Hot Features | Sam Snort 2 Mar 2000 All The World s A Pitch Sam Snort After a tumultuous week, Sam Snort is finally convinced that football is the new rock n roll. Hot Features | Sam Snort 17 Feb 2000 SAM SNORT S HISTORY OF ROCK Sam Snort AND SO Sam observes, with his customary snort of derision, that RTE is about to screen a history of Irish rock. Hot Features | Sam Snort 20 Jan 2000 SAM'S ASHES Sam Snort For the first time ever, the true(ish) story of the hard life and times of the family Snort. Hot Features | Comedy 22 Dec 1999 The Millennium Dollar Bash Sam Snort Sam Snort reveals his plans for New Year's Eve - and his hopes for the century to cum. Hot Features | Comedy 24 Nov 1999 Stuck Together With Gods Glue Sam Snort Amazingly enough, the world's most degenerate rock journalist admits to finding inspiration in The Bible. Politics | Message 21 Jul 1999 "I've never taken drugs" Sam Snort Amid the splendour of page five of Hot Press and barely four minutes after his traumatic separation from his lovely lady wife, the stunningly elegant Iona Castle, Ireland's most charismatic and well-hung rock journalist Samuel J. Snort Esq.invites us into his luxurious new issue and tells us how much he's enjoying motherhood and the challenge of filling up The Message box while the Editor is away on holidays with any oul' swill that pops into his head. Hot Features | Sam Snort 5 Aug 1998 Sam Offers Clinton A Hand Sam Snort THE US Presidential pecker has been much on the mind of Sam Snort this week. Politics | Message 22 Jul 1998 I, SAM Sam Snort Stick ‘em up punks, it’s the fun lovin’ criminal! No, your eyes do not deceive you and, before the Daily Mirror asks, no, Niall has not gone mad again. Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 Mar 1995 FOR FAX SAKE Sam Snort ALL HAIL Nick Leeson, high roller extraordinaire, the man who gave a whole new meaning to the notion of losing your Barings. Sam Snort loses his Barings from time to time, often in a place called Leeson Street. Hot Features | Sam Snort 22 Feb 1995 WHERE PROD MEETS PROD Sam Snort At the time of writing, the “framework document” on Norn Iron is about to be published. It is a time of great expectation, of high tension, of fearful imaginings, for all parties involved in the Northern conflict, and, of course, for Sam Snort. Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 Feb 1995 LE COCK SPORTIF Sam Snort OOH, AAH, Cantona, ooh, aah, Cantona! I said Ooh, Aah, Cantona, ooh, aah, Cantona! They shout his name as they shout the name of Sam Snort. Sam, Sam, king of Poontang! I said Sam, Sam, king of Poontang! Hot Features | Sam Snort 25 Jan 1995 MEMBER OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT Sam Snort Yo, Pee Flynn! Yo, mighty man of the West! Yo, you big, brawny, brazen, bollocks! Sam Snort was taking a keen interest in Pee’s appearance before members of the European Parliament, who were trying to find out whether Pee is a total fucking caveman, or whether he is just pretending. Hot Features | Sam Snort 11 Jan 1995 DISTANT VOICES, STEEL LIVES Sam Snort IT MAY come as some surprise to my devoted readers that Sam Snort is a student of history. (I can’t imagine why – Ed). It occurred to me about six months ago that a few things had happened in this world before the invention of rock’n’roll which might be of some vague interest. Hot Features | Sam Snort 14 Dec 1994 O CUM, ALL YE FAITHFUL! Sam Snort AS YOU all know by now, the fucking Queen of England and her desperately sad family are experiencing difficult times, due to being completely out to lunch since the 17th century or thereabouts. As you will no doubt see in a minute, this can create particular problems around Christmas time. Hot Features | Sam Snort 30 Nov 1994 THE KEG OF BASS HAS BEEN ORDERED! Sam Snort Starring: Cindy Crawford • Richard Gere • Liz Hurley • Bertie Ahern Hot Features | Sam Snort 16 Nov 1994 JERKING HIS WAY BACK TO YOU, LORD Sam Snort In the end, his passing was a dignified one, and, in many ways, a joyous occasion. Fr. Liam Cosgrave now joins the roll of honour of Catholic priests who have aspired to the Snortian ideal: to die in coitus . . . Hot Features | Sam Snort 2 Nov 1994 OFF WITH THEIR PECKERS! Sam Snort YO, Naomi Campbell! Yo, you sweet thang! Hey, brown sugar, how come you taste so good? Hot Features | Sam Snort 19 Oct 1994 NO SEX PLEASE, WE’RE AMERICAN Sam Snort I think it is the saddest thing that I have ever read. As my old buddy ‘Smokey’ Robinson used to say, it is sadder than sad. But it demands to be investigated, and when it comes to thorough investigations, Sam is your proverbial man. Hot Features | Sam Snort 5 Oct 1994 Let The Big O Flow Sam Snort O. J. will walk. That is the confident and exclusive prediction of Sam Snort, at the cutting edge of the American legal system. Hot Features | Sam Snort 21 Sep 1994 HEIRS & DISGRACES Sam Snort My good buddy Marlon Brando has been all over the shop recently. What I mean by this remarkably eloquent metaphor is that the Big Man has been widely featured in the newspapers on account of biographies and autobiographies being published, describing his great life. Hot Features | Sam Snort 7 Sep 1994 JUST SAY YES! Sam Snort AMID ALL the brouhaha – and indeed the brouhoho – about the IRA cease-fire and the promise of peace in our time, it seems to have escaped the attention of many commentators that the agenda being pursued was fully outlined in these very pages last year. By me, Samuel J. Snort, of course. Hot Features | Sam Snort 24 Aug 1994 JACKAL THE LAD Sam Snort I have allowed something of a honeymoon period to pass by, before rushing into print about a certain event with which you are all familiar. Hot Features | Sam Snort 9 Mar 1994 NO MORE COBWEBBED LOVE-CANYONS! Sam Snort THE WORLD’S GREATEST ROCK JOURNALIST ON THE VEXED SUBJECT OF SEX IN THE CINEMA Hot Features | Sam Snort 23 Feb 1994 ERECTION FEVER! Sam Snort WHAT AN excellent idea it was for the Tory Party to introduce its Back To Basics policy! Certain commentators, and quite a few of the pillocks in their own Party, seem to have misunderstood certain aspects of this gloriously conceived and beautifully executed campaign. Hot Features | Sam Snort 9 Feb 1994 A LOW BLOW Sam Snort WHEN SAM Snort peruses his morning paper, chances are that the first thing he will turn to are the court cases. Hot Features | Sam Snort 26 Jan 1994 It's the end of the world as we know it Sam Snort THERE HAVE been certain landmark events in the decline – nay the degeneration – of human civilisation. Hot Features | Sam Snort 12 Jan 1994 MICHAEL THEY HAVE TAKEN YOU AWAY Sam Snort MY COLLEAGUE Eamonn McCann has penned a pithy tribute to “the singing priest,” Michael Cleary, who popped his clogs over the Christmas. Hot Features | Sam Snort 15 Dec 1993 PARTY OUT OF BOUNDS Sam Snort FOR MOST people, this Christmas will be a joyous occasion, as things tend to be when there are monstrous amounts of drink taken, oiling the axles of leurve. Hot Features | Sam Snort 1 Dec 1993 THE SNORT INITIATIVE Sam Snort THAT WAS a bad old vibe in the United States recently, when that babe cut off her husband’s pecker with a kitchen knife after he had allegedly raped her. A bad vibe . . . Hot Features | Sam Snort 17 Nov 1993 No need to bash the Bishop Sam Snort HAIL, HAIL, Eamonn Casey! The man is still a fucking star! But is he a star, fucking? Read on . . . Hot Features | Sam Snort 3 Nov 1993 Sam for Top R.T.E. Post! Sam Snort THERE HAS been a guarded welcome in some sections of the media to the elevation of mein feuhrer, Niall Stokes, to the Chairmanship of the IRTC. Sam Snort can see some merit in the appointment too. Hot Features | Sam Snort 20 Oct 1993 Paaaaarty Time! Sam Snort YOU KNOW, Sam Snort was beginning to run out of hope that the true spirit of rock 'n' roll could ever be redeemed in these scabrous times. But now it has. It has indeed. Hot Features | Sam Snort 6 Oct 1993 HAIL FELLOW, WELL HUNG Sam Snort I HAVE been leafing through Tim Pat Coogan's massive new tome about Eamonn De Valera, entitled, Long Fellow, Long Shadow. Hot Features | Sam Snort 22 Sep 1993 Sam'll Fix It Sam Snort IT'S GOOD to see my old buddies "Yosser" Arafat and Yitzzhak Rabin burying the hatchet without actually burying it in one another's skulls. Hot Features | Sam Snort 8 Sep 1993 THE POPE MUST DIE! Sam Snort THE FUCKING Pope is at it again! The man in the ornate dress is shortly to release his latest bulletin on the state of bonking in the late 20th century, entitled Veritatis Splendor. Hot Features | Sam Snort 25 Aug 1993 HIGHER EDUCATION Sam Snort Sam Snort is intrigued and excited by the suggestion of his friend and colleague, Michael D. Higgins, that there should be more rock'n'roll on the school curriculum, with the kiddies being educated in the finer points of video, film and contemporary media in general. Hot Features | Sam Snort 11 Aug 1993 Privates on Parade Sam Snort WHAT KIND of a fucking country are we living in when a publican will offer up to £600 to babes who dance topless on the premises, only to be assailed by a cacophony of dog's abuse? Hot Features | Sam Snort 28 Jul 1993 A MAJOR UNDERTAKING Sam Snort IT IS heartening to note that Mr. John Major has recently joined the Bad Language Revival Movement, founded by the former Irish Prime Minister, Charles Haughey. Hot Features | Sam Snort 14 Jul 1993 Good Loving Gone Baa-aad Sam Snort SHAME ON you, Ian Paisley! Shame on you, you big jessie!   About Us     Why be a member?   Advertise with us   Terms of Service   Activate Hot Press Gift Box/Hot Box     Privacy Policy   Contact Us   Feedback   Buy Hot Press Back Issues