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Hugh Linehan: The link economy is dying, and with it an entire ecosystem that supported content creation and communication is coming to an end
Hugh Linehan: Director set up in Galway in the mid-1990s, when he was in his 70s, and churned out his trademark low-budget exploitation movies there
Hugh Linehan: The billionaire has been telling Michael Milken about everything from AI to space travel to the decline and fall of western civilisation
Hugh Linehan: Stanley Kubrick said a film should be more like music than like fiction. The Irish director Pat Collins knows why that matters
Global Disinformation Index, a nonprofit organisation, set out to counter misleading online content. Instead it seems to be stifling legitimate debate
Hugh Linehan: The streamer’s new drama is just another lethargic entry into the often unlovely genre of hero-journalist movies
Hugh Linehan: There are sound practical and ethical reasons for colourblind and colour-conscious casting. Other attempts to rewrite the past are absurd
Hugh Linehan: Business and tech inevitably and increasingly define how culture is produced, distributed and consumed
Hugh Linehan: The boundaries between news and entertainment keep shifting. But the idea of photography as somehow true has always been questionable
High points rate as reaction to Brexit and Covid along with social changes wrought by votes on marriage equality and abortion rights
Does last week’s anti-establishment revolt contain the seeds of a change?
Hugh Linehan: The RTÉ tragicomedy has helped to show where the arts brief ranks in the political pecking order
Minister’s move to effectively sack RTÉ chair Siún Ní Raghallaigh on television escalated political aspect of crisis
Hugh Linehan: When it comes to Taylor Swift, for example, only the tinfoil-hat-wearers of the US extreme right have a bad word to say about her
Hugh Linehan: David Nicholls, whose novel the Netflix series is based on, posted the mixtapes on Spotify. Do they give a sense of history being rewritten?