Betty the chimp: Was Dublin Zoo’s tea party favourite really a terrifying matriarch and bully?
Death of oldest living chimpanzee in human care raises issue of recurring human impulse to anthropomorphise other species
Sinéad O’Connor’s waxwork looks nothing like the fiery young woman from 1990 it represents
Opinion: I don’t know what that is, but it sure as hell is not Sinéad O’Connor
Show me ‘citizen journalism’ and I’ll show you a rat’s nest of some of the most noxious people around
What began as the high idealism of Arab Spring-style community reporting has soured into the preserve of right-wing provocateurs
The culture wars are over, apparently. Just don’t bet on peace anytime soon
Lisa Nandy, the UK’s new culture secretary, announced this week the ‘end of the era of culture wars’, but an armistice is not actually within her remit
Labour faces decisions that will alienate some in Britain who voted for it
Keir Starmer is an antidote to the privileged Tories he has displaced but he will need to be ruthlessness and willing to upend policy
The Abbey Theatre is vacating the stage during peak season for reasons unknown. What is going on?
The events that have unfolded over the past five years at the national theatre raise obvious parallels with the RTÉ debacle
The biggest problem with RTÉ’s new five-year plan is what it doesn’t address
We waited an age for A New Direction’s ‘third age’, and it already feels rather out of date
Even with Spielberg-style cuddliness, there’s a cold, dark void at the heart of artificial intelligence
Hugh Linehan: With his Kubrick-derived film AI Artificial Intelligence, the director created a surprisingly convincing version of where technology is leading us
Climate activists turn the screw on literary festivals
The investment firm has met the ire of literary activists amid accusations of greenwashing
Things can only get better? Rishi Sunak’s election chant reckoning was perfection
Countless politicians have tried to co-opt pop hits as campaign anthems
A Googlepocalypse is sweeping the United States – and its devastating effects are on their way to Ireland
Hugh Linehan: The link economy is dying, and with it an entire ecosystem that supported content creation and communication is coming to an end
‘You mean to say we spent £80 and we don’t even get to see her tits?’: Roger Corman’s Irish studio was from another age
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
Elon Musk: Brave truth-teller or weird pontificator about the IRA?
Hugh Linehan: The billionaire has been telling Michael Milken about everything from AI to space travel to the decline and fall of western civilisation
There’s nothing very dramatic about That They May Face the Rising Sun. Which is why it’s such a good film
Hugh Linehan: Stanley Kubrick said a film should be more like music than like fiction. The Irish director Pat Collins knows why that matters
Who watches the watchers when it comes to disinformation?
Global Disinformation Index, a nonprofit organisation, set out to counter misleading online content. Instead it seems to be stifling legitimate debate