‘Breathtaking, rule-breaking, legend-making’: Dublin Fringe Festival winnersAfter 16 days and 80 productions, festival wraps up with awards in 11 categoriesMon Sept 24 2018 - 14:36
‘We want more crime on public transport’ – a message from An PostIt also wants to see ‘more commuters missing their stop’ ... but all for a good reasonMon Sept 24 2018 - 12:27
‘Sexy Handmaids’ uproar forces retailer to scrap Halloween outfitRape and enforced surrogacy turn out to be less empowering than Yandy seems to have imaginedFri Sept 21 2018 - 14:25
Drip Feed review: A giant bender, and many laughs, expose a darker realityDublin Fringe Festival: Karen Cogan is precise and engaging as Brenda, ‘youngish, female and queer’ in 1990s CorkThu Sept 20 2018 - 16:19
Stop the lights!: What Bunny Carr’s ‘Quicksilver’ gave the languageA gift from single-channel land, the quizshow and its catchphrase are part of who we areThu Sept 20 2018 - 13:00
Culture Night 2018: Everything you need to knowIt’s hard not to be bamboozled by the choice on offer. Here’s a selection of the best bitsWed Sept 19 2018 - 14:42
Craicling review: A sense of the absurd – and a lot of craicDublin Fringe Festival: Foil, Arms & Hog are silly, inventive and genuinely very funnyMon Sept 17 2018 - 13:45
Dublin tenement life: ‘I was born right there in 1939’14 Henrietta Street is opening as a museum to portray 270 years of urban life in DublinSat Sept 15 2018 - 06:00
First look: Goethe Institut reveals lavish refurb on Merrion SquareNo expense spared as German state adds five-storey mews to cultural centreWed Sept 12 2018 - 06:00
First look at the new Dublin City Library on Parnell SquareArchitects unveil plans for 11,000 sq m grand design in Parnell Square Cultural QuarterMon Sept 10 2018 - 17:30
Guardian’s modern Ireland book recommendations are ‘b*ll*cks’Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define IrelandMon Sept 10 2018 - 14:05
How Bono lost his vox: An ageing rockstar’s big fearWhy are singers’ voices at risk as they age, and what happens if they are lost on stage?Sat Sept 08 2018 - 06:00
Dublin Fringe Festival: What should I see this year?The 2018 event includes productions on shame, fatherhood and an Aer Lingus hijackingSat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00
‘Powerful’ Ted talk from Irish spinal cord activists Simone George and Mark PollockIn their Ted talk George and Pollock explore how "climbing into the raging river of grief when tragedy strikes can be the way to get to the next place”;Fri Sept 07 2018 - 16:00
Could video games have been a factor in Florida shooting?Rivalry between gamers can trigger aggressive actionSat Sept 01 2018 - 07:00
First Look: The Zig Zag is a new place to sit outside in DublinNew initiative at Spencer Dock is a gathering space created by A Playful CityFri Aug 31 2018 - 13:53
20-hour non-stop London to Sydney Qantas flight on the horizon2022 take off may feature planes with gym, bar, creche and sleeping area facilitiesThu Aug 30 2018 - 12:08
Edinburgh festivals: awards and acclaim – and exhaustion – for Irish performersAs the international and fringe festivals close, Irish teams reflect on a good monthTue Aug 28 2018 - 10:55
Florida shooting: Could videogames be to blame?Violent videogames can lead to aggression, but rivalry between gamers is a bigger riskMon Aug 27 2018 - 17:00
Would you want to spend a night on the Great Wall of China?The lastest Airbnb promo involves a contest to sleep in a roofless watchtowerThu Aug 02 2018 - 11:12
Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope: ‘It would be clutching at straws to do third series’Writer Stefanie Preissner on ending the hit comedy-drama and heading for the USWed Aug 01 2018 - 16:15
Creative flights as Galway arts festival soarsProgramme straddling popular and esoteric work attracts record numbersTue Jul 31 2018 - 06:15
Galway International Arts Festival off to a flying, tumbling, crashing, roaring startHighlights so far? David Mach, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and Museum of the MoonWed Jul 18 2018 - 15:25
The balloon - or rather, the moon - goes up as Galway’s arts festival startsDavid Mach’s vehicles explode out of an old print work’s concrete floor, an inflatable moon rises over the street, a sharp new Irish play opens - and that’s before Galway International Arts Festival opens tonightMon Jul 16 2018 - 13:00
Yes we did: Irish theatre’s gender-equality revolutionIrish theatre came out blazing this week, proving that gender equality is ‘not hard to do, if you want to’Sat Jul 14 2018 - 06:00
Get ready for the Galway International Arts FestivalThis year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughtsThu Jul 12 2018 - 07:00
Dublin Fringe: festival launches a stylish programmeCapital city hosts 80 productions, from club culture and female sexuality to comedy and new theatreWed Jul 11 2018 - 18:50
Gate Theatre: Number of women directors up from 8% to 80%Huge rise in number of women employed was sparked by Waking the Feminists movementTue Jul 10 2018 - 06:00
‘Stay still in the air’: the flying circus with no safety netAustralian new circus troupe Gravity & Other Myths is coming to Galway International Arts FestivalSat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
NCH to take over National Symphony Orchestra from RTÉCabinet opts not to keep NSO within broadcaster or establish it as a separate institutionThu Jul 05 2018 - 15:59
Two spoofers collide: Baron Cohen posts teaser video slagging Trump slagging himVideo ‘trailer’ sees POTUS telling the comedian: ‘Go to school! Learn about being funny’Thu Jul 05 2018 - 14:30
Seamus Heaney exhibition opens at new Dublin cultural centrePoet’s archive at College Green reveals ‘intimacies that defined Seamus the man’Thu Jul 05 2018 - 05:00
How Seamus Heaney wrote: First look at a new exhibitionExhibition on late Nobel laureate unveiled at new College Green cultural centreWed Jul 04 2018 - 16:11
Amybeth McNulty: the Donegal teenager who stars in ‘Anne with an E’The 16-year-old actor on racism, sexuality and bullying, on screen and offWed Jul 04 2018 - 11:17
A happy story for Seamus Heaney dayTwitter reunites long-lost letter from the Nobel Prize winning poet and its ownerWed Jul 04 2018 - 10:58
Seamus Heaney, our dad the poet, by Catherine, Chris and Mick HeaneyFor his family, choosing 100 poems from a long career, was weighted with memoriesSat Jun 30 2018 - 06:00
An actor and a gentleman, with a gift for comedy and living wellObituary: Stephen Swift was ‘an outstanding example of how to live’Sat Jun 30 2018 - 06:00
Extension of tax relief urged as Government publishes €200m plan for film industryBlueprint aims to double employment and turnover in audiovisual sector in five yearsWed Jun 27 2018 - 19:05
Minister reaffirms ‘arm’s-length’ approach to arts fundingArts Council chairwoman Sheila Pratschke says it must seek out and support artists of the futureMon Jun 25 2018 - 18:45
‘Ulysses’ as an Underground map: From Kidney Parade to MollydountBoredom led Senan Molony to make a Tube-style map for Dublin through a ‘Ulysses’ prismSat Jun 16 2018 - 06:00
An art college day out, sticky lights and a gardening festival in KildareHome Front: What to do and see across Ireland over the next few weeksSat Jun 16 2018 - 00:00
Kurt Cobain’s private possessions to go on display in KildareSmells Like Teen Spirit sweater and Cobain’s early sketches to have worldwide premiere at Kildare museumThu Jun 14 2018 - 13:05
Mike McCormack: ‘A lot of people had faith to stick by me in the difficult years’‘A gifted generation of writers is being fostered by an equally gifted generation of young Irish editors’Wed Jun 13 2018 - 13:43
Mike McCormack wins €100,000 International Dublin Literary AwardLatest prize for ‘Solar Bones’ is recognition for Mayo author after years in wildernessWed Jun 13 2018 - 11:50
The silent liver disease epidemicA liver disease associated with diabetes and weight rather than alcohol can be prevented or reversed with diet and exerciseTue Jun 12 2018 - 07:01
Anne with an E returns with Donegal teenager Amybeth McNultyMcNulty leads the darker version of ‘Anne of Green Gables’ from ‘Breaking Bad’ writerMon Jun 11 2018 - 17:12
Good sex scenes: when actors play it safeHow do you safely act having sex? Welcome to Intimacy on Set, the safe sex code for actorsSun Jun 10 2018 - 06:00
Erotic art comes to Tarmonbarry, Co RoscommonA new exhibition in the Shannonside village is ‘sure to attract a lot of attention’Sat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
Stephen Swift: affection and love flow for an actor and a gentlemanDublin stage actor who has died aged 44 remembered as ‘an outstanding example of how to live’Thu Jun 07 2018 - 17:53
The last of the Magdalenes: 'The nuns took my childhood'Now just 40, ‘Jenny’ was one of the last generation to live in Ireland’s Magdalene laundriesSat Jun 02 2018 - 05:55
