Shane MacGowan’s birthday party leaves brown eyes streamingIf a bomb went off at the National Concert Hall gig that would have been it for the Irish music sceneTue Jan 16 2018 - 08:07
Dancing with the Stars: Marty Morrissey’s erotic energy is frighteningPatrick Freyne: This is where the experiment in democratic self-governance has ledSun Jan 14 2018 - 06:00
There’s no better time to be pretentious than when you’re in collegePatrick Freyne’s guide to living, learning and being when you make it into third levelTue Jan 09 2018 - 01:00
What did the recession do for us? It made Vincent Browne a starThe Crash – 10 years on: Where is the art of the recession? Try books and theatre, music and plenty of satirical mayhemSat Jan 06 2018 - 06:00
In 2018 cryptocurrencies will be huge. Buy FreyneybucksThey’re better than Bitcoins. Get in on the ground floor and purchase some nowSat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00
A Christmas story by Joseph O’Connor, Lisa McInerney, John Boyne, Emer McLysaght, Maeve Higgins and more...Ten writers play a game of pass the baton to create a Christmas mystery about an elf from Elphin and a magic crystalSat Dec 23 2017 - 06:00
‘Any chance of a passport?’ asks the Queen while Lars Von Trier takes on Mrs BrownPatrick Freyne previews this year’s Christmas TV and gives away some plot twistsSat Dec 23 2017 - 05:00
‘Are you a real elf?’ asks a little girl. ‘Yeah,’ I liePatrick Freyne dons an elf costume to work alongside Santa in Arnotts for the daySat Dec 16 2017 - 06:00
Cycle of life with a difference in inner city DublinA Dublin project lets teenagers fix and build their own bikes, giving them not only mechanical skills but life skillsSat Dec 16 2017 - 05:50
‘Next time we see Queen Elizabeth she might have a knife’Patrick Freyne's Icons of Ireland 2017: Ed Sheeran, Conor McGregor, ‘The Brits’Sat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
Neven Maguire gives an erotic massage to some lambPatrick Freyne: These modern cookery programmes are giving youngsters an unrealistic idea of what food should look and sound likeSun Dec 10 2017 - 05:00
Sting: ‘When I get angry I’m a Geordie. It’s very effective’The former Police singer talks music, politics and his brush with the IRASat Dec 09 2017 - 06:00
Joe Duffy: ‘I give a platform to people who don’t have one’The RTÉ host is proud of his radio show and doesn’t dwell on anti-Liveline snobberySat Dec 09 2017 - 06:00
‘I’m a cultural culchie, baptised in red lemonade and raised by bullocks’Patrick Freyne: Every December the Eighth it happens - hordes of salivating red-faced rural typesSun Dec 03 2017 - 05:00
Ticket Awards 2017: The best television of the yearIt’s hard to think of a show that chimed as much with the moment as ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’Sat Dec 02 2017 - 05:00
Late Late Toy Show auditions: ‘The mothers are worse than the kids’Patrick Freyne meets the talented kids who try out for the annual toyfestSat Nov 25 2017 - 06:00
The TV theme songs that make you drool with pleasurePatrick Freyne: The secret to a great ever-lasting memorable show is a catchy, sing-along introSat Nov 25 2017 - 05:00
WTF review: Robert Peston’s take on Brexit and Trump? FFSThe ITV political editor’s enlightened Keynesianism comes wrapped in Alan PartridgismSat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
What I learned about mental health from watching The A-TeamPatrick Freyne: TV regularly uses psychological problems to give a character “depth”Sat Nov 18 2017 - 05:00
Nerds, wonks and a failed finance minister: a visit to KilkenomicsDiscussions on Trump, Brexit, technology and media were some of the topics covered at this year’s economics festival in KilkennySun Nov 12 2017 - 19:08
Kilkenomics: A topsy-turvy place all about maximising weird interactionsEconomists wander in T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets; comedians wear suits and tiesSat Nov 11 2017 - 22:14
Alison Spittle: ‘If you’re friends with a mad bastard, that’s your cross to bear’The comedian on her new TV show 'Nowhere Fast', a sitcom about women, friendship, and where the men are little more than love interestsSat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
Welcome to the first meeting of the Paradise Papers Club‘Firstly, let’s just point out that none of us have broken any laws’Sat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
Kathy Griffin: ‘I said Trump was a Nazi in a jokingly loving way – except that he is’The comedian regrets apologising for posing with Trump’s 'severed head'Sat Nov 04 2017 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Move over, John Lewis. This year’s best Christmas adsAd man Freyne has something for everyone, from miming peasants to a post-Brexit SantaSat Nov 04 2017 - 05:00
I like to imagine a reunion where the Stranger Things kids are disappointed fortysomethingsPatrick Freyne: Stranger Things is gripping and fun and, thanks to the stellar young acting talent, often movingSat Oct 28 2017 - 05:00
‘Your son. He’s dead.’ Storm Ophelia’s real damageThe families of Fintan Goss, Clare O’Neill and Michael Pyke will never forget MondaySat Oct 21 2017 - 06:00
If I angle my screen, no one can see I'm watching Mamma Mia!Why have you all kept this glorious megahit - featuring Meryl Streep, Greek slaves and all three kinds of man - from meSat Oct 21 2017 - 05:00
Life on the Luas: a tale of two tracksWe travel Dublin’s Red and Green Lines to learn about the different worlds they travel throughSat Oct 14 2017 - 06:00
Getting children off their devices and making cities more playful‘Babies are terrible dancers’:a new initiative on finding room for playSat Oct 07 2017 - 00:00
Star Trek Discovery: ‘You only had one job, Burnham’, I shout at the screen in KlingonStar Trek once offered a utopian ideal. Has demagoguery breached even the final frontier?Tue Sept 26 2017 - 11:00
The ploughing: ‘Have you ever seen a flower pot?’An entertainingly eclectic experience – with biblical rain, mud and plenty of animalsWed Sept 20 2017 - 20:07
Patrick Freyne picks the best TV shows on the way for AutumnAlison Spittle’s new show; David Simon in NYC; and a doc on the most famous Irish person ever: ShergarWed Sept 20 2017 - 13:46
Our Limerick crime comic: ‘I wanted to do something Irish’The graphic novel Savage Town ‘treats Limerick the way The Wire treats Baltimore’Tue Sept 19 2017 - 05:00
‘We marched on four dealers that night’: Dublin’s anti-drug warsHow ‘mammies, daddies, an IRA activist and a priest’ took on Dublin’s drug dealersSat Sept 16 2017 - 06:00
Burnt out? Relax, we’ve been exhausted for centuriesBurnout isn't new – overworked Victorians called it ‘neurasthenia’. But today's version is differentSat Sept 16 2017 - 06:00
Bojack Horseman: Am I more man than horse or more horse than man?Patrick Freyne's favourite "cyberprogramme" is the one all the celebs want to be onFri Sept 08 2017 - 17:14
Noel Edmonds’s new show is beautifully boringAfter just three weeks Noel Edmonds’s odd new show may be facing cancellation – and not because it’s cheap cheap cheapWed Sept 06 2017 - 13:00
Electric Picnic: Who got drunk, did drugs, vomited? Many peoplePatrick Freyne: I saw bearded men wrestle. I saw nipple rings. I saw Pat KennyMon Sept 04 2017 - 06:00
Electric Picnic day two: ‘Have you done the mushrooms already?’Salvation is at hand on the second day of the Stradbally sesh amid Santa and shamansSat Sept 02 2017 - 20:23
EP2017: Ian Bailey launches poetry collectionThe collection of poetry existed in “embryonic form” before the accusations in the 1990sSat Sept 02 2017 - 19:00
Electric Picnic day one: ‘Will we get an auld tattoo?’The young people of Ireland and their grandparents have gathered to see the acts of the momentSat Sept 02 2017 - 14:50
Eamon Dunphy: ‘I’m not part of official Ireland’Interview: The pundit and podcaster talks Celtic Tiger, family and his ‘Buddhist’ outlookSat Sept 02 2017 - 06:00
New ingredients for ‘The Great British Bake Off’, but does it taste the same?After its controversial move from the BBC to Channel 4 this year, the baking show returnsTue Aug 29 2017 - 22:00
Behold Electric Picnic and the Irish middle class at playPatrick Freyne’s immersive, experiential rundown of the festival experience for people his own age who aren’t attendingWed Aug 23 2017 - 14:07
Celebrity Big Brother: Chad is a love triangle all by himselfAnd Barry from EastEnders is here. I’m not sure why but I find that comfortingWed Aug 09 2017 - 13:00
Leo’s backyard: unequal lives in Irish suburbiaThe Taoiseach’s West Dublin constituency is one of Ireland’s most socially divided areasSat Aug 05 2017 - 06:00
The children’s cartoons that shaped us – and the dark messages that lurk withinFrom The Flintstones to He-Man and Top Cat, kids’ animation has a lot to teach usWed Aug 02 2017 - 14:25
Love Island: Farewell to the fantastical hunktopiaThe sun set on LI2017 last night. It was the pinnacle of our televisual achievementsTue Jul 25 2017 - 15:02
Stop and search: Garda harassment or crime-fighting?Inner-city teenagers say they are constantly stopped by gardaí, even when wearing their school uniformSat Jul 22 2017 - 06:00
