Would @WilliamButlerTweets have written worse poetry?If WB Yeats really could be “all over” YouTube and Twitter, he’d suffer many writers’ greatest problemSat Aug 10 2013 - 01:00
Will Newstalk walk the plank with Pat Kenny?Broadcaster comes to commercial radio loaded with confidence, but at a station with very littleSat Aug 03 2013 - 01:00
Van Zandt on Bruce’s new scriptSteve Van Zandt on playing music for fun with Bruce Springsteen for almost 40 yearsSun Jul 28 2013 - 21:24
Van Zandt on Bruce’s new scriptSteve Van Zandt on playing music for fun with Bruce Springsteen for almost 40 yearsSun Jul 28 2013 - 21:22
When it comes to marriage, we’re becoming more civilCivil marriages are now well over a quarter of the total. What’s stopping them taking over?Sat Jul 13 2013 - 11:59
How Irish popular music earned its StrypesThe Strypes played Glastonbury, and the most exceptional thing was that it was no longer exceptionalSat Jul 06 2013 - 01:00
Would Rory McIlroy be a bad golfer if the crowds were allowed to chant?Nobody asks the fans who have paid to watch GAA, soccer, rugby or cricket to keep the noise down. What’s so special about golf?Sat Jun 29 2013 - 01:00
The Obamas’ holiday checklist: cameras, midge cream, media overkillThey came, they saw, they closed off streets. Wasn’t the first family’s Irish visit a bit silly?Sat Jun 22 2013 - 11:59
Why do we run? Ask a pig on a treadmillScience says it’s not our fault we’d rather not bother with exerciseSat Jun 15 2013 - 01:00
Put the camera down. The lenses in your eyes will do fineWhen you hold the camera up to record a moment, are you really there at all?Sat Jun 08 2013 - 11:00
I pledge my allegiance to [insert country’s brand name here]Think you’ll be sitting down to watch the Lions play Australia this month? Think againSat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
Phew, the Daft Punk album is superhuman after allTheir album was hyped, trashed and rehabilitated all within a month. Then it was releasedSat May 25 2013 - 01:00
Check out this brilliant technology. It’s called a ‘book’I’ve begun to devour physical, printed books again – but not for the obvious reasonsSat May 18 2013 - 01:00
Titter ye not: thank Graham Linehan for Brendan O’Carroll’s Mrs Brown’s BoysThe traditional British sitcom wasn’t dead: it just needed the kiss of life from an IrishmanSat May 11 2013 - 01:00
Male, Irish, 40, love stats? Look away nowAn Irish man creeping up on his fifth decade really has reached the crest of the hill. After that it is a slow, backaching roll to the bottomSat May 04 2013 - 06:00
Pay attention: it’s time to celebrate the age of the shortSo what if our attention spans are short, and we demand brevity. It’s about time we trimmed some of the cultural fatSat Mar 30 2013 - 06:00
On the space station now: Ireland’s first fear spáisFrom hundreds of kilometres above Earth, Chris Hadfield has tweeted his way into Irish heartsSat Mar 23 2013 - 06:00
Don’t die, phone: my battery-life anxietyA phone that tracks your eyeballs? Just give me one that lasts a daySat Mar 16 2013 - 00:00
I swear on the Holy Bible, religious oaths drive me madThis paper’s front page last Saturday included a striking photograph of new gardaí swearing their attestation oath, copies of…Sat Feb 23 2013 - 00:00
Weight up ahead of race seasonWhile weight training won’t replace running, it can complement your training and break up the monotonyTue Feb 19 2013 - 00:00
Hatchet jobs and the art of the good bad reviewAn award was given in the UK this week for the book-review hatchet job of the yearSat Feb 16 2013 - 00:00
Zombies! The genre that won't dieIt’s unlikely that when, in 2001, Cillian Murphy was wandering around empty early-morning London streets sporting surgical scrubs…Sat Feb 09 2013 - 00:00
Kicking your heels over the forefront strikeSo, you’ve read Born to Run. You’ve worked months to adjust your running style to a forefoot strike.Tue Feb 05 2013 - 00:00
Swimming: meditation for people who can't sit stillFor obvious reasons, you don’t see swimmers too often. Runners? Impossible to missSat Feb 02 2013 - 00:00
How 'Off the Ball' changed the game of radioI was all set to start this column on the virtues of Newstalk’s Off the Ball by using the Bill Shankly quote about football being…Sat Jan 19 2013 - 00:00
UCC pays $1m for 'Great Book of Ireland'University College Cork has paid $1 million (€752,000) to acquire the Great Book of Ireland.Thu Jan 17 2013 - 00:00
Road map on a one-way ticket to PalookavilleThey do a lot of walking on The Voice of Ireland. Walking to the venue door (as filmed from outside)Sat Jan 12 2013 - 00:00
Quandary about 2013 would put years on youThat’s another year chalked off the list, but before we can purge ourselves of the grime of 2012 and enter 2013 afresh there …Sat Dec 29 2012 - 00:00
Irish comedians don't need to mention the warThe Germans have a few stereotypes and preconceptions about Ireland, but to my knowledge they have yet to depict us on their …Sat Dec 22 2012 - 00:00
'Homeland' is so over. Everyone pull a cry faceHomeland has been ruined, and even the RTÉ continuity announcer is rubbing it inSat Dec 15 2012 - 00:00
Lights! Camera! Gobbledegook! It's a perfume adI am words. But words do not define me. Nor paragraphs. Nor grammar. Nor. Punctuation. This is Eau de Column, par HegartéSat Dec 08 2012 - 00:00
Waiter, waiter, there's a lie in my soupDoes Bono watch Graham Norton on a Friday night, perhaps flicking over from the Late Late when the disease-of-the-week slot starts…Sat Dec 01 2012 - 00:00
Paternity leave is coming . . . as soon as we build that spaceportThis is a lament for something that we never even had and that we can forget about seeing for a long, long timeSat Nov 24 2012 - 00:00
Bond spoiler alert: franchises are foreverSpoiler alert! The following column contains details about the Skyfall plotSat Nov 17 2012 - 00:00
The Gathering's special quality: Leo's smugnessWhile Today FM’s The Last Word was in New York last week, its ad breaks were repeatedly bookended by stings from its sponsor…Sat Nov 10 2012 - 00:00
Opening soon: the gallery of abandoned iPods, CDs, books . . .WE EACH HAVE our personal museums to outdated formatsSat Nov 03 2012 - 00:00
Pride comes not before a fall but before a crampMY MARATHON: I desperately want to run all the way in, but am still moving to a rhythm of cramping muscles in both legsTue Oct 30 2012 - 00:00
Back in the fightSMALL PRINT: FIGHTING WORDS continues its impressive record of bringing young writers to print with its latest publication, …Tue Oct 30 2012 - 00:00
The changing face of TV is about more than the digital switchIT’S SWITCHOVER WEEKSat Oct 20 2012 - 01:00
A star-studded Han solo showSMALL PRINT: WHEN CHARLES Ross was growing up in rural Canada, where even the nearest neighbours where quite some distance away…Fri Oct 19 2012 - 01:00
In the absence of an alternative, this certainly is the Anabel's filmIN THE FILM What Richard Did Lenny Abrahamson creates a universe so compact that nothing appears to exist beyond the peripheral…Sat Oct 13 2012 - 01:00
There's a rat in my kitchen. What's a man gonna do?ALL WEEK, there has been the sound of scratching. In the walls. Behind the skirting boardsSat Oct 06 2012 - 01:00
Can the Abbey's move make some sort of paradise of Eden?AS WITH SO MANY of Dublin’s streets, the only way to get a sense of what Eden Quay once was is to look up.Sat Sept 29 2012 - 01:00
Abbey Theatre buys site next doorFOLLOWING SEVERAL rejected plans for the Abbey Theatre, including relocating to the GPO, the Carlton cinema site and Dublin Docklands…Thu Sept 27 2012 - 01:00
Abbey Theatre saga takes new twistAfter two decades of plans to, variously, move the Abbey Theatre to the GPO, the Carlton Cinema site and the Dublin Docklands…Wed Sept 26 2012 - 01:00
