Tears for Fears review: Sad bangers from a brilliantly gloomy bandAt 3Arena, the music of Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith sounds as pristine as everFri Feb 01 2019 - 13:24
Una Mullally: It’s not just Graham Linehan who needs to engage in some soul-searchingRTÉ needlessly imported a mean-spirited trans debate from the UKMon Jan 28 2019 - 01:00
The Way We Were: Hippies with plans for SkerriesIn 1969 the north Dublin village looked set for a commune but locals didn’t feel the loveSat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
Index: What’s hot and what’s not this weekYes to Helen Steele’s new athleisure range, but no to scooter commutersSat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Women’s movement in US is not going awayProtest marches carry torch for rights as deep misogyny persists under TrumpMon Jan 21 2019 - 01:00
Flaming poteen herring! Ireland’s long-standing fish aversionThe Way We Were: published February 5th, 1955Sat Jan 19 2019 - 06:00
‘I want to say something nice, but I think I’m a bit of a control freak’In Conversation: Kate Stanley-Brennan, aka Miss Kate and Adam Fogarty, aka MathManSat Jan 19 2019 - 06:00
Jennifer Zamparelli’s is hot, Ed Sheeran’s hairy lyrics are notGet yourself some coffee porter, but don’t believe the Bohemian Rhapsody hypeSat Jan 19 2019 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Brexit, nobody knows anythingIt’s rare to encounter a story like Brexit where those involved know how disastrous it’s going to be, yet keep pursuing it.Fri Jan 18 2019 - 11:59
Una Mullally: A woman failing often enables a retreat to the male status quoA woman ‘given a shot’ but failing often enables a retreat to the male status quoMon Jan 14 2019 - 05:00
‘It’s scary moving to the UK. Most of my references are Tayto and village adultery’Alison Spittle conquered Irish comedy, then hit the emerald ceiling. Time to move onSat Jan 12 2019 - 06:00
Index: What’s hot and what’s not this weekYes to the young Irish actor Aisling Franciosi, but no to Louis CK’s comebackSat Jan 12 2019 - 06:00
The two bright minds behind inspiring music festival in DoolinMusic Minds focuses on music, music technology and the processes of music makingSat Jan 12 2019 - 06:00
The Way We Were: Hop back in time to Ireland’s original craft beer hipstersIPA is not a new thing – in the mid-19th century, it was popular among the beard-strokersSat Jan 12 2019 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Generational shifts feed into decline of retailMillennials underpin spending move from goods to experiences and servicesMon Jan 07 2019 - 05:00
Rewind to church bells and organs ringing in the new yearThe original New Year’s festival and a different kind of street partySat Jan 05 2019 - 06:00
Shake it like a Polaroid picture: the return of instant photographyThe Impossible Project is bringing analogue cameras and film to digital nativesSat Jan 05 2019 - 05:00
‘I left school after third year with no idea what I was going to do with my life’Life Lessons: Sean Bryan, owner of Cut & Sew barbershops in DublinFri Jan 04 2019 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Repeal vote showed grassroots power can transform IrelandMedia blinds spots remain but grassroots will continue to dominate social changeMon Dec 31 2018 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Let’s not get sucked into fighting culture wars over snowmenManufactured disputes undermine, demean and demonise real, positive causesMon Dec 24 2018 - 05:00
Maeve Higgins’s new series is hot, Christmas crowds are notPlus: Grab a table at Uno Mas, where thankfully there is no hummus ice-creamSat Dec 22 2018 - 06:00
Where is Corbyn’s leadership amid the havoc of Brexit?The laughing stock that British politics has become could have been sobered by LabourMon Dec 17 2018 - 05:00
Index: What’s hot and what’s not this weekKeira Knightley and Amari are up; Kevin Hart and Sheryl Sandberg are downSat Dec 15 2018 - 06:00
Fontaines DC: ‘There’s a renewed sense of pride in being Irish’These five best friends make something familiar sound new and exhilaratingSat Dec 15 2018 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Dublin council may waste a golden opportunity in the LibertiesMarrowbone Lane site should be used for the community, not to build a super-depotMon Dec 10 2018 - 05:00
Irish women continue to fight, 100 years after 1918Vote 100: A century on from 1918, the Eighth Amendment referendum was most momentous vote for Irish womenMon Dec 10 2018 - 00:00
Best Irish pop music of 2018: A year brimming with talent, confidence and swaggerYear in Culture Review: Talented acts keep emerging, and a new grass-roots industry infrastructure is also taking shapeSun Dec 09 2018 - 05:00
Abject lack of clarity over religious role in new maternity hospitalMinister must address questions over role of Sisters of Charity in relation to hospitalMon Dec 03 2018 - 05:00
‘Other Voices’ starts new conversations as festival extends rangeDingle-based festival moves beyond music-based origins to explore wider discourseSun Dec 02 2018 - 21:29
Fairy lights are hot, the late-night taxi shortage is notHalloumi burgers are hot, that end-of-year lack of achievement feeling is definitely notSat Dec 01 2018 - 06:00
Chairman designate of HSE board speaks of ‘doing the right thing’Ciaran Devane says leadership is now about debate, process and teamworkSat Dec 01 2018 - 01:00
‘Worst job I ever had? I was drafted in to pack socks’Herstory founder Melanie Lynchand historian Angela Byrne in conversationSat Dec 01 2018 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Lack of basic rights creates new rules for rentersThe rental crisis has a vice-like grip on people’s disposable incomeMon Nov 26 2018 - 05:00
I Am Tonie Walsh: ‘Godfather of Gay’ brings LGBT history to lifeLifelong gay activist’s one-man play features stories from the Aids crisis to marriage equalityMon Nov 26 2018 - 05:00
Index: Dingle’s hot, December set menus are notPlus Jen Nollaig, vintage Vans, Mary Poppins redux and facemask posturingSat Nov 24 2018 - 06:00
Other Voices: The show, though financially insecure, will go onThe festival continues to ‘celebrate what’s about to happen, or about to disappear’Sat Nov 24 2018 - 02:00
Maser: ‘I had a bit of a rocky year. Mentally, I just felt drained’Approaching burnout made Al Hester return to Dublin and rethink his artistic visionSat Nov 24 2018 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Brexit chaos rooted in British lack of self-examinationMisplaced sense of superiority and entitlement underpins Brexit crusadeMon Nov 19 2018 - 05:00
Prof Luke O’Neill: ‘We are now in the middle of a sixth extinction’Sound Off: Humans are killing off other speciesSat Nov 17 2018 - 06:00
Una Mullally: It took a nation of immigrants to bring Irish hip hop to lifeHip hop is the dominant youth culture in Ireland, and we’re a better country for itMon Nov 12 2018 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Sheen is well worn off tech sector as employersGoogle worker walkout evidence of mass discontent with glossy tech world’s moralityMon Nov 05 2018 - 05:00
Dublin’s nightlife is dying. A ‘night czar’ could save itCapital ideas: We need to support risk-taking, creative youth, writes Una MullallySat Nov 03 2018 - 06:20
Forgotten Donegal emblematic of neglected swathes of IrelandCounty’s strong support for Peter Casey in presidential election underlines angerMon Oct 29 2018 - 05:00
John Reynolds? ‘The ballsiest person I ever met. A maverick’The Electric Picnic founder was fiercely private, intensely creative, financially hit-and-missSat Oct 27 2018 - 06:00
Index: What’s hot and what’s not this weekYes to Lada Gaga’s oversized suit but no to news of an Amy Whinehouse hologram tourSat Oct 27 2018 - 06:00
When it came to putting on a show, John Reynolds was a visionaryHis death has shocked the countless people who partied in his clubs, blagged their way on to his guest list, and danced at his festivalsFri Oct 26 2018 - 09:10
Una Mullally: Peter Casey’s views on Travellers are embarrassingWe have a duty a voters to defy this kind of inflammatory politics at every turnMon Oct 22 2018 - 05:00
Index: What’s hot and what’s not this weekSeann Walsh scandal spoils the fun on ‘Strictly’, while Eileen Walsh shines in ‘Women On The Verge’Sat Oct 20 2018 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Presidential election a new low for politicsRandom schoolchildren would have made a better case for themselvesMon Oct 15 2018 - 05:00
What’s hot: Hibernating at home and a wardrobe full of coatsWhat’s not: Microbags, early morning flights and dude foodSat Oct 13 2018 - 06:00
