Una Mullally: Cruel summer ahead with no female festival headlinersToo few women playing Ireland’s big music festivals – and too many excusesMon Mar 20 2017 - 05:00
‘Make America Great Again is not a good poem. It’s a stupid poem ’Donald Trump is the epitome of the bad poet, says Eileen Myles, newly celebrated poet of queer culture, whose work, and take on US culture, are increasingly finding the spotlightSat Mar 18 2017 - 05:00
Marfa Myths: a festival in the desert where you watch one act at a timeDefiantly eccentric, this high-end music and arts beano revels in the offbeat and enrichingThu Mar 16 2017 - 05:30
Ireland Now: The best spoken word in IrelandNo room for misty-eyed accounts of society in ‘The Creative Quarter’Thu Mar 16 2017 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Trump may learn the hard way you don’t mess with TexasSupport for that city slicker’s wall is ebbing away on the Lone Star Sate’s Mexican borderMon Mar 13 2017 - 05:00
A history of Ireland in 100 great quotesFrom ‘Dress suitably, and buy a revolver’ and 'A terrible beauty' to 'We all partied'Sat Mar 11 2017 - 05:08
Una Mullally: Tuam scandal shines a light on Ireland’s darknessThe shaming, secrecy and barbarity of the Catholic Church is still in force todayMon Mar 06 2017 - 05:00
'Demographically, women are going to take over the world quite soon. So, enjoy'Women's writing for Women's Day: Caitlin Moran, the best-selling feminist, talks to Una Mullally about trying to be unfamous and why the future of politics is femaleSat Mar 04 2017 - 00:00
Grime and grit, humour and truth - the world according to StormzyStormzy deserves his place on the top of the musical pile. Need convincing? Here’s a few of his finest lyricsWed Mar 01 2017 - 14:00
Una Mullally: Trump turns his bullying on transgender toiletsLGBT Americans are included in all the other groups targeted by the presidentMon Feb 27 2017 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Do most people really care who the next Fine Gael leader is?Fine Gael must beware not to look like a jaded band obsessing over a new lead singer while the audience has already left the gigThu Feb 23 2017 - 11:57
Hey Hollywood, check out the box office’s Hidden FiguresBlockbusters are having a meltdown, but the major movie studios aren't learningWed Feb 22 2017 - 12:00
Drake review: A spectacular experience of pop craft and graftDrake’s Boy Meets World tour arrives as the artist is at the peak of his powers, and the show lives up to the hypeMon Feb 20 2017 - 14:54
Beware the political ambition of tech billionairesPolitics is played out over social media. Imagine a White House Mark ZuckerbergMon Feb 20 2017 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Beware political ambition of tech billionairesPolitics is played out over a web of social media. Imagine a White House ZuckerbergMon Feb 20 2017 - 01:00
Blackrock boy meets Blackrock boy: Being ‘gay and into sport’ at an elite Dublin rugby schoolWriter-director John Butler’s films always echo his own life. So what happened when he went back to his teenage years at Blackrock College for ‘Handsome Devil’?Sat Feb 18 2017 - 06:00
Una Mullally: The Nokia 3310 is coming back and I want oneThe 3310 evokes a time when everything was changingThu Feb 16 2017 - 08:43
Eircode: there goes another €38m down the drainPoorly designed postcode system should already have been returned to senderMon Feb 13 2017 - 05:00
Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are review: Their change is gonna comeDeclan Henry’s interviews with transgender Irish are worthwhile, but already they feel partly rooted in the pastSat Feb 11 2017 - 06:00
Lessons in love: dating advice from people who’ve made it workMeeting on Tinder, life as a young widow, whirlwind engagements and new arrivalsSat Feb 11 2017 - 06:00
'We’re just flesh bags walking around hoping we don’t get hit by a bus'When Edwin Sammon was diagnosed with cancer at 36, his new comedy show began to evolve. But his dark comedy didn't always find a sympathetic audienceThu Feb 09 2017 - 05:00
'No one takes me seriously as a 16-year-old girl shouting about junkies or gun violence'Young Blood: an edgy night of hip hop and poetry in the NCH promises to present the voices of the next generationWed Feb 08 2017 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Why Stephen Donnelly’s migration to FF is so dispiritingTD’s political expedience makes post-crash aspirations for change appear hopelessMon Feb 06 2017 - 05:00
A man’s world no longer: Women who have pushed into the male professions spotlightedA firefighter, an airline pilot and a high-wire construction worker are among the subjects of a new photography bookSat Feb 04 2017 - 06:10
The scandal of direct provision makes criticism of Trump hollowHow can Europe condemn the Muslim ban with so many drowning in the Mediterranean?Thu Feb 02 2017 - 08:37
Una Mullally: Why the abortion strike will succeedStrike 4 Repeal’s planned action will inspire movement against the Eighth AmendmentMon Jan 30 2017 - 05:00
Ralph Steadman: With gonzo, you don’t cover the story; you become the storyRalph Steadman spent days trying to find Hunter S Thompson for their first assignment, the landmark article ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved’. The result changed journalism foreverSat Jan 28 2017 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Long way to go despite change in Oscars politicsGrowing recognition of non-whites marks shift but identity remains too relevantThu Jan 26 2017 - 17:25
Una Mullally: The battle against Trump has only startedThe millions of people across the world who marched in protest reveal the strength of the oppositionMon Jan 23 2017 - 09:23
Let us stop repeating the lie that Irish people do not protestThe legacy of Apollo House is that the public now knows change can occurMon Jan 16 2017 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Buzzfeed played into Trump’s handsPublishing unsubstantiated allegations gives the President-elect ammunition to further demonise the media and accuse legitimate news organisations of being fake onesThu Jan 12 2017 - 14:09
Una Mullally: Twitter shows how to lose friends and influence nada‘At what point does the grief outweigh the positives you gain from Twitter?’Mon Jan 09 2017 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Why ‘The Irish Times’ should not have published Nicholas PellWe should not be interested in humouring fascism. We should be invested in destroying itThu Jan 05 2017 - 16:39
Una Mullally: Ban ‘busy’ in 2017 and get more out of lifeIs saying you are busy an attempt to show how indispensable or important you are?Mon Jan 02 2017 - 05:00
Una Mullally: 2016 and the cult of celebrity deathEvents feed confessionalism as we express our sadness as a way of talking about ourselvesFri Dec 30 2016 - 14:20
Una Mullally on George Michael: A gay man devoid of shame‘Pop hunk transformed into a gay icon when few celebrities had the guts to come out’Mon Dec 26 2016 - 19:47
Una Mullally’s cultural highlight of 2016: ‘Grace Jones at the Olympia’Culture review 2016: Post-truth, American fascism and white supremacy will affect art and pop culture for a long timeThu Dec 22 2016 - 09:29
Una Mullally: Home Sweet Home is the real ‘New Politics’People take action on homelessness because the Government has failed to actMon Dec 19 2016 - 05:00
So, what’s hot and what’s not this week?Make sure you catch The Third Wave but steer clear of the smug shoppersFri Dec 16 2016 - 16:00
Una Mullally: Will the tech overlords save us from Trump?Will they use their power to resist or do they want a piece of greatest ever act of ‘disruption’: the disruption of US democracy itselfThu Dec 15 2016 - 15:42
Una Mullally: Irish emigrants are not magic peopleWe should value young people who stay in Ireland as much as those who leaveMon Dec 12 2016 - 05:00
So what’s hot and what’s not?Yes to Donegal and Christmas markets, but no to automated airportsFri Dec 09 2016 - 16:00
Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem: ‘I had no intention of having anything to do with music'Whang got into music almost as a hobby, and she still worries: when is ‘somebody going to discover you’re full of s**t’Wed Dec 07 2016 - 05:00
Other Voices 2016: the Dingle session steps up a gearTitle sponsors and a larger cultural offering mean that this is the year when the Dingle event stops being a small music-industry weekend away and becomes a full-blown festivalTue Dec 06 2016 - 05:00
Una Mullally: After DJ Leo, how about ‘Enda Meets’ and ‘Nooney Goes Wild’?Varadkar radio gig could be a first step in politicians taking over the Irish airwavesSun Dec 04 2016 - 20:52
Vietnam: a beautiful, bustling, and bemusing holiday destinationVietnam may be chaotic and tricky but it’s also great fun and the food is stunningSat Dec 03 2016 - 06:01
Late Late Toy Show bingo: stony faced six-year-olds, accidental starsDuring tonight’s show, award yourself a mince pie each time you spot one of the followingFri Dec 02 2016 - 16:00
Index: Excellent food for thought on Daniel Glover’s ‘Atlanta’ and in Dublin’s EatyardRTÉ outsources young people’s department but those Gilmore Girls are backFri Dec 02 2016 - 16:00
Una Mullally: After 2016, there’s nothing trivial about small acts of empathyIt is a crime to wish away time, but I cannot wait for this year to be overFri Dec 02 2016 - 15:20
You cannot decry public drug use and object to injecting centresAll Dubliners need to be provided for – hoteliers, councillors, and heroin addicts tooMon Nov 28 2016 - 01:00
