Marky Mac Sherry Tells It Like It Is review | Tiger Dublin FringeAn anti-stand-up show that could be very good indeedThu Sept 10 2015 - 14:17
Lapsley: soaring pop, late-night bliss | Electric PicnicWhat starts out as a small crowd in the Little Big Tent ends up as an appreciative throngWed Sept 09 2015 - 16:21
Una Mullally: Welcome to Dismaland Irish-style – a litany of horrors in a ghost estate‘In Trolley Land, hundreds of HSE workers push pens around while bandaged mummies moan on their stretchers’Mon Sept 07 2015 - 16:40
The War On Drugs: one of the moments of the weekend | Electric PicnicLadies and gentlemen, our first 5 star review from Electric Picnic 2015Sun Sept 06 2015 - 12:53
Bitch Falcon: super furious animals | Electric PicnicA set that is beefy, brilliant and unforgiving in its forcefulnessSat Sept 05 2015 - 18:30
Grace Jones: Get it girl | Electric PicnicEven the most casual observer couldn’t help but realise why Grace Jones is an iconFri Sept 04 2015 - 22:03
Una Mullally: This summer gave me perspectiveThe two biggest things – love and death – happen to you no matter what you doMon Aug 31 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: ‘Mistress America’ reflects fantasy of the self-starter‘The permanent pensionable job has been gone for some time, but now most things resembling it have disappeared’Mon Aug 24 2015 - 17:21
Roses, heroes and scandalous ladies: Six to watch this week on TVScandalous period drama, the annual lovely girls competition, David Simon is back, and a cold eye on Revenge Porn all feature in this week’s TV selectionMon Aug 17 2015 - 06:00
Una Mullally: What are you looking at?The honeymoon period is over for social media platformsMon Aug 17 2015 - 05:00
TV Review: Young, Free and Single less sexy than LouboutinOn the tedium-o-meter, I’d put it after looking at pictures of other people’s children on FacebookFri Aug 14 2015 - 14:05
Amy Schumer: one inch away from hilariously dangerousComic’s appearance with director Judd Apatow in Dublin the hottest ticket in townThu Aug 13 2015 - 21:31
Una Mullally: Can straight women learn from gay women’s earning prowess?‘Maybe it’s not motherhood punishing women’s earning power, maybe it’s heterosexual motherhood’Mon Aug 10 2015 - 05:00
Television: George Hook’s dreary rants more half-baked than anything on tasty BBC hitReview: The Late Review and The Great British Bake OffFri Aug 07 2015 - 14:00
Una Mullally: A dark day for Dublin apartment dwellersSmaller Dublin apartments? We have really learned nothingMon Aug 03 2015 - 01:00
Radio: Silly season gets serious as ‘Liveline’ turns to Greek crisisReview:‘Bright Sparks’, 'Liveline' and 'Pat Kenny Show'Sat Jul 25 2015 - 04:00
Una Mullally: Development cutting south docklands off from DublinGrand Canal Dock’s regeneration has made it shiny and new - but off-puttingMon Jul 06 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Eddie Holt – one of those passionate teachers who change lives‘He took the painful Leaving Cert English essay style we had all arrived with and destroyed it’Mon Jun 29 2015 - 05:00
Hey festival bookers: girls rock tooWhat’s the deal with all the bloke-centric festival bookings?Fri Jun 26 2015 - 07:00
Una Mullally: Forget summer festival Fomo and look at the negatives‘I’m staring at November on the calendar, when I might get to the Airwaves festival in Reykjavik (I hope the doctors aren’t reading this)’Mon Jun 22 2015 - 17:11
Orange Is the New Black: ‘So many people felt invisible, because there was no one like them on TV. And people are able to see themselves now’Black, lesbian, transgender . . . The Netflix hit has been the ‘breath of fresh air we didn’t even know we needed’, according to its stars Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Uzo Aduba and Laverne CoxSun Jun 21 2015 - 09:00
Parks and recreation: dino rebootsWith Jurassic World earning gazillions, a sequel or three can’t be far away: here are our plot pitchesThu Jun 18 2015 - 10:00
Una Mullally: #Clueless politicians at a loss over dialogue onlineThe internet is a democratic tool – if only political parties could learn to use itMon Jun 15 2015 - 01:00
Forgiven, not forgotten: The Corrs are back and we have 10 reasons to celebrateThe Corrs are set to release new material, with live dates lined up for September. Una Mullally can't waitThu Jun 11 2015 - 15:07
Una Mullally: What next, for young campaigners in the same-sex referendum?‘For the first time in people’s young lives, they saw the direct connection between their individual actions and changing the world’Mon Jun 08 2015 - 05:00
Netflix picks up Irish-based animation ‘Puffin Rock’Series already shown on RTÉ Junior will now reach international audiencesFri Jun 05 2015 - 01:20
Patti Smith reigns over Dublin | ReviewIt is remarkable that Horses, a record released 40 years ago, and its creator, can still summon such urgencyWed Jun 03 2015 - 13:37
Una Mullally: ‘Mad Max’ breaks the mould of action film sexismWhy are women continuously absent in Irish films?Mon Jun 01 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Your world will change when you come out as the person you are‘At Dublin Castle I couldn’t help but think of all of those who lived secret lives’Mon May 25 2015 - 09:43
Una Mullally: Decency of Irish not limited to liberal DublinThis is also about people who never made it this far, the shoulders we are all standing onSat May 23 2015 - 16:18
Fassbender does his Jobs in a poloAt last, a trailer has emerged for the Steve Jobs film, stylised as steve jobsFri May 22 2015 - 15:30
Joe Caslin installs second mural on the side of a castleInspired by The Meeting on the Turret Stairs, mural shows two female figures in a tender poseTue May 19 2015 - 10:35
Una Mullally: We have come a long way but there’s one hurdle leftIn the 1803 Proclamation of Independence, Robert Emmet wrote: ‘Show to the world that the Irish are not only a brave, but also a generous and forgiving people’Mon May 18 2015 - 05:00
Minority Report comes to the small screen with a new TV showWhen it comes to sci-fi TV, Philip K Dick is your only manThu May 14 2015 - 07:00
Una Mullally: Either way, the referendum will be a victory for democracyThe biggest impact might not even be on marriage equality, but on the wider Irish political horizonMon May 11 2015 - 11:20
Una Mullally: It’s hard to accept yourself when your country doesn’t‘I was just starting to focus when the doctor told me they found a tumour. They didn’t have the biopsies yet, but straight away knew it to be cancer’Mon Apr 27 2015 - 09:57
A little bit of monkey magic shows how art can liven up a city’s dead spaceOn a little corner of Dublin, Art Lot, a derelict space, is managing to hold its own as an open air public exhibition spaceFri Apr 24 2015 - 14:00
Una Mullally: Karen Buckley tragedy is every woman’s worst nightmare‘Any time I write about violence against women, there’s a volley of abuse in the comments on The Irish Times website. Some people just don’t want to hear about it’Sun Apr 19 2015 - 18:12
Rock memoirs worth their saltThis October, Patti Smith will publish a new memoir M Train. We can’t wait. But we’ll have to, so until then, we’ll re-read our favourite rock memoirs.Fri Apr 17 2015 - 12:00
Una Mullally: New political engagement by young peopleGovernment generally avoids interacting with youth, viewing them with suspicionMon Apr 13 2015 - 09:03
A new British/Irish documentary on Grace Jones is in the pipelineShe’s one of the most compelling singers to ever grab a microphone and glare down the barrel of an audience, but how much do we really know about Grace Jones?Fri Apr 10 2015 - 15:30
‘Work harder than everyone else’: Storm Large’s route to successStorm Large is a full-on, larger-than-life performer, part rock’n’roll, part cabaret, who scares men and doesn’t care about taking stick from feminists for using her sexuality on stageThu Apr 09 2015 - 02:00
Una Mullally: RTÉ referendum memo sends out the wrong messageAccusing RTÉ of bias is a national sport, but the term is being misused in this debateMon Apr 06 2015 - 05:00
Timbaland strikes back in EmpireThe rapper and producer is on the comeback trail with his cracking hip-hop TV showFri Apr 03 2015 - 12:00
The Meltybrains? way: masks, madness and mistakesThe members of Meltybrains? might be classically trained musicians, but their music is indefinable, their fans look like cult members and their live shows are bewilderingThu Apr 02 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: The drugs might not work, but neither do the lawsNobody – aside from criminals – benefits from drug prohibitionMon Mar 16 2015 - 05:00
Offset 2015: what we learnedFeaturing Tomi Ungerer, Forsman & Bodenfors, Snask, Niels Shoe Meulman, Veronica Ditting and Ian Anderson of the Designers Republic, last weekend’s creative convention in Dublin hosted designers and innovators from around the world. There was a lot to absorbSat Mar 14 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Videoed acts of violence now terrifyingly commonWhat was once alarming is now seen as ‘content’ in our film-everything cultureMon Mar 09 2015 - 05:00
Bitch Falcon’s ultimate International Women’s Day playlistIn celebrations of Women’s Day, we asked Dublin band Bitch Falcon to compile their ultimate playlist of female songmakersSun Mar 08 2015 - 10:00
