Rebel with a cause: ‘We’re here to show love, so just do it’Dublin rapper Rebel Phoenix has rebellion in his blood but he’s getting more strategic about his musical path to successSat Jul 29 2023 - 05:00
Sinéad O’Connor was quiet and loud. Brilliant and bashful. She oozed a kind of creative lavaThe singer rejected the easy life for one of truth-tellingThu Jul 27 2023 - 06:17
Una Mullally: Getting tough on Dublin ‘thuggery’ won’t solve the city’s fundamental problemDublin city is suffering from a lack of leadership and an absence of strategic thinkingMon Jul 24 2023 - 06:30
Una Mullally: Kevin Bakhurst’s ‘digital-first’ promise is a clichéWhat about creativity-first, or people-first?Mon Jul 17 2023 - 06:30
RTÉ was looking for a warehouse for the Toy Show musical set while TG4 was at the OscarsTG4’s breakout film, An Cailín Ciúin, cost less than half of what RTÉ’s musical frittered awayMon Jul 10 2023 - 06:45
Una Mullally: Don’t laugh, but it’s obvious what should happen with Dublin’s O’Connell StreetConsider the success of our Wild Atlantic Way. Nobody built anything, it was just about connecting the dots. We need to do the same for the capitalMon Jul 03 2023 - 06:45
Hozier at Malahide Castle: Playing music from his new album, it rises in a way that signposts towards the epicHollering voices of lovers converge for a man who speaks to so many, and sings for allSat Jul 01 2023 - 07:20
The Bechdel test ‘was just a little lesbian joke in the 1980s. I never meant for it to be some kind of rule’Alison Bechdel, whose musical Fun Home is coming to the Gate, on her work, film theory and growing up gay without a mapSat Jul 01 2023 - 06:30
Una Mullally: Spotlight now on chasm between pay for ‘the talent’ at RTÉ and everyone elseWorking for RTÉ should be something to be proud of. That pride has been shattered by what is now being revealedMon Jun 26 2023 - 06:45
Ispíní na hÉireann: ‘We’re f**king things up with trad and making our own sounds’Raucous and irreverent, the band formed out of sessions in the Cobblestone in Dublin are surfing the new wave of traditional music with gustoSat Jun 24 2023 - 06:00
Una Mullally: 40 years after the first Pride, we’re still fighting for LGBTQ+ people to live safe and free livesWe will continue to stake our claim as people and as a community deserving of a fully realised future without fear, and to live authentic, joyful livesSat Jun 24 2023 - 05:00
Ireland’s first Pride parade, 40 years ago: ‘We had to suffer the beatings, the spittings, the jeerings, just for the right to walk down the street holding hands’To mark the 40th anniversary of Ireland’s first official Pride parade, Patrick Freyne and Una Mullally hear the stories of some of the people who took partFri Jun 23 2023 - 05:30
Una Mullally: The ‘middle Ireland’ Fine Gael thinks it is responding to doesn’t existPlenty of wealthy 60-somethings have adult children living with them. The housing crisis goes beyond the less well-offMon Jun 19 2023 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Dublin is a dirty, smelly, sticky old town once againGiven the state of the place, why is a massive shake-up in how the city is cleaned not being activated?Mon Jun 12 2023 - 05:00
Why Sinéad O’Connor Matters: Radical at the right time in the correct wayPart biography, part reflection, Allyson McCabe traces the achievements and media-generated scandals of O’Connor’s careerSat Jun 10 2023 - 05:00
‘Can you not get a lift?’: An Irish solution to Dublin Airport’s transport problemUna Mullally: Things are very hard to achieve when you don’t actually do them. Inaction is quite the obstacleMon Jun 05 2023 - 05:15
Una Mullally: Big question about the AI-generated Magdalene selfie is unansweredThe artist says his work is meant to be relatable and empowering. Others may find it trite or offensive. I just think it lacks depthWed May 31 2023 - 15:56
Lankum review: A blistering night at a packed Vicar Street from the best Irish band of their generation‘Finally back in the only place that really understands us,’ Ian Lynch announces as Lankum begin a three-night stint at the Dublin venueTue May 30 2023 - 09:19
Una Mullally: It wasn’t until we were a rich nation that tents on streets became commonplaceA decade ago, the idea that there might be homeless people living in tents was unthinkableMon May 29 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: I don’t recognise the person who stuttered in hospital any more. I’ve changedIn Vegas I thought about 2015 and that horrible, life-affirming, traumatising, beautiful, galvanising campaignMon May 22 2023 - 04:45
‘I wanted younger lesbians, gays, queers, trans and non-binary people to know the history ... I was told I would never get a job’In her debut novel, Katherine O’Donnell tells the story of a young lesbian emigrant to Boston in the 1990s in order to share Irish LGBTQ+ history with a younger generationSun May 21 2023 - 05:00
‘Leaving Dublin was really hard but I knew my quality of life would be miles better in Amsterdam’The cost of living and housing in Dublin is prompting young artists and creatives to move abroadFri May 19 2023 - 05:00
We know RTÉ can produce great programming but do its executives know what they are doing? Amateur hour began with Toy Show The Musical, progressed through the appointment of the director general and now the scramble to find a Late Late hostMon May 15 2023 - 03:00
Una Mullally: As humans, we still have choices. We can free ourselves from the digital trap We can already see the kind of insanity created by living too digitallyMon May 08 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Discussions on neutrality miss the mark when we have subsea cables to protectIreland is in the tricky position of guarding the infrastructure of the internetMon Apr 24 2023 - 03:15
European tourist visits to outrageously expensive Dublin are declining because our capital has an ambience issue Una Mullally: Dublin is struggling to figure out what it has to offerMon Apr 17 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Why does Dublin City Council’s latest water-based plan feel so shallow, never mind murky?Residents of Copenhagen, Zurich and Berlin enjoy river swimming. Even the Seine in Paris, once biologically dead, is being cleaned. Meanwhile, Dublin is getting an €18m glorified jettyMon Apr 10 2023 - 05:00
Conversations After Sex: ‘We’re naked at the top of the show. You can’t get more vulnerable than that’Actor Kate Stanley-Brennan explores her route to acting and her role in this ‘beautiful, truthful’ Mark O’Halloran playSat Apr 08 2023 - 05:18
Una Mullally: Enough of the bizarre furore, evictions are not new touchstones for artistsThe artwork, inspired by North Frederick Street eviction, is at the centre of the kind of bizarre furore this week that many Irish artists probably thought was confined to the pastWed Apr 05 2023 - 15:03
Una Mullally: I have never seen the kind of destitution in Dublin that exists todayActions speak louder than words and this government just doesn’t careMon Apr 03 2023 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Cars have to go. People can fight this all they want, but it has to happenWe need to start confronting the environmental factors that denigrate public health in Dublin cityMon Mar 27 2023 - 00:00
Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally: ‘She’s a business b*tch’ ... ‘She’s the diva’Their podcast, My Therapist Ghosted Me, was a lockdown hit, but the studio could not contain themSat Mar 25 2023 - 05:00
Something’s happening. The Irish have embraced self-expression and are underdogs no moreUna Mullally: We are witnessing a remarkable surge within Ireland and among the diasporaMon Mar 20 2023 - 05:00
Lizzo at 3Arena review: ‘What the f***’ – intensity of Dublin screams, cheers and Olé, Olé leaves star speechlessThe singer’s feelgood approach – positive, celebratory, uplifting, defiant – strikes a cultural chord on a cold Monday nightTue Mar 14 2023 - 06:10
Una Mullally: Government has lost control of the housing marketIdeological entrenchment of treating housing as a commodity, and not a social need, has been catastrophicMon Mar 13 2023 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Holly Cairns will draw people to the Social Democrats, especially young womenIf you’re looking for the most on-the-nose outcome of the social revolution of the 2010s, there you have itMon Mar 06 2023 - 05:00
‘Before I would have held my husband’s hand walking around the streets. But now I wouldn’t’A recent report found that 2022 was ‘the most violent year’ for LGBTQ+ people across Europe and Central Asia in the past decadeSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
I learned recently a prolific Irish Times letter-writer had died — his correspondence was a tonicUna Mullally: Remembering Graeme Guthrie: ‘Funny, inquisitive and charming’Mon Feb 27 2023 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil had no visible presence at Ireland for All marchSeveral Coalition politicians have lined up against racism, but both parties still unsure of public mood on immigration.Mon Feb 20 2023 - 05:00
We should all be concerned about decent people like Nicola Sturgeon leaving politicsThere is a big difference between holding power to account, and attacking people simply because they hold powerWed Feb 15 2023 - 14:50
Bertie Ahern’s return is par for the course for Fianna Fáil, a party that frequently rejects historyRepeating his previous criticisms of Bertie Ahern would disrupt the maintenance of powerMon Feb 13 2023 - 05:30
New York’s new Irish bars: ‘It just works, this timeless feeling of romance and hedonism’New venues are pushing the boundaries of Irish culture in New York, as well as the city’s culture itselfSat Feb 11 2023 - 06:00
Some protesters appear to be in denial about their role in unlocking racist sentimentBest way not be perceived as racist is not to engage in protests where racist rhetoric is rampantMon Feb 06 2023 - 05:00
The comforting theory Irish people won’t coalesce around far-right has disintegratedUna Mullally: This is not ‘standing up for’ communities. This is xenophobic vigilantismThu Feb 02 2023 - 18:17
Una Mullally: Who gets the carbon credits generated by Coillte’s controversial deal?Privatisation of forestry raises serious questions about this increasingly valuable assetMon Jan 30 2023 - 00:00
Far-right’s goal is to misdirect anger to divide and oppressSome people involved in anti-refugee protests aim to misdirect anger and capitalise on resentment to demonise, divide and oppressMon Jan 23 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Inequality between city-centre school access and wealthier suburbs is starkFormer DIT Aungier Street building could have capacity for some 5,000 of different schools sharing sharing resources, space, and facilitiesMon Jan 16 2023 - 00:00
Dolores O’Riordan: Legacy of vulnerability again pulls star into collective consciousnessIt’s five years on from the Limerick singer’s death, a tragic, premature loss of a talent so robust that it’s painful now to think ofSun Jan 15 2023 - 06:00
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin: ‘It was important to me to get a formal apology from UCD’One of Ireland’s best-known academics reflects on closing the door on a painful period of her life, and her role as chair of the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity as it prepares to report to GovernmentSat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: A nouveau-bedsit for €2,120 per month? Welcome to Dublin’s new rental hellRetrograde regulations of recent years have predictably led to offensively expensive Insta-cellsMon Jan 09 2023 - 05:00
