‘It’s a game-changer for us’: Artists welcome guaranteed basic income planPilot scheme could see 2,000 creative workers get €325 a week from March 2022Wed Oct 13 2021 - 20:49
Basic income scheme for artists, art workers to be piloted in 2022Budget 2022: Arts Council funding remains at €130mTue Oct 12 2021 - 17:40
Paddy Moloney: President Higgins leads tributes to Chieftains founderThe musician, composer, arranger and producer has died at the age of 83Tue Oct 12 2021 - 15:09
Michelle Read: ‘We’re very good at masking how we’re feeling’Performer and playwright’s new work Bang! explores trans identity in a family settingTue Oct 12 2021 - 06:00
‘Very feasible’ seafront scheme would see plaza built over Dart line in Dublin suburbTerraced plaza would be raised over railway line to reach shore of Dublin suburbMon Oct 11 2021 - 06:00
How to avoid sexual assault: A quick and easy guide ... for perpetratorsAfter police victim-blaming in the Sarah Everard case, these tips hit the nail on the headTue Oct 05 2021 - 06:00
Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks: Sarah Hanly grabs you by the balls from the startDublin Theatre Festival: In her first play, Hanly describes sexual exploration and discovery in her convent-school oratoryMon Oct 04 2021 - 11:43
Gate Theatre reopens: ‘There’s a lovely sense of hysteria’Audience returns for first time since March 12th, 2020, to attend Once Before I GoFri Oct 01 2021 - 21:30
Dublin cinemagoers on No Time to Die: ‘It was a good send-off for Daniel Craig’The much-delayed James Bond film is finally on the big screen. Is it 00-heaven or 00-hell?Thu Sept 30 2021 - 21:30
‘It’s a bit of fun, kind of kitsch’: Sculpture unveiled on Dublin City Hall’s O’Connell plinthAlan Phelan’s RGB Sconce, Hold Your Nose is first of six Sculpture Dublin commissionsWed Sept 29 2021 - 14:35
‘A tour de force’: Writer Kevin Donnellan wins RTÉ Short Story CompetitionWinning story to be broadcast followed by runners-up Sara Keating and Dónal MinihaneMon Sept 27 2021 - 19:55
End of an era as the Last Corner Shop closes: ‘I’m going to cry’John Hyland’s devotion to his customers made him a much-loved shopkeeperMon Sept 27 2021 - 15:49
Best Place to Live in Ireland 2021: Why Waterford city wonWhat makes Waterford the Irish Times contest’s winner? These 15 factors swung it for the citySat Sept 25 2021 - 06:00
Backwards Up a Rainbow: Rosaleen Linehan still knows how to put on a great showReview: The gutsy, saucy actor and comedian revisits her life with honesty and humourWed Sept 22 2021 - 12:30
Galway International Arts Festival: Plenty of high notesOrganisers pulled together significant festival from wreckage of CovidTue Sept 21 2021 - 05:00
The original feminist role model: Bringing Brigid out of St Patrick’s shadowShe inspired Grace O’Malley, Maud Gonne, Brigitte Bardot, UK suffragettes and Buy IrishSat Sept 11 2021 - 06:00
Back in the National Concert Hall: ‘I want to kneel down and kiss the ground’Dublin musical venue reopens 18 months after its last live audience on the main stageThu Sept 09 2021 - 21:29
‘Sally Rooney Day’: ‘You’d have to go back to JK Rowling for impact’Booksellers report brisk sales of Beautiful World, Where Are You, the writer’s new novelTue Sept 07 2021 - 18:00
Vicar Street on reopening: ‘We can’t start until we get exact information’Senior booker is ‘sick, sore and tired of rescheduling shows three, four or five times’Tue Aug 31 2021 - 20:00
Schoolbook scramble: How to change the system and reduce the cost to parentsEvery summer, families pay huge sums while the Department of Education looks onSat Aug 28 2021 - 06:00
Galway International Arts Festival gets out into the wild westPerformers put on shows in a bog, a former airport and on the Aran IslandsTue Aug 24 2021 - 05:00
Is that Sharon Horgan in the Forty Foot? ‘Swim to her!’The star’s production company plays dumb but appears to be filming around DublinWed Aug 11 2021 - 12:41
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2021 gives two fingers to adversity with a striking line-upRanging from opera to a skatepark installation, the programme marks an extraordinary balancing actMon Aug 09 2021 - 14:06
Hospitality staff: ‘Everywhere I have seen harassment... it’s all swept under the carpet’Behind well-publicised staff shortages lurks a story of poor working conditionsSat Jul 31 2021 - 06:00
Half of hospitality staff say Covid guidelines not followedUnite union members also report low pay, poor working practices and insecure contractsTue Jul 27 2021 - 12:09
Bikinigate: Fining women for not wearing skimpy outfits? Come on, lads, admit you only want to leerOpinion: The athletes of Norway’s handball team wore shorts instead. Just like the menWed Jul 21 2021 - 15:18
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: 160 performances, 30 events, 16 venuesThe festival's 27th edition includes 26 world premieres plus three Dublin premieresWed Jul 21 2021 - 11:00
The inside story of a Covid cluster in an Irish restaurantAs indoor dining reopens, a cautionary tale of one restaurant’s experience in December 2020Sat Jul 17 2021 - 06:00
Care in the community: Galway cafe offers out-of-hours mental health supportInnovative service is a collaboration between HSE and Galway ForumTue Jul 06 2021 - 06:01
3,500 people to attend Ireland’s first big music festival for 16 monthsGavin James, Denise Chaila and more to perform at Royal Hospital Kilmainham on July 3rdTue Jun 22 2021 - 15:51
Deirdre Kinahan: ‘I had about six plays opening. Then I got fecking cancer’The Saviour, about warped Irish religiosity, is live-streaming during Cork MidsummerTue Jun 15 2021 - 05:00
Placing queerness at the heart of the Irish emigrant experienceA new exhibition celebrates the cultural and social impact of Ireland’s LGBTQ+ diasporaSat Jun 12 2021 - 06:00
How a Galway accountancy grad became Sr Colette of the Poor ClaresSr Colette of the Galway enclosed order on embracing a life unimaginable to manySun Jun 06 2021 - 06:15
Basic income pilot scheme for artists could start in January 2022Government to develop three-year trial of full scheme that would cost €27.4m a yearWed Jun 02 2021 - 13:20
In Carlow’s former Braun factory, the best party you’ve never been toModernist complex housing Woman in the Machine art experience for Brightening Air festivalWed Jun 02 2021 - 05:00
Margaret Atwood: ‘People think you’ve got woo-woo powers. Which in fact I don’t’The novelist talked to Max Porter at the Borris House festival’s Spring Series of online talksTue Jun 01 2021 - 15:00
Bursting for the loo? Next time you’re caught short, use this map of Ireland’s public toiletsEach time the public share loo locations with pee.ie, they help improve our outdoor lifeThu May 27 2021 - 06:00
Toxic teen relationships: ‘It’s considered normal. That’s the massive issue’A scheme by Kerry pupils arms young people to spot and counteract controlling behaviourSat May 22 2021 - 06:00
Cinemas ‘at breaking point’ urge Taoiseach to set reopening dateOperators say they have been left behind as 80% of European cinemas now have timetableFri May 21 2021 - 14:40
Dublin’s Virgin Mary alcohol-free bar to open in Abu DhabiWe gave the world the Irish pub. Now we’re giving them the alcohol-free Irish pub ...Mon May 17 2021 - 15:30
Rupert Everett: ‘I became very promiscuous at about 16½’Everett and Simon Callow were in conversation at the Borris Festival of Writing & IdeasThu May 13 2021 - 09:34
Electric Picnic: ‘No reason’ why 2021 festival can’t go aheadMusic promoters say big events, with full Covid testing, should be possible by summerTue May 11 2021 - 13:29
‘Was there red wine late at night involved?’ the hairdresser asksI’m more than delighted with My New Hair; now all I need is somewhere to take itMon May 10 2021 - 14:42
The Irish Times guide to Ireland’s reopening museums, galleries and heritage sitesFrom the National Gallery to the Book of Kells, and Croke Park to the leprechaun museumMon May 10 2021 - 06:00
Scandal, silence, shame: the careful retelling of a buried storyA new NUI Galway production responds to the lived experiences notably missing from the report into mother and baby homesSat May 08 2021 - 06:00
Hope It Rains: Imagining future us, in a drowning worldPlayful images of life after the deluge are a serious attempt to challenge climate inactionWed May 05 2021 - 05:00
Cork Midsummer Festival: The show must go on, but how?A dynamic blend of outdoor and online events runs from breakdancing to doorstep performancesSat May 01 2021 - 05:00
Cinemas seek clarity on contradictory dates for reopeningGovernment removes reopening date online as TDs post about June 7th on social mediaFri Apr 30 2021 - 18:30
Galway International Arts Festival 2021 rescheduled for end of AugustCovid-19 restrictions also force postponement of city’s Big Top gigs to summer 2022Fri Apr 30 2021 - 11:19
Cinema group demands clarity on reopening datePilots of large-scale events planned with small cultural events for 15 outdoors allowed from May 10thThu Apr 29 2021 - 22:15
