Why are Irish artists such as Graham Linehan, Sally Rooney so prominent in UK free speech wars?
Sally Rooney, Graham Linehan, Kneecap and John Boyne have all been caught up in controversy
Even if RTÉ stretched to its limit, Claire Byrne likely stood to gain 60% more by moving to Newstalk
Irish radio, like Irish politics, has a habit of appearing stagnant until, suddenly, it isn’t
Brian Cowen and The Crash: a new look at the handling and political cost of the Celtic Tiger collapse
A new Irish Times podcast series looks back at the crash with the benefit of 14 years’ hindsight
Forget the futuristic dystopias: AI is changing the world right now
The backlash against changes to ChatGPT reveals how it is being used by users in their daily lives
Can you have too much democracy?
Ireland is one of Europe’s most referendum-happy nations - that is not without its pitfalls
Age verification: The fact is, nobody wants to show their passport to a porn site
Governments are moving from finger-wagging to mandates on adult content
Anatomy of a photograph: Gaza, starvation and the battle for truth
The power of a picture operates on different levels
TV aerial in Daniel O’Connell stamp is a ‘visual signal’ to the modern age, not AI, says An Post
Artist David Rooney says he deliberately included a modern image in the 19th-century Dublin scene
Hugh Linehan: My right eye is now failing too. The world is slipping away, just a little, just enough to notice
Hugh Linehan shares his experience of macular degeneration – and the losses, large and small, that come with it
How Condé Nast reinvented the glossy magazine, then lost its way
A new book offers a portrait of an empire built on luxe fantasy, brought to life by big personalities and lavish spending
The good bits of the brave new world promised by the digital revolution never happened in journalism
There was a time when we seemed to be on the cusp of something remarkable, but it never happened
‘Maybe Elon Musk is quite gullible. He seems to fall for a lot of conspiracy theories’
Helen Lewis discusses her new book, The Genius Myth, which sets out to unravel the mystery of what we mean when we call someone a genius
Why is Irish media so reticent about covering gender issues?
Gender issues are a hugely important story in Ireland today, and deserves coverage to match
Why we should all be alarmed by Hungary’s latest assault on independent media
Hungary’s newly proposed ‘On the Transparency of Public Life’ bill is a case study in Orwellian doublethink
Wokeness is on the wane almost everywhere – except the right
Woke leftism demands conformity to an ever-evolving set of progressive values. The new ‘woke right’ does exactly the same