Hugh Linehan: The enduring appeal of the Scottish playWith two major new stage productions, and a Joel Coen film, it’s the Bard’s biggest hitSat Oct 02 2021 - 07:00
Hugh Linehan: What’s wrong with calling this country the Republic of Ireland?The Constitution is clear: the country’s name is Éire in Irish or Ireland in EnglishSat Sept 25 2021 - 06:00
Ireland’s past in colour: Blueshirts, fiddlers, and Dún Laoghaire Baths in a whole new lightPeople like colourised photos but experts worry about tampering with historySat Sept 25 2021 - 05:00
Hugh Linehan: If you want to reform the ‘night-time economy’, start with the pubCatherine Martin should take note on why attempts to change licensing laws failed beforeSat Sept 18 2021 - 07:00
Hugh Linehan: Does the fake-news debate ask the right questions?Perhaps you shouldn't believe everything you've heard about disinformationSat Sept 11 2021 - 07:00
How Hollywood blockbusters inspired 9/11 – and vice versaIt’s not hard to draw a line from Armageddon to al-Qaeda to the Marvel Cinematic UniverseSat Sept 04 2021 - 09:41
27 Irish gigs and festivals to book from now until June 2022Musicians to return to the stage for the first time in 18 months as Ireland’s venues reopenThu Sept 02 2021 - 06:00
Hugh Linehan: Government foot-dragging on live entertainment is part of a long storyMore people can mix in a pub than are permitted to sit distanced in large venuesSat Aug 28 2021 - 07:00
Hugh Linehan: Did RTÉ fail the balance test by broadcasting The 8th?Regulations on balance in current affairs can't reflect complexity of documentaries and dramasSat Aug 14 2021 - 07:00
Dublin Theatre Festival: ‘It’s about people assembling and I’m really looking forward to that’Festival director Willie White emphasises the positives as audiences return to theatresSat Aug 14 2021 - 05:00
Dublin Theatre Festival launches with ambitious programme of in-person eventsNumbers in venues restricted to 50 pending Government decisions on Covid-19 measuresWed Aug 11 2021 - 08:00
Hugh Linehan: How can writers get it right if they don’t know when they’re wrong?There’s a rich choice of creative writing courses, but precious few places to learn the basicsSat Aug 07 2021 - 07:00
Imma’s relentlessly on-message programme highlights its identity crisisIdeological narrowness of 30th anniversary line-up emphasises contradictions of museumSat Jul 31 2021 - 09:12
Summer of Soul: rescuing a lost festival from Woodstock's unlovely shadowHarlem Cultural Festival in 1969 featured a line-up of hugely influential black artistsSat Jul 24 2021 - 05:00
When is the history of the Holocaust relevant today?Hugh Linehan: There may be times when the lessons of the genocidal past are worth recalling, but not this time Mattie McGrathSat Jul 17 2021 - 07:00
Covid vaccine pass should be made ready for the arts as well as for pubs and restaurantsHugh Linehan: Our conservative approach to pandemic challenges may increasingly cause issuesSat Jul 10 2021 - 07:00
Maureen Dowd: ‘The Obama West Wing treated Biden quite shabbily’The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on why Biden can succeed where Obama did notSat Jul 03 2021 - 06:00
Hugh Linehan: Ireland is now an outlier in the restrictions it places on entertainmentA recent Iveagh Gardens gig looked nice but gave no data for returning to normalitySat Jun 19 2021 - 07:00
Maureen Dowd, a Pulitzer-winning Beltway socialite with a caustic eyeGrande Dame of DC Dowd to give insight to Biden’s America and the politics-obsessed townSat Jun 19 2021 - 06:00
Sometimes the green jersey really doesn't fitIf the producer is Irish, does that make it an Irish film?Sat Jun 12 2021 - 07:00
If you think we’ve just had ‘a year like no other’, you need a history lessonThe perception that 2020 was unprecedented is inaccurate, says Niall FergusonSun Jun 06 2021 - 06:00
From Faecal Brown to Loop-the-Loop: the changing colours of Dublin BusHugh Linehan: Watch out for Dublin Bus and its wince-making new colour schemeSat Jun 05 2021 - 09:45
Strange confection: The Commitments and the battle for Dublin’s soulA British director, an Irish cast and an African-American soundtrack – but it workedSat May 29 2021 - 07:00
Hugh Linehan: Reports of the death of the newspaper have been exaggeratedPrint editions are still part of the industry’s survival – but who knows for how longSat May 22 2021 - 07:00
Electric Picnic 2021: Staging a Covid-free festival is possible. Insuring it mightn’t beHugh Linehan: Pilot events in UK are promising but will Government underwrite the risk?Sat May 15 2021 - 07:00
It’ll do for now but streaming can’t replicate the live experienceDoes it matter whether online performances are recorded or live?Sat May 08 2021 - 10:03
Robert Peston was wrong on Northern Ireland, but was he also right?Hugh Linehan: ITV’s political editor inadvertently raised a meaningful question about the NorthSat May 01 2021 - 07:00
An act of cultural homicide in Dublin’s south docklandsHugh Linehan: The City Arts Centre was once a reservoir for the quirky, the creative, the insurgentSat Apr 24 2021 - 05:00
Why am I singing an old Labi Siffre song into my iPad? It must be loveIt seems like madness, but being in a Zoom choir with my work colleagues is quite upliftingSat Apr 17 2021 - 07:00
It’s time for Ireland to stop compulsory film classificationHugh Linehan: Why should we classify DVDs and cinema releases but not Netflix?Sat Apr 10 2021 - 07:00
Covid-19 highlights the gap between employees and freelancers in the artsHugh Linehan: Pandemic has helped highlight existing shifts in cultural productionSat Apr 03 2021 - 09:10
Is post-Catholic Ireland unable to make sense of its Christian culture?Perhaps the sacred and the secular are not as diametrically opposed as is often assumedSat Mar 27 2021 - 05:00
Please read this article, so I can get paidLinking performance of articles to journalists’ salaries seems unfair, but it is not a new ideaSat Mar 20 2021 - 07:00
Pepe Le Pew not looking so romantic any moreTime to bid adieu, not au revoir, to the Looney Tunes characterSat Mar 13 2021 - 07:00
How will Denis O’Brien’s departure change the Irish media landscape?Hugh Linehan: The era of moguls has run its course; European conglomerates have arrivedSun Mar 07 2021 - 07:00
The killing of Jamal Khashoggi: Dial MBS for murderBryan Fogel discusses his ‘true-crime documentary’ The Dissident about the journalistSat Mar 06 2021 - 13:40
A lot of the time we are not all in this togetherWho is the ‘we’ that is invoked in lifestyle, entertainment and opinion pieces?Sat Feb 27 2021 - 08:44
We are in a new era of war between Big Tech and the regulatory stateHugh Linehan: Suddenly, 2021 feels a lot like 2012 all over againSat Feb 20 2021 - 07:00
Has Irish media been ‘doing the Government’s bidding’ in its coverage of Covid-19?Hugh Linehan: Outlets have been accused of excessive coverage and parroting the official lineSat Feb 13 2021 - 07:00
A vaccine strategy inspired by the movie ‘Contagion’? Not Britain’s worst ideaFilms, books and television often get the future right, writes Hugh LinehanSat Feb 06 2021 - 07:00
RTÉ Radio One's generational switch has made it the middle-aged station it needs to beThe new presenters’ life experiences are more in tune with those of listenersSat Jan 23 2021 - 07:00
Netflix has spent millions on its films, so why are they so mediocre?Streaming giant Netflix has spent gazillions making movies, with little of quality to show for itSat Jan 16 2021 - 07:00
RTÉ’s Waterford Whispers News sketch was woefully unfunny, crude and offensiveHugh Linehan: The New Year’s Eve rape joke was less satire than a failure of imaginationSat Jan 09 2021 - 07:00
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards for 2020 deferred because of Covid-19Nominations for each categories in annual awards usually announced in early JanuaryTue Dec 22 2020 - 12:31
So long Trump Show, now what else is on?It's all over bar the kicking and screaming, but who's going to make the spin-off?Sat Dec 19 2020 - 07:00
That long-missing TV buzz is back thanks to two bona fide Christmas blockbustersGeorge Clooney’s In the Midnight Sky and Jamie Foxx’s turn in Soul will have us curling up together on the couch againSat Dec 12 2020 - 07:00
A live performance beats livestreaming every timeThe continual threat of lockdown makes planning very difficult for the artsSat Nov 28 2020 - 05:00
Artists shouldn’t hold their breath for a universal basic incomeA report from the taskforce for the arts has a Christmas wish-list of recommendationsSat Nov 21 2020 - 06:00
RTÉ is the place Irish comedy goes to dieThe broadcaster tends towards mediocrity and self-satisfaction, not humourSat Nov 14 2020 - 05:00
The 20th century US was a young place. Now it looks oldAmerica at the Crossroads: The two presidential candidates have a combined age of 151Sat Oct 31 2020 - 06:05
