Inside a hospice at Christmas: ‘I didn’t know it was going to be like this. It’s beautiful here’
Patients and staff describe a day in the life inside Roscommon Hospice
If Emily in Paris had a HR department, the ‘HR’ would definitely stand for ‘happy riding’
Emily and colleagues have moved to Rome, where they’re doing what they do best: having sexual relationships with their clients
Dear Trish, I’m worried about my friend Meghan and her aggressive crafting
She’s a saffron-scented aristo who I shouldn’t name, and I’m only a cabbage-scented bog creature. But we’re very close
Patrick Freyne’s quest for the best Christmas sandwich in Dublin: ‘I give it five Santas out of five’
Warning: please bear in mind that our food-critic-for-a-day has the taste buds of a junkyard dog and finds almost all food delicious
Patrick Freyne: Bye, folks. I’m off to Hollywood. Nepo baby or not, I’m an excellent actor
My latest role is in Eternity. Having a voice like an earthbound angel is my curse, as you’ll hear
‘What’s Kevin the Carrot’s problem?’: Patrick Freyne on this year’s Christmas ads
Plus Patrick Freyne on this year’s Boots, John Lewis, Argos, Tesco, Coca-Cola, Barbour and M&S Food commercials
Vogue Williams, top Irish export, like Kerrygold, Bono and passive-aggressive alcoholism
The Irish I’m a Celebrity contestant has been a reality-TV star since the innocent days of Fade Street, on RTÉ
Leon Diop: ‘The far right want to turn this into an immigrant problem, but they just don’t like black and brown people’
The founder of advocacy group Black and Irish on the childhood racism he experienced in Tallaght, overcoming his identity crisis, and the recent violence in Citywest
John C Reilly: ‘I worked with this older Irish actor one time. He was bummed out if I said anything that wasn’t the lines’
John C Reilly is bringing Mister Romantic, his performance of love songs by Nat King Cole, Tom Waits and others, to Dublin
In All’s Fair, I genuinely worry that Kim Kardashian might be flammable
The output of Ryan Murphy, who thinks subtlety is for cowards, now resembles children’s programming but real sexy like
Patrick Freyne’s guide to the biggest horror TV shows, from Stranger Things to Sesame Street
Including the attractive conformists of Wednesday’s posh private school, the paranormal Baywatch spinoff and the Joanna Lumley show that scarred an Irish child for life
What is ‘Six Seven’ and why is the world currently obsessed with this latest online trend?
The viral phrase from a 2024 rap track has children shouting in unison — and leaving adults utterly lost
A Syrian artist who took refuge in Dublin: ‘Picasso came to this life to open a door. I hope I can open a door’
Manar Mervat Al Shouha, who fled civil war, prefers to talk through her paintings, but she has much to say about her fears for Syria, Irish people’s indirectness, and how ‘the feeling of time’ is similar in both countries
As a culchie, I know culchies. Here’s my definitive guide to culchie culture, aka culchure
Dublin Jackeens will quake as a new series of The 2 Johnnies’ Late Night Lock In takes over our TV screens
Carl Kinsella on living with OCD: ‘It’s like having a puppet regime installed in your head’
The columnist and author on relating more to Generation X than his own age group, taking extended breaks from everyday life, and his existential dread of tech billionaires