‘Fascinating and disturbing’: How our brains and genetics dictate our ideologies - and vice versa
Dr Leor Zmigrod has found differences in the brain structures and functions of people with different ideologies. Could this science be used by malicious agents?
A bunch of influencers are sitting in a windowless bunker. It’s hard not to agree this is the future humanity deserves
Fighting its future format death, Netflix has tempted YouTube phenomena ‘the Sidemen’ over to its doomed cause for Inside
Kieran Cuddihy: Newstalk hung all the shows on the brand, the personality. That changed with Andrea Gilligan and myself
Presenter of the Tonight Show on Virgin Media and Hard Shoulder on Newstalk on Denis O’Brien, work-life balance and embarrassing career low-lights
Patrick Freyne: Here’s what I see when I see Irish people at their best
We are hospitable and irreverent, but also cynical and parochial. When things get difficult, who do we want to be?
Ryan owns a tanning business. Yolanda is a Mel B impersonator. These are Britain’s main industries since Brexit
Patrick Freyne: Love Triangle UK’s contestants are earnest and well meaning – not, as so often on dating shows, monstrous, sexually prolific sociopaths
Shaping the Century: 25 brilliant Irish women in 2025
This century has brought us many landmark moments, provided by remarkable Irish women who are an inspiration to others
I feel we’re close now, Meghan, so I can speak freely. The right pitch is crucial in lifestyle hucksterism like yours
On With Love, Meghan, you mainly cook. Given how long the Meghan-and-Harry industrial complex took to create this series, I feel a little let down
On Prime, Jack Reacher is still wandering from town to town, much like the 2FM Roadcaster
Reacher’s inevitable fisticuffs are an adorable masculine power fantasy, there to soothe struggling menfolk in the audience
Dr Lydia Foy: ‘I never got an apology actually. It would be nice to get one’
The trans activist who fought the State for years for the right to change her gender on her birth cert would prefer to ‘talk about me as a person rather than all the baloney with the courts’
We already have Great House Revival. What we need now is Feck the Preservation Order, Let’s Knock It and Build an Office Block
Or maybe If We Just Leave It Derelict We’ll Make Money on the Land Value Alone. Hugh Wallace could still present it
‘It’s boobing out!’ Kim Kardashian cries. Irish Times readers will recognise this reference to the Heaney poem of that name
The celebrity clan have so Truman Show-ed their existence that all significant events in their lives have occurred on camera
Holly Willoughby is well used to troublesome co-hosts. Bear Grylls may like insects and urine, but he’s not Phillip Schofield
Celebrity Bear Hunt review: From the dawn of reality TV it has been clear it would culminate with an apparently unhinged survivalist hunting helpless celebs
‘Young men aren’t just b****rds running around on their bikes ... everyone has their own dreams’
A Dublin project explores how the world shapes young men by helping some of them to create ‘boys’ as they really see them
Des Bishop: ‘I never felt the grief with my dad like I felt with my mother’
For the Irish-American comedian, lockdown was preceded by his mother’s death. The impact was profound – but it opened the way to a new life
Joseph O’Connor: ‘I don’t know what modern Ireland is yet. I’m suspicious about the new sacred cows’
The Irish novelist on taking instruction from Vincent Browne, finding his way in fiction as a young man and coming to understand that the best writing has an inherent musicality