Patrick Freyne: Pooing in a bucket? That’s the whole point of the showA more apt title for new reality show Don’t Rock the Boat would be Celebrity S**t in a BucketFri Nov 06 2020 - 09:43
Million Pound Cube: The answer to fast cash before Britain collapses into a barter systemPatrick Freyne: it’s amazing how mundane tasks can be enlivened by a time limit and dramatic musicFri Oct 30 2020 - 07:35
Dermot Bannon: ‘I used to win Lego competitions ... but I lied about my age’The TV presenter on his first steps in architecture and new series of Incredible HomesSun Oct 25 2020 - 05:00
Emily in Paris: If it was Dublin, she’d be shifting Colm Meaney in the Leprechaun MuseumPatrick Freyne: Frenchies are depicted as smelly, sex-obsessed, work-shy and nudeFri Oct 23 2020 - 05:30
Patrick Freyne: Twink connects with the birds, not just the incontinent cockatiel on her shoulderAdele King, with an actual cockatiel on her shoulder and a terrier called Teddy Bear, lodges with Lucy KennedyFri Oct 16 2020 - 07:30
Roddy Doyle: ‘My unpublished first novel was sh*te’He knew this because, when he started writing The Commitments, he knew it was goodSat Oct 10 2020 - 06:05
The BBC still rues the day Jeremy Clarkson hit an IrishmanPatrick Freyne: Freddie Flintoff and the Top Gear presenters still feel like they’re on an awkward team building weekendFri Oct 09 2020 - 09:30
‘We are really talking about assisted suicide’: Four views on a sensitive subjectThe public view on this controversial issue seems to be changing. But should the law?Sat Oct 03 2020 - 05:30
Great British Bake Off: wacky Matt Lucas joins wacky Noel Fielding. It’s terrifyingPatrick Freyne: Paul Hollywood has emerged from slumber and is hungry for power – and cakesFri Oct 02 2020 - 05:00
Michael Harding: ‘Do I know anything? Very f**king little’The author on the poetry of religion and the heart attack that gave him a liftSat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
‘This image of a man tarred and feathered, driving a train out of rage, just haunted me’Deirdre Kinahan on her site-specific play about the 1920 munitions strikeSat Sept 26 2020 - 05:00
Fiona Bruce in a Spitfire is a Brexiteer’s fever dreamPatrick Freyne: Antiques Roadshow delves in second World War jingoism while cats plan our demiseFri Sept 18 2020 - 05:00
Mary Berry’s food filth shouldn’t be aired before the watershedPatrick Freyne: What constitutes a ‘simple comfort’ in Mary Berry’s world?Fri Sept 11 2020 - 07:30
People who work together are often deep in steamy lust, on TV at leastPatrick Freyne: Luckily, JK Rowling’s smouldering detective and sidekick are distracted by a new caseFri Sept 04 2020 - 05:00
Live music without mind-altering chemicals? Crazy notionThe rock music industry has long doubled as an efficient alcohol distribution mechanismWed Sept 02 2020 - 06:13
‘There’s this magical performance that’s nothing to do with drugs’As he retires, Mick Egan looks back at 30 years working with addicts in art and dramaWed Sept 02 2020 - 05:00
Mary Coughlan: ‘32 times I ended up in hospital with alcohol poisoning’Through addiction, infidelity and other life struggles, music was her constant escapeSat Aug 29 2020 - 06:00
Witness protection, Irish-style: ‘There’s a 70 per cent chance I’ll die with a bullet in my head’Joseph O’Callaghan fears being shot, but he doesn’t regret testifying in a murder caseSat Aug 29 2020 - 06:00
We Irish are the best at having a property boom – or are we?BBC’s Manctopia suggests socially destructive real estate speculation isn’t unique to IrelandWed Aug 19 2020 - 13:25
Lovecraft Country: American TV shows its true colours. And it’s exhilaratingRacist sheriffs, not tentacled beasts, provide the real scares in this take on Jim Crow’s USTue Aug 18 2020 - 10:55
GAA in Ballymun: The whole team were called ‘scumbags’ by grown adultsSorcha Glackin’s moving film about Ballymun Kickhams is a story of belonging and kindnessThu Aug 13 2020 - 23:15
Maura Higgins: ‘I really hated it. Apart from that massage, the rest of it can kiss my ass’Maura Higgins: You’re Joking Me! takes the former Love Islander out of her comfort zoneMon Aug 10 2020 - 22:00
Kathryn Thomas goes staycationing just as new travel restrictions come inTV review: The RTÉ host is like the Ghost of Holiday Plans Past in No Place Like HomeMon Aug 10 2020 - 14:42
How Seán the enchanted-cauldron keeper herded all the wild Connells of MeathTV review: Patrick Freyne sets the scene for RTÉ’s film about the GAA boss Seán BoylanThu Aug 06 2020 - 23:15
Harlots? It’s all pumping buttocks from the men. Which is fair enoughTV review: The BBC’s 18th-century brothel drama isn’t as gratuitous as you might thinkWed Aug 05 2020 - 22:40
How come no one ever went to Laois on one of these erotic journeys?TV review: Little Birds tries to be shocking but can just look like a Duran Duran videoTue Aug 04 2020 - 23:00
Patrick Freyne: The Muppets are back. But why is Kermit, the straight white guy, still in charge?TV review: No wonder Miss Piggy, a career women in a male world, is so full of rageFri Jul 31 2020 - 06:00
Why oh why are the snowflake Irish always so upset by the British claiming their stuff?Paul Mescal and Andrew Scott are no longer Irish, apparently. We get Prince Andrew in returnWed Jul 29 2020 - 12:59
Old Chompy gnaws through the scenery in Prodigal SonTV review: Yet more serial killers are on the loose in this daft, gruesomely fun Sky dramaTue Jul 28 2020 - 22:00
Robert Sheehan: ‘I was a contrarian f**ker. I thought it made me seem more edgy’The Portlaoise-born actor talks about London living, meditation and lockdown writingSun Jul 26 2020 - 06:10
‘It was like being hit by a tidal wave.’ A nursing home looks back on lockdownThirty per cent of Belmont House’s 150 residents tested positive for coronavirusSat Jul 25 2020 - 06:00
RTÉ has remade The Field. It is called Gardening Together with Diarmuid GavinPatrick Freyne: Gavin hasn’t had a land-hungry American visit yet, but it’s surely comingFri Jul 24 2020 - 05:00
The world is indeed beautiful: Sebastian Barry, Gavin Friday and others on mental healthMen’s health charity Movember’s Conversation Piece campaign paired artists, writers and musicians to talk about mental health and create a piece of artSat Jul 18 2020 - 06:00
Hell isn’t so much other people as specific other people. Ask Rupert MurdochPatrick Freyne: Rise of the Murdoch Dynasty is another great sitcom on a powerful patriarchFri Jul 17 2020 - 08:51
Paul O’Connell: ‘I think a lot of players are chasing the wrong metrics’The former rugby player talked tactics and training at the Irish Times Summer Nights FestivalThu Jul 16 2020 - 09:45
‘Micheál Martin has a number of very significant enemies in Fianna Fáil’The Irish Times political team discuss the sacking of Barry Cowen, at an Inside Politics eventWed Jul 15 2020 - 22:09
Anne Enright: ‘I looked at how men manage their confidence and took a few leads’The author appeared at The Irish Times Summer Nights Festival on Wednesday eveningWed Jul 15 2020 - 20:30
Patrick Freyne: A very likable baby with a beard – it’s Zac Efron! – explores the worldWhoa! Do you think we could do this in America, asks the wide-eyed but elderly teen starFri Jul 10 2020 - 05:00
‘In global health terms we have treated surgery as icing on the cake’Surgery is as key as vaccination, nutrition, and mother-and-child health, says RSCI professor Mark ShrimeWed Jul 08 2020 - 00:00
Patrick Freyne: You endearingly sentimental sociopath, I’ve just the show for you!Welcome to The Supervet: Puppy Special, where Noel Fitzpatrick is like Dog JesusFri Jul 03 2020 - 05:00
Generation Covid: ‘Everything is on hold. It’s scary’Medically, they were spared the worst. But Ireland’s young will be hit hard by Covid-19Sat Jun 27 2020 - 06:00
The good old days are back: opium, fancy hats, colonialism and well-lit sexPatrick Freyne: The Luminaries looks great and has spirited acting, but what is it trying to be?Fri Jun 26 2020 - 05:00
Lockdown is getting to us all. Dermot Bannon has radicalised my nephewThe architect is back in the ears of the nation’s children in Monday’s Home School HubFri Jun 19 2020 - 05:00
People of colour in Ireland need allies ‘not bystanders’Black Irish Lives: Dr Ebun Joseph is encouraging young white Irish people to discuss racismThu Jun 18 2020 - 01:00
A deep dive into YouTube: So much of it is unrelentingly boringPatrick Freyne immerses himself in the musings, stunts and tears of YouTube’s biggest starsSun Jun 14 2020 - 05:00
The things my movie Contagion got wrong: The slow vaccine, the damaging presidentFilm-maker Scott Z Burns looks back on his meticulously researched pandemic filmSat Jun 13 2020 - 06:15
My fellow Irish citizens! What are you doing next Monday?Monaco is filthy rich and hasn’t much of an army. I think we could take it in a fightFri Jun 12 2020 - 05:00
Dublin’s night workers: ‘In 38 years, I’d never seen an owl in the city centre’Post office workers, cleaners, grocers and gardaí marvel at changes Covid-19 has made in DublinSat Jun 06 2020 - 06:00
The Gaeltacht was basically a sex camp established by Éamon de ValeraPatrick Freyne: Lovesick individuals are treated a little differently in First Dates HotelFri Jun 05 2020 - 05:00
Fortnite is keeping teenagers from falling through the cracksDuring Covid-19, Core in Inchicore is staying connected to its young charges via video gamesSat May 30 2020 - 06:00
