‘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
Patrick Freyne: Britain’s Best Parent? Dominic Cummings, obviouslyEntering a show called Britain’s Best Parent? should automatically disqualify youFri May 29 2020 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: Who knew Eamonn Holmes' unknowable desires could be sated by craftwork?Channel 4’s judges ‘eat, sleep and drink craft’, aka a coronavirus cureFri May 15 2020 - 05:00
Britain prancing on the world stage? You don’t need to tell us. We were pranced uponTV review: Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album looked beneath the images’ glossy surfacesThu May 14 2020 - 14:45
Think Normal People is erotic? You haven’t watched Marty & Bernard: On the Road AgainTV review: And it’s not Bernard’s fault he is but mortal while Marty’s an earthbound angelWed May 13 2020 - 22:35
Dana has been a deeply political, conservative, contentious figureTV review: ‘Dana: The Original Derry Girl’ was a cosy portrait of a demure singerMon May 11 2020 - 22:35
Seán O’Rourke: 32,000 interviews later... ‘I’ve had my fill’The broadcaster, who retired on Friday, looks back on his career high and low pointsSun May 10 2020 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Grey’s Anatomy is Love Island with white coatsThe show featuring hunky doctors talking about sex is now on its 16th seriesFri May 08 2020 - 08:38
Meet Ireland’s unofficial Covid-19 essential workforceThey fill key roles, minding older people and children, yet are often undocumentedSat May 02 2020 - 06:00
They should have called it Dylan McDermott’s Sex GarageNetflix’s 1940s-Hollywood drama is brimming with petroleum-based rumpy pumpyFri May 01 2020 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne’s home working guide: Find a chair that’s good for your back. Mine is called a ‘bed’And if you're missing the workplace, re-create the atmosphere with this office-noise simulatorThu Apr 30 2020 - 11:55
The app that puts you in touch with a world in lockdownRandom strangers in quarantine can be surprisingly honest over the phoneSat Apr 25 2020 - 06:00
Gangs of London: They bump off Colm Meaney in minutes. It’s a national disgraceEnjoyably choreographed ultraviolence almost makes up for Colm Meaney’s demiseFri Apr 24 2020 - 11:54
Rush hour on a Dublin bus: ‘They’re all ghost buses now’Taking a bus in what used to be the morning peak is now a trip into an eerie worldSat Apr 18 2020 - 06:00
Painting Michael D, irresistible instructions, and six other things that lifted our spiritsSoothe your soul with art, discover ‘books’, and see why Cork is ‘better’ than DublinFri Apr 17 2020 - 14:42
There’s Simon Cowell, with his Stickle Brick hair and cheeks that deserve their own spin-off showPatrick Freyne: BGT is back, but the UK is too broken for the judge to crush any more dreamsFri Apr 17 2020 - 05:00
