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Home School Hub: Múinteoir Ray teaches kids when to don the gas masks

Home School Hub: Múinteoir Ray teaches kids when to don the gas masks

Patrick Freyne: What's ‘creepy’ about a middle-aged man enjoying kids’ educational TV?

Fri Apr 10 2020 - 05:00
Don Conroy’s Isolation Diary: ‘Lee Marvin says, ‘Hey, kid, I like you. You’re not full of s***’’

Don Conroy’s Isolation Diary: ‘Lee Marvin says, ‘Hey, kid, I like you. You’re not full of s***’’

The children’s TV veteran on returning to the screen during the coronavirus crisis

Thu Apr 09 2020 - 06:00
Doing the coronavirus rounds with Joe the postman in Dublin 3

Doing the coronavirus rounds with Joe the postman in Dublin 3

In the Covid-19 crisis, postpeople are playing a crucial role checking in on older customers

Sat Apr 04 2020 - 06:15
Ciara Kelly’s Isolation Diary: ‘The virus is outside the door, but we’re still ripping the p*** out of each other’

Ciara Kelly’s Isolation Diary: ‘The virus is outside the door, but we’re still ripping the p*** out of each other’

The broadcaster and GP wants to rejoin her medical colleagues after overcoming Covid-19

Fri Apr 03 2020 - 16:00
Tiger King: You wait years for just one animal-collecting weirdo, then half a dozen arrive at once

Tiger King: You wait years for just one animal-collecting weirdo, then half a dozen arrive at once

Patrick Freyne: Netflix’s new exotic cat drama isn’t funny, it’s just sad

Fri Apr 03 2020 - 07:51
Amy Huberman’s Isolation Diary: ‘We’re finding things for Brian to paint’

Amy Huberman’s Isolation Diary: ‘We’re finding things for Brian to paint’

The actor says she received birthday presents of toilet roll and hand sanitiser

Thu Apr 02 2020 - 06:00
Irishman on life in India: Police beatings, suspicion of foreigners and loudspeaker warnings

Irishman on life in India: Police beatings, suspicion of foreigners and loudspeaker warnings

Dubliner Brian Ingle describes the daily challenges under a strict Covid-19 lockdown

Mon Mar 30 2020 - 11:00
Mental health: How to mind yourself during the shut-down

Mental health: How to mind yourself during the shut-down

Part of the stress is that we have lost structure to our days, so try to set up a new routine

Sat Mar 28 2020 - 06:10
Homeless in the Covid-19 era: ‘We all feel a bit queer, clammy, fluey’

Homeless in the Covid-19 era: ‘We all feel a bit queer, clammy, fluey’

Homeless people are a particularly vulnerable group during a pandemic

Sat Mar 28 2020 - 06:05
Sarah Webb: ‘I’ve set up writing classes on Zoom for kids, but they’re also good for me’

Sarah Webb: ‘I’ve set up writing classes on Zoom for kids, but they’re also good for me’

Isolation Diaries: Children’s author is running online workshops during Covid-19 crisis

Fri Mar 27 2020 - 06:15
Freud is sexually obsessed with his mother? She’s one lucky woman

Freud is sexually obsessed with his mother? She’s one lucky woman

Netflix’s dreamy dream analyst invents brain science, hunts killers and avoids wet tunnels

Fri Mar 27 2020 - 05:00
Helen O’Rahilly: ‘I ran BBC One on the day of the bombs. I’m well versed in panic’

Helen O’Rahilly: ‘I ran BBC One on the day of the bombs. I’m well versed in panic’

Isolation Diaries: TV executive is running localsupport.ie to get supplies to older and vulnerable people

Thu Mar 26 2020 - 06:00
David O’Doherty: ‘Achill is my favourite place on earth... a weird place in an apocalypse’

David O’Doherty: ‘Achill is my favourite place on earth... a weird place in an apocalypse’

Isolation Diaries: Comedian has brought his parents to their family cottage on Achill

Wed Mar 25 2020 - 06:00
John Boyne reopens Covid-19 story contest after over 4,000 children enter

John Boyne reopens Covid-19 story contest after over 4,000 children enter

Isolation Diaries: The novelist also tells us about his experience of the coronavirus shutdown

Tue Mar 24 2020 - 10:11
From 15 years of heroin addiction to becoming a neuroscience lecturer

From 15 years of heroin addiction to becoming a neuroscience lecturer

Brian Pennie's memoir tells the story of addiction, recovery and redemption

Sat Mar 21 2020 - 06:04
‘We’ll never see a pandemic in our lifetime, or my name isn’t Lord Clarence Imminent-Comeuppance’

‘We’ll never see a pandemic in our lifetime, or my name isn’t Lord Clarence Imminent-Comeuppance’

Patrick Freyne: Downtown Abbey creator Julian Fellowes meets his Waterloo in Belgravia

Fri Mar 20 2020 - 05:00
Coronavirus: ‘The people involved in this business are so vulnerable’

Coronavirus: ‘The people involved in this business are so vulnerable’

Artists and arts workers have been left in desperate straits by the sudden shutdown

Tue Mar 17 2020 - 06:00
Young straight people have apparently completely forgotten how to do sex

Young straight people have apparently completely forgotten how to do sex

Patrick Freyne: Five Guys a Week shows the crisis in heterosexuality is well under way

Fri Mar 13 2020 - 05:00
Bob Geldof: ‘I’ll be going along in the car, and suddenly, bang, out comes the sadness’

Bob Geldof: ‘I’ll be going along in the car, and suddenly, bang, out comes the sadness’

The Boomtown Rats singer on childhood, grief, rebellion, Brexit and Ireland’s progress

Sat Mar 07 2020 - 06:00
Ready Steady Cook is back to soften the UK up for rationing

Ready Steady Cook is back to soften the UK up for rationing

They might soon be cooking with whatever they can scavenge from the forbidden zone

Fri Mar 06 2020 - 05:00
‘Hello, I hear there’s someone in the house acting the b*ll*cks’

‘Hello, I hear there’s someone in the house acting the b*ll*cks’

An exhibition of photos of ordinary items gives sharp insights into addiction in families

Sat Feb 29 2020 - 06:00
Steve Martin and Martin Short: ‘I have about 800 cousins coming to the Dublin show’

Steve Martin and Martin Short: ‘I have about 800 cousins coming to the Dublin show’

The veteran comedians on Irish roots, timeless humour and touring with a partner

Sat Feb 29 2020 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne on Love Is Blind: It’s Gilead, Love Island and Blind Date rolled into one

Patrick Freyne on Love Is Blind: It’s Gilead, Love Island and Blind Date rolled into one

Netflix’s dystopian dating show asks if it’s what’s inside that really counts (Spoiler: it isn’t)

Thu Feb 27 2020 - 10:01
Dancing With The Stars backstage: ‘I’d love to see Danny Healy Rae out there’

Dancing With The Stars backstage: ‘I’d love to see Danny Healy Rae out there’

Patrick Freyne visits the set of ‘the biggest show on Irish telly’

Sat Feb 22 2020 - 05:00
Who turned up to the Dublin casting call seeking ‘bone thin, amputees, crooked teeth’?

Who turned up to the Dublin casting call seeking ‘bone thin, amputees, crooked teeth’?

Hundreds queued up to be in the Ridley Scott movie starring Ben Affleck and Matt Damon

Fri Feb 21 2020 - 17:00
‘How can we torment a bunch of millennial snowflakes and get away with it?’

‘How can we torment a bunch of millennial snowflakes and get away with it?’

Patrick Freyne: RTÉ tortures avocado lovers in Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week

Fri Feb 21 2020 - 05:45
Life after care: ‘We’re all just trying to grow up’

Life after care: ‘We’re all just trying to grow up’

‘There are over 6,000 kids in the care system and there are 6,000 different stories’

Sat Feb 15 2020 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Homeland is a tool for teaching Americans geography

Patrick Freyne: Homeland is a tool for teaching Americans geography

Claire Danes in Homeland is basically Dora the Geopolitical Agitator

Fri Feb 14 2020 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne on Love Island: I had forgotten how oddly asexual the hunks are

Patrick Freyne on Love Island: I had forgotten how oddly asexual the hunks are

The Love Island hunks do press-ups in tiny shorts – just like we do at The Irish Times

Fri Feb 07 2020 - 05:00
Richard Dawson: ‘I don’t want to tell people what to think’

Richard Dawson: ‘I don’t want to tell people what to think’

The Newcastle musician speaks about post-Brexit UK, fictional songwriting and embracing contradiction

Wed Feb 05 2020 - 06:00
Brexit Day bloc party in Westminster descends into a warped Eurovision

Brexit Day bloc party in Westminster descends into a warped Eurovision

Patrick Freyne: Nigel Farage and a cabaret artiste help usher the UK into its new era

Sat Feb 01 2020 - 01:15
Patrick Freyne in Parliament Square: Brexiteers make hay at final fling

Patrick Freyne in Parliament Square: Brexiteers make hay at final fling

London revellers call for sovereignty and 'controlled' migration as they celebrate

Fri Jan 31 2020 - 22:16
Dr Eva Orsmond loses the run of herself. Her husband goes mad. It’s perfect Irish TV

Dr Eva Orsmond loses the run of herself. Her husband goes mad. It’s perfect Irish TV

Patrick Freyne: We have an endless taste for shows about stressed people doing up houses

Fri Jan 31 2020 - 05:00
‘It’s a pity you can’t vaccinate people against Brexit’

‘It’s a pity you can’t vaccinate people against Brexit’

In Cambridge, one of the richest but most unequal cities in the UK, 73% voted remain

Thu Jan 30 2020 - 19:15
‘A lot of pubs are having parties’ in the town with the highest ‘Leave’ vote in Britain

‘A lot of pubs are having parties’ in the town with the highest ‘Leave’ vote in Britain

‘I’m not saying they’re all the same’ – Brexit voters in Boston, Lincolnshire, express relief

Wed Jan 29 2020 - 19:00
Election 2020 TV debate: The best debater is, unexpectedly, Richard Boyd Barrett

Election 2020 TV debate: The best debater is, unexpectedly, Richard Boyd Barrett

TV review: Did the people who get up early in the morning stay up late to watch this?

Tue Jan 28 2020 - 06:00
Gwyneth Paltrow’s adventures in the post-fact snake-oil business

Gwyneth Paltrow’s adventures in the post-fact snake-oil business

Patrick Freyne: The Goop Lab, on Netflix, ventures inside Paltrow’s bizarre company

Thu Jan 23 2020 - 05:00
‘He was some man’: Shane’s journey from care child to fearless activist

‘He was some man’: Shane’s journey from care child to fearless activist

Friends and family recall children’s rights activist Shane Griffin, who died on New Year’s Eve

Sat Jan 18 2020 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: The mystery of Dermot Bannon and his many surrogate wives

Patrick Freyne: The mystery of Dermot Bannon and his many surrogate wives

The Room to Improve sun god has enlisted them to build his Great Pyramid of Giza

Fri Jan 17 2020 - 05:00
Can a work of fiction about the Holocaust be inaccurate?

Can a work of fiction about the Holocaust be inaccurate?

There’s a large quantity of new Holocaust fiction, and experts are worried about quality

Sat Jan 11 2020 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: It is now late-period Dermot Bannon. He is on the verge of losing it

Patrick Freyne: It is now late-period Dermot Bannon. He is on the verge of losing it

That’s why this show is about Dermot Bannon designing a house for Dermot Bannon

Fri Jan 10 2020 - 05:30
Patrick Freyne: The best of TV in 2019 and what to watch this year

Patrick Freyne: The best of TV in 2019 and what to watch this year

Funniest programmes are of the hand-drawn variety like Rick and Morty

Fri Jan 03 2020 - 05:00
Ten years of spittle-flecked online outrage have changed us

Ten years of spittle-flecked online outrage have changed us

Patrick Freyne on key trends of past decade: superheroes, fidget spinners, online rage

Fri Dec 27 2019 - 05:00
So long Grumpy Cat... and other notable meme-folk of 2019

So long Grumpy Cat... and other notable meme-folk of 2019

Patrick Freyne on some noteworthy names that made news this year

Fri Dec 20 2019 - 05:00
Malcolm Gladwell: ‘Once you put words into the world you lose control over them’

Malcolm Gladwell: ‘Once you put words into the world you lose control over them’

The bestselling author has seen some of his ideas become dogma. That misses the point

Sat Dec 14 2019 - 06:00
Meet Paddy Fay, the first person Peter McVerry housed

Meet Paddy Fay, the first person Peter McVerry housed

Paddy Fay met Fr Peter McVerry when he broke into the priest’s home 40 years ago

Sat Dec 14 2019 - 06:00
The Royal Baby rules the British with a chubby fist of iron

The Royal Baby rules the British with a chubby fist of iron

Patrick Freyne on the ascent of Amber, from investigative journalist to modern-medieval queen

Fri Dec 13 2019 - 05:00
Baby Yoda: the charismatic floppy-eared one will surely be the next Bond

Baby Yoda: the charismatic floppy-eared one will surely be the next Bond

Patrick Freyne: A list of the most notable Star Wars non-humans from a galaxy far, far away

Fri Dec 06 2019 - 09:00
Britain’s politicised youth: ‘This feels like a once-in-a lifetime election’

Britain’s politicised youth: ‘This feels like a once-in-a lifetime election’

Members of Momentum and Blue Beyond on what the general election means to the young

Sat Nov 30 2019 - 06:15
Paddy Holohan: ‘MMA was a liferaft to grab onto’

Paddy Holohan: ‘MMA was a liferaft to grab onto’

The former MMA fighter talks about his upbringing, martial arts and becoming a politician

Sat Nov 30 2019 - 06:04
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