‘You could spend all your time steaming your vagina’Barbara Ehrenreich seeks to undermine all the ways in which contemporary middle-class westerners try to control their lives and forestall their inevitable doomThu Apr 12 2018 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: The royal wedding – or the ginger betrayal of Prince HarryHarry and Meghan Markle’s wedding will be a fight to a choral version of the Benny Hill themeSat Apr 07 2018 - 05:00
Go back to Dublin with yourself Dermot Bannon. We’re grand here in the darkWatching the ‘Room to Improve’ architect repressing his rage is my favourite thing on televisionSat Mar 31 2018 - 05:00
The Irish man ‘fighting fascism’ in Syria: ‘I was always curious how I’d react to battle’At least three Irish men are fighting with Kurds in Syria, part of an international battalion of ‘villagers, students, sons of butchers, socialists and anarchists’Sat Mar 24 2018 - 06:00
It’s Facebook’s fault I’m stupider than I was five years agoPatrick Freyne: I used to have an ill-thought-through opinion only a few times a weekSat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
How to hide on St Patrick’s Day: dress as a leprechaunPatrick Freyne takes his place for Dublin’s St Patrick’s Day paradeSat Mar 17 2018 - 14:09
Patrick Freyne: ‘We are a nation of alcoholic, backside-baring stoics with mother issues’Carrolls Irish Gifts shops are as apt a symbol for contemporary Ireland as anything elseSat Mar 17 2018 - 06:00
Dublin Airport: The bits passengers don’t get to seeBehind the scenes with flight-controllers, drug-searchers, bird-scarers and plane-spottersSat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
Are these famous Patricks Irish enough? Let’s award Pat PointsPatrick Freyne: Butcher, Benatar, Swayze, Smith, St Patrick . . . Who comes out tops?Sat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
I love you, Paul Hollywood, I say, while spitting cake and crying icing sugarPatrick Freyne: Ignore the mythical Beeby Sea: Great British Bake Off has always been on Channel 4Sat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
The Rolling Stones are still on tour – something is very wrong with our cultureNow in their seventh decade as a band, Jagger and his vassals are bringing their nostalgic money-printing machine to Croke ParkSat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
Winning Streak: 1,000 shows, 6,000 guests, €170m won and Marty Whelan’s hairAs ‘Winning Streak’ approaches its 1,000 show, presenters Marty Whelan and Sinead Kennedy talk about the cash-crazy extravaganzaSat Feb 24 2018 - 06:00
Don’t Tell the Bride that he’d prefer a hoolie down the dumpThe male is always presented as someone who, if left unattended, would starve or catch fireSat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
Daniel O'Donnell teasing Ireland's most excitable Mammies? It's pure filthFrom Yeats and Maud Gonne to Daniel and Majella, romantic Ireland isn't dead and goneSun Feb 11 2018 - 05:00
'That dog helped me with my anxiety, my depression, everything'Many people offset the pain of homelessness by keeping a pet – mostly dogs, but also cats, rabbits, and an iguanaSat Feb 10 2018 - 06:00
Damien Dempsey: ‘I see myself as a druid on the edge’He has a busy year ahead, with a just-announced summer show at the Iveagh GardensMon Feb 05 2018 - 05:00
How did intelligent Irish women get through the day in the 1980s?'One Day at a Time' and 'Roseanne' are on their way back; here are some olden-days shows that should also be remade, like "womanning competition" Calor Kosangas Housewife of the YearSun Feb 04 2018 - 05:00
Louis Walsh: ‘Boyzone were more fun than Westlife’‘Ireland’s Got Talent’ star on ungrateful popstars and being falsely accused of sex assaultSat Feb 03 2018 - 06:00
My friend said: ‘Heroin will get rid of the pain.’ And it didAnne Buckley spent 17 years on heroin and methadone: ‘an addict, a thief, a zombie’Sat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00
Grey’s Anatomy: breaking barriers for hot doctors with complicated social livesFourteen years of fires, hostage situations, MRSA and ‘romps’ on this entertaining showSat Jan 27 2018 - 05:00
Hard cell: The entrepreneurial programme for prisonersThe Prison Entrepreneurship Programme being run in Wheatfield Prison looks to harness energies in a positive way, and has been proven to reduce recidivism ratesSat Jan 20 2018 - 06:00
Got a problem? There’s a television show for thatPatrick Freyne: We’ve come to the point where we want TV to solve all our illsSat Jan 20 2018 - 05:00
Shane MacGowan’s birthday party leaves brown eyes streamingIf a bomb went off at the National Concert Hall gig that would have been it for the Irish music sceneTue Jan 16 2018 - 08:07
Dancing with the Stars: Marty Morrissey’s erotic energy is frighteningPatrick Freyne: This is where the experiment in democratic self-governance has ledSun Jan 14 2018 - 06:00
There’s no better time to be pretentious than when you’re in collegePatrick Freyne’s guide to living, learning and being when you make it into third levelTue Jan 09 2018 - 01:00
What did the recession do for us? It made Vincent Browne a starThe Crash – 10 years on: Where is the art of the recession? Try books and theatre, music and plenty of satirical mayhemSat Jan 06 2018 - 06:00
In 2018 cryptocurrencies will be huge. Buy FreyneybucksThey’re better than Bitcoins. Get in on the ground floor and purchase some nowSat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00
A Christmas story by Joseph O’Connor, Lisa McInerney, John Boyne, Emer McLysaght, Maeve Higgins and more...Ten writers play a game of pass the baton to create a Christmas mystery about an elf from Elphin and a magic crystalSat Dec 23 2017 - 06:00
‘Any chance of a passport?’ asks the Queen while Lars Von Trier takes on Mrs BrownPatrick Freyne previews this year’s Christmas TV and gives away some plot twistsSat Dec 23 2017 - 05:00
‘Are you a real elf?’ asks a little girl. ‘Yeah,’ I liePatrick Freyne dons an elf costume to work alongside Santa in Arnotts for the daySat Dec 16 2017 - 06:00
Cycle of life with a difference in inner city DublinA Dublin project lets teenagers fix and build their own bikes, giving them not only mechanical skills but life skillsSat Dec 16 2017 - 05:50
‘Next time we see Queen Elizabeth she might have a knife’Patrick Freyne's Icons of Ireland 2017: Ed Sheeran, Conor McGregor, ‘The Brits’Sat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
Neven Maguire gives an erotic massage to some lambPatrick Freyne: These modern cookery programmes are giving youngsters an unrealistic idea of what food should look and sound likeSun Dec 10 2017 - 05:00
Sting: ‘When I get angry I’m a Geordie. It’s very effective’The former Police singer talks music, politics and his brush with the IRASat Dec 09 2017 - 06:00
Joe Duffy: ‘I give a platform to people who don’t have one’The RTÉ host is proud of his radio show and doesn’t dwell on anti-Liveline snobberySat Dec 09 2017 - 06:00
‘I’m a cultural culchie, baptised in red lemonade and raised by bullocks’Patrick Freyne: Every December the Eighth it happens - hordes of salivating red-faced rural typesSun Dec 03 2017 - 05:00
Ticket Awards 2017: The best television of the yearIt’s hard to think of a show that chimed as much with the moment as ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’Sat Dec 02 2017 - 05:00
Late Late Toy Show auditions: ‘The mothers are worse than the kids’Patrick Freyne meets the talented kids who try out for the annual toyfestSat Nov 25 2017 - 06:00
The TV theme songs that make you drool with pleasurePatrick Freyne: The secret to a great ever-lasting memorable show is a catchy, sing-along introSat Nov 25 2017 - 05:00
WTF review: Robert Peston’s take on Brexit and Trump? FFSThe ITV political editor’s enlightened Keynesianism comes wrapped in Alan PartridgismSat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
What I learned about mental health from watching The A-TeamPatrick Freyne: TV regularly uses psychological problems to give a character “depth”Sat Nov 18 2017 - 05:00
Nerds, wonks and a failed finance minister: a visit to KilkenomicsDiscussions on Trump, Brexit, technology and media were some of the topics covered at this year’s economics festival in KilkennySun Nov 12 2017 - 19:08
Kilkenomics: A topsy-turvy place all about maximising weird interactionsEconomists wander in T-shirts, jeans and leather jackets; comedians wear suits and tiesSat Nov 11 2017 - 22:14
Welcome to the first meeting of the Paradise Papers Club‘Firstly, let’s just point out that none of us have broken any laws’Sat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
Alison Spittle: ‘If you’re friends with a mad bastard, that’s your cross to bear’The comedian on her new TV show 'Nowhere Fast', a sitcom about women, friendship, and where the men are little more than love interestsSat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
Kathy Griffin: ‘I said Trump was a Nazi in a jokingly loving way – except that he is’The comedian regrets apologising for posing with Trump’s 'severed head'Sat Nov 04 2017 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Move over, John Lewis. This year’s best Christmas adsAd man Freyne has something for everyone, from miming peasants to a post-Brexit SantaSat Nov 04 2017 - 05:00
I like to imagine a reunion where the Stranger Things kids are disappointed fortysomethingsPatrick Freyne: Stranger Things is gripping and fun and, thanks to the stellar young acting talent, often movingSat Oct 28 2017 - 05:00
‘Your son. He’s dead.’ Storm Ophelia’s real damageThe families of Fintan Goss, Clare O’Neill and Michael Pyke will never forget MondaySat Oct 21 2017 - 06:00
If I angle my screen, no one can see I'm watching Mamma Mia!Why have you all kept this glorious megahit - featuring Meryl Streep, Greek slaves and all three kinds of man - from meSat Oct 21 2017 - 05:00
