Patrick Freyne's summer: Watch ‘Jaws’, eat a Brunch, listen to Meatloaf – just don’t wear shortsMy guide to the best and most appropriate summer thingsSat Jun 30 2018 - 06:15
‘Girls are just as into sport as boys if they get the chance’Patrick Freyne joins a session at Fun Direction, which encourages girls to play sport and where he learns that unicorns poop candies, but definitely not trainsSat Jun 30 2018 - 06:00
‘A company dog and a pool table don’t make a co-working space’Co-working spaces are thriving in Ireland, and changing the way we workSat Jun 23 2018 - 06:00
How the way we work is changingAutomation is destroying jobs and the employer is no longer your paternalistic chumSat Jun 23 2018 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: If only Love Island had a World Cup teamA simple people, the islanders national costume is as basic as their minds are pureSat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00
The Meaning of Poldark Striding Topless Out of the SeaPatrick Freyne: Poldark’s full of existential conundrums. And heaving, glistening chestsSat Jun 16 2018 - 05:00
Prince and Duchess bask in ‘liquid sunshine’ as God confirms he’s a KerrymanWindolene, fresh paint and no spelling test – a great day for KerryFri Jun 15 2018 - 20:41
Prince Charles declines spicy food before stepping into famine hutRoyal greeted by entrepreneurs and academics on visit to University College CorkThu Jun 14 2018 - 18:48
Royal visit to Cork: ‘Is it the musician Prince?’Starstruck Cork does its best to make Charles and Camilla laugh at the English MarketThu Jun 14 2018 - 13:05
Patrick Freyne: Television that makes me Glow with happinessThe band of eccentric wrestlers return while Gotham seems fun compared with murderous Brexit BritainSat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
Nick Cave at the Abbey: A funny, strange and beautiful eveningThe audience asks the questions in this raw, intimate and revealing showWed Jun 06 2018 - 10:00
Lionel Shriver: ‘I do not want to be told I'm privileged’It’s one thing to be provocative, the writer says, but her critics should at least read herSat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: Nature programmes don’t tell you animals are duplicitous bastardsThey never once say ‘Observe this majestic tool’ or ‘This bird is a complete shithead’Sat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00
Robotic surgery? ‘It’s a bit like defusing a bomb’Doctors could soon be taking a more hands-off approach to even more proceduresWed May 30 2018 - 06:00
My heroines: Cagney, Lacey, Xena and She-RaThe Powerpuff Girls turned out to be a template for a new generation of feministsSat May 26 2018 - 05:00
I was one of those lads, robbing shops, stealing carsVulnerable teens are easily tempted into lives of crime. A project in Dublin tries to divert them from thisSat May 19 2018 - 06:00
Bed and breakfast – and ‘Flashdance’ – with Daniel and Majella: what a feelingFeast goes on the table and all restraint goes out the window when Ireland’s first couple arrive at the doorSat May 19 2018 - 05:00
The Stones at Croker: Mick gets us all to yowl, so of course we doFor more than two hours, they pummel our senses with some of the best rock music everThu May 17 2018 - 23:33
Patrick Freyne: Billy Ocean and Paula Abdul changed my worldThe music videos of the 1970s and 80s changed me, not always in a good waySat May 12 2018 - 05:00
Eurovision honour restored, Ireland sits back and enjoys an irrelevant semi-finalSerbia, Sweden, Australia all got through. But we don’t care, cos we’re already in the finalThu May 10 2018 - 22:54
‘Who Wants to Be a Milliner?’ – a classic Clarkson vehicleJeremy Clarkson might not be PC, but he is always innovating. Why not hatmaking?Sat May 05 2018 - 19:24
Never mind church. Let’s take Hozier to EurovisionOther countries throw stars and hit songwriters at the contest. Is there any path back to glory?Sat May 05 2018 - 05:00
An exploration of masculinity: seven kinds of menPatrick Freyne: What I learned from the role models making the headlinesSat Apr 28 2018 - 06:00
‘I’m always wearing my character shoes’: On set with Cillian MurphyOn the set of ‘The Delinquent Season’, director and writer Mark O’Rowe talks about working with Murphy, Andrew Scott and Catherine Walker on his debut featureSat Apr 28 2018 - 06:00
‘It’s Ladies’ Day and where the ladies go, the men will follow’On day four of Punchestown Festival, even the lads are making an extra effort to look goodSat Apr 28 2018 - 01:00
Where do atheists get their values?John Gray explores fixed idea, unquestioning atheism in his new book Seven Types of AtheismTue Apr 24 2018 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: Judgmental TV at its very bestAt Your Service: The Brennan Brothers tackle Irish hospitality in a very Irish waySat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
People of the Year awards honour Irish ‘ledgebags’ of 2018Irish Coast Guard, Tuam historian and people of Ballaghaderreen among the winnersMon Apr 16 2018 - 00:44
‘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
