Investing in the people’s bankCredit unions, sucked into a banking crisis that now threatens the viability of some, are the financial life-blood of many appreciative communitiesSat Jul 27 2013 - 12:00
Belong To celebrates 10 years of showing teens that ‘being gay is okay’The organisation for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) young people focuses on their mental health needsSat Jul 27 2013 - 01:00
Curiouser and curiouser: the key to health and happiness?Research suggests that maintaining an inquiring mind can make us happier and even prolong our lives. Just as well the Festival of Curiosity starts in Dublin on July 25th, thenWed Jul 24 2013 - 01:00
Dead pigeons, live sheep, naked men: welcome to Kino KabaretThere’s been a burst of film-making in the heart of Dublin thanks to Kino, an international network of guerrilla filmmakers.Sat Jul 20 2013 - 00:00
A sorry situation: when politicians grapple with apologyPolitical gaffes and seeking forgivenessWed Jul 17 2013 - 01:00
Cool to be kind: an experiment in nicenessAhead of Clonakilty Random Acts of Kindness Festival, Patrick Freyne set out to discover how people react to acts of altruism on the streetsTue Jul 16 2013 - 01:00
No longer a waste of space as group aims to create parks and recreation around cityA Dublin collective is getting ready to open its first pop-up park on a derelict siteSat Jul 13 2013 - 01:00
Bitcoin – the people’s currency or dangerously subversive?Value of cybercurrency has fluctuated between €30 and €140 in recent monthsSat Jul 06 2013 - 01:00
‘It is humanity in all its beauty, hairy arse and warts’Finding one’s inner clown is part of a tradition dating back to ancient GreeceSat Jun 29 2013 - 01:00
Revolutionary art: the writing on the wallThousands of Egyptians will protest tomorrow to mark the anniversary of President Morsi’s first year in power. The street art of Bahia Shehab has played an unlikely role in the revolutionSat Jun 29 2013 - 01:00
The torture never endsThousands of survivors of torture live in Ireland. We talk to three of them, from Uganda, Zimbabwe and Northern IrelandSat Jun 22 2013 - 01:01
‘There’s a need to present a positive alternative to the G8, a different way . . . ’The local is global for Fermanagh marchersTue Jun 18 2013 - 01:00
‘God must be a capitalist,’ says a disappointed man at G8 protest in BelfastThe scale of security seemed to dwarf the good-natured protest activitiesMon Jun 17 2013 - 01:00
Sky’s latest laugh with its comedy commitmentSky’s first ever head of comedy, Lucy Lumsden, talks about the serious business of funnyMon Jun 10 2013 - 01:00
Marxist plotting an Irish revolutionIn the wake of mass movements in Tunisia, Egypt and Turkey, a Dublin socialist tells Patrick Freyne that revolution here is possibleSat Jun 08 2013 - 01:00
After tough times Irish hoteliers are managing againThe hotel industry offers a perfect illustration of Ireland’s boom - and then bust. With many controlled by Nama, or paying off huge mortgages, smaller tourist numbers and Irish customers wanting ever better deals, how are today’s hoteliers coping? Patrick Freyne and Rosita Boland reportSat Jun 08 2013 - 00:00
A night on the tilesWhat more natural challenge to set during Dublin Writers Festival than to play Scrabble against The Irish Times?Sat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
Graphic novelist with a $100m movie on his mindIrish Lives: Mark Mahon aims high with graphic novel about the VikingsSat Jun 01 2013 - 01:00
Old hands at film-makingDavid and Sally Shaw-Smith, who made RTÉ’s acclaimed Hands films, documenting Ireland’s waning craft and farming traditions from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, are retracing their steps for a new seriesTue May 28 2013 - 01:00
Hard to stay optimistic living in Hatch HallPatrick Freyne visits the direct-provision centre for asylum seekers at Hatch HallSat May 25 2013 - 02:00
Inferno, by Dan BrownArmed with nothing but tweed and factoids, can art historian Robert Langdon solve yet another supercrime?Sat May 25 2013 - 02:00
‘In Ireland you are two steps away from having nowhere to live, with just the clothes you stand in’The Capuchin Day Centre on Bow Street in Dublin feeds up to 950 people every day who are down on their luckSat May 18 2013 - 01:00
Speaking in tongues: the man who made a career of making up languagesDavid J Peterson is not an actor nor a composer but some of his best work can be heard in ‘Game of Thrones’. Meet the president of the Language Creation SocietyMon May 13 2013 - 02:00
Savouring flavour of tales best taken with a pinch of saltTall stories and tangled tales are a staple at the Dublin YarnspinnersSat May 11 2013 - 01:00
The internet archaeologists digging up the digital dark ageWho’s exploring the ancient internet? As Cern reconstructs the world’s first website, other web archive projects are trying to retrace our steps through the digital pastSat May 04 2013 - 06:00
Nothing like a good smoke and a whiff of danger to give beekeepers a buzzLiam McGarry is an advocate of the beekeeping life but it isn’t all sweetness and flightSat May 04 2013 - 01:00
Success is a fair-weather friend for one of the world’s oldest entertainment businessesIt has been around since 1913 but even Cassely’s has to bow to a high windSat Apr 20 2013 - 06:00
Simply DarinaDarina Allen talks to Patrick Freyne about overseeing a food empire in good times and badSat Apr 20 2013 - 06:00
From war hero to war crimes: Oliver Stone’s journey through US historyWith his new series, Oliver Stone wants to revise the accepted version of American history. It’s controversial, unapologetic and, says the director, the culmination of a lifetime’s workWed Apr 17 2013 - 07:00
‘You learn to read upside-down and backwards in this trade’Molly Bloom wanted to write a book about her husband. Steve Cole may do it for herSat Apr 13 2013 - 07:01
Comics, comedy and Communards: Margaret Thatcher and pop cultureFrom Adrian Mole to Ben Elton and Billy Bragg, everyone had an opinion on the Iron LadySat Apr 13 2013 - 06:00
How rich do you feel?Can you live on €30,000 a year if your mortgage is €2,000 a month? Is €48,000 a good salary? How does an asylum seeker live on €19 a week? We explore attitudes to earnings and debt in IrelandSat Apr 13 2013 - 06:00
‘You learn to read upside-down and backwards in this trade’Molly Bloom wanted to write a book about her husband. Steve Cole may do it for herSat Apr 13 2013 - 06:00
Iain Banks: ‘In the end we’ll be smiling’Bestselling author Iain Banks announces he has terminal cancer but still looks to the futureSat Apr 06 2013 - 07:00
Thing to remember about 1913 Lockout Tapestry is that it’s not a tapestrySiptu and the National College of Art and Design commissioned the art work to tell the story of the lockout, the Irish labour movement’s mythic touchstoneSat Apr 06 2013 - 06:00
Does music sound better when you can’t see the band?A new music show blindfolds its audience and puts its musicians in the dark, with the aim of creating a more immersive sound experienceTue Apr 02 2013 - 06:00
One wheel on my wagon: unicycling for beginnersIt’s big in Japan, where it’s apparently taught in schools. But Anthony Furlong seems to be a lone rider hereSat Mar 30 2013 - 06:00
Jaron Lanier: the online guru who says the internet is out to steal your jobSilicon Valley pioneer Jaron Lanier says information should not be free and that digital technology is eroding the middle-classWed Mar 27 2013 - 06:00
Beards are back, but not on meFacial fur is trendier than at any time since the 1970s. So it’s time for the REALLY cool guys to shave theirs off haircut and hot towel shave at the Waldorf BarbershopMon Mar 25 2013 - 06:00
Life in Mars: how fan funding could save your favourite showSix years after the end of ‘Veronica Mars’, a week of crowdfunding has made enough money to turn the TV show into a filmSat Mar 23 2013 - 06:00
How to believe in Jesus: take a coursePatrick Freyne attends The Alpha Course, an introductory guide to ChristianitySat Mar 23 2013 - 06:00
Jeffrey Archer: ‘It’s like being a pop star’The bestselling novelist, politician and convicted perjurer has been bowled over by his reception in India. What’s his appeal down to? Being a lifelong feministFri Mar 22 2013 - 16:54
Recreational lock-pickers open up about their craftOnce a fortnight members of Dublin hackerspace Tog meet to chat and pick locksSat Mar 16 2013 - 08:00
Border Vigils: Keeping Migrants Out of the Rich World, by Jeremy HardingPaperback reviewSat Mar 16 2013 - 06:00
Trolls, bullies and fake namesThe internet has changed how we treat our fellow beings, sometimes with negative consequences. But making it a more pleasant environment may be impossibleSat Mar 09 2013 - 06:00
Choosing my religionIreland is made up of many faiths, of ever-fluctuating numbers. We meet some people who have recently switched religious allegienceSat Mar 09 2013 - 06:00
