Emily in Paris? The French call it Leave Me Alone, You Illiterate SociopathPatrick Freyne: She has no French yet she’s thriving in a Parisian marketing firm?Fri Jan 14 2022 - 05:00
‘I’m tired. I’m scared. I know I have the potential to do something good’For people with disabilities, living an independent life is close to impossible without a personal assistant – but it’s not easy getting one from the HSESat Jan 08 2022 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: The pandemic can’t end until Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends airsThe big shows I’m anticipating in 2022, featuring Baby Yoda and my wife’s other husbandFri Jan 07 2022 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: I feel like Boris Johnson on child-support dayWhat do I mean? Well ... mumble, mumble, mumble. Plus nine other TV trends of 2021Fri Dec 31 2021 - 05:00
‘It’s an incomprehensible form of death’The charity Cry Ireland is campaigning to raise awareness of sudden cardiac deathTue Dec 28 2021 - 06:01
Anyone saying ‘Father Christmas’ instead of ‘Santy’ will have their Irish passport revokedPatrick Freyne: Once Christmas jumpers happened only ‘in America’. Now? EverywhereFri Dec 17 2021 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: Chucky might be a bit happy-go-stabby, but he’ll bring back blue-collar jobsWhy come up with new ideas when you can just reanimate a 1980s murderous doll?Fri Dec 10 2021 - 05:00
This is Fiona, who’s flanked by goonish fashion victims – much like yourself in CoppersPatrick Freyne: The Princess Switch films celebrate Yuletide tat and aristocratic grandeurFri Dec 03 2021 - 05:00
Richie Sadlier: ‘Stopping drinking made my life a lot simpler’The former footballer on sport and drinking, abuse and therapy, consent and reinventionSat Nov 27 2021 - 06:00
Barretstown: ‘You gave me back my child, the child that was there before they got sick’The Co Kildare camp is open again, to help children who are sick ‘feel a bit normal’Sat Nov 20 2021 - 06:00
Warning: This programme contains insufficient sex, violence and swearingPatrick Freyne: Amazon Prime’s The Wheel of Time dives straight into mystical whimsyFri Nov 19 2021 - 08:04
The story of my tattoo: ‘It sounds ridiculous, but it holds me to account’Hope, love, trauma: Patrick Freyne hears the stories behind people’s body artSun Nov 14 2021 - 06:00
Barretstown: What Paul Newman did for Saoirse, Kitty, Julie and IsaacThe Co Kildare camp was set up by a man who ‘wanted to help kids who were sick feel a bit normal’Sat Nov 13 2021 - 06:00
Aldi’s Christ the Carrot, Amazon’s fake kindness: The Christmas TV ads, 2021Patrick Freyne: Disney’s ad is quite moving. M&S’s needs more existential angstFri Nov 12 2021 - 05:00
Cop26: Glasgow protest draws 100,000 in torrential rainClimate activists unite as ‘a cleansing voice, the voice of truth and it has to be out there’Sat Nov 06 2021 - 21:12
Cop26 week 1: The head and the heart of climate change don’t always work togetherThe couch-surfing activists have little contact with the powerful people. But they’re connectedSat Nov 06 2021 - 10:00
Cop26: 'Fighting to save our life-support systems isn’t radical at all,' says ThunbergPatrick Freyne meets activists at a protest in Glasgow, as Greta Thunberg addresses the crowdFri Nov 05 2021 - 20:26
Cop26: ‘It’s called Cop26 because everywhere you go there are 26 cops’Protesters make gradual progress through Glasgow streets usually flanked by policeWed Nov 03 2021 - 22:10
Welcome to Cop26 – ‘it’s a bit like a circus’ but with a ‘corporate feeling’‘The negotiation is a competition about what your country needs, and everyone is selling how good they are at saving the world’Tue Nov 02 2021 - 21:09
Cop26: 'It’s a bit too white and elite,' says Mary RobinsonFormer president is a 'prisoner of hope' as nations meet to discuss climate targetsMon Nov 01 2021 - 20:38
Tom Clonan: ‘To think 21 years later that all these young people could have been helped’The whistleblower recalls his revelation of abuse and harassment in the Defence ForcesSat Oct 30 2021 - 06:00
Nadine Coyle, Samantha Mumba and Nicky Byrne: pop music’s middle managementPatrick Freyne: RTÉ’s The Last Singer Standing proves pop is now a middle-aged interestFri Oct 29 2021 - 05:00
The warden of Skellig Michael: ‘I have seen people just start bawling crying’Robert L Harris on spending 34 years as warden of the remote, monastic islandSat Oct 23 2021 - 06:00
Pussies galore: The Cats review you never knew you needed until nowNightmarish cat people with tails but human limbs, breasts and bums? TS Eliot would approveFri Oct 22 2021 - 05:00
Kellie Harrington: ‘I don’t need my life to change. That’s not why I went to the Olympics’The boxer was ‘very happy’ before she won her gold medal. She wants to keep it that waySat Oct 16 2021 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Royals ride who they like. It says so in Latin on the Windsor crestDiana: The Musical tells the story of the famous tea-towel and mug model Diana, princess of WalesFri Oct 15 2021 - 05:00
Ann Marie Hourihane: ‘Death shows us you can’t manage life’Hourihane’s new book is a powerful exploration of death, dying and rituals in IrelandSat Oct 09 2021 - 06:00
Martin Hayes: How I smashed my fiddle and stopped drinkingThe fiddle player on becoming a ‘vegetarian, eastern-thinking, long-haired something’Sat Oct 09 2021 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: Paul Hollywood’s handshake is like being gripped by the full force of your father’s loveWho could replace Mary Berry, named after both the mother of Christ and a popular cake filling?Fri Oct 08 2021 - 05:00
Rosita Boland: ‘I am exposing my vulnerabilities. It’s okay to say you’re vulnerable’‘Sometimes life is hard and complicated and messy. It wouldn’t be authentic to ignore that’Sat Oct 02 2021 - 06:00
Good singers? Show me talent-show entrants with full HGV licences. Then I’ll be impressedPatrick Freyne: In The Big Deal, cash-strapped entertainers vie for a few months’ rent moneyFri Oct 01 2021 - 05:00
Did you see Throwing Celebrities off a Bridge into a Ravine? It reminds me of my childhoodPatrick Freyne: As an Army brat, I have lots of insights into Special Forces: Ultimate Hell Week – The ProfessionalsFri Sept 24 2021 - 05:00
Ann Ingle: ‘People don’t think about older people as exciting’Author talks about her memoir, Openhearted, and defying expectations as she gets olderSat Sept 18 2021 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: The honey or the money? Dating is so complicated these daysThe hunks in Ready to Mingle clearly have delicate skin: they keep ripping their clothes offFri Sept 10 2021 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: My highest ever accolade was being designated fourth toughest boy in fifth classSchooldays I’ll Never Forget: How did I do it? I channelled The A-Team’s ‘Howling Mad’ MurdockThu Sept 09 2021 - 06:00
Underground Dublin: A pilgrimage through an ancient tunnel networkPatrick Freyne explores the capital’s little-known subterranean river networkSat Sept 04 2021 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Boris is conscripting celebrities into the SAS. I like his moxieEveryone loves crying celebs. So Celebrity SAS exposes its stars to CS gas in the first episodeFri Sept 03 2021 - 05:00
Jedward: ‘We’re going to be 30 so we’re not these teen popstars’The popstars reflect on their career in show business, social justice and parenthoodSat Aug 28 2021 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: The braindead are a nightmare, and zombies can be a bit of a chore tooIf zombies are metaphors for our deeper anxieties, what does The Walking Dead say about us?Fri Aug 27 2021 - 05:00
Student accommodation: ‘It’s not what students want. And it’s extortionate’Concerns persist that purpose-built student accommodation is unaffordable for studentsSat Aug 21 2021 - 06:00
Ah, lads, you couldn’t be more Irish if you were tipping Revenue off about a neighbour’s tax affairsPatrick Freyne: All that’s left for Ant and Dec to do is drink red lemonade from an old Tayto bagFri Aug 20 2021 - 05:00
Jeremy Clarkson being hoofed in the testes. Now that’s what I call eroticaPatrick Freyne: I will be giving Clarkson’s Farm my usual joyless Marxist critique, but first...Fri Aug 13 2021 - 05:00
How dare Jennifer Aniston and David Schwimmer deny they are in a relationshipAt €1m an epsiode, ‘Ross’ and ‘Rachel’ should be obliged to say they’re more than FriendsThu Aug 12 2021 - 12:59
What is free will? Can we know God? And what if everyone was really buff, with abs and stuff?Patrick Freyne: Like all great fiction, Masters of the Universe asks the big questionsFri Jul 30 2021 - 05:00
In the shadow of giants: Living next to Dublin’s high-rise developments'I had a stroke over this place in 2016… The stress of it. No one was helping us'Sat Jul 24 2021 - 06:00
‘Squirrel’s quite nice ... fox tastes awful’ – Learning to survive in the wildYou must slow down to nature’s pace, be able to make fire, and be prepared to eat anythingSat Jul 24 2021 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: After several episodes of Sexy Beasts, I'm attracted to many animalsYou’ll either hate Sexy Beasts, Netflix’s new dating show, or like it so much it disturbs youFri Jul 23 2021 - 05:00
‘Near-death experiences happen a lot. But I pray to ask for protection and for my horse to be okay’Kim Bartley’s film Pure Grit tells the moving story of Indian relay racer Sharmaine WeedWed Jul 21 2021 - 05:00
Young playwrights separated by lockdown come together for Abbey debutWriters from Fighting Words programme meet for first time as their plays grace the stageSat Jul 17 2021 - 05:00
‘Finally,’ I thought, ‘an erotic drama that makes sense to me.’ It so doesn’tPatrick Freyne: I live in hope that there’s a cameo from the real Billy ConnollyFri Jul 16 2021 - 05:00
