Writer Andrey Kurkov tells Ukraine’s story: ‘It’s my duty. This is my front line’The night before the war the author joked about cooking “the last borscht in Kyiv” but he didn’t believe Russia would actually invade.Sat Mar 12 2022 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Where did a Star Trek space person learn to say ‘Sláinte’?Star Trek: Picard is lost in nostalgia and doing its best to be no funFri Mar 11 2022 - 05:00
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in an American City – Shocking and movingBook review: Andrea Elliott has done meticulous work depicting the realities of US inequalitySat Mar 05 2022 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: American teen dramas are intrinsically weird to the Irish mindNetflix series One of Us Is Lying has a big twist coming. And the twist is: I don’t careFri Mar 04 2022 - 05:00
Nursing homes revisited: It was the saddest year in my lifeLockdowns and fear took their toll in the pandemic. Now, the sector faces post-Covid challengesSat Feb 26 2022 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Curious about the Scandinavian social model, I switched on ‘Vikings: Valhalla’The hunky, vengeful, axe-wielding warriors expose flaws in the Nordic social modelFri Feb 25 2022 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: If I know anything about women, it’s that they love a man who whinesNetflix's Love is Blind: If a blue rectangle of light is your sexual fantasy, you should applyFri Feb 18 2022 - 05:00
Jacksepticeye, the millionaire YouTuber from OffalySean McLoughlin didn't have internet growing up. Now he has 28m YouTube subscribersSat Feb 12 2022 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: The Masked Singer is a bit like an Eyes Wide Shut partyA traffic cone singing ‘If you like piña coladas’? This must be the DTs againFri Feb 11 2022 - 05:00
Jaime Nanci: ‘I think gender fluidity is the natural evolution of humanity’The singer on growing up gay in Dundalk, coping with MS and running in heelsThu Feb 10 2022 - 05:00
Joyriders: Remembering an Ireland washed away by the Celtic TigerPhotograph Ross McDonnell on his latest book showcasing Ballymun in late noughtiesSat Feb 05 2022 - 06:00
Conversations With Friends: First trailer released for Sally Rooney TV adaptationLenny Abrahamson’s forthcoming 12-episode series features in a Vanity Fair spreadFri Feb 04 2022 - 14:15
‘Kill them Reacher!’ I shout. He makes them crunch and squelch, and I laugh myself sickPatrick Freyne: Diminutive Scientologist Tom Cruise no longer plays Jack ReacherFri Feb 04 2022 - 05:00
What the hell are NFTs and what do they mean for art?Populist uprising or environmentally destructive fad – either way, there’s lots of cash in digital non-fungible tokensSat Jan 29 2022 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: What really matters is how sickeningly rich one isIn Julian Fellowes’s world, big houses with servants constituted a perfect social orderFri Jan 28 2022 - 05:00
David McWilliams: Sinn Féin ‘will change the housing market’The economist spoke to Cliff Taylor at the Irish Times Winter Nights FestivalTue Jan 25 2022 - 09:12
Local heroes: The people making a difference in communities around IrelandWe asked you to nominate someone in your life who gives backSat Jan 22 2022 - 00:00
Patrick Freyne: Lipsynching with your shirt off. That’s a job nowNetflix reality show Hype House reveals that jobs now include being sexy in 15-second chunksFri Jan 21 2022 - 05:00
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
