Over-50s: beneficiaries of the boom, architects of the recessionA SURVEY WAS published this week claiming most over-50s are happy with their lifestyles and don’t feel too affected by the recession…Sat Mar 12 2011 - 00:00
It's now okay to dislike Galliano for his views. And his dress senseUNTIL NOW it was considered somewhat narrow-minded and illiberal to dislike John Galliano simply for his ridiculous personal …Sat Mar 05 2011 - 00:00
A nation on pause as people scramble to double check a truly bizarre momentON THE AIRWAVES: A day when presenters apologised, politicians were poignant and Enda Kenny baffled listenersMon Feb 28 2011 - 00:00
A little bit of Ireland on the International Space StationIt’s the most expensive single object ever built, is visible from 350km away and has Irish connections – and this week the International…Sat Feb 19 2011 - 00:00
At last: comedy catches up with what's happened to IrelandPRESENT TENSE: IS THIS the only country in the world in which popular television programmes take a few minutes out to lampoon…Sat Feb 19 2011 - 00:00
Review: Radiohead - The King of LimbsRadiohead’s new album The King of Limbs jumped out of listeners' inboxes with a surprise early release - brought forward a day…Fri Feb 18 2011 - 00:00
The smart way to win the Irish-language debate: talk EnglishPRESENT TENSE: IT’S A SHAME that Enda Kenny, Micheál Martin and Eamon Gilmore are all fluent Irish speakers.Sat Feb 12 2011 - 00:00
The clock is ticking. Is time running out for Irish newspapers?PRESENT TENSE: FROM THE OUTSIDE the first sign that it was to be a bad week for the Sunday Tribune came with word that Independent…Sat Feb 05 2011 - 00:00
Ulster Bank writes one more chequeTHE DAYS of banks sponsoring anything are almost gone, and yesterday brought the news that 2011 will be the final year in which…Thu Feb 03 2011 - 00:00
The political revolution: coming to a computer screen near youNOW WE KNOW where Enda Kenny has been for the past couple of months: on iceSat Jan 08 2011 - 00:00
The papers are full of lists about 2010. Here's another onePRESENT TENSE: YOU can’t open a newspaper without finding a list of things from 2010Fri Dec 24 2010 - 00:00
And now for the media analysis stage of the Gerry Ryan storyPRESENT TENSE: IF YOU WERE suffering Gerry Ryan fatigue before his passing, then you’ll be pretty much floored by now.Sat Dec 18 2010 - 00:00
Why children will look back and smilePRESENT TENSE: IF YOU WERE eight years old you might have looked around at this country recently, at the new landscape, at the…Sat Dec 11 2010 - 00:00
Heaney and Keyes free for one nightSEAMUS HEANEY’S Selected Poems and Marian Keyes’s Rachel’s Holiday will be among a selection of books to be given away for free…Thu Dec 02 2010 - 00:00
Ireland was poor, then rich, then poor. Here's a shot of a beggarPRESENT TENSE: SO THIS is what it’s like to be the subject of disaster-zone coverageSat Nov 27 2010 - 00:00
National Concert Hall director to pass the baton onTHE DIRECTOR of the National Concert Hall, Judith Woodworth, is to step down at the end of this year.Fri Nov 26 2010 - 00:00
I've bought Call of Duty: Black Ops. See you in a weekPRESENT TENSE: I FOUND myself prevaricating over a copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops during the weekSat Nov 20 2010 - 00:00
Hold the front page, there's a disgraceful office e-mail to exploitPRESENT TENSE: WELL, THAT GOT out of controlSat Nov 13 2010 - 00:00
It's fun to be at the tweeting heart of a global epidemicPRESENT TENSE: THE WORLD probably doesn’t need another piece gasping at how awesome the internet is. But here we go againSat Nov 06 2010 - 00:00
What's that, Skippy? We've gone overboard about a kangaroo story?PRESENT TENSE: IT WOULD HAVE been far, far easier to take the wallaby-in-a-nightclub story more seriously if Tuesday’s Liveline…Sat Oct 23 2010 - 01:00
You don't need to go to journalism college to be a journalistPRESENT TENSE: Hot Press is putting its name to a diploma in music journalismSat Oct 16 2010 - 01:00
Why Banksy's too kosy for komfortThe Simpsons isn’t nearly as big a television hit as it used to be, but it became an internet favourite yesterday when Banksy…Tue Oct 12 2010 - 01:00
No 'Mad Men'. No 'Glee'. I'm an outcast from the zeitgeistPRESENT TENSE: LET’S KICK OFF with a pop quizSat Oct 09 2010 - 01:00
Surrealism and a cement truck: the perfect mix for a protest?PRESENT TENSE: WHEN IT COMES to a good protest we’re not ones for burning effigies or shooting bullets in the air or charging…Sat Oct 02 2010 - 01:00
Springsteen steps out of the DarknessIn Toronto for the premiere of a documentary about the career-defining album that could so easily have been his last, a youthful…Sat Sept 25 2010 - 01:00
Hard acts to follow: who would play Bertie and Brian?PRESENT TENSE: LAST WEEK the BBC broadcast The Special Relationship , in which Michael Sheen completed his trilogy of Tony Blair…Sat Sept 25 2010 - 01:00
Hall's dark comedy gives paws for thoughtSMALL PRINT: YOU CAN’T always guess what a foreign audience will react to most in an Irish filmWed Sept 15 2010 - 01:00
Plagiarism? Laziness? Mais non, that's 'patchwork literature'PRESENT TENSE: THERE IS ANOTHER spot of bother over the French novelist, and former Cork resident, Michel HouellebecqSat Sept 11 2010 - 01:00
Do you have change of a €25bn note?PRESENT TENSE: IN 2004 Allied Irish Banks became embroiled in a furore when it was discovered to have overcharged foreign exchange…Sat Sept 04 2010 - 01:00
The cat in the bin story that took on nine lives of its ownPRESENT TENSE: ON WEDNESDAY afternoon, if you turned on Sky News, you would have found the CCTV film of that woman Mary Bale…Sat Aug 28 2010 - 01:00
Another week, another mass display of public nudityPRESENT TENSE: THERE WAS a point in our recent history – until two years ago, to be precise – when it was a matter of widespread…Sat Jul 17 2010 - 01:00
A perfect parable for ageing, from a film starring Mr Potato HeadPRESENT TENSE: IF YOU DON’T have a kid with an extensive DVD collection, you may not have seen Toy Story 2 for some timeSat Jul 10 2010 - 01:00
Competition winner: a new blood-boiling national anthemLast month, we invited ‘Irish Times’ readers to compose a new national anthem for Ireland. Here are the results...Mon Jun 28 2010 - 01:00
Singlehanded winner in a contest of television crassnessPRESENT TENSE: Sadly, the best of English TV comedy will not be much in evidence in the coming jingoistic weeks across the water…Sat Jun 12 2010 - 01:00
RTÉ unveils summer schedulesIt was a mix of some new ideas and some old reliables as RTÉ released details of its summer schedules today.Thu May 27 2010 - 01:00
Intimate details prove too close to the chat-show bonePRESENT TENSE: There is something discomforting about how misery is handled and exploited on prime-time TVSat May 22 2010 - 01:00
Never mind the politicians, here come the punditsPRESENT TENSE: WATCHING NICK Clegg and David Cameron’s joint press conference live on Wednesday, you could see the TV reporters…Sat May 15 2010 - 01:00
The art of attention-grabbing has never been so straightforwardPRESENT TENSE: Creative advertising distinguished itself in a number of ways this week, some far less subtle than othersSat May 01 2010 - 01:00
Competition winner: a new blood-boiling national anthemLast month, we invited ‘Irish Times’ readers to compose a new national anthem for Ireland. Here are the results...Mon Apr 26 2010 - 01:00
Clegg mobilises instant opinion - but it's the worm wot won itPRESENT TENSE: THE BRITISH general election campaign is not exactly setting party conversation alight hereSat Apr 24 2010 - 01:00
Hall of fame literary award for JordanNEIL JORDAN may still be better known as a film-maker, but he was last night recognised for his work as a writer when inducted…Wed Apr 21 2010 - 01:00
Why Brand Ireland now means Crystal Swing and JedwardPRESENT TENSE: ON MONDAY, Crystal Swing appeared on Ellen DeGeneres’s US chat showSat Apr 17 2010 - 01:00
Where will journos go now the Bebo Generation has gone Awol?PRESENT TENSE: NO WONDER Bebo’s traffic has plummeted: during its early years, about a quarter of the people using it were middle…Sat Apr 10 2010 - 01:00
Lady Gaga: makes no sense, wears silly hats, but she worksPRESENT TENSE: WATCHING THE new Lady Gaga video for her song Telephone – joining the 20 million others who did so this week – …Sat Mar 20 2010 - 00:00
And the Oscar for best not-really-so-low-budget film went to . . .PRESENT TENSE: EVEN PEOPLE WHO haven’t seen The Hurt Locker will know three things about it:Sat Mar 13 2010 - 00:00
Dodgy monikers, unlikely plot, silly disguises - real-life murderPRESENT TENSE: ‘YOU SAW too many movies about James Bond,” Israel’s foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, told the press this…Sat Feb 27 2010 - 00:00
Please put this article on the Most Read listPRESENT TENSE: BEFORE IRELAND played France in that extraordinary soccer match in Paris, a headline appeared on irishtimesSat Feb 13 2010 - 00:00
Winter Olympics: bluff your way in bobsleighWith six Irish athletes competing in four events at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, this handy guide will see you from the …Sat Feb 13 2010 - 00:00
