When Bewley’s hid gold rings in barm bracks, and other Irish Halloweens pastFrom the Archive: Fairy revels, jack-o’-lanterns and the first October bank holidaySun Oct 20 2019 - 06:00
‘ The Irish education system can make children feel like they are stupid’Life Lessons: Kurb Junki, artist and film-maker, on trusting people, forever growing and using time wiselySun Oct 20 2019 - 06:00
The Index: What’s hot and what’s not this week?We love Brendan Gleeson as Trump, and big-star memoirs; Insta-interiors and commuting are leaving us coldSat Oct 19 2019 - 00:00
‘I was fascinated by Ireland. I thought I could find inspiration here’Life Lessons: Sabine Dargent, set designerMon Oct 14 2019 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Elizabeth Warren’s patronising joke is a gift to RepublicansDemocratic presidential hopeful's zinger last week, an example of punching down, was a worrying strategic fumbleMon Oct 14 2019 - 06:00
When ecstasy was dealt openly on the Dublin rave sceneFrom the archive, 1994: Five undercover gardaí were offered drugs on entrance to Asylum nightclubSun Oct 13 2019 - 06:00
The Index: What’s hot and what’s not this week?RuPaul and Bonnie Greer are up, Facebook ads and arguing about The Joker are downSat Oct 12 2019 - 00:00
Owen Roe: ‘Becoming a dad changed my life. It was seismic’Life Lessons: The big change is the overwhelming love you feel for your child, it’s something you only fully understand when it hits youMon Oct 07 2019 - 06:00
Fine Gael is gaslighting the nation over ‘affordable’ housingGovernment has failed so badly on solving crisis that it is moving the goalpostsMon Oct 07 2019 - 06:00
The origins of skateboarding in Ireland: ‘It’s not a craze or a childish whim’From the archive: The skateboarding craze took up a number of column inches in the late 70sSun Oct 06 2019 - 06:00
The Index: What’s hot and what’s not this week?The Goldfinch film is a big letdown but we love Ikea blue cheese and fake fur coatsSat Oct 05 2019 - 00:00
BusConnects: Culling trees latest attack on Dublin’s quality of lifeUna Mullally: Project needs to be balanced against risk to established neighbourhoodsMon Sept 30 2019 - 07:14
‘Ireland at the present crisis specially needs any ties that will bind her to Great Britain’From the Archive: Proposals to remove Ireland from the National Council of Women of Great Britain and Ireland were met with resistanceSun Sept 29 2019 - 06:00
Index: What’s hot and what’s not this weekLilly Singh and Jennifer Lopez are up; Justin Trudeau is downSat Sept 28 2019 - 00:00
Who is accountable when big-tech housing goes wrong?State could provide social housing if likes of Apple, Google and Facebook paid full taxMon Sept 23 2019 - 06:00
Jason Byrne: ‘You need a license for a dog but not for a baby’Life Lessons: No one teaches you how to raise children, but their love is the best drug in the worldMon Sept 23 2019 - 06:00
Pipe smoking dogs, and other memories from past Ballinasloe Horse FairsThe Times We Lived In: Published October 8th, 1924Sun Sept 22 2019 - 06:00
The Index: What’s hot and what’s not this week?Amanda Palmer and beignets are up, but we’re asking, who needs Avozillas?Sat Sept 21 2019 - 00:00
‘Don’t trust anyone who says “It’ll be grand”’Life Lessons: Mike Ahern, co-director and co-writer of the film Extra OrdinaryMon Sept 16 2019 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Dublin city in an advanced stage of decayIf you thought 2019 was mad, bad and sad for Dublin's development, get ready for 2020Mon Sept 16 2019 - 06:00
Maeve Brennan, a writer who was at home in neither Ireland nor AmericaFrom the archive: ‘Irish literature’s best-kept secret ... everyone should be reading her’Sun Sept 15 2019 - 06:00
The Index: What’s hot and what’s not this weekChris O’Dowd is great in a new BBC comedy series, but we’re feeling the autumn chill in our bonesSat Sept 14 2019 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Why we should care that the Bernard Shaw pub is closingThe beauty of the rough-around-the-edges Dublin venue lays in its imperfectionsWed Sept 11 2019 - 14:00
Morgan MacIntyre of Saint Sister: ‘I can’t sing without making shapes and casting spells’Life Lessons: Morgan MacIntyre, one half of singing duo Saint Sister, her biggest flaw, best advice and her motto for lifeMon Sept 09 2019 - 06:00
Una Mullally: How YouTube can suck you into an extremist swampRecommendation algorithm can lead online viewers up the radicalisation pathwayMon Sept 09 2019 - 06:00
Rationing in 1940s Ireland: Drapers protest over clothes restrictionsFrom the archive: Worth remembering wartime rations amid Brexit shortages fearsSun Sept 08 2019 - 06:00
Joanne McNally: ‘There was always a bang of show pony off me’The Dublin comedian, who was adopted, explores what’s in our DNA in her new showSat Sept 07 2019 - 06:02
We ’re lamenting the end of summer but cannot wait for Margaret Atwood’s new novelSat Sept 07 2019 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Electric Picnic or Branded Picnic?Brands and agencies need to realise that less is more as advertising hurts atmosphereThu Sept 05 2019 - 17:14
Una Mullally: If you think Johnson is bad, wait for FarageBrexit Party is branding, communication and simplicity. Who cares about truth?Mon Sept 02 2019 - 06:00
God Knows: I have learned to give to ‘me’ as much as I give to those I loveLife Lessons: Musician God Knows performs solo and as part of Rusangano FamilyMon Sept 02 2019 - 06:00
Maeve Higgins: ‘It’s weird when you leave Ireland, right? I felt a bit guilty’The comedian has come into her own in New York. She talks about her film Extra OrdinarySat Aug 31 2019 - 06:03
Index: What’s hot and what’s not this weekStradbally is up with Electric Picnic in full swing, Dancing with the Stars with Sean Spicer is downSat Aug 31 2019 - 00:00
The first Electric Picnic: ‘We’re going for a mini-Glastonbury’From the Archive: ‘Despite the promises, the beer and toilet queues proved as frustrating as always’Fri Aug 30 2019 - 09:40
Scootering should be a private affairLast thing Dublin needs is a scooter hire appWed Aug 28 2019 - 13:46
Paul Alwright: My mother dying changed my lifeLife Lessons: Dublin rapper and actor Paul Alwright aka Lethal DialectMon Aug 26 2019 - 06:00
Welcome to Insta-Dublin, a city of pop-ups and cheap neon signsMuch of capital’s contemporary aesthetic appears presided over by a colourblind aristocratMon Aug 26 2019 - 06:00
Shark-catching off the coast of IrelandFrom the Archive: Angling expert Richard Burrows reported on the sport of shark-angling in his Irish Times columnSun Aug 25 2019 - 06:00
The Index: What’s hot and what’s not this week?We're liking compostable bags in supermarkets and no-nonsense boots, but finding beige a bit... well, beigeSat Aug 24 2019 - 00:00
When ‘girl students’ joined the priests-to-be in MaynoothWhen pressed, the priests-to-be admit that one day there could be a scandalTue Aug 20 2019 - 06:00
‘I have always been fascinated by everything that crawls, slithers and flies’Life Lessons: Colin Stafford-Johnson is an award-winning nature cameramanMon Aug 19 2019 - 06:01
Una Mullally: Tech sector is not being held to account for its nonsenseWeWork IPO campaign exemplifies sector’s delusionally grandiose nebulousnessMon Aug 19 2019 - 06:00
Thirty-five girls died in the 1943 fire. All the nuns survivedFrom the Archive: ‘Little girls stood at the windows of the burning building crying to be taken out’Sun Aug 18 2019 - 06:00
From Dublin to Fifth Avenue: A marriage made in design heavenBryan O’Sullivan and James O’Neill’s projects include Ballynahinch Castle, where they recently wedSat Aug 17 2019 - 06:00
Index: What’s hot and what’s not this weekPhone-box defibrillators are welcome on our streets, but we miss the art that’s removedSat Aug 17 2019 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Fine Gael politicians need to own their politicsWe are existing at a moment where danger of the rise of the right is acuteMon Aug 12 2019 - 06:00
Index: What’s hot and what’s not this weekYes to George RR Martin visiting the IFI, but no to the underwhelming third season of Stranger ThingsSat Aug 10 2019 - 00:00
‘For a time I felt Ireland was a narrow, Catholic, little dump. I feel less angry now’From the archive: What did returning emigrants make of Ireland in 1989?Mon Aug 05 2019 - 06:04
Can we really expect Fine Gael to care?Declaring a victory over denying people healthcare is grotesqueMon Aug 05 2019 - 06:00
Plan Bea: Aisling Bea on searching for laughter in sad placesShe’s known for her fizzy wit, but loneliness pervades the comedian’s moving new seriesSat Aug 03 2019 - 06:02
