Tourists ‘can’t get their heads around’ Dublin nightclubs closing at 2.30am, night mayor saysRecent report says nightclub sector is ‘downsizing’ but industry members are hopeful about ‘vibrant’ pocketsMon Jul 14 2025 - 06:00
‘Amazing’ plans for Dublin’s Sheriff Street include offices and a hotel. Amazing for whom?Underserved and under-resourced parts of the capital are not development opportunities – they’re living, vibrant communitiesMon Jul 07 2025 - 07:05
Discrimination against sexual and gender minorities in Ireland has increased, UCD study finds Research demonstrates broad support for LGBTIQ+ people, women’s rights and abortion Thu Jul 03 2025 - 16:16
These five factors are how Zohran Mamdani took New York by stormHe managed to motivate tens of thousands of canvassers to knock on more than a million doors Mon Jun 30 2025 - 06:05
Ireland is becoming a country of moderate drinkers and voracious cocaine usersIreland is the joint-fourth highest consumer of cocaine globally, and it’s primarily a youth problemMon Jun 23 2025 - 06:00
Who really owns the music festival you’re heading to this summer?Artists and fans are protesting against events being gobbled up by private equity firmsMon Jun 02 2025 - 06:45
Why are Kneecap facing consequences when Israel is not? When protesting is policed, but the legitimate reasons for protest are not, then people lose trustMon May 26 2025 - 06:00
Marriage equality 10 years on: A boy sees us hold hands and says ‘I f***ing hate gay people’I miss the optimism and unforgettable beauty of that time, whatever ugliness came before or afterMon May 19 2025 - 06:15
Michael Healy-Rae’s environmentally reckless plan raises questions about why he was given his briefThe Minister of State displays an alarming lack of knowledge of part of his briefMon May 12 2025 - 06:05
A flight to New York for €15. Is this the Trump effect on transatlantic travel?In March of this year, slightly fewer than 39,000 people normally resident in Ireland travelled to the US, a drop of 27 per cent compared with March 2024Mon May 05 2025 - 06:59
Britain does not dictate Irish law. Or Irish feminismWhere LGBTQ+ rights are bolstered, so too are women’s rights, and where they collapse, so too does authentic feminismMon Apr 28 2025 - 06:15
Fine Gael’s Red Bull-style new energy fizzled out with a grubby deal and a crushing pollSupport for Sinn Féin is rising because people were genuinely irritated by the speaking rights chicanery. But while people like the party in Opposition, they still don’t want it in GovernmentMon Apr 21 2025 - 06:34
Why are most new housing schemes in Dublin city so terrible?Jack Chambers recently had a pop at those who object to developments for aesthetic reasons - but good design should always be the starting pointMon Apr 14 2025 - 06:00
Irish activist in Berlin welcomes decision to pause his removal over Palestine protestsShane O’Brien (29) will redouble organising efforts after ruling, he saysFri Apr 11 2025 - 17:09
No wonder graduates turn away from Ireland and towards Terminal 2 Students now face an effective fee increase of €1,000 per annum, a backtrack on Tánaiste and Fine Gael leader Simon Harris’s election promiseMon Apr 07 2025 - 06:00
Taoiseach to raise case of two Irish nationals facing deportation with German authoritiesBert Murray (31) and Shane O’Brien (29) were ordered to leave Germany by April 21st over alleged actions at pro-Palestinian protests in BerlinWed Apr 02 2025 - 17:20
Two Irish citizens ordered to leave Germany over pro-Palestinian protests despite no convictionsLawyers say the move undermines civil liberties for EU citizens Tue Apr 01 2025 - 15:50
Michael Lowry gave two fingers to the public. Their message back to the Government is equally concisePolitical careers of Tipperary North TD and Verona Murphy should have been over long before either got into this messMon Mar 31 2025 - 06:00
Authoritarian America is rewarding sameness and punishing differenceA mindset that enhances sameness and minimises diversity is one that fetishises rigid gender rolesMon Mar 24 2025 - 07:00
Ireland can make the world a better place. But first it must look in the mirrorWe can’t exonerate ourselves from colonialism and warfare if we ignore sinister forces in our own societyMon Jan 06 2025 - 06:00
50 people to watch in 2025: From film and music to arts, activism, sport and moreAs a new year gets into gear, here are the artists, entrepreneurs, activists and musicians set to shake things upSat Jan 04 2025 - 05:30
From Paul Mescal to Bad Sisters to Claire Keegan, the green wave keeps rollingUnfortunately, the lived experience of creatives working in Ireland is often a struggleMon Dec 30 2024 - 06:00
Emigration to Australia is at its highest level for a decade. We need to ask whyThose being pummelled by the cost of rent are living through a form of austerity, their take-home wages and disposable incomes decimatedMon Dec 23 2024 - 06:00
The Pogues at 3Arena: Applause rang out into the night, the crowd singing their way out on to the quaysA stacked line-up including members of Fontaines DC, Lankum and The Mary Wallopers delivers a brilliantly infectious performanceWed Dec 18 2024 - 10:00
Oscars 2025: Kneecap shortlisted for best international feature film and best original songTwo Irish films, TJ O’Grady-Peyton’s Room Taken and Portia A Buckley’s Clodagh, land spots in the shortlist for best live-action shortTue Dec 17 2024 - 19:29
Ireland still brims with creativity, from Kneecap to Haus of Wig. Here’s how to keep the artistry flowing The housing crisis is artists’ biggest obstacle. Clear that hurdle and it will help keep Irish culture being felt around the worldTue Dec 17 2024 - 05:00
Do you cry for a dead health-insurance boss, or for the victims of his industry?Social media commentary around the killing of Brian Thompson was almost universal in its lack of empathyMon Dec 16 2024 - 06:00
Five strategies to get more people voting in elections For people who care deeply about the democratic process, low voter turnout figures can be depressingMon Dec 09 2024 - 06:07
‘What I connect with in Ireland is the oppression from the church within our bodies’The Afro-Brazilian performer and teacher staged one of the hits of this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival. It’s part of a cultural journeyMon Dec 09 2024 - 05:00
Fontaines DC at 3Arena: Masterly, compelling display as ‘the gall of Fine Gael and the fail of Fianna Fáil’ fills the airHow good can Fontaines DC get? At first of two Dublin concerts they answer that question with aplombSat Dec 07 2024 - 09:13
Other Voices 2024: Laura Marling enraptures, Kojaque surprises. It can only be Dingle’s essential festival What audiences are told before gigs at St James’ Church says it all: turn off your phone and just be in the momentTue Dec 03 2024 - 16:52
Politics is an attention economy and Gerry Hutch garnered plenty of itHutch’s candidacy candidacy was met with an almost giggling immaturity, as though it was not serious, but sort of “gas”Mon Dec 02 2024 - 06:00
Brian Teeling: ‘Every time I see someone wearing one of my T-shirts, even one of the old ones, it makes me happy’The multidisciplinary Dublin artist is part of the exhibition Skin/Deep: Perspectives on the Body, at Photo Museum Ireland and has designed three new T-shirts for Medical Aid for PalestiniansMon Dec 02 2024 - 05:00
Kneecap win legal action over UK funding refusal: ‘This was never about £14,250. The motivation was equality’Irish rap group plans to donate award to two youth groups in Belfast after grant was blocked on grounds that Kneecap ‘oppose the United Kingdom itself’Fri Nov 29 2024 - 10:01
‘Serial evasion’ and ‘brittle impatience’: Our writers give their verdict on the leaders’ debate General election: Three writers analyse debate between Fine Gael, Fianna Fáil and Sinn FéinWed Nov 27 2024 - 08:00
A new energy? A new lethargy might be more accurateElection 2024: In the final week of the campaign, plenty of people still don’t know how they’re going to voteMon Nov 25 2024 - 06:00
‘Dreadful government, lack of nightlife, lack of cultural spaces’: Dublin writer Thommas Kane Byrne on his home city What’s Next For?: TKB, whose new play, It’s Always Your Bleedin’ Own, completes his St Mary’s Mansions trilogy, on the evolution of Ireland’s capitalMon Nov 25 2024 - 05:00
The man in Data Centre Alley couldn’t conceal his shock: ‘You’re screwed’In the US, data centres will be powered by small modular nuclear reactors to help cope with demands of AI. What is the plan for Ireland?Mon Nov 18 2024 - 06:00
Political art on the doorstep: ‘You’re going to find my work in surprising locations’Collaborations between writer and historian Conor McCabe and artist Augustine O’Donoghue include a series of door mats with political messages and a new event called Counter-Culture NightsMon Nov 18 2024 - 05:00
At rallies for Trump and Harris, it was hard to know who was less authenticTrump promises money in your pocket. To supporters in worn-out shoes and old jackets, that mattered. Harris spoke about ‘joy’, but you cannot tell people how to feelMon Nov 11 2024 - 06:00
Unit 44: Key Dublin creative space looks for new home after collective told to quit premises The former Stoneybatter hair salon has hosted about 275 public events and more than 500 rehearsals in its three years on Prussia StreetMon Nov 11 2024 - 05:00
For Kamala Harris, wooing anti-Trump Republicans might work. But then what? US Election: Often, those who crossover are celebrated more than those who were ever thus. There’s a huge degree of humility requiredMon Nov 04 2024 - 06:03
Dublin singer Shiv: ‘Rent is so high. It’s hard to find places here creatives can go, hang out, meet each other, share ideas’What’s Next For?: Ireland’s up-and-coming musicians need more help, says Siobhan McClean, who has just released her album The Defiance of a SadgirlMon Nov 04 2024 - 05:00
I can’t see voters buying Simon Harris’s message that everything is greatYou can’t deny the lived experience of housing-crisis emigrants, homeless families, renters and adults in their childhood bedroomsMon Oct 28 2024 - 06:05
Efé: ‘I was scared to go full force with the rock sound, but this year I thought, just do it’The Dublin singer changed musical direction this year. But she still wants every song she records to come with its own entire worldMon Oct 28 2024 - 05:15
Hard not to greet the Dublin City Taskforce report with cynicismFive months and a lot of fanfare later, we’re back to where we startedTue Oct 22 2024 - 12:38
‘The script is Sinéad O’Connor – it’s the music’: Christeene on The Lion the Witch and The CobraThe performance artist, musician and drag experimentalist is bringing her reimagining of the late Irish singer’s first album to DublinMon Oct 21 2024 - 05:00
An Irishman in Berlin: ‘Gentrification was creeping in but since the pandemic it’s really pronounced’What’s Next For?: Liam Cagney, a musicologist based in the German capital, is writing a book about Berghain, the city’s fabled nightclubMon Oct 21 2024 - 05:00
Four ideas to save Ireland’s pubs, restaurants and cafesIf we don’t do something, in Dublin especially, generic international chains and brands will fill the empty spacesMon Oct 21 2024 - 00:00
Dublin’s Liberties has everything. Except vision, planning, care and attentionIt’s difficult to imagine any other European city allowing the development that has blighted the LibertiesMon Oct 14 2024 - 06:00
