Beware the political ambition of tech billionairesPolitics is played out over social media. Imagine a White House Mark ZuckerbergMon Feb 20 2017 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Beware political ambition of tech billionairesPolitics is played out over a web of social media. Imagine a White House ZuckerbergMon Feb 20 2017 - 01:00
Blackrock boy meets Blackrock boy: Being ‘gay and into sport’ at an elite Dublin rugby schoolWriter-director John Butler’s films always echo his own life. So what happened when he went back to his teenage years at Blackrock College for ‘Handsome Devil’?Sat Feb 18 2017 - 06:00
Una Mullally: The Nokia 3310 is coming back and I want oneThe 3310 evokes a time when everything was changingThu Feb 16 2017 - 08:43
Eircode: there goes another €38m down the drainPoorly designed postcode system should already have been returned to senderMon Feb 13 2017 - 05:00
Lessons in love: dating advice from people who’ve made it workMeeting on Tinder, life as a young widow, whirlwind engagements and new arrivalsSat Feb 11 2017 - 06:00
Trans Voices: Becoming Who You Are review: Their change is gonna comeDeclan Henry’s interviews with transgender Irish are worthwhile, but already they feel partly rooted in the pastSat Feb 11 2017 - 06:00
'We’re just flesh bags walking around hoping we don’t get hit by a bus'When Edwin Sammon was diagnosed with cancer at 36, his new comedy show began to evolve. But his dark comedy didn't always find a sympathetic audienceThu Feb 09 2017 - 05:00
'No one takes me seriously as a 16-year-old girl shouting about junkies or gun violence'Young Blood: an edgy night of hip hop and poetry in the NCH promises to present the voices of the next generationWed Feb 08 2017 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Why Stephen Donnelly’s migration to FF is so dispiritingTD’s political expedience makes post-crash aspirations for change appear hopelessMon Feb 06 2017 - 05:00
A man’s world no longer: Women who have pushed into the male professions spotlightedA firefighter, an airline pilot and a high-wire construction worker are among the subjects of a new photography bookSat Feb 04 2017 - 06:10
The scandal of direct provision makes criticism of Trump hollowHow can Europe condemn the Muslim ban with so many drowning in the Mediterranean?Thu Feb 02 2017 - 08:37
Una Mullally: Why the abortion strike will succeedStrike 4 Repeal’s planned action will inspire movement against the Eighth AmendmentMon Jan 30 2017 - 05:00
Ralph Steadman: With gonzo, you don’t cover the story; you become the storyRalph Steadman spent days trying to find Hunter S Thompson for their first assignment, the landmark article ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved’. The result changed journalism foreverSat Jan 28 2017 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Long way to go despite change in Oscars politicsGrowing recognition of non-whites marks shift but identity remains too relevantThu Jan 26 2017 - 17:25
Una Mullally: The battle against Trump has only startedThe millions of people across the world who marched in protest reveal the strength of the oppositionMon Jan 23 2017 - 09:23
Let us stop repeating the lie that Irish people do not protestThe legacy of Apollo House is that the public now knows change can occurMon Jan 16 2017 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Buzzfeed played into Trump’s handsPublishing unsubstantiated allegations gives the President-elect ammunition to further demonise the media and accuse legitimate news organisations of being fake onesThu Jan 12 2017 - 14:09
Una Mullally: Twitter shows how to lose friends and influence nada‘At what point does the grief outweigh the positives you gain from Twitter?’Mon Jan 09 2017 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Why ‘The Irish Times’ should not have published Nicholas PellWe should not be interested in humouring fascism. We should be invested in destroying itThu Jan 05 2017 - 16:39
Una Mullally: Ban ‘busy’ in 2017 and get more out of lifeIs saying you are busy an attempt to show how indispensable or important you are?Mon Jan 02 2017 - 05:00
Una Mullally: 2016 and the cult of celebrity deathEvents feed confessionalism as we express our sadness as a way of talking about ourselvesFri Dec 30 2016 - 14:20
Una Mullally on George Michael: A gay man devoid of shame‘Pop hunk transformed into a gay icon when few celebrities had the guts to come out’Mon Dec 26 2016 - 19:47
Una Mullally’s cultural highlight of 2016: ‘Grace Jones at the Olympia’Culture review 2016: Post-truth, American fascism and white supremacy will affect art and pop culture for a long timeThu Dec 22 2016 - 09:29
Una Mullally: Home Sweet Home is the real ‘New Politics’People take action on homelessness because the Government has failed to actMon Dec 19 2016 - 05:00
So, what’s hot and what’s not this week?Make sure you catch The Third Wave but steer clear of the smug shoppersFri Dec 16 2016 - 16:00
Una Mullally: Will the tech overlords save us from Trump?Will they use their power to resist or do they want a piece of greatest ever act of ‘disruption’: the disruption of US democracy itselfThu Dec 15 2016 - 15:42
Una Mullally: Irish emigrants are not magic peopleWe should value young people who stay in Ireland as much as those who leaveMon Dec 12 2016 - 05:00
So what’s hot and what’s not?Yes to Donegal and Christmas markets, but no to automated airportsFri Dec 09 2016 - 16:00
Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem: ‘I had no intention of having anything to do with music'Whang got into music almost as a hobby, and she still worries: when is ‘somebody going to discover you’re full of s**t’Wed Dec 07 2016 - 05:00
Other Voices 2016: the Dingle session steps up a gearTitle sponsors and a larger cultural offering mean that this is the year when the Dingle event stops being a small music-industry weekend away and becomes a full-blown festivalTue Dec 06 2016 - 05:00
Una Mullally: After DJ Leo, how about ‘Enda Meets’ and ‘Nooney Goes Wild’?Varadkar radio gig could be a first step in politicians taking over the Irish airwavesSun Dec 04 2016 - 20:52
Vietnam: a beautiful, bustling, and bemusing holiday destinationVietnam may be chaotic and tricky but it’s also great fun and the food is stunningSat Dec 03 2016 - 06:01
Index: Excellent food for thought on Daniel Glover’s ‘Atlanta’ and in Dublin’s EatyardRTÉ outsources young people’s department but those Gilmore Girls are backFri Dec 02 2016 - 16:00
Late Late Toy Show bingo: stony faced six-year-olds, accidental starsDuring tonight’s show, award yourself a mince pie each time you spot one of the followingFri Dec 02 2016 - 16:00
Una Mullally: After 2016, there’s nothing trivial about small acts of empathyIt is a crime to wish away time, but I cannot wait for this year to be overFri Dec 02 2016 - 15:20
You cannot decry public drug use and object to injecting centresAll Dubliners need to be provided for – hoteliers, councillors, and heroin addicts tooMon Nov 28 2016 - 01:00
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Big coats will keep you toasty, but cost of Christmas puts a chill down the spineFri Nov 25 2016 - 16:00
Una Mullally: US on edge of something awful – and may take Ireland with itWhat happens when someone in your family starts going out with a psychopath?Fri Nov 25 2016 - 13:00
Aisling Bea: ‘In terms of comedy, I’m not Heston Blumenthal. I’m like ‘chips and a side’’Stand-up comedy, acting in ‘The Fall’, writing her own show and now team leader on ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’ panel show – Kildare woman Aisling Bea has a lot onFri Nov 25 2016 - 11:10
Una Mullally: Pro-Trump propaganda shows fakery has gone viralFake news was clickbait frivolity until its Orwellian role in the US election raceMon Nov 21 2016 - 07:09
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Archives are hot, yes really, but cold winds are blowing through American ApparelFri Nov 18 2016 - 16:00
Una Mullally: I never liked Facebook, but now I am actually worried about itThe mindless new channels we’ve created across social media are screwing us upFri Nov 18 2016 - 11:24
I’m not angry at ‘Late Late Show’ over Katie Hopkins – I’m embarrassedMaking people roar at each other for entertainment value on serious issues is so overSun Nov 13 2016 - 17:15
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Wonder Women looks like corker, but Radiohead’s gig doesn’t fill us with excitementSat Nov 12 2016 - 04:00
Media collaboration with Trump serves as salutary lessonIn a post-truth society where facts don’t matter, a surreal campaign was run on the lowest common denominator of hateThu Nov 10 2016 - 13:37
Una Mullally: Failed by white women - the undoing of Hillary ClintonSo many women voting Trump shows extent of misogyny in western societyWed Nov 09 2016 - 17:15
Una Mullally: Toxic sexism becomes the new normalI wonder how the girls felt that the boys were taking up Donald Trump as ‘their guy’Mon Nov 07 2016 - 05:00
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Velvet Dr Martens and oysters are on the up, while Vine and Take That head the other wayFri Nov 04 2016 - 16:00
I quite Like Apes: so long and thanks for all the tunesThis week, Fight Like Apes called it a day. I first discovered them in the Róisín Dubh in Galway and nothing was ever quite the sameFri Nov 04 2016 - 14:34
