‘It was a groundbreaker’: how The X-Files changed televisionThe 1990s show - which returns to TV this week - was often dismissed as fodder for teenagers and conspiracy theorists, but its legacy is evident in today’s best televisionTue Jan 26 2016 - 06:00
Una Mullally: It’s ludicrous to hand over drug quality control to criminal gangsThe highest level in Europe of so-called ‘legal high’ drug use was found among young Irish peopleMon Jan 25 2016 - 00:05
Una Mullally: Cologne assaults a mass act of misogynyWe are all shamed when one of our own does something terrible in another countryMon Jan 18 2016 - 01:00
Una Mullally's alternative Oscars night predictionsWhile awards season can be unpredictable, there are certain things you can also be damn sure will go down on the night of the Academy AwardsWed Jan 13 2016 - 14:30
The 13 faces of David Bowie: from Ziggy Stardust to iconArtist went from androgyny to outer space, before becoming elder statesman of British musicMon Jan 11 2016 - 14:07
David Bowie took risks, was a beacon for non-conformersHis music was an portal escape, a sense that with a lightening flash we could be heroesMon Jan 11 2016 - 11:25
Time for Irish television drama to mimic success of Irish filmWhile international outfits benefit from our crew and acting talent, homegrown TV drama has yet to translate to an international audienceMon Jan 11 2016 - 01:01
People to watch in 2016: Advocacy and activismEducation, disability access, direct provision and women’s rights will likely be on the agenda in 2016Sat Jan 09 2016 - 00:00
Björk and Bieber: Musical tag teams we’d pay to hearAs Jigga plots the all-pop-conquering future of Harry Styles, here are some other dynamic duosWed Jan 06 2016 - 17:00
Una Mullally: Embrace your Irishness and celebrate 1916The Rising reminds us of greatness; a time when political leaders had big ideasMon Jan 04 2016 - 12:09
Una Mullally: Digital immortality takes the sting out of deathOur obsession with maintaining an online presence is now creeping into the afterlifeMon Dec 28 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Government must not shaft students yet again‘Free’ fees already cost €3,247, yet there are plans to burden young people furtherMon Dec 21 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally’s 2015: Beauty in the eye of the placard-holderThe street art that emerged around the marriage referendum coloured not just walls and doorways but also conversationsSat Dec 19 2015 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Right now, I can say that I am ‘cancer-free’In the last nine months, there have been moments that I never want to reliveMon Dec 14 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Time to call out Fine Gael’s shirking on abortionOffensive language of anti-choice tells women we do not know our own bodiesMon Dec 07 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Men should stop whining about gender quotasIn the hypothetical ‘How To Get Elected To Office In Ireland’, the ‘merit’ chapter is pretty smallMon Nov 30 2015 - 09:22
Ten things we learned at Iceland AirwavesGender balance, a sophisticated vibe and great acts mark this festival outMon Nov 16 2015 - 06:00
Una Mullaly: Big tech has a serious issue with arrogance“Tax is a problem the past concerned itself with. This is the brave new world, and we do things differently here. Look, there’s a slide in our office.”Mon Oct 26 2015 - 10:24
Graham and Helen Linehan: ‘It’s a story we shouldn’t have to tell’Helen Linehan had an abortion because of a fatal foetal abnormality. Now she and her husband, the ‘Father Ted’ creator Graham Linehan, have made their experience public as part of a campaign to decriminalise abortion in IrelandSat Oct 24 2015 - 14:00
Una Mullally: NIMBYism is the national sport of south DublinCarrickmines blockade did not take place in a vacuum, but in our discriminating societyMon Oct 19 2015 - 04:00
Ear-splitting intimacy leads in just One Direction1D begins a weekend of gigs at the 3Arena in Dublin on Friday night - all sold out of courseSat Oct 17 2015 - 08:00
Team Panti: the making of a queenPanti, Rory O’Neill’s drag queen, is the subject of a new film. Her persona and what she represents are the result of decades of collaborationSat Oct 17 2015 - 07:15
Doped up: Ben Foster takes method to new highs for Lance Armstrong biopicFoster’s blood-doping preparations place him among a pantheon of actors who go that extra mile of crazy for their artThu Oct 15 2015 - 13:56
Una Mullally: Are some cancers more equal than others?‘The sexualisation of breast cancer awareness has been almost inevitable. I don’t have breast cancer, but if I did I’m not sure how great I’d feel about pouting selfies with bra straps on show’Mon Oct 12 2015 - 04:43
Maud Gonne was much more than WB Yeats’s museAisling Law, a great-granddaughter of the rebel, feminist and social activist, is opening her doors to the public for the Muse of Yeats weekend festivalFri Oct 09 2015 - 06:00
From Patti Smith to Grace Jones, the music memoirs just keep comingYou wait for one seminal female indie star memoir to come along, and then . . .Thu Oct 08 2015 - 11:30
Una Mullally: Irish restaurants have lost the plotDismantling of generic Irish restaurant menu is to be welcomedMon Oct 05 2015 - 01:00
Queen Maeve: Higgins on her new book ‘Off You Go’‘My career is different to my male peers. I was always told that I was ‘niche’Sat Oct 03 2015 - 05:45
From Bowie to Busta Rhymes: can pop music really predict the future?Is there life on Mars? wailed Bowie, slightly prophetically. And is wasn't the last time a song predicted the futureThu Oct 01 2015 - 12:00
Una Mullally: Web Summit was an ego boost for DublinIt fed into a loose narrative that Dublin was legit in the tech worldMon Sept 28 2015 - 06:00
Una Mullally: No country for young men and women – why young people leave IrelandIreland now has 205,150 fewer twenty-somethings than six years agoMon Sept 21 2015 - 06:26
Justin Vivian Bond... And Things of THAT Nature! review: Charismatic, magnetic | Tiger Dublin FringeSpiegeltent becomes what it should be – a dark and magical club with a true star on stageFri Sept 18 2015 - 16:04
Love+ review: a deft exploration of human-robot relations | Tiger Dublin FringeWith a sharp script and a real vitality to its humour, this is a delightful productionFri Sept 18 2015 - 15:26
Una Mullally: There is a good reason women are reluctant to speak about their abortions‘In between the time you woke up this morning and go to bed tonight, a dozen Irish women will have left this country to have an abortion’Mon Sept 14 2015 - 11:47
Justin Vivian Bond: Mxing it up over transgender – and things of THAT natureSinger-songwriter, actor, writer, painter, drag queen . . . ‘V’ lets loose about her upcoming Fringe show, getting creative at the Guthrie Centre and finding true spirituality up a treeSat Sept 12 2015 - 01:30
Marky Mac Sherry Tells It Like It Is review | Tiger Dublin FringeAn anti-stand-up show that could be very good indeedThu Sept 10 2015 - 14:17
Lapsley: soaring pop, late-night bliss | Electric PicnicWhat starts out as a small crowd in the Little Big Tent ends up as an appreciative throngWed Sept 09 2015 - 16:21
Una Mullally: Welcome to Dismaland Irish-style – a litany of horrors in a ghost estate‘In Trolley Land, hundreds of HSE workers push pens around while bandaged mummies moan on their stretchers’Mon Sept 07 2015 - 16:40
The War On Drugs: one of the moments of the weekend | Electric PicnicLadies and gentlemen, our first 5 star review from Electric Picnic 2015Sun Sept 06 2015 - 12:53
Bitch Falcon: super furious animals | Electric PicnicA set that is beefy, brilliant and unforgiving in its forcefulnessSat Sept 05 2015 - 18:30
Grace Jones: Get it girl | Electric PicnicEven the most casual observer couldn’t help but realise why Grace Jones is an iconFri Sept 04 2015 - 22:03
Una Mullally: This summer gave me perspectiveThe two biggest things – love and death – happen to you no matter what you doMon Aug 31 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: ‘Mistress America’ reflects fantasy of the self-starter‘The permanent pensionable job has been gone for some time, but now most things resembling it have disappeared’Mon Aug 24 2015 - 17:21
Roses, heroes and scandalous ladies: Six to watch this week on TVScandalous period drama, the annual lovely girls competition, David Simon is back, and a cold eye on Revenge Porn all feature in this week’s TV selectionMon Aug 17 2015 - 06:00
Una Mullally: What are you looking at?The honeymoon period is over for social media platformsMon Aug 17 2015 - 05:00
TV Review: Young, Free and Single less sexy than LouboutinOn the tedium-o-meter, I’d put it after looking at pictures of other people’s children on FacebookFri Aug 14 2015 - 14:05
Amy Schumer: one inch away from hilariously dangerousComic’s appearance with director Judd Apatow in Dublin the hottest ticket in townThu Aug 13 2015 - 21:31
