Una Mullally: It wasn’t until we were a rich nation that tents on streets became commonplaceA decade ago, the idea that there might be homeless people living in tents was unthinkableMon May 29 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: I don’t recognise the person who stuttered in hospital any more. I’ve changedIn Vegas I thought about 2015 and that horrible, life-affirming, traumatising, beautiful, galvanising campaignMon May 22 2023 - 04:45
‘I wanted younger lesbians, gays, queers, trans and non-binary people to know the history ... I was told I would never get a job’In her debut novel, Katherine O’Donnell tells the story of a young lesbian emigrant to Boston in the 1990s in order to share Irish LGBTQ+ history with a younger generationSun May 21 2023 - 05:00
‘Leaving Dublin was really hard but I knew my quality of life would be miles better in Amsterdam’The cost of living and housing in Dublin is prompting young artists and creatives to move abroadFri May 19 2023 - 05:00
We know RTÉ can produce great programming but do its executives know what they are doing? Amateur hour began with Toy Show The Musical, progressed through the appointment of the director general and now the scramble to find a Late Late hostMon May 15 2023 - 03:00
Una Mullally: As humans, we still have choices. We can free ourselves from the digital trap We can already see the kind of insanity created by living too digitallyMon May 08 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Discussions on neutrality miss the mark when we have subsea cables to protectIreland is in the tricky position of guarding the infrastructure of the internetMon Apr 24 2023 - 03:15
European tourist visits to outrageously expensive Dublin are declining because our capital has an ambience issue Una Mullally: Dublin is struggling to figure out what it has to offerMon Apr 17 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Why does Dublin City Council’s latest water-based plan feel so shallow, never mind murky?Residents of Copenhagen, Zurich and Berlin enjoy river swimming. Even the Seine in Paris, once biologically dead, is being cleaned. Meanwhile, Dublin is getting an €18m glorified jettyMon Apr 10 2023 - 05:00
Conversations After Sex: ‘We’re naked at the top of the show. You can’t get more vulnerable than that’Actor Kate Stanley-Brennan explores her route to acting and her role in this ‘beautiful, truthful’ Mark O’Halloran playSat Apr 08 2023 - 05:18
Una Mullally: Enough of the bizarre furore, evictions are not new touchstones for artistsThe artwork, inspired by North Frederick Street eviction, is at the centre of the kind of bizarre furore this week that many Irish artists probably thought was confined to the pastWed Apr 05 2023 - 15:03
Una Mullally: I have never seen the kind of destitution in Dublin that exists todayActions speak louder than words and this government just doesn’t careMon Apr 03 2023 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Cars have to go. People can fight this all they want, but it has to happenWe need to start confronting the environmental factors that denigrate public health in Dublin cityMon Mar 27 2023 - 00:00
Vogue Williams and Joanne McNally: ‘She’s a business b*tch’ ... ‘She’s the diva’Their podcast, My Therapist Ghosted Me, was a lockdown hit, but the studio could not contain themSat Mar 25 2023 - 05:00
Something’s happening. The Irish have embraced self-expression and are underdogs no moreUna Mullally: We are witnessing a remarkable surge within Ireland and among the diasporaMon Mar 20 2023 - 05:00
Lizzo at 3Arena review: ‘What the f***’ – intensity of Dublin screams, cheers and Olé, Olé leaves star speechlessThe singer’s feelgood approach – positive, celebratory, uplifting, defiant – strikes a cultural chord on a cold Monday nightTue Mar 14 2023 - 06:10
Una Mullally: Government has lost control of the housing marketIdeological entrenchment of treating housing as a commodity, and not a social need, has been catastrophicMon Mar 13 2023 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Holly Cairns will draw people to the Social Democrats, especially young womenIf you’re looking for the most on-the-nose outcome of the social revolution of the 2010s, there you have itMon Mar 06 2023 - 05:00
‘Before I would have held my husband’s hand walking around the streets. But now I wouldn’t’A recent report found that 2022 was ‘the most violent year’ for LGBTQ+ people across Europe and Central Asia in the past decadeSat Mar 04 2023 - 05:00
I learned recently a prolific Irish Times letter-writer had died — his correspondence was a tonicUna Mullally: Remembering Graeme Guthrie: ‘Funny, inquisitive and charming’Mon Feb 27 2023 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil had no visible presence at Ireland for All marchSeveral Coalition politicians have lined up against racism, but both parties still unsure of public mood on immigration.Mon Feb 20 2023 - 05:00
We should all be concerned about decent people like Nicola Sturgeon leaving politicsThere is a big difference between holding power to account, and attacking people simply because they hold powerWed Feb 15 2023 - 14:50
Bertie Ahern’s return is par for the course for Fianna Fáil, a party that frequently rejects historyRepeating his previous criticisms of Bertie Ahern would disrupt the maintenance of powerMon Feb 13 2023 - 05:30
New York’s new Irish bars: ‘It just works, this timeless feeling of romance and hedonism’New venues are pushing the boundaries of Irish culture in New York, as well as the city’s culture itselfSat Feb 11 2023 - 06:00
Some protesters appear to be in denial about their role in unlocking racist sentimentBest way not be perceived as racist is not to engage in protests where racist rhetoric is rampantMon Feb 06 2023 - 05:00
The comforting theory Irish people won’t coalesce around far-right has disintegratedUna Mullally: This is not ‘standing up for’ communities. This is xenophobic vigilantismThu Feb 02 2023 - 18:17
Una Mullally: Who gets the carbon credits generated by Coillte’s controversial deal?Privatisation of forestry raises serious questions about this increasingly valuable assetMon Jan 30 2023 - 00:00
Far-right’s goal is to misdirect anger to divide and oppressSome people involved in anti-refugee protests aim to misdirect anger and capitalise on resentment to demonise, divide and oppressMon Jan 23 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Inequality between city-centre school access and wealthier suburbs is starkFormer DIT Aungier Street building could have capacity for some 5,000 of different schools sharing sharing resources, space, and facilitiesMon Jan 16 2023 - 00:00
Dolores O’Riordan: Legacy of vulnerability again pulls star into collective consciousnessIt’s five years on from the Limerick singer’s death, a tragic, premature loss of a talent so robust that it’s painful now to think ofSun Jan 15 2023 - 06:00
Aoibhinn Ní Shúilleabháin: ‘It was important to me to get a formal apology from UCD’One of Ireland’s best-known academics reflects on closing the door on a painful period of her life, and her role as chair of the Citizens’ Assembly on Biodiversity as it prepares to report to GovernmentSat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: A nouveau-bedsit for €2,120 per month? Welcome to Dublin’s new rental hellRetrograde regulations of recent years have predictably led to offensively expensive Insta-cellsMon Jan 09 2023 - 05:00
Una Mullally: This will be the year of Fine Gael’s phoney epiphaniesParty creates ramshackle policy and makes mistakes in a haze. It is vital the adults in the room start to focus on children and their wellbeingMon Jan 02 2023 - 00:01
Una Mullally: Our ancient language is being made modernThe days of a resistant or derogatory attitude towards the Irish language and traditional music are over in youth cultureMon Dec 26 2022 - 00:01
Una Mullally: Skateboarding isn’t a nuisance and should be part of Portobello Plaza’s futureSkateboarding is a creative, healthy and positive activity. It's also an Olympic sportMon Dec 19 2022 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Crack cocaine is ‘huge’ in Dublin. We are past the warning sign phaseBudget 2023 allowed for just €10.5m, with strings attached, for the national drug strategy It’s not enoughMon Dec 12 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Confessions of a Spotify hypocriteIf you want to support musicians starved by puny per-stream payouts, buy their T-shirt for ChristmasMon Dec 05 2022 - 00:01
Scale of drug-dealing outside Dublin cafe is ‘relentless’, says owner speaking out in ‘act of desperation’Inside people type on laptops and newly arrived tourists walk in. Outside the front window about half a dozen drug deals take place over 45 minutesSat Dec 03 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Leo Varadkar is gaslighting the victims of the housing crisisWhen a crisis becomes this acute it doesn’t stay in its lane: it bleeds out in all sorts of waysMon Nov 28 2022 - 05:00
No one in Ireland was immune from abusive Catholic priestsSocial class is only relevant insofar as how it showed how untouchable these members of the clergy felt they wereMon Nov 21 2022 - 00:00
Una Mullally: No surprise Big Tech in the vanguard of corporate lay-offsFirst Twitter reaches for the redundancy button, followed by Meta with Stripe bringing up the rearMon Nov 14 2022 - 00:01
It’s abortion, stupid. How Democrats can win the US presidential election in 2024 Abortion was on the ballot in five states this week. What if that took place ten-fold?Thu Nov 10 2022 - 14:51
Una Mullally: Not only democracy but reality is being dismantled in USMidterm elections reveal voters and politicians in States as unhingedMon Nov 07 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter makes a bad situation worseThe billionaire now owns a social media company that was already broken and his chaotic approach will accentuate the platform’s negative attributes.Tue Nov 01 2022 - 19:37
Una Mullally: At least the activists ‘desecrating’ art works are doing something. What are you doing?If one thinks a protester is doing something incorrectly, it’s always good to ask oneself, ‘well, what am I doing?’Mon Oct 31 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Why has street life in Dublin city become so depressed?Four things have been prioritised: hotels, offices, unaffordable student developments and luxury apartments for tech workersMon Oct 24 2022 - 00:40
Listen to the Land Speak review: Fractal account of myth, history and lossManchán Magan brings us on a journey into the wisdom of what lies beneathSat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Una Mullally: What does it mean to say ‘up the ’Ra’? And why does it keep happening?The women’s soccer team knew what they were doing: it’s just that what they’re doing means something different nowThu Oct 13 2022 - 12:16
Una Mullally: Berlin has dimmed the lights while Dublin’s are still blazingIt feels as though we are still sleepwalking into a three-pronged crisis that will dominate the winterThu Oct 13 2022 - 00:57
Creeslough explosion: There is no closure with tragedy, but there can be comfortThe feeling of apartness in Donegal, gives rise to a sort of tight-knit-ness that is, even in Irish terms, utterly uniqueSun Oct 09 2022 - 11:14
