Drama Drives Interest: The Web Summit Story – The improbable, fascinating, only-in-Ireland tale of Paddy Cosgrave
Catherine Sanz’s book focuses on the highest-profile founder of the most compelling Irish business drama of the past 15 years
Noam Chomsky
Speak out at your peril: Self-censorship and the smothering of academia
Unthinkable: Commercial interests and social-media outrage are curtailing free speech
Salman Rushdie: ‘I am stupidly optimistic – it got me through those bad years’
The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life
Normal People: Connell still can’t speak in complete sentences
TV review: Director Lenny Abrahamson has passed the glum baton to Hettie Macdonald
Pragmatism beat idealism as deeply engaged voters navigated change
National mood misread by FG as Brexit deemed less vital than health and housing
How can I distinguish between my needs and wants?
Unthinkable: Economist and philosopher Adam Smith encourages us to reflect on ‘how much is enough’
‘I could have made a country-rock album – especially with it being in Welsh’
Gruff Rhys: Brexit seems to be like some sort of strange right-wing death cult
The Hunger: A mixed-media opera about the Famine
Production team and cast illuminate 1840s with sean-nós, economists and vivid footage
‘Moon and Me’: the new TV show from the genius behind ‘Teletubbies’
Another success for the hit-maker despite being accused of creating ‘orgies’ for infants
Breakthrough in sight in climate talks as negotiators find compromise
US continues ‘to hang around like a bad smell’ at climate talks, says Christian Aid spokesman
Ryan Mullen hoping for Grand Tour debut in Giro d’Italia
Over 120 groups have now called for start of 2018 Giro to be moved from Israel
From Hollywood to London and online hit with Hardy Bucks spin off Viper's View
Lorcan Fox moved to London to further his career as a film and TV director
Hunger strike key weapon of jailed after failed Turkish coup
Educators and journalists among those held in ‘professional annihilation’ by Ankara
‘Queen of chess’ Judit Polgár honoured by UCD student society
Hungarian champion given James Joyce Award by Literary and Historical Society
Author of controversial UN report to address Cork talk on Israel
Richard Falk accused country of running apartheid-like regime towards Palestinians
Why not taking offence will make you – and the world – better
Unthinkable: Donald Trump may make your skin crawl but your anger ‘destroys you’ not him, argues Brant Hansen
Jobstown protesters ‘have support of’ French presidential candidate
Water charges demonstrators claim to have high-profile backers ahead of April trial
Oliver Callan: The only sensible thing to do with Trump is wait and see
The idealist in us may have wanted Bernie Sanders to win, but the realist knows Trump won and we need him to keep winning
After Trump’s victory I’m abandoning ‘real’ news, give me sport instead
If sport is the opium of the masses, it’s a lot more fun than the US election
Diarmaid Ferriter: Civility has withstood Trump’s assault
In dealing with the incoming US president, Ireland should not let self-interest rule
EU like ‘Hotel California’, you can never leave - Yanis Varoufakis
Former Greek finance minister says his country is now being ‘run by email’
Reginald D Hunter on why 'TV is perfect for the talentless', and why he uses the N-word
The comedian, who has taken flak for use of the N-word and other explosive material, is worried about freedom of expression
New to the Parish: ‘Ireland is like a chicken in a battery farm’
A Bolivian activist in Dublin feels a connection with Ireland because of the history of colonisation, but he feels many mistakes were made as the economy boomed
Davin O’Dwyer: Does social media feed into political upheaval?
With traditional media disrupted, Facebook is setting the agenda for political discourse
Basque leader Arnaldo Otegi freed after 6 years in prison
Otegi (57) jailed in 2009 for trying to reform political party linked to terrorist group Eta
Welcome for Mick Wallace undimmed despite his unorthodox approach
Independent TD arrives at doors empty-handed in traditional sense of Irish politics
Opinion: Did the 1916 Rising meet the requirements for a ‘just war’?
A major criticism is that the signatories of the Proclamation didn’t represent the Irish nation
Chomsky rejects Erdogan’s charge of ‘ignorance’
US academic says Turkish president has been aiding Isis and supporting al-Nusra Front
Web Log: Snowden Treaty aims to outlaw mass surveillance
Noam Chomsky is among the public figures supporting the stance against surveillance
Bin Laden’s ‘bookshelf’ shows his interest in conspiracy theories
US releases more documents seized in 2011 raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader
Unthinkable: Is the media just an arm of the market?
‘The single greatest tragedy in Ireland today is the absence of a free press,’ says Marcus deBrun
DTF Review: Book Burning
An exercise in unadorned storytelling and sparing stagecraft resists the information overload of the modern world
Gulf between haves and have-nots is widening – even in idyllic Boulder
The attractive Colorado city’s green belt is under pressure as property prices soar
Sean Dunne bankruptcy in contrast with position of small borrowers
If you want debt forgiveness, you need to have enormous debts
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