My favourite band are splitting up. It’s almost time to let them go
Saint Etienne, who bring their farewell tour to Dublin next week, have been my glittering soundtrack for growing up and wanting to sail away
Saoirse at Dublin Fringe: A charming Gaeltacht musical with superb vocal performances
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: This Irish-language production hinges on a sweet coming-of-age romance at an embattled coláiste
Slow Horses actor Ruth Bradley on handling rejection, learning to say no and laughing it all off
The Irish star can’t remember a time when she didn’t want to act. There aren’t many downsides to the job, she says
Exit Party author Emily St John Mandel: ‘I cannot overstate how stressful the US is at the moment’
The bestselling Canadian writer returns with a near-future vision of the world – well, two of them
The Liberties musical Pretty Vacant: ‘It’s almost impossible to satirise what’s going on’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Dereliction and greed are viewed through a surreal lens in this new show. But can anything top the ‘bizarre stuff’ that’s really happening?
It’s National Cinema Weekend, which means movies for €4. Count me in
Films cost just €4 at most participating cinemas on Saturday and Sunday, marking a temporary break from ticket inflation
Dolly Parton was exploring an avatar show. Will we always love her as a hologram?
As the country star said before she died, it’s ‘just crazy’ what technology can do
Kanye West goes east for tour dates in Russia. Is that wise?
It’s safe to say the rapper’s special rehabilitation operation is on hold
Meg Mason: ‘It’s really warping, all these people who don’t know you, who feel like they do’
Meg Mason, the author of bestseller Sorrow and Bliss, returns with Sophie, Standing There, a meta novel about a lonely literary-festival worker’s parasocial relationship with a famous writer
Ruth Negga withdraws from Dublin Theatre Festival play at the Gaiety
Actor was scheduled to star in The Goat Exchange production of Radio Bette in September
New Arts Council chief takes on a troubled organisation in tough political climate
Shona McCarthy will need to retain support of an Arts Minister not reluctant to speak his mind
Broadcaster Sarah Mulkerrins: ‘When I left Ireland, I didn’t think I’d ever get to work on GAA, so it’s a bonus’
From Athenry to the BBC, sports broadcaster Mulkerrins talks ambition, freelance life and capturing the emotion of sport’s biggest moments
Bank holiday blues: Must we have more of these hellish festivals of stress?
Politicians love them, but the 19th century solution to the problem of monotonous, draining work is surely not the answer today
Comedian Alan Davies: ‘I talk about what my father did, and how I had him arrested’
In Think Ahead, the comic talks about being sexually abused as a child. ‘People laugh their heads off, then they go totally silent and listen’
Booker longlist speculation is foolish. But it’s also fun
New and overlooked authors are competing against several past winners and previously shortlisted writers. They can’t all make it