Naomi Klein: The super rich need to be abolished and ‘prescribed a middle-class life’
End Times Fascism by noted author and her collaborator Astra Taylor contains a hopeful prescription for neighbourly resistance
U2 play special gigs at Mount Temple Comprehensive and Grafton Street to mark 50th anniversary
Bono, Larry, Edge and Adam return to former school - where drummer stuck up a note ‘seeking bandmates’ - half a century after first rehearsal
U2’s new album Carnaval de Luz features Dolly Parton and Bono duet
Carnaval De Luz is U2’s first album in nine years. It’s nice to have them back
Patrick Freyne’s top TV shows of 2026: Lola Petticrew, a bearded grump and Siobhán McSweeney’s sneaky Irish
Brilliant Irish actor Lola Petticrew (just a normal Irish name) stars in Elizabeth Meriwether’s Disney crime drama, Furious.
Mark Little: ‘Protests against data centres is the biggest wave of civic activism since the 1960s’
The broadcaster turned entrepreneur on messianic tech billionaires, and his new book tracking his journey from tech-optimism to disillusionment to a new cautious hope
Dark mutterings in the Dáil: things move very fast around here
Dáil Sketch: At Leaders’ Questions, recriminations over RTÉ Investigates programme reach full volume
Watching The Gentlemen, I have an urge first to doff my cap, then to head an angry mob
Posho dressed as a pearly king Guy Ritche offers up more cartoon geezer yarns
Phil Coulter: ‘The song Congratulations has fed, clothed and educated my children’
Songwriter reflects on his incredible musical canon and why his most personal tunes have stood the test of time
Do you track your family’s location with technology or have you been tracked?
Have your say: We’d like to talk to people about the experience of location sharing with loved ones
Continuity Top Gear: Three men cosplay as an early 2000s trio who recall rationing, old money and petrol’s purpose
If The Grand Tour’s new series is masculinity in quiet decline, then The Mandalorian and Grogu is a social services red flag
Five Wicklow women living in a Westlife world of their own: ‘It’s a coming of age thing’
Five Wicklow women in their 30s are seeing Westlife together for the umpteenth time this month. They talk about friendship, fandom and how life has changed in the past 25 years
Patrick Freyne: At least Khloé Kardashian is looking after her poor rich friends
None of these people is remotely frightened at the thought of flaunting their grotesquely boring wealth before a troubled, impoverished nation
‘It’s very fraught. I was super fond of Graham Linehan’: Jon Ronson on his book about men spiralling
The Castle was inspired by Ronson’s son finding himself in the home of an heir ‘trying to be Hugh Hefner at the worst moment in human history to be Hugh Hefner’
Blindboy unmasked: ‘The thing I’m most afraid of is having to work in an office... so now I work in an office’
The writer and podcaster on adapting his short stories for the Abbey stage, how his podcast is used as a kind of advanced Duolingo, and how the fairies will rise against AI
Fortycoats, ‘Felt Jesus’ and the time Aonghus McAnally said bum instead of bottom
Why do children get the likes of RTÉ’s Bellie and Whizz at Big School to help them self-regulate, when adults just get the news?