How much am I like Anya Taylor-Joy? Put us in a casino and watch what happens
Apple TV’s Lucky is different from other action dramas in that the main character has a dog’s name
Fr Mike Schmitz show in Dublin: ‘It’s like going to see a celebrity and the celebrity we’re talking about is God’
Fr Schmitz, the social media star, digital evangelist and Catholic chaplain, attracts youth groups, culture warriors and apolitical people seeking some form of healing at the National Stadium
Scramblers scourge: ‘People are dying because of it’
Using scramblers in public places has been illegal since April. The Garda Commissioner supports an outright ban on e-scooters
Patrick Freyne: Today’s rich weirdos have nothing on the billionaires of my youth
Willy Wonka, like all billionaires, goes into space in the end. Perhaps Elon Musk should purchase a cane
Little House on the Prairie’s ethnic-cleansing message really hasn’t dated well
Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie feeds into the fantasy that settlers have a great moral message (‘finders keepers’)
Patrick Freyne: Guilty pleasures are for cowards and Bonnie Tyler deserves better fans than that
Tyler, who died this week, once described herself as a ‘guilty pleasure’ singer. She deserves better fans than that. She is a guiltless pleasure for me
The Million Dollar Nannies love to party. They’re more Mary Poppers than Mary Poppins
Looking after oligarchs’ children in their New Zealand bunkers is, at least, a way to survive the apocalypse
Laurie Anderson on Lou Reed: ‘He said, I’ll get on a plane right now. We got married the next day’
Being back in the city where her husband gave his final concert was a reminder for the artist that there’s no demarcation between life, art, politics and love
House of the Dragon, House of the Shmagon, that’s what I say
This Game of Thrones spinoff goes big, and like much CGI, it often looks like a rich and creamy soup with human-shaped croutons floating in it
Russian author Jana Bakunina: ‘In the West, people don’t know what it’s like to be absolutely helpless’
The exiled Russian writer, who is coming to Dalkey Book Festival next week, talks about the ‘inner emigration’ of her friends under Putin and how even her father accepted regime propaganda
Brexit Britain now: Patrick Freyne revisits Leave voter heartlands 10 years on
A decade after the UK decided to leave the EU, many in Britain regret the outcome – but not the vote
Patrick Freyne: The true and wonderful weirdness of Dubliners always surfaces
My favourite form of reporting is not the celebrity interview or political profile; it’s approaching ‘people’ in ‘places’ and asking them questions about ‘stuff’
Marty Whelan: ‘I’d like to be paid more, particularly when I see what other people are on’
The avuncular veteran broadcaster, who is turning 70, on facing some hostility on his return to RTÉ, his moustache, and his ‘threat’ to keep working for as long as he can
Patrick Freyne: I lose count of how many people the Punisher kills over 50 minutes
Patrick Freyne: I lose count of how many people the Punisher kills over the course of 50 minutes
30 years since Nuala O’Faolain’s Are You Somebody? ‘Vibrating with hurt. It leaves a mark’
In her best-selling memoir the Irish author and journalist ‘excavated her own soul and, in so doing, helped us look more closely at ourselves’













