David O’Doherty: ‘Achill is my favourite place on earth... a weird place in an apocalypse’Isolation Diaries: Comedian has brought his parents to their family cottage on AchillWed Mar 25 2020 - 06:00
John Boyne reopens Covid-19 story contest after over 4,000 children enterIsolation Diaries: The novelist also tells us about his experience of the coronavirus shutdownTue Mar 24 2020 - 10:11
From 15 years of heroin addiction to becoming a neuroscience lecturerBrian Pennie's memoir tells the story of addiction, recovery and redemptionSat Mar 21 2020 - 06:04
‘We’ll never see a pandemic in our lifetime, or my name isn’t Lord Clarence Imminent-Comeuppance’Patrick Freyne: Downtown Abbey creator Julian Fellowes meets his Waterloo in BelgraviaFri Mar 20 2020 - 05:00
Coronavirus: ‘The people involved in this business are so vulnerable’Artists and arts workers have been left in desperate straits by the sudden shutdownTue Mar 17 2020 - 06:00
Young straight people have apparently completely forgotten how to do sexPatrick Freyne: Five Guys a Week shows the crisis in heterosexuality is well under wayFri Mar 13 2020 - 05:00
Bob Geldof: ‘I’ll be going along in the car, and suddenly, bang, out comes the sadness’The Boomtown Rats singer on childhood, grief, rebellion, Brexit and Ireland’s progressSat Mar 07 2020 - 06:00
Ready Steady Cook is back to soften the UK up for rationingThey might soon be cooking with whatever they can scavenge from the forbidden zoneFri Mar 06 2020 - 05:00
‘Hello, I hear there’s someone in the house acting the b*ll*cks’An exhibition of photos of ordinary items gives sharp insights into addiction in familiesSat Feb 29 2020 - 06:00
Steve Martin and Martin Short: ‘I have about 800 cousins coming to the Dublin show’The veteran comedians on Irish roots, timeless humour and touring with a partnerSat Feb 29 2020 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne on Love Is Blind: It’s Gilead, Love Island and Blind Date rolled into oneNetflix’s dystopian dating show asks if it’s what’s inside that really counts (Spoiler: it isn’t)Thu Feb 27 2020 - 10:01
Dancing With The Stars backstage: ‘I’d love to see Danny Healy Rae out there’Patrick Freyne visits the set of ‘the biggest show on Irish telly’Sat Feb 22 2020 - 05:00
Who turned up to the Dublin casting call seeking ‘bone thin, amputees, crooked teeth’?Hundreds queued up to be in the Ridley Scott movie starring Ben Affleck and Matt DamonFri Feb 21 2020 - 17:00
‘How can we torment a bunch of millennial snowflakes and get away with it?’Patrick Freyne: RTÉ tortures avocado lovers in Special Forces: Ultimate Hell WeekFri Feb 21 2020 - 05:45
Life after care: ‘We’re all just trying to grow up’‘There are over 6,000 kids in the care system and there are 6,000 different stories’Sat Feb 15 2020 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Homeland is a tool for teaching Americans geographyClaire Danes in Homeland is basically Dora the Geopolitical AgitatorFri Feb 14 2020 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne on Love Island: I had forgotten how oddly asexual the hunks areThe Love Island hunks do press-ups in tiny shorts – just like we do at The Irish TimesFri Feb 07 2020 - 05:00
Richard Dawson: ‘I don’t want to tell people what to think’The Newcastle musician speaks about post-Brexit UK, fictional songwriting and embracing contradictionWed Feb 05 2020 - 06:00
Brexit Day bloc party in Westminster descends into a warped EurovisionPatrick Freyne: Nigel Farage and a cabaret artiste help usher the UK into its new eraSat Feb 01 2020 - 01:15
Patrick Freyne in Parliament Square: Brexiteers make hay at final flingLondon revellers call for sovereignty and 'controlled' migration as they celebrateFri Jan 31 2020 - 22:16
Dr Eva Orsmond loses the run of herself. Her husband goes mad. It’s perfect Irish TVPatrick Freyne: We have an endless taste for shows about stressed people doing up housesFri Jan 31 2020 - 05:00
‘It’s a pity you can’t vaccinate people against Brexit’In Cambridge, one of the richest but most unequal cities in the UK, 73% voted remainThu Jan 30 2020 - 19:15
‘A lot of pubs are having parties’ in the town with the highest ‘Leave’ vote in Britain‘I’m not saying they’re all the same’ – Brexit voters in Boston, Lincolnshire, express reliefWed Jan 29 2020 - 19:00
Election 2020 TV debate: The best debater is, unexpectedly, Richard Boyd BarrettTV review: Did the people who get up early in the morning stay up late to watch this?Tue Jan 28 2020 - 06:00
Gwyneth Paltrow’s adventures in the post-fact snake-oil businessPatrick Freyne: The Goop Lab, on Netflix, ventures inside Paltrow’s bizarre companyThu Jan 23 2020 - 05:00
‘He was some man’: Shane’s journey from care child to fearless activistFriends and family recall children’s rights activist Shane Griffin, who died on New Year’s EveSat Jan 18 2020 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: The mystery of Dermot Bannon and his many surrogate wivesThe Room to Improve sun god has enlisted them to build his Great Pyramid of GizaFri Jan 17 2020 - 05:00
Can a work of fiction about the Holocaust be inaccurate?There’s a large quantity of new Holocaust fiction, and experts are worried about qualitySat Jan 11 2020 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: It is now late-period Dermot Bannon. He is on the verge of losing itThat’s why this show is about Dermot Bannon designing a house for Dermot BannonFri Jan 10 2020 - 05:30
Patrick Freyne: The best of TV in 2019 and what to watch this yearFunniest programmes are of the hand-drawn variety like Rick and MortyFri Jan 03 2020 - 05:00
Ten years of spittle-flecked online outrage have changed usPatrick Freyne on key trends of past decade: superheroes, fidget spinners, online rageFri Dec 27 2019 - 05:00
So long Grumpy Cat... and other notable meme-folk of 2019Patrick Freyne on some noteworthy names that made news this yearFri Dec 20 2019 - 05:00
Meet Paddy Fay, the first person Peter McVerry housedPaddy Fay met Fr Peter McVerry when he broke into the priest’s home 40 years agoSat Dec 14 2019 - 06:00
Malcolm Gladwell: ‘Once you put words into the world you lose control over them’The bestselling author has seen some of his ideas become dogma. That misses the pointSat Dec 14 2019 - 06:00
The Royal Baby rules the British with a chubby fist of ironPatrick Freyne on the ascent of Amber, from investigative journalist to modern-medieval queenFri Dec 13 2019 - 05:00
Baby Yoda: the charismatic floppy-eared one will surely be the next BondPatrick Freyne: A list of the most notable Star Wars non-humans from a galaxy far, far awayFri Dec 06 2019 - 09:00
Britain’s politicised youth: ‘This feels like a once-in-a lifetime election’Members of Momentum and Blue Beyond on what the general election means to the youngSat Nov 30 2019 - 06:15
Paddy Holohan: ‘MMA was a liferaft to grab onto’The former MMA fighter talks about his upbringing, martial arts and becoming a politicianSat Nov 30 2019 - 06:04
Patrick Freyne on Christmas ads: Marks & Spencer’s sick filth should be bannedPatrick Freyne: Why do firms want to show us that their employees see their children?Fri Nov 29 2019 - 08:35
Patrick Freyne: The Crown is about a rich family who stay stillBritish have little conception of their own history beyond a few overly-fetishised eventsFri Nov 22 2019 - 05:00
Paul Merton: Boris Johnson stopped being funny when he became prime ministerHave I Got News For You star on a career in comedy, Boris Johnson and his Irish revolutionary grandfatherSat Nov 16 2019 - 06:00
‘I thought the end of the music industry would be amazing’Barry McCormack looks beyond Dublin for his brilliant, almost-concept album Mean TimeSat Nov 16 2019 - 05:00
His Dark Materials: ‘I’m in over my head. I should read the books’The show is set in a parallel universe filled with hipsters who fly around in hot air balloonsFri Nov 15 2019 - 05:00
The John Lewis Christmas ad is out. Ah, feudalism and rickets. Yum!Does it make me (a) leak tears and money or (b) wonder why Edgar is such a pain in the hoop?Thu Nov 14 2019 - 12:30
Comfort foods: What’s your guilty pleasure?Our favourite foods might not make us feel healthier, but they can soothe our soulsSat Nov 09 2019 - 06:45
David Mitchell: ‘The internet and the smartphone have been a disaster for civilisation’Peep Show star is ‘depressed’ by Brexit but tries to focus on the ‘greatest aim’ of being funnySat Nov 09 2019 - 05:00
The British Tribe Next Door: ‘I have a bad feeling about this’A ‘normal’ British family travel to Namibia to see what they can learn from the quirky nativesFri Nov 08 2019 - 05:00
Broadcaster Gay Byrne dies aged 85 after long illnessFirst episode of The Late Late Show aired on the 5th of July, 1962 with Byrne as its hostMon Nov 04 2019 - 14:50
Cher at the 3Arena review: Big voice, big wigs and workplace-inappropriate costumesDressed like the dominatrix madam of a reasonably-priced bordello, Cher wowed DublinSat Nov 02 2019 - 11:45
Who hasn’t pushed their family to the mental limits with one visit?Patrick Freyne: Ireland’s Fittest Family a far cry from country’s typical householdFri Nov 01 2019 - 06:00
