‘They’ve a neck like a jockey’s backside to be asking those prices’Dublin’s spiralling rents have left many people facing the prospect of homelessnessSat Apr 20 2019 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: The six kinds of cyclist you’ll meet on the new Liffey cycle track‘Cycling in Dublin always felt like behaviour of post-Catholic masochists’Sat Apr 06 2019 - 06:00
Anish Kapoor’s Brexit art: ‘It looks like a transition year Photoshop project’The sculptor was asked to create a Brexit-themed artwork and this is itWed Apr 03 2019 - 14:35
Battling Brexit has become a full-time job for activistRifts stemming from referendum will last for generations, says campaignerTue Apr 02 2019 - 00:24
Sinéad Gleeson: ‘I have a mortality complex. I think I’m going to run out of time’Constellations author speaks about bereavement, illness and how that affects her writingSat Mar 30 2019 - 06:00
‘It’s cause for insurrection’: Anger on streets as Brexit deadline missedPro-Brexit supporters outside Westminster are united in little except a sense of betrayalSat Mar 30 2019 - 01:00
Brexit: The long walk to promised land of an independent BritainHardcore Brexiteers remain steadfast on Sunderland to London Leave Means Leave marchWed Mar 27 2019 - 19:53
Brexit in Beaconsfield: ‘My wife has to calm me down, I get so angry’Many people in quaint Buckinghamshire town unconcerned with Westminster dramaWed Mar 27 2019 - 00:57
Brexit nears the Dover cliff-face: ‘MPs should be burned at the stake’Despite talk of no-deal traffic chaos, fervent leavers in Kent seem hell-bent on BrexitTue Mar 26 2019 - 00:05
People’s Vote march: ‘Brexit is the single most cowardly thing this country has done’Patrick Freyne reports on the signs, speeches and spacemen at the landmark protestSat Mar 23 2019 - 22:12
What Brexit Britain thinks now: ‘I’ll start speaking German. I don’t care any more’Patrick Freyne revisits English towns to find out how views have changed since 2016Sat Mar 23 2019 - 05:00
‘People just want it all to end . . they just want to know if they’re in a hellhole or not’Leave and remain voters in the Welsh town of Wrexham just want Brexit over withFri Mar 22 2019 - 05:00
A child’s life: ‘So what if your ma isn’t a doctor or a solicitor?’Kian Fitzwilliam, a student at the ‘Brunner’ in Dublin, says everyone should go to a Deis schoolSat Jan 26 2019 - 06:00
Life as a child in Ireland: ‘Here’s phones. Here’s alcohol. Here’s weed’Five young Irish people discuss their early lives in modern Ireland – their fears, hopes, dreams and personal challenges. Interviews by Patrick FreyneSat Jan 19 2019 - 06:02
Comic timing: Why The Irish Times is backing a new graphic short story competitionThe artists behind Ireland’s new comic contest on why the artform is blossomingTue Jan 15 2019 - 05:00
Conor McGregor to Brexiteers: The problematic people of the yearPeter Casey was your uncle’s angry Facebook post made flesh acting like Rodney DangerfieldSat Dec 29 2018 - 05:00
The consequences of a hard Brexit for an importer/exporter like SantaSanta will have to use the door because after the Tories relax the child labour laws the chimneys will be crammed with urchin chimneysweeps and little matchgirlsSat Dec 22 2018 - 05:00
Dublin’s global village: ‘It’s the most multicultural part of Ireland’From African barbers to Korean restaurants, Parnell Street is the city’s international hubSat Dec 15 2018 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Home alone? Here’s a few scary movies for ChristmasThese Christmas classics seem innocent, but they hide a darker, more disturbing messageSat Dec 15 2018 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: From Kylie to Declan Nerney, a history of taoiseach rockLeo Varadkar has been accused of trying to ‘get down with the kids’ via 1980s pop icon Kylie Minogue. Here’s how our former leaders rocked us in the OireachtasSat Dec 08 2018 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: Be afraid, be very afraid of these Christmas adsPsycho carrots, a reverse-ageing Elton John and Melania Trump as a Stepford wifeSat Dec 01 2018 - 05:00
Holyhead on Brexit: ‘When will people wake the f**k up?’The Welsh port town voted Leave. Were locals ‘led like lambs to the slaughter’?Sat Nov 24 2018 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne examines some of the new additions to the Christmas calendarThe lead-up to Christmas would not be the same without Black Friday, Cyber Monday, John Lewis ad day and the Fine Gael ardfheisSat Nov 24 2018 - 05:00
Malala Yousafzai’s father, Ziauddun: ‘Let all girls fly’The activist’s courage has never wavered, despite the Taliban’s attack on his daughterSat Nov 17 2018 - 06:00
From first principals to second fiddles: life in an Irish orchestraPlaying in the RTÉCO is no easy task, not least as rumours swirl about its futureSat Nov 17 2018 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: Thank you, Stan Lee, for making superheroes just like usThe man behind Spider-Man, Iron Man, Thor, the Incredible Hulk and the Uncanny X-Men made it okay to express your feelings while wearing spandex and fighting evil lizardsSat Nov 17 2018 - 05:00
John Lewis Christmas ad stars Elton John and his sadly normal sitting room. Could it be real?No dyed purple swans? No jewelled obelisks? This is disappointing, writes Patrick FreyneThu Nov 15 2018 - 11:05
Ciara Kelly: ‘I remember the first time I told somebody that they were dying. You never forget’The former GP does not hold back on her Newstalk show, even if it gets her into troubleSat Nov 10 2018 - 06:00
The Spice Girls are back. Brexit’s gonna be all rightPatrick Freyne: The bolshie popstrels ruled the 1990s. Can they make Britannia cool again?Sat Nov 10 2018 - 05:00
‘If food waste was a country it would be the third-largest emitter of greenhouse gases’A nationwide initiative that aims to cut food waste and to stop people going to bed hungrySat Nov 03 2018 - 06:00
The Great British Bake Off subtly prepares for post-Brexit livingThe show’s idyllic setting sits outside the common market, part of no customs unionSat Nov 03 2018 - 05:30
President Peter Casey: we were secretly on his side all alongIt’s about time we had a moneyed trigger-happy weirdo as head of state. #diversitySat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00
Podge and Rodge are back, but they’re not funny any more. Maybe they never wereAfter eight years off TV, the irreverent puppets still say ‘mickey’ a lot. And that’s kind of itTue Oct 23 2018 - 00:32
‘Rule me. Oh yeah, rule me good, you big dirty royal’You say you’re not interested in the royal family, but you know you are. We know it tooSat Oct 20 2018 - 08:39
Bressie: ‘I’d say, “Don’t cry,” but then I’d go upstairs and be upset’Bressie has written a book for children with the message that it’s okay to feel sadSat Oct 20 2018 - 06:00
Presidential debate: ‘I like the cut of that empty podium’s jib. It has a quiet dignity’Patrick Freyne: You could argue that it would be better to run a Rose of Tralee-style pageantMon Oct 15 2018 - 23:39
From Marcus Aurelius to Jesse Ventura: terrible leaders and their artistic notionsI’m easily swayed by politicians who do art. Here are some of my favouritesSat Oct 13 2018 - 05:00
Finding Joy: Making a sitcom with Amy Huberman and Aisling BeaThe quips fly on and off camera during the filming of Finding Joy, RTÉ’s new comedySat Oct 06 2018 - 05:00
Flunkey business: ‘The Apprentice’ is back – and this time it’s personnelThe show only tests ability to suck up to Lord Sugar and laugh loudly at his lame jokesSat Oct 06 2018 - 05:00
Culchie appropriation: How Michael Healy-Rae grabbed us by the goggleboxThe Kerry TD co-presented ‘The Tonight Show’ with Matt Cooper, cleverly infiltrating Dublin’s liberal media. What next, ghost-writing Fintan O’Toole’s column?Sat Sept 29 2018 - 05:00
Lynn Ruane: ‘Having a baby at 15 stopped me when I could have begun to use heroin’Watching friends die gave the Senator the drive to experience life, motherhood and educationSat Sept 15 2018 - 06:00
‘No, I don’t want to do Electric Picnic. I’m middle aged’In a horrible vision, Patrick Freyne is visited by the Ghost of Electric Picnic FutureSat Sept 01 2018 - 05:00
John Connors: ‘Acting ... killed my depression on the spot’The Love/Hate actor on creativity, anti-Traveller bias, and being too outspokenSat Sept 01 2018 - 05:00
Yuval Noah Harari: ‘It takes just one fool to start a war’The Israeli historian on nostalgia, nationalism and the need for global co-operationThu Aug 30 2018 - 05:00
Emotional day for some who brave rain to see Pope Francis at Phoenix ParkPatrick Freyne: Boy (14) forces his family to travel from Kerry to park for ‘historic’ daySun Aug 26 2018 - 17:45
From fake news to hopes of faith news at Croke ParkPatrick Freyne: Pope Francis receives families, gets selfie with a child and gives a speech with a mother-in-law jokeSun Aug 26 2018 - 09:47
Frodo Baggins was my moral guide, Rick Astley my hair heroPatrick Freyne: Hobbits, Phil Collins, The Monkees – these were my role modelsSat Aug 25 2018 - 05:00
Arts interns: ‘All I wanted was not to be treated like s**t’The Irish arts industry functions thanks to unpaid interns. Yet many feel unappreciatedTue Aug 21 2018 - 05:00
The Irish journalist, his wife-to-be and the KGBConor and Zhanna O’Clery’s experiences encapsulated life in the Soviet UnionSat Aug 18 2018 - 06:00
Mass-goers tell Pope Francis: ‘Rock the boat, your holiness’Mass-goers in Dublin and Cork on their relationship with God, Catholicism and the PopeSat Aug 18 2018 - 06:00
