‘I’ve lived away for a while, that’s all,’ I said, defending my weakened Derry accent
Newsreaders and Elon Musk aside, people generally don’t change accents on purpose
‘I couldn’t listen to it’: Brendan O’Connor frankness with Phil Coulter is an unmissable moment
Radio: The presenter has a deeply moving discussion with Phil Coulter, while Second Captains Saturday also dives deep
‘I don’t like you, I like Mummy,’ my daughter says with such vehemence that my son holds my hand
My daughter prefers her mother to me so much that to suggest anything else really would be laughable
Oliver Callan learns about keening: ‘They’d pull out hair, rip clothes, reveal their breasts’
Radio: Haunting radio on RTÉ, while Anton Savage’s guest warns against retinal burns and Claire Brock talks soft-launches
I have yet to be convinced that the current zeal for AI is anything more than a bubble
I have yet to be convinced that the current zeal for AI is anything more than a bubble
‘Do you remember,’ asked my brother on the family WhatsApp, ‘when Daddy bought an entire cow and put it in the freezer?’
Séamas O’Reilly: I’ve no need for ChatGPT to help me write - I’ve got the family WhatsApp
Séamas O’Reilly on best graphic novels of 2026 so far
Dogs on Dates, by Luke Healy; The Woodchipper, by Joe Ollman; Fault Lines, by Rob Cullen; Dear Historian, by Joff Winterheart; and Children of Light, by Jean Pleyers
I like the idea of being a Reading Champion – it implies that I myself have conquered the art
For the past school year, I’ve been spending two mornings each week helping four- and five-year-olds to read
I longed to be part of a gang of local kids, though nature did furnish me with 10 siblings
Modern birthday parties have a way of ruining the memory’s illusion of our own childhood celebrations
Claire Byrne deploys the tact and restraint that make her so good on delicate topics
Newstalk host gives Chalkie White the space to describe the complexity of his reaction to an ordeal that, with George Gibney’s conviction, may finally be near its end
Séamas O’Reilly: Social media bans for children ignore the scorpions in the room
We already have ways of mitigating online harms – they are enshrined in laws we refuse to enact
My son’s frustrating World Cup sticker book is a perfect reflection of Fifa
My son’s World Cup sticker book offers an unmissable opportunity for me to deliver the first ever broadsheet book review of this most vaunted form of literature
Séamas O’Reilly: I tell my son the truth about football
I was a wiry, bookish nerd who grew up in open countryside with little else to do than play football
Séamas O’Reilly: An insane sequence of events led to me to quit the office job I hated
An insane and arbitrary sequence of events led to me getting to write about things for a living, instead of toiling away in an office job I hate
Nicolas Cage’s new TV series is terrific fun. Why have you probably not even heard of it?
Even its star’s trademark turn is struggling to gain traction for Spider-Noir, Prime Video’s unexpectedly handsome hoot