The way I use my phone feels compulsive. 20 minutes can pass like nothing at all. It’s a profound waste of time
It’s not just children and adolescents who are being damaged by digital addiction
Girls Night photographer Eimear Lynch: ‘There’s a part of me as a teenager in the images, especially the shy-looking ones’
What’s Next For?: Lynch on photographing teenage girls on nights out, Fontaines DC and Irish dancing
To find the real Nell McCafferty, look to her writing
Her sentences, when she found the perfect one, possess both weight and lightness
Irish experimental film-making is booming. All it needs now is a home
What’s Next For?: Dissolutions moving-image festival will showcase work from across Ireland. A permanent base for its makers is long overdue
Lack of action to stop attacks on Gaza is a moral injury to us all
The only position of any ethical merit is to call for the slaughter to end and for justice and consequences for those who presided over this terror
Balcony Project leader Louis Haugh: ‘It’s quite emotional to see queer people come together with timber and saws’
The artist is heading a project that incorporates plants, fermentation and a small, queer community of growers
Kamala Harris is backing Donald Trump into a corner. Dangerous times
Trump’s extremism and messaging previously had a bristling energy, but a sense of jadedness is creeping in
Síofra Murdock of Throwing Shapes: ‘You need so much patience with ceramics. It draws in really sound people’
What’s Next For?: Dublin’s new community pottery studio already has 70 members, according to the artist who founded it
Grian Chatten of Fontaines DC: ‘We were speeding off the edge of a cliff’
The band ended a tour in Japan unsure what to do next. The resulting album was ‘f**king mad’ to make
Ireland is now so different from the begrudging country I grew up in
The self-assuredness to be found among so many creative Irish people – and sport is a creative endeavour – demonstrates a novel openness to excellence
Skateboarder and artist Michael McMaster: ‘I’m not looking to blow up and be famous’
What’s Next For?: McMaster is one of many skateboarders in Ireland whose visual art is making an impact in a local, DIY, community-building scene
We can’t leave it to climate-conscious nuns to take a stand against data centres
Data centres gobble 21 per cent of Ireland’s electricity, more than twice as much as all rural dwellings
Cabaret artist SexyTadhg: ‘Irish speakers are very rebellious. So a queer Irish speaker is welcomed’
What’s Next For?: The musician, singer and performer is bringing their show Television to this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival
Kneecap: ‘Paul Mescal was flirting with us. He was wearing Adidas shorts, not GAA shorts. It’s all a farce’
Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvai are following up their acclaimed debut album with a whip-smart, moving, brilliantly entertaining film
Being in the US right now is living in the pages of a burning history book
‘All you scumbags... What are you going to do when the Trumpamaniacs run wild on you?’ Hulk Hogan asks