In a brand-conscious world Anthony Bourdain remains a BS-free revolutionaryBrilliant, honest chef’s death reminds us to take care of ourselves and mind othersMon Jun 11 2018 - 05:00
Yrsa Daley-Ward: ‘All the pretty women were all white’The poet talks about racist beauty standards, the joy and shame of religion, and the creative processSat Jun 09 2018 - 06:00
Cardboard tents are hot, Dublin nightclubs shutting is notNigeria’s jersey is the best kit of the World Cup; but doughnuts could go the way of the dodoSat Jun 09 2018 - 00:00
Nick Cave review: Delirious Dublin falls into his armsPatti Smith’s support performance is a poetic, urgent statement to the field of thousandsWed Jun 06 2018 - 23:30
Una Mullally: If you think the movement is going away you have not been listeningThe experience of participating in the political process and affecting positive change engages people on many levelsMon Jun 04 2018 - 05:00
What’s Hot: Forbidden Fruit FestivalWhat’s Not: Flip-flops in the street – for the beach or pool party onlySat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Young women already being written out of the story of repealThe victory belongs to everyone but any analysis that does not place at its centre the feminist, women-led movement is bereftFri Jun 01 2018 - 12:08
Una Mullally: Referendum shows us there is no Middle Ireland, just Ireland‘The fiction of Ireland as a conservative, dogmatically Catholic country has been shattered’Mon May 28 2018 - 08:59
Una Mullally: Where was No when babies were put in septic tanks?On Friday, do we want to blink in the sun or shiver in the shade?Mon May 21 2018 - 05:00
What’s Hot and What’s NotDrop everything for Inis Oírr’s culture festival, but steer clear of mohairSat May 19 2018 - 06:00
‘Knocking’ jewels of old Dublin a step shy of vandalismRush to notions of modernity by developers and politicians exposes people short of visionMon May 14 2018 - 05:00
What’s Hot and What’s NotWe’ve loads of time for U2’s new video, showcasing queer Dublin. But #TimesUp for R KellySat May 12 2018 - 06:00
Una Mullally: What was No side up to online that was so crucial?Reaction to Facebook and Google referendum ad ban is tactic straight out of Trump playbookFri May 11 2018 - 12:59
‘Fragile masculinity is a massive thing. I’ve been there’The Dublin hip-hop artist fka Lethal Dialect takes a giant leap forward as Paul AlwrightFri May 11 2018 - 05:00
The poisonous online campaign to defeat the abortion referendumUna Mullally: Protect the 8th and Undecided8 are ruthlessly targeting undecided votersMon May 07 2018 - 05:00
What’s Hot and What’s NotEllen Page in Tales of the City is on the up, Snap Spectacles get the cold shoulderSat May 05 2018 - 06:00
State of the union: the woman keeping postmodern dance on its toesYvonne Rainer’s choreography moved through ballet into a feminist way of thinking, establishing new fundamentals along the waySat May 05 2018 - 05:00
Ireland’s cervical cancer shame shows women are still second-class citizensOpinion: Damage to confidence in screening service by the Vicky Phelan case is massiveFri May 04 2018 - 11:48
Una Mullally: Dangerous and grim for society to silence artsDublin City Council has cancelled literary event with theme of repeal of EighthMon Apr 30 2018 - 05:00
Delorentos take another leap into the unknownNew album True Surrender shows a band more interested in emotional precipices than the well-trodden pathSat Apr 21 2018 - 00:00
Una Mullally: Why are Irish journalists again missing a movement?Media appears unable to interpret political movements formed outside traditional party structuresMon Apr 16 2018 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Rugby bodies must regain trust after rape trialDisgusting WhatsApp messages and antics have eroded public respect for sportsplayersMon Apr 09 2018 - 05:00
What’s hot this week: Rainbow jackets and Graham Norton proseccoWhat’s not: Google’s terrifying amount of data on you and Christina Aguilera’s new lookSat Apr 07 2018 - 06:00
How long should a severely disabled child have to wait for a wheelchair in Ireland?Fiona King has been fighting a long and frustrating battle to get a desperately-needed wheelchair for her son Adam (3½), who suffers from a brittle bone diseaseWed Apr 04 2018 - 12:01
Una Mullally: Senator’s remarks show establishment does not want young people in politicsIndependent senator out of step as young people help shape Ireland of tomorrowMon Apr 02 2018 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Decent men are despondent.We need to put misogyny on trial. We need men to step up and challenge their own behaviour and the behaviour of their peersFri Mar 30 2018 - 12:14
One of Facebook’s biggest sins is against languageTech culture has taken normal words and repurposed them as a new form of jargonMon Mar 26 2018 - 05:00
Irish America does not represent modern-day IrelandUna Mullally: Varadkar’s St Patrick’s Day parading was in spite of diaspora’s dogmatismMon Mar 19 2018 - 05:00
Kojaque: Dublin hip hop from the belly of the deliKevin Smith’s latest project shows his increasingly sophisticated approach to musicTue Mar 13 2018 - 07:53
What were the shiny, grimy 90s really about?Latter stages of 2010s are stuck in 1990s scattershot but edgy cultural collageMon Mar 12 2018 - 05:00
What’s hot and what’s not this weekYes to Oh My God, What A Complete Aisling! becoming a movie, but no to DNA datingSat Mar 10 2018 - 06:00
A revue with a view: three days in New York with ‘Riot’Una Mullally goes behind the scenes at Thisispopbaby’s globetrotting showSat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
Una Mullally: So why do you need an Alexa or a HomePod or whatever? You don’t.It feels like tech is pretending to be impressive while repeating things we could already doThu Mar 08 2018 - 17:23
Gentrification: When the children of the suburbs kill a cityWriter Sarah Schulman on the ‘gated-community mentality’ of generation gentrificationWed Mar 07 2018 - 05:00
What’s hot and what’s not this week?Pop queen Janelle Monae but not St Patty – it’s not a thingSat Mar 03 2018 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Pope welcome to visit but must pay own wayWhy aid wealthy Catholic Church when it already cost State €1.5bn in compensation?Mon Feb 26 2018 - 05:00
Louise O’Neill: ‘The hardest place to maintain my feminism is in a relationship with a straight man’Author Louise O’Neill on her new novel, getting used to fame and why living with her parents is a sanctuarySat Feb 24 2018 - 06:00
Una Mullally: What will remain after Trump’s US?Russian meddling allegations have added to the administration’s apocalyptic weirdnessMon Feb 19 2018 - 05:00
What’s hot and what’s not this week?Black Panther and Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington are hot; Tarantino and dad sneakers are notSat Feb 17 2018 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Why ‘Derry Girls’ strikes the right noteFor streaming services and traditional platforms, word of mouth just doesn’t travel fast enoughMon Feb 12 2018 - 05:00
As husbands they remain platonic friends. They were stunned by the reactionLove comes in many guises. It can start at birth, or can be for people we’ve never met. As Valentine's Day approaches we look at love in all its formsSat Feb 10 2018 - 04:00
Tech Titans making the world better; but for who?It’s hard to cheer Musk’s big, cool, rocket, without thinking about how this wealth and power is being consolidated in the hands of a fewFri Feb 09 2018 - 17:49
Toscan du Plantier murder mystery: Is ‘West Cork’ podcast the next ‘Serial’?Ireland is all too familiar with the Sophie Toscan du Plantier case, but Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde’s podcast puts a new perspective on the shocking 1996 crime in SchullThu Feb 08 2018 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Vatican’s Mary McAleese ban is the act of a ‘snowflake’The bizarre row undercuts Catholic claims to victimhood and of a lack of free speechMon Feb 05 2018 - 05:00
Mango & MathMan: ‘It’s okay to be from Dublin and talk like this’‘Dubs say the maddest s**t’ – up-and-coming grime and rap duo Mango & MathMan use their working-class roots and Dublin slang as a USPSat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Male sexual dysfunction can no longer be ignoredTeaching women how to avoid predatory behaviour fails to address the core issueMon Jan 29 2018 - 05:00
Sinéad Kissane: ‘Sport is my downtime, it’s my up-time. It’s kind of everything’As TV3 prepares to host the Six Nations for the first time, its new rugby correspondent is ready for the challengeSat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Borders of the middle ground being redrawn in abortion debateMicheál Martin’s support for repeal of the Eighth Amendment is already being described as a key moment in the campaignMon Jan 22 2018 - 05:00