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 6 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 6 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 Sep 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 Sep 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 Sep 1 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 Sep 1 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
Patrick Freyne: My day with Steven Seagal, Putin’s new envoyI didn’t know he was accused of sexual assault and was an apologist for a KGB-trained autocratSat Aug 11 2018 - 05:00
A romantic encounter with Ireland’s most charismatic business mogulI respect him. He’s the only mogul in Ireland with no intention of running for the presidencySat Aug 4 2018 - 05:00
51 ways to survive the Irish summerDelicious, daring and downright useful ideas for making the best of our summer daysSun Jul 29 2018 - 06:00
A day in the library: ‘This is a safe space for people’In other countries libraries may be under threat but there’s a queue every morning outside Dublin’s Central LibrarySat Jul 28 2018 - 06:00
Hits and Misses by Simon Rich: If you like laughing, read itReview: former ‘Saturday Night Live’ writer’s short stories don’t go deep, but they will make you lolSat Jul 28 2018 - 06:00
Bosco, but for adults? As Buffy returns, seven more reboot ideasPatrick Freyne: Freaks and Geeks,The West Wing, Friends – why not?Sat Jul 28 2018 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: Conor McGregor strikes a blow for his presidencyMMA fighter’s praise for Putin comes during quite a week for preposterous menSat Jul 21 2018 - 05:00
Have your say: What’s the worst thing about where you live?We want to hear about the challenges communities face, and potential solutionsMon Jul 16 2018 - 12:45
Marty Morrissey: The most famous man in GAAPatrick Freyne spends a day with the commentator who went from being a 'Yank' blow-in in Co Clare to one of the most loved characters in Irish sportSat Jul 14 2018 - 06:00
The Children’s Court cases: The boy with the hammer, the girl in the dressDublin’s Children’s Court deals with cases from thefts of sweets to joyriding and assaultSat Jul 14 2018 - 06:00
Michael D Higgins, President for life – and nine other losers who need not applyBertie? A Healy Rae? ‘That eejit Bono’? A better bet is a basket of cuddly kittensSat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00
Have your say: Have you done an unpaid or low-paid arts internship?Do you feel such placements are exploitative, or are they mutually beneficial?Fri Jul 13 2018 - 14:51
Harry and Meghan’s first trip is just an Irish school tourPatrick Freyne: Prince should feel at home here, given he looks like a John Hinde postcardWed Jul 11 2018 - 01:00
Leo Varadkar and Donald Trump turned me into the Prince of LiesPatrick Freyne: As Leo Varadkar was siding with Trump on the media, I thought: How did I get here?Sat Jul 7 2018 - 06:15
Why you should have a nap right now‘We need to de-stigmatise sleep as being for a lazy or weak person’Thu Jul 5 2018 - 12:35
Copper Face Jacks: The Musical – It’s West Side Story with the Irish national anthem at the endPaul Howard’s musical tells story of a Kerry woman following her dream of working in VHITue Jul 3 2018 - 16:06
Patrick Freyne's summer: Watch ‘Jaws’, eat a Brunch, listen to Meatloaf – just don’t wear shortsMy guide to the best and most appropriate summer thingsSat Jun 30 2018 - 06:15
‘Girls are just as into sport as boys if they get the chance’Patrick Freyne joins a session at Fun Direction, which encourages girls to play sport and where he learns that unicorns poop candies, but definitely not trainsSat Jun 30 2018 - 06:00
How the way we work is changingAutomation is destroying jobs and the employer is no longer your paternalistic chumSat Jun 23 2018 - 06:00
‘A company dog and a pool table don’t make a co-working space’Co-working spaces are thriving in Ireland, and changing the way we workSat Jun 23 2018 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: If only Love Island had a World Cup teamA simple people, the islanders national costume is as basic as their minds are pureSat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00
The Meaning of Poldark Striding Topless Out of the SeaPatrick Freyne: Poldark’s full of existential conundrums. And heaving, glistening chestsSat Jun 16 2018 - 05:00
Prince and Duchess bask in ‘liquid sunshine’ as God confirms he’s a KerrymanWindolene, fresh paint and no spelling test – a great day for KerryFri Jun 15 2018 - 20:41
Prince Charles declines spicy food before stepping into famine hutRoyal greeted by entrepreneurs and academics on visit to University College CorkThu Jun 14 2018 - 18:48
Royal visit to Cork: ‘Is it the musician Prince?’Starstruck Cork does its best to make Charles and Camilla laugh at the English MarketThu Jun 14 2018 - 13:05
Patrick Freyne: Television that makes me Glow with happinessThe band of eccentric wrestlers return while Gotham seems fun compared with murderous Brexit BritainSat Jun 9 2018 - 05:00
Nick Cave at the Abbey: A funny, strange and beautiful eveningThe audience asks the questions in this raw, intimate and revealing showWed Jun 6 2018 - 10:00
Patrick Freyne: Nature programmes don’t tell you animals are duplicitous bastardsThey never once say ‘Observe this majestic tool’ or ‘This bird is a complete shithead’Sat Jun 2 2018 - 05:00
Lionel Shriver: ‘I do not want to be told I'm privileged’It’s one thing to be provocative, the writer says, but her critics should at least read herSat Jun 2 2018 - 05:00
Robotic surgery? ‘It’s a bit like defusing a bomb’Doctors could soon be taking a more hands-off approach to even more proceduresWed May 30 2018 - 06:00
My heroines: Cagney, Lacey, Xena and She-RaThe Powerpuff Girls turned out to be a template for a new generation of feministsSat May 26 2018 - 05:00
I was one of those lads, robbing shops, stealing carsVulnerable teens are easily tempted into lives of crime. A project in Dublin tries to divert them from thisSat May 19 2018 - 06:00
Bed and breakfast – and ‘Flashdance’ – with Daniel and Majella: what a feelingFeast goes on the table and all restraint goes out the window when Ireland’s first couple arrive at the doorSat May 19 2018 - 05:00
The Stones at Croker: Mick gets us all to yowl, so of course we doFor more than two hours, they pummel our senses with some of the best rock music everThu May 17 2018 - 23:33
Patrick Freyne: Billy Ocean and Paula Abdul changed my worldThe music videos of the 1970s and 80s changed me, not always in a good waySat May 12 2018 - 05:00
Eurovision honour restored, Ireland sits back and enjoys an irrelevant semi-finalSerbia, Sweden, Australia all got through. But we don’t care, cos we’re already in the finalThu May 10 2018 - 22:54
‘Who Wants to Be a Milliner?’ – a classic Clarkson vehicleJeremy Clarkson might not be PC, but he is always innovating. Why not hatmaking?Sat May 5 2018 - 19:24