Gordon Ramsay already presents 50% of all TV shows. By 2030, he’ll have them allPatrick Freyne: This show's name – Gordon Ramsay’s Bank Balance – hints at why he’s doing itFri Mar 05 2021 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: The EU dissolved, the continent collapsed into anarchy. Ah, paradiseDisagree with Tribes of Europa’s Crows? This is Project Fear talking. You just hate freedomFri Feb 26 2021 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: Hey finance-face, that’s some damn nice financingDevils delves into the dull swamp of wealth, sharp suits and plush but soulless officesFri Feb 19 2021 - 05:00
Love in lockdown: ‘It gave us a new appreciation for each other’Divorce applications have risen, lawyers say, but many relationships have never been betterSat Feb 13 2021 - 06:00
Care Day 2021: ‘Leaving care, it’s not like happy days’Some 6,000 children in Ireland live with foster families or in residential homesSat Feb 13 2021 - 06:00
They kiss in bed together, just the two of them and their camera crewPatrick Freyne: I hope your love is as enduring as that on Married at First Sight AustraliaFri Feb 12 2021 - 05:00
Mourners gather under grey sky to show love and respect at funeral of boy (16)Priest spoke of ‘dark cloud’ over community when news of boy’s death reached themSat Feb 06 2021 - 15:00
Seeing a bunch of effete English people in a stately home in Ireland is quite triggeringPatrick Freyne: If this makes me a ‘snowflake’, I might fit right into Fate: The Winx SagaFri Feb 05 2021 - 05:00
The making of Home School Hub: ‘Probably one of the best things I’ve ever done’Makers and múinteoirí of RTÉ’s homeschool programme on teaching through the pandemicSat Jan 30 2021 - 06:00
‘It’s just not feasible’ for artists to live in DublinDublin city centre: If we want a vibrant creative life in our capital, we need to change how we support artistsSat Jan 30 2021 - 06:00
Ireland’s Fittest Family: Hanging from a log suspended over a filthy trench. Perfect metaphor for 2021Patrick Freyne: Are we not all, in a very real way, clinging on for dear life during lockdown?Fri Jan 29 2021 - 05:00
Blindboy Boatclub: ‘I had the choice of being a psychotherapist or a mad bastard’Mask-wearing podcaster and author is first guest at the Irish Times Winter Nights FestivalMon Jan 25 2021 - 21:30
Ireland’s mental health pandemic: From crisis to emergencyA ‘tsunami of mental health need’ will follow Covid-19. The already inadequate system will struggle to copeSat Jan 23 2021 - 06:00
In Bling Empire people hang out of cars with their shirts off. Big deal. I did that in NewbridgePatrick Freyne: Netflix’s hit takes two random words and reverse-engineers a show from the resultFri Jan 22 2021 - 05:00
Pulling with My Parents: It’s sweet to see people discussing Tinder filth with their folksPatrick Freyne: The RTÉ dating show will have Sigmund Freud weeping in hellFri Jan 15 2021 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne’s TV of 2021: More Sally Rooney ridey stuff and a return to Middle EarthSmall-screen highlights in case telly remains as important as it was last yearFri Jan 08 2021 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne’s favourite art: Things that should be trash but are actually brilliantZ Nation, The Monkees, Buffy and 2000AD are fine examples of brilliance by stealthTue Jan 05 2021 - 05:00
Phil Lynott: ‘I didn’t know how shy he was, how awkward, and scared of rejection’In Songs for While I’m Away, Emer Reynolds shows the Thin Lizzy star in a new lightSat Dec 26 2020 - 05:00
Covid heroes: ‘We don’t need to change the world, just to change someone’s world for 10 minutes’Meet the people who have made a big difference to others in this strange, tough coronavirus yearSat Dec 19 2020 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne’s TV moments of 2020: I've replaced my college memories with Normal PeopleIn a year when TV had a lot of heavy lifting to do, let's celebrate some small screen highlightsFri Dec 18 2020 - 12:22
School during Covid-19: ‘Keeping all the windows open, you’re freezing’Gorey Community School students and staff on managing exams, masks and ‘Covid police’Sat Dec 12 2020 - 06:00
Weirdest term ever: How students have coped, from primary to third levelPupils and students around Ireland, and their teachers, on learning in Covid-19’s shadowSat Dec 12 2020 - 06:00
Moore Street 46 years on: Within two weeks I knew everyone’s name in those photographsMichael Foley uploaded beautiful old photos of Moore Street fruit and veg traders and their customers to Facebook in 2019Sat Dec 12 2020 - 00:00
Did you know Last Christmas used to be called Stephen’s Day Is a Bit Sh*t?Wham, Shaky v Noddy, Chris Rea v traffic: Patrick Freyne analyses some Christmas classicsFri Dec 11 2020 - 05:00
The Age of Static: Can we really understand a country by its TV?Book review: Phil Harrison’s zippy analysis needs to make a more robust argument about BritainThu Dec 10 2020 - 06:00
Dolly Parton created the Covid vaccine and Jolene, for God’s sake. What can’t she do?Patrick Freyne: Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square just has to be authentic. SurelyFri Dec 04 2020 - 05:00
Covid’s silver lining: How Ireland has fallen headlong in love with its petsDogs Trust and DSPCA report a huge jump in rehoming inquiries during the pandemicSun Nov 29 2020 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Apparently it’s normal for royals to go riding all over the placeVanessa Hudgens reswaps relationships in The Princess Switch: Switched AgainFri Nov 27 2020 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne on Christmas ads: ‘No one belongs on the naughty list.’ This should be big newsTesco abolishes the rule of law, and the grotesque yuletide freak Kevin the Carrot is backTue Nov 24 2020 - 06:00
Before you buy an e-scooter for Christmas, read thisSales have soared as we seek alternatives to public transport. Pity they’re illegalSat Nov 21 2020 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Ant and Dec will always be with us, like poverty and Fianna FáilOnce we wanted our celebs glamorous. Now we want them crying on I’m a CelebrityFri Nov 20 2020 - 05:00
John Lewis Christmas ad: I’m not crying but...Patrick Freyne: There’s nude pigeons, flying snow people, heart-shaped haircuts – and a broken time-space continuumFri Nov 13 2020 - 13:00
Patrick Freyne: Nigella Lawson is not a chef, she's a food playwrightHere's the thing, herbs and spices are costumes. Rice and pasta are ‘extras’. Bowls and plates are sets. Chicken is the lead characterFri Nov 13 2020 - 05:00
Patrick Freyne: Wild Mountain Thyme and my all-time favourite Oirish filmsHere’s seven of the best Oirish films including a soulful hunky IRA man, and a corned beef and cabbage plotThu Nov 12 2020 - 13:40
Ray D’Arcy: ‘My dad was in the Army, had nine kids and drank a lot’The broadcaster says his working-class roots make him crave security and fear failureSat Nov 07 2020 - 06:00
Patrick Freyne: Pooing in a bucket? That’s the whole point of the showA more apt title for new reality show Don’t Rock the Boat would be Celebrity S**t in a BucketFri Nov 06 2020 - 09:43
Million Pound Cube: The answer to fast cash before Britain collapses into a barter systemPatrick Freyne: it’s amazing how mundane tasks can be enlivened by a time limit and dramatic musicFri Oct 30 2020 - 07:35
Dermot Bannon: ‘I used to win Lego competitions ... but I lied about my age’The TV presenter on his first steps in architecture and new series of Incredible HomesSun Oct 25 2020 - 05:00
Emily in Paris: If it was Dublin, she’d be shifting Colm Meaney in the Leprechaun MuseumPatrick Freyne: Frenchies are depicted as smelly, sex-obsessed, work-shy and nudeFri Oct 23 2020 - 05:30
Patrick Freyne: Twink connects with the birds, not just the incontinent cockatiel on her shoulderAdele King, with an actual cockatiel on her shoulder and a terrier called Teddy Bear, lodges with Lucy KennedyFri Oct 16 2020 - 07:30
Roddy Doyle: ‘My unpublished first novel was sh*te’He knew this because, when he started writing The Commitments, he knew it was goodSat Oct 10 2020 - 06:05
The BBC still rues the day Jeremy Clarkson hit an IrishmanPatrick Freyne: Freddie Flintoff and the Top Gear presenters still feel like they’re on an awkward team building weekendFri Oct 09 2020 - 09:30
‘We are really talking about assisted suicide’: Four views on a sensitive subjectThe public view on this controversial issue seems to be changing. But should the law?Sat Oct 03 2020 - 05:30
Great British Bake Off: wacky Matt Lucas joins wacky Noel Fielding. It’s terrifyingPatrick Freyne: Paul Hollywood has emerged from slumber and is hungry for power – and cakesFri Oct 02 2020 - 05:00
Michael Harding: ‘Do I know anything? Very f**king little’The author on the poetry of religion and the heart attack that gave him a liftSat Sept 26 2020 - 06:00
‘This image of a man tarred and feathered, driving a train out of rage, just haunted me’Deirdre Kinahan on her site-specific play about the 1920 munitions strikeSat Sept 26 2020 - 05:00
Fiona Bruce in a Spitfire is a Brexiteer’s fever dreamPatrick Freyne: Antiques Roadshow delves in second World War jingoism while cats plan our demiseFri Sept 18 2020 - 05:00
Mary Berry’s food filth shouldn’t be aired before the watershedPatrick Freyne: What constitutes a ‘simple comfort’ in Mary Berry’s world?Fri Sept 11 2020 - 07:30
People who work together are often deep in steamy lust, on TV at leastPatrick Freyne: Luckily, JK Rowling’s smouldering detective and sidekick are distracted by a new caseFri Sept 04 2020 - 05:00
Live music without mind-altering chemicals? Crazy notionThe rock music industry has long doubled as an efficient alcohol distribution mechanismWed Sept 02 2020 - 06:13
