Orange Is the New Black: ‘So many people felt invisible, because there was no one like them on TV. And people are able to see themselves now’Black, lesbian, transgender . . . The Netflix hit has been the ‘breath of fresh air we didn’t even know we needed’, according to its stars Taylor Schilling, Laura Prepon, Uzo Aduba and Laverne CoxSun Jun 21 2015 - 09:00
Parks and recreation: dino rebootsWith Jurassic World earning gazillions, a sequel or three can’t be far away: here are our plot pitchesThu Jun 18 2015 - 10:00
Una Mullally: #Clueless politicians at a loss over dialogue onlineThe internet is a democratic tool – if only political parties could learn to use itMon Jun 15 2015 - 01:00
Forgiven, not forgotten: The Corrs are back and we have 10 reasons to celebrateThe Corrs are set to release new material, with live dates lined up for September. Una Mullally can't waitThu Jun 11 2015 - 15:07
Una Mullally: What next, for young campaigners in the same-sex referendum?‘For the first time in people’s young lives, they saw the direct connection between their individual actions and changing the world’Mon Jun 08 2015 - 05:00
Netflix picks up Irish-based animation ‘Puffin Rock’Series already shown on RTÉ Junior will now reach international audiencesFri Jun 05 2015 - 01:20
Patti Smith reigns over Dublin | ReviewIt is remarkable that Horses, a record released 40 years ago, and its creator, can still summon such urgencyWed Jun 03 2015 - 13:37
Una Mullally: ‘Mad Max’ breaks the mould of action film sexismWhy are women continuously absent in Irish films?Mon Jun 01 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Your world will change when you come out as the person you are‘At Dublin Castle I couldn’t help but think of all of those who lived secret lives’Mon May 25 2015 - 09:43
Una Mullally: Decency of Irish not limited to liberal DublinThis is also about people who never made it this far, the shoulders we are all standing onSat May 23 2015 - 16:18
Fassbender does his Jobs in a poloAt last, a trailer has emerged for the Steve Jobs film, stylised as steve jobsFri May 22 2015 - 15:30
Joe Caslin installs second mural on the side of a castleInspired by The Meeting on the Turret Stairs, mural shows two female figures in a tender poseTue May 19 2015 - 10:35
Una Mullally: We have come a long way but there’s one hurdle leftIn the 1803 Proclamation of Independence, Robert Emmet wrote: ‘Show to the world that the Irish are not only a brave, but also a generous and forgiving people’Mon May 18 2015 - 05:00
Minority Report comes to the small screen with a new TV showWhen it comes to sci-fi TV, Philip K Dick is your only manThu May 14 2015 - 07:00
Una Mullally: Either way, the referendum will be a victory for democracyThe biggest impact might not even be on marriage equality, but on the wider Irish political horizonMon May 11 2015 - 11:20
Una Mullally: It’s hard to accept yourself when your country doesn’t‘I was just starting to focus when the doctor told me they found a tumour. They didn’t have the biopsies yet, but straight away knew it to be cancer’Mon Apr 27 2015 - 09:57
A little bit of monkey magic shows how art can liven up a city’s dead spaceOn a little corner of Dublin, Art Lot, a derelict space, is managing to hold its own as an open air public exhibition spaceFri Apr 24 2015 - 14:00
Una Mullally: Karen Buckley tragedy is every woman’s worst nightmare‘Any time I write about violence against women, there’s a volley of abuse in the comments on The Irish Times website. Some people just don’t want to hear about it’Sun Apr 19 2015 - 18:12
Rock memoirs worth their saltThis October, Patti Smith will publish a new memoir M Train. We can’t wait. But we’ll have to, so until then, we’ll re-read our favourite rock memoirs.Fri Apr 17 2015 - 12:00
Una Mullally: New political engagement by young peopleGovernment generally avoids interacting with youth, viewing them with suspicionMon Apr 13 2015 - 09:03
A new British/Irish documentary on Grace Jones is in the pipelineShe’s one of the most compelling singers to ever grab a microphone and glare down the barrel of an audience, but how much do we really know about Grace Jones?Fri Apr 10 2015 - 15:30
‘Work harder than everyone else’: Storm Large’s route to successStorm Large is a full-on, larger-than-life performer, part rock’n’roll, part cabaret, who scares men and doesn’t care about taking stick from feminists for using her sexuality on stageThu Apr 09 2015 - 02:00
Una Mullally: RTÉ referendum memo sends out the wrong messageAccusing RTÉ of bias is a national sport, but the term is being misused in this debateMon Apr 06 2015 - 05:00
Timbaland strikes back in EmpireThe rapper and producer is on the comeback trail with his cracking hip-hop TV showFri Apr 03 2015 - 12:00
The Meltybrains? way: masks, madness and mistakesThe members of Meltybrains? might be classically trained musicians, but their music is indefinable, their fans look like cult members and their live shows are bewilderingThu Apr 02 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: The drugs might not work, but neither do the lawsNobody – aside from criminals – benefits from drug prohibitionMon Mar 16 2015 - 05:00
Offset 2015: what we learnedFeaturing Tomi Ungerer, Forsman & Bodenfors, Snask, Niels Shoe Meulman, Veronica Ditting and Ian Anderson of the Designers Republic, last weekend’s creative convention in Dublin hosted designers and innovators from around the world. There was a lot to absorbSat Mar 14 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Videoed acts of violence now terrifyingly commonWhat was once alarming is now seen as ‘content’ in our film-everything cultureMon Mar 09 2015 - 05:00
Bitch Falcon’s ultimate International Women’s Day playlistIn celebrations of Women’s Day, we asked Dublin band Bitch Falcon to compile their ultimate playlist of female songmakersSun Mar 08 2015 - 10:00
One-woman wonders: album gigs we’d like to see happenIn honour of International Women's Day 2015, Una Mullally lists seven classic records that need to be given the full live treatmentSun Mar 08 2015 - 09:00
‘Speed-dating’ with the best creative businesswomen at OffsetA recent event gave newcomers a chance to learn from some of the smartest women in the local creative industriesThu Mar 05 2015 - 01:00
Look back, it’s Aer Lingus: Why can’t we hold on to what we create?Scratch the surface of many ‘Irish’ brands and you’ll find they’re owned by faceless multinationalsMon Mar 02 2015 - 12:29
The real mad men: how adverts get off the drawing boardThe advertising industry produces some cutting-edge art. Two of the creatives who’ll be at the Offset conference explain how their ideas take shapeSat Feb 28 2015 - 12:00
Adult Swim’s latest bag of tricksAdult Swim are at it again, this time with John C Reilly packing shopping bagsFri Feb 27 2015 - 15:32
Una Mullally: Why Greece’s rebellious streak is so appealingWatching Greece assert itself, regardless of the outcome, is encouragingMon Feb 23 2015 - 01:18
Selfishness has little to do with not having childrenPope Francis said couples who don’t have children are ‘selfish’ and part of ‘greedy’ generationMon Feb 16 2015 - 13:47
Backstage at the OscarsDo you really end up having a laugh with George Clooney? Or becoming best friends with Jennifer Lawrence in the ladies’ loos? Markéta Irglová and other Irish nominees give us the lowdown on being at the Academy AwardsSun Feb 15 2015 - 07:00
Una Mullally on vocal fry, women’s latest afflictionVocal fry is a creak that sometimes happens at the end of a sentence or a statement when you’re talkingMon Feb 09 2015 - 14:35
Bob Dylan’s on album 36, but he still trails well behind music’s most prolific artistsNice try Bob. Who’s made the most?Fri Feb 06 2015 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Standing up to threats and violence on the streets of Dublin‘If you confront violence in a successful way, chances are the perpetrators will think twice before they attack someone again’Mon Feb 02 2015 - 12:23
There is no ‘other side’ to any type of bullying‘If parents are genuinely perturbed by the idea of anti-homophobic bullying initiatives, then perhaps they too would benefit from a workshop’Fri Jan 30 2015 - 00:01
Una Mullally: Transgender rights are human rights and new Bill needs to recognise thisWhile the Gender Recognition Bill is welcome, there are huge shortcomingsMon Jan 26 2015 - 13:20
Leo Varadkar shows there’s no standard way to come outFor most in LGBT community coming out is a positive experience but problems remainWed Jan 21 2015 - 01:00
‘This might be awful’: the Theatre Machine testEach evening, audiences pay €14 to see four short works in progress. You might see a disaster or an embryonic hitTue Jan 20 2015 - 06:00
Varadkar coming out as gay is a gust of fresh air in Irish lifeRole models such as the Minister for Health show being gay is not a hindrance in Irish societyMon Jan 19 2015 - 12:01
Aaron Paul on Breaking Bad, beards, books and deathThe actor, best known for his role in Breaking Bad, was in Dublin recently, so we put a fat stack of short, sharp questions to himThu Jan 15 2015 - 16:45
Why a referendum on blasphemy is long overdueGiven its stranglehold on societies for generations, religion should be poked and proddedTue Jan 13 2015 - 07:33
Protect the uniqueness of Irish pubs from JD Wetherspoon’s inexorable advanceOpinion: pubs are one of our biggest draws for visitors and natives alikeMon Jan 05 2015 - 00:01
