Giant portraits to challenge negative image of young men in IrelandLocal youngsters are being recruited to help out on ‘Our Nation’s Sons’ project, which aims to display murals in six cities across the country this summerSat Mar 22 2014 - 01:05
In love with life’s losersAs work gets underway on the movie of her bestselling novel ‘Room’, Ontario-based Dubliner Emma Donoghue talks about life as a writer, and why she’s always been attracted to outsidersSat Mar 15 2014 - 01:00
Righting the wrong that is violence against womenThe findings in a survey by the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights are jaw-droppingMon Mar 10 2014 - 01:05
Beyoncé unbeatable before Dublin audienceReview: Musical juggernaut rolls into town for first of four datesSun Mar 9 2014 - 13:07
Where are you when your kids are online?Just 26% of parents monitor their children’s internet activity on a daily basisMon Mar 3 2014 - 12:00
Development takes Moore Street site from baking dough to making doughSuccess of the Paris Bakery is an example of entrepreneurial spirit bringing life back to urban areasMon Feb 17 2014 - 12:00
We need bolshie women journalists as role modelsWe need more women in high-ranking positions in journalism so the public can see itself reflectedMon Feb 10 2014 - 06:00
Foy Vance and Bell X1 dazzle as Other Voices returns to DerryThe Music Trail brings 60 bands to venues, bars and churches in the citySat Feb 8 2014 - 14:19
Putting it up to PutinThis portrait of Pussy Riot is personal as well as political, thanks to the author’s unique accessSat Feb 8 2014 - 01:00
Susan Wood: from Easy Rider’s difficult shoot to clicking with John and YokoIn her long career, the photographer has captured everyone from Jayne Mansfield to Norman Mailer. She tells how Dennis Hopper betrayed Peter Fonda and how she earned her subjects’ trustFri Feb 7 2014 - 01:00
The truth drove Louise O’Keeffe, and the truth wonThe truth does not disappear just because it is ignoredMon Feb 3 2014 - 01:01
The Coppers formulaCopper Face Jacks, on Harcourt Street, is a cheesy nightclub, somewhere between school disco and local rural nightclub, in the middle of the capital. Una Mullally spent a night on the tilesSat Feb 1 2014 - 01:00
Luke Kelly: 30 years after his death, his voice lives onThe man from Sheriff Street, known for his expressive singing voice and generosity, left an indelible mark on Irish music and on the Irish singers who came in his wakeThu Jan 30 2014 - 01:00
Shannon protesters spoke for many of us‘They are flown perhaps to a country where torture is a little more acceptable’Mon Jan 27 2014 - 13:09
Spread your wings beyond BarcelonaLeave the city behind and explore the fascinating Catalan towns and villages within easy reach, where you’ll find culture andgastronomy at every turnSat Jan 25 2014 - 01:00
Ireland and Garth Brooks: a love storyThe two Croke Park concerts announced this week take us back to the 1990s and the line-dancing crazeTue Jan 21 2014 - 17:26
Homophobia watchdog needed before marriage equality referendumLGBT rights debate shows how far Irish society needs to progressMon Jan 20 2014 - 12:00
Humble pie on the menu for Manchester UnitedHumility does not come naturally to United or their fansMon Jan 13 2014 - 12:00
The very Irish tale of Ralph Lauren’s niece in courtThe arrest of Jenny Lauren in Ireland has a US romcom feel about itTue Jan 7 2014 - 19:55
Slamming the door on decent designThe vast majority of modern Irish buildings are crap in comparison to what came before themMon Jan 6 2014 - 01:53
Men need to step up to their role in Feminism 4.0Gender equality cannot happen solely by women ‘leaning in’Mon Dec 30 2013 - 14:51
My best moment of 2013From becoming a grandmother for the first time to simply enjoying meeting customers in a shop, the best memories are personalSat Dec 28 2013 - 01:00
Paddy Power hits slam-dunk low with North Korean stuntBookmaker plans to stage basketball match in PyongyangMon Dec 23 2013 - 01:00
Follow that starWhat better way to end the year in pop culture than with a Nativity play featuring all of our favourite stars?Sat Dec 21 2013 - 01:00
‘Twelve pubs of Christmas’ is a booze orgy too far for IrelandIf there is such a thing as the personality of a country, you’d have to say that we’re a tearaway teenagerMon Dec 16 2013 - 01:00
Rugger brothers: the sporting ambitions of the Kearney boysThe rugby playing Kearney brothers tell Una Mullally about their sporting hopes, those falling out of nightclubs rumours, and who cooks their Christmas turkeySat Dec 14 2013 - 01:03
‘This thing is terrifying. What am I doing here?’On paper Other Voices is a music festival, but when its series of concerts in a tiny Dingle church mixes with the buzz and banter of the Co Kerry town, it becomes something much more magicalSat Dec 14 2013 - 01:00
Gender upender: a fuzzy chat with PeachesShe’s cool, confrontational and her spectacular live performances are legendary. Now she has written, directed and starred in her own movie. Peaches talks to Una Mullally over a bad phone line about her pioneering workFri Dec 13 2013 - 00:00
Live review: Other Voices day threeThe Dingle festival saved its best till last, when John Grant broke the whole church’s heartsWed Dec 11 2013 - 01:09
Arts play second fiddle on television‘Other Voices’ is a welcome survivor of RTÉ’s whittling of arts outputMon Dec 9 2013 - 01:00
Poetry, swagger and a little trembling at Other VoicesDavid Gray, Hozier, Lisa O’Neill and Patti Griffin make for the real deal in DingleSun Dec 8 2013 - 12:26
Dingle plays host to glittering array of musical talent‘Other Voices’ grows into one of the most acclaimed occasions in the music calendarFri Dec 6 2013 - 22:43
I’m with the choir: the group therapy of singing in unisonGroup singing releases endorphins, helps with bonding and (perhaps) heightens sexual attractiveness. An upcoming world record attempt in Dublin with more than 500 choirs should be quite a day, thenFri Dec 6 2013 - 01:00
Yearnalism: making a story out of nothingnessThe type of celebrity we attach ourselves to actually says an awful lot about the prevailing culture of the timeMon Dec 2 2013 - 06:49
We are in danger of becoming slaves to a broken systemIreland has a long and complex history with slavery, which continues todayMon Nov 25 2013 - 07:04
Lost for words? the Christmas books listFear not! We have great books for readers of all agesThu Nov 21 2013 - 01:00
Turning into a fast-food nation by fair means or fowlImpact of fast food will be one of the biggest public-health issues of the next decadeMon Nov 18 2013 - 15:00
The people need to be kept in mind as the future of Dublin is plannedThe city does not belong to Dublin City Council or to developers: it belongs to the people who live in itMon Nov 11 2013 - 13:17
Waiting for Godot won’t deliver better tech policyGovernment needs bold initiatives in education, not Beckettian fatalismMon Nov 4 2013 - 12:00
Crossing over: the hard road from online to televisionRTÉ’s ‘The Commute’ is the latest show to move to TV from online beginnings, after ‘The Hardy Bucks’ and ‘Damo and Ivor’. But the transition for those used to the DIY approach isn’t always smoothFri Nov 1 2013 - 01:00
The fear business: why it pays to scare peopleHalloween might have lost some of its scare factor amid sexy nurse costumes, but making people jump is still big businessWed Oct 30 2013 - 01:00
Remote killing with drones is building a wireless new axis of evilDetaching ourselves from the consequences of our actions is a growing trendMon Oct 28 2013 - 12:00
Myth of kidnap of children by particular ethnic groups has a disreputable historyOpinion: If we are judged on how we treat the least fortunate, we have some soul-searching to doFri Oct 25 2013 - 07:03
We are still haunted by the ghost of the Celtic TigerWe are in danger of seeing boomtime fripperies as touchstones of economic successMon Oct 21 2013 - 12:00
Good coffee and quips with David SedarisTrashing other books on the best-seller list . . . Teasing Dublin waitresses . . . There’s a sense of devilment about Sedaris, an arch humorist whose stories are a lesson in precision writingTue Oct 15 2013 - 01:00
Intelligent media at risk from drive for idiocySmart people can be ostracised by a media counting on the lowest common denominator for revenueMon Oct 14 2013 - 01:00