Bono has yet again caught much public ire after a St Patrick's Day poem was met with deep dissatisfaction online.
In 2016, the chair of the expert group that conducted the Higher Education Authority's (HEA) national review of gender equality in Irish higher education, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, noted that "the passion and commitment to tackling gender inequality demonstrated by a wide range of stakeholders, has inspired us with great confidence that our recommendations will be fully embraced and that gender equality in Irish higher education will be achieved in the years ahead".
I lár an áir agus an uafáis shocraigh Páirtí an Luch Oibre a cheannaire a dhíbirt. Tháinig na cultacha chuige agus cé nach raibh buidéal biotáille agus piostal acu ní raibh an dara rogha aige, ná suí ar bith sa bhuaile féin.
To celebrate St Patrick's Day, The Irish Times has assembled a list of books, fiction or creative nonfiction, one set in each Irish county. It would be fair to say that, no more than its population density, Ireland's literary riches are not evenly distributed and a handful of counties had us racking our brains for a representative.
RTÉ Player is perhaps the most notorious software ever created in Ireland. There are more ads than you'll find plastered to the exterior of a Formula One car. And on a bad day this glitchy abomination can be a one-way ticket to TV purgatory. Away from the baying crowd, however, the Player has been quietly distinguishing itself with original content such as the new three-part series Our Land (RTÉ Player, from Tuesday)
Jacques Audiard pauses our interview with a halting hand gesture. "Can I ask Jehnny a question?" says the film-maker. Jehnny is Jehnny Beth, the TV presenter, film producer, frontwoman of the English rock band Savages and star of Audiard's ninth film as director.
Adrian Lyne is 81 and hasn't made a film for 20 years. The last one was Unfaithful, a top erotic thriller to add to his sweaty collection (Fatal Attraction, Indecent Proposal, 9½ Weeks). It won an Oscar nomination for Diane Lane, who we saw flushed on a train, recalling her busy afternoon with Olivier Martinez. So, on the surface, Lyne seems a strange choice to direct Deep Water, based on a book by Patricia Highsmith about a sterile marriage.
The Minister for Education recently announced an expansion of the Deis (Delivering Equality of Opportunity in Schools) scheme. An additional 310 schools are being admitted to the scheme and an extra euro32m is being provided for that purpose.
