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Covid-19 has changed everything and makes an audience subscription model attractive
Olive: Olive branches for women in their 30s
Book review: Emma Gannon’s smart debut novel looks at the decision to be childfree
Imagine Gal Gadot hadn’t roped her friends into making this cringy video
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Filter This: Timely, terrifying look at the dangers of an Instagram life
Book review: Sophie White has written a clever, entertaining debut
Chris O’Dowd: From big Irish teddy bear to American hard man
The Boyle star on his tough-guy role in ‘Get Shorty’ and his county’s referendum journey
Amy Huberman and Dawn O’Porter on writing, motherhood and the joys of just saying no
The Women’s Podcast: This episode was recorded live at an Irish Times Magazine event at The Sugar Club
In Praise of: the #icebucketchallenge
Donald Clarke may yet warm to the idea of a chilly dip for the Irish Motor Neurone Disease Association
Television: In a flap about flippers? Take a leaf from Maureen Gaffney’s book
The psychologist’s self-help series is as sincere as teaching extras from ‘Flipper’ to talk is barmy
Radio: Good grief, Moncrieff – surely you aren’t waffling?
The Newstalk presenter marries the trivial and the serious to bracing effect, but Miriam O’Callaghan’s witty remarks fall flat
Dawn O’Porter: ‘I feel like I threw away a couple of years’
O’Porter talks about her confidence crisis, her writing career, and her marriage to ‘big hairy Celt in a lumberjack shirt’ Chris O’Dowd
Radio: George Hook un-Laoises his comedic side while Ray D’Arcy does a bad boob job
In an on-air battle of the belly laughs, the Newstalk presenter’s loud, from-the-hip patter was the clear winner
A night on the tiles
What more natural challenge to set during Dublin Writers Festival than to play Scrabble against The Irish Times?
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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