How to thrive after failure: ‘If I don’t fail, I’m not learning’
Failure in life is painful, but it’s also formative. Tara Flynn, Colum McCann, Derval O’Rourke, PJ Gallagher and more on bouncing back after their lows
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Now You’re Asking: Tara Flynn and Marian Keyes may be sweet Irish agony aunts, but they’re not afraid to shank you
Podcast review: The pair are clearly close friends with a strong chemistry that works a charm
Gay rights, women’s right, a ‘bad’ abortion and a nervous collapse: Panti Bliss and Tara Flynn’s double bill
Theatre review: In Haunted and If These Wigs Could Talk, from the Abbey and Thisispopbaby, the activists and performers reflect on success and its price
‘In 2018 I wrote publicly about my heritage. Soon after, the anti-Semitic messages began’
Opinion: Online abuse of women must be tackled, by law and by the platforms that publish it
Róisín Ingle: My sister Rachael dropped me at that London clinic in a black taxi
Today is the anniversary of the day 66.4% of us voted to repeal the Eighth Amendment
Nollaig na mBan events to take place across the country
Literature events, art exhibitions and charity fundraisers planned for Little Christmas
Grand, eejit, feck: Marian Keyes explains the Irish to the English
The Irish writer’s new BBC Radio 4 show began with the theme of Ireland and the Irish
Body and Soul: A one of a kind festival with a heart of gold (and green)
It's the 10th anniversary of the music festival that isn’t just that but rather more of a multimedia experience
Body and Soul 2019: festival stage times revealed
The programme of 200+ acts extends across 13 stages and venues
A defence of identity politics and its massive impact on Irish society
Why it's important to call out things that people do or say that enforce systems of prejudice
St Brigid’s Day: Irish women to be celebrated around the world
Events celebrating female talent to take place from London to Warsaw to Washington
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
Podcast of the week: Taranoia sees Tara Flynn in recovery mode
After her central role in the Repeal campaign, Flynn is back to save the nation again
To see or not to see: ‘Hamnet’ is this week’s must-see theatre highlight
Dead Centre’s brilliant one-boy show in Dublin, and all the drama of Electric Picnic
‘Everyone had girls’ names in the seminary’
Writer Phillip McMahon and director Rachel O’Riordan on making a play inspired by a hidden community of gay priests
Anne Enright: Personal stories are precious things and they made the difference
‘How did we turn ourselves from fallen women into women rising? By telling the truth. It was that simple’
Women’s Podcast: Reflecting on the campaign, on Referendum Eve
Legal, medical and academic experts speak to Kathy Sheridan
‘I love being in the company of people, it’s my favourite thing to do’
In Conversation: Tonie Walsh and Brian Finnegan, friends with a GCN connection
A livid John McGuirk has all the nuance of a grenade attack
Radio review: Presenter Matt Cooper has fractious exchanges with anti-abortion campaigner
Repeal book event pulled from festival after arts officer raised questions
Dublin City Council says Question of the Eighth event contravened its code of conduct
‘Not a Funny Word’ and ‘Assassins’: this week’s best theatre
Tara Flynn’s splendid one-woman show and Stephen Sondheim’s roll-call of political killers
Neil Murray: On My Culture Radar
The Abbey Theatre director on reggae, Grayson Perry and ‘Derry Girls’
Fine, feathered friends and neighbours: The week’s best theatre
Cillian Murphy stars in Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Plus: The Unmanageable Sisters at the Abbey and THISISPOPBABY’s mini-St Patrick’s festival
Tara Flynn: My favourite restaurant is up a flight of stairs on O'Connell Street
The actor, comedian and writer on Frances McDormand, Rome and WeRateDogs
What’s hot and what’s not this week
Tara Flynn has a brilliant new play; hide from polarised debates about the Eighth Amendment
‘Baby Hater’: You’re never your own person again
Comedian Joanne McNally is ‘80% certain’ that she doesn’t want to have children
Must-listen podcasts: from eclipse chasers to architecture’s sleight of hand
Also, a home-grown comedy starring comic Conor O’Toole that provides great escapism
Abbey Theatre reveals new season
The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre
Barry Walsh resigns from Fine Gael executive council
Party member ‘deeply regrets tone and language’ in some Tweets and apologises
’I was nervous entering college. It had to be a new chapter for me’
From entering first year to life beyond, four succesful graduates tell their stories of third-level education
Gutter snipes, a testy time and Tilda Swinton in a cheesecloth
The latest new shows from this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival
Una Mullally: National Concert Hall showing the way for other venues
And all change at the Abbey and Gate – our rigid cultural venues are, at last, mixing it up
Abortion movement has been hijacked by the middle class
The Repeal campaign should be challenging political and economic inequalities
Get your own poem on Poetry Day Ireland
As part of today’s celebrations, Lewis Kenny will be writing personalised verse at Poetry Ireland’s HQ
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