Figuring out the futurePRESENT TENSE: BACK IN THE dark days of late-1980s Ireland, when unemployment and emigration were at their height, the then …Sat Aug 30 2008 - 01:00
Poetry or polemic?PRESENT TENSE: THIS DECEMBER sees the 400th anniversary of the birth of the great, but these days increasingly unread, English…Sat Aug 23 2008 - 01:00
Bertie enjoys media blackout, then gives media black eyeOn the airwaves As applause followed Bertie Ahern down the backstage corridors of RTÉ and on to the studio floor for his interview…Mon May 28 2007 - 01:00
Crafting the Bertie brandConnect: George W Bush is never happier than when hacking at brush on his Texas ranchSat Sept 30 2006 - 01:00
LA INCIDENTALREVIEWED - THE BLACK DAHLIA THOSE of us who have never particularly appreciated Brian De Palma's particular brand of pretentious…Fri Sept 15 2006 - 01:00
Survival of the sorriestReviewed - Right at your door: WE ARE regularly told these days that weapons of mass destruction are cheaper and easier to obtain…Fri Sept 08 2006 - 01:00
The drugs don't work nae moreFiction: The one-time icon of the chemical generation tries a culinary take on Jekyll and Hyde - with unpalatable results.Sat Sept 02 2006 - 01:00
Tolerating anti-Semitism is not the way to oppose IsraelConnect: There's a common complaint which appears in the mailboxes of journalists when they refer to anti-Semitism in the politics…Sat Jul 29 2006 - 01:00
Islands in the streamConnect: Over the course of a few short years, the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia has grown into a vast database of knowledge…Sat Jul 15 2006 - 01:00
Travel narrows the mindFiction: A novel set in Spain is written as if in translation from its narrator's native tongue.Sat Jun 03 2006 - 01:00
The Other OccupierTheLastStraw: Readers will doubtless be aware of the origin of the word poltergeist, from the German poltern, "create a disturbance…Sat May 27 2006 - 01:00
Broadcasters a prime target for McDowell's ireIn a week when three nights of RTÉ programming on the Stardust disaster brought a half-forgotten tragedy back into the public…Sat Feb 18 2006 - 00:00
Excess without successFiction: 'Rick Moody is the worst writer of his generationSat Jan 21 2006 - 00:00
PURE LARD IN A FAT SUITREVIEWED - JUST FRIENDS: CONSIDER the place within contemporary popular culture of the fat suitFri Jan 06 2006 - 00:00
Losing our grasp of languageHere's a modest suggestion for your Christmas stockingMon Dec 12 2005 - 00:00
A hairy tale from the media jungleFiction: According to Stephen Price, the titular Monkey Man of his debut novel is not based on any one individual.Sat Oct 08 2005 - 01:00
Preaching arroganceConnect: What would Pope John Paul II have made of the modern media phenomenon that is the instant text poll? One suspects that…Sat Apr 09 2005 - 01:00
PRETTY VACANTREVIEWED - MISS CONGENIALITY 2: ARMED AND FABULOUS Consider, for a moment, the career of Sandra BullockFri Mar 25 2005 - 00:00
Allow me to be FrankThe Last Straw: 'Remember, people will be very disappointed when they turn to the back page and find Frank's not thereSat Mar 12 2005 - 00:00
Switching banks not as hassle-free as promisedWe've all had it. That nagging feeling of low-level dissatisfaction with the service provided by our bankFri Feb 25 2005 - 00:00
New members of film board namedThe Minister for Arts, Sport and Tourism, Mr O'Donoghue, has announced his appointees to Bord Scannán na hÉireann/the Irish Film…Tue Jan 18 2005 - 00:00
A new brand eraConnect: Spring, 2007. Hundreds of thousands of SSIA holders are finally getting their hands on the lootSat Jan 08 2005 - 00:00
The guessing game: How the US has gone poll crazyIf children could vote, John Kerry would be the next US president, according to the Nickelodeon network's Kids' Vote, in which…Sat Oct 23 2004 - 01:00
Actors vie for Irish film and TV awardsColin Farrell, Peter O'Toole and Dylan Moran are among the nominees for the 2004 Irish Film and Television AwardsFri Oct 01 2004 - 01:00
Film industry welcomes extension of Section 481Film Film industry representatives have enthusiastically welcomed Mr McCreevy's extension of Section 481 tax relief for investment…Thu Dec 04 2003 - 00:00
Film board gets new chief executiveThe Irish Film Board has announced the appointment of Mr Mark Woods as its new chief executive.Fri Aug 29 2003 - 01:00
Drink ads box cleverConnect: The press release is couched in the usual purplish prose style: "The new 'it' drink on the New York bar scene: ABSOLUT…Sat Aug 23 2003 - 01:00
Striving to resist detailConnect: The dawn of a brave new era for Irish public service broadcasting is at hand, according to the Minister for Communications…Sat Aug 16 2003 - 01:00
Law obliges cinema to stop using mobile phone jammerThe Savoy cinema in Dublin has dismantled a device it used to scramble mobile-phone signals, following an intervention by the…Sat Apr 26 2003 - 01:00
CEO to leave film board for new Galway postThe Irish Film Board/Bord Scannán na hEireann has announced that Mr Rod Stoneman is to depart after 10 years as its chief executive…Thu Apr 17 2003 - 01:00
Farrell role in launch of new film festivalDublin's biggest, brashest movie star, Colin Farrell, was the guest of honour last night at the launch of a new film festival…Wed Feb 26 2003 - 00:00
'Tis the season to be some place elseSo what exactly are you up to this Christmas Eve? Frantically wrapping up loose odds and ends at work, so you can get those vital…Tue Dec 24 2002 - 00:00
Ex-RTE executive appointed as censor of filmsFilm producer Mr John Kelleher has been appointed to the position of Official Censor of Films by the Minister for Justice, Equality…Sat Nov 09 2002 - 00:00
Cracking the Casement codeA documentary on Roger Casement includes new evidence that the Black Diaries, recording Casement's homosexual experiences, were…Wed Mar 13 2002 - 00:00
Revisiting the deadMeeting Kevin Barry in the bar of a Cork hotel to talk about James Joyce and film, we are, appropriately enough, forced to flee…Mon Oct 22 2001 - 01:00
The maverick strikes back'I believe it was a waste of time, because I failed utterly in achieving anything I wanted to achieve," says Bob Quinn of his…Tue Oct 09 2001 - 01:00
Lights, camera, dissatisfactionNext Tuesday sees the official launch of the programme for this year's Miller Dublin Film Festival, which opens on April 20th…Fri Mar 30 2001 - 01:00
Stanley Kramer, rare Hollywood dissenter, diesThe veteran American filmmaker, Stanley Kramer, has died in Los Angeles at the age of 87Wed Feb 21 2001 - 00:00
Like father, like daughterIt's a dank, dark, damp autumn afternoon n north Wicklow, somewhere near KilpedderSat Nov 04 2000 - 00:00
The TicketThis is the last edition of the Friday Sound and Vision pages in The Irish TimesFri Nov 03 2000 - 00:00
That moment when life changesKevin Liddy has been working on Country since 1993, when he sent the first draft of the screenplay into the Film Board, after…Sat Oct 14 2000 - 01:00
Hello AngelsThe Olympics may have been something of a disaster for US television network NBC, but that doesn't mean American moviegoers have…Sat Oct 07 2000 - 01:00
Hollywood rat catcherSitting in the foyer of Dublin's Morrison Hotel, less than an hour before the gala premiere of his new feature film, Rat, director…Sat Oct 07 2000 - 01:00
FilmWrinklies in Space! It seems such an obvious idea, it's surprising nobody thought of it before (except in the later William Shatner…Sat Sept 16 2000 - 01:00
A plague called ironyAverage height, average build, average, slightly pale looks. A dry, self-deprecating style of speakingSat Sept 16 2000 - 01:00
Straight to the limitIt's always a cause for some celebration, and some trepidation, when RTE dips its notoriously conservative toe into the waters…Sat Sept 02 2000 - 01:00
