Aisling Bea: ‘In terms of comedy, I’m not Heston Blumenthal. I’m like ‘chips and a side’’Stand-up comedy, acting in ‘The Fall’, writing her own show and now team leader on ‘8 Out Of 10 Cats’ panel show – Kildare woman Aisling Bea has a lot onFri Nov 25 2016 - 11:10
Una Mullally: Pro-Trump propaganda shows fakery has gone viralFake news was clickbait frivolity until its Orwellian role in the US election raceMon Nov 21 2016 - 07:09
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Archives are hot, yes really, but cold winds are blowing through American ApparelFri Nov 18 2016 - 16:00
Una Mullally: I never liked Facebook, but now I am actually worried about itThe mindless new channels we’ve created across social media are screwing us upFri Nov 18 2016 - 11:24
I’m not angry at ‘Late Late Show’ over Katie Hopkins – I’m embarrassedMaking people roar at each other for entertainment value on serious issues is so overSun Nov 13 2016 - 17:15
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Wonder Women looks like corker, but Radiohead’s gig doesn’t fill us with excitementSat Nov 12 2016 - 04:00
Media collaboration with Trump serves as salutary lessonIn a post-truth society where facts don’t matter, a surreal campaign was run on the lowest common denominator of hateThu Nov 10 2016 - 13:37
Una Mullally: Failed by white women - the undoing of Hillary ClintonSo many women voting Trump shows extent of misogyny in western societyWed Nov 09 2016 - 17:15
Una Mullally: Toxic sexism becomes the new normalI wonder how the girls felt that the boys were taking up Donald Trump as ‘their guy’Mon Nov 07 2016 - 05:00
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Velvet Dr Martens and oysters are on the up, while Vine and Take That head the other wayFri Nov 04 2016 - 16:00
I quite Like Apes: so long and thanks for all the tunesThis week, Fight Like Apes called it a day. I first discovered them in the Róisín Dubh in Galway and nothing was ever quite the sameFri Nov 04 2016 - 14:34
Una Mullally: An Irish Person’s Guide To Going Off The Sauce For NovemberWhat is the point in punishing yourself if you can’t also publicly commend yourself?Thu Nov 03 2016 - 17:01
Justin Bieber Dublin review: moody, maddening, moments of brillianceAt times sullen and half-hearted, the star’s performance shows that his transition to grown-up artist is not quite completeTue Nov 01 2016 - 23:58
Justin Bieber’s Dublin show brings out the BeliebersCanadian pop star’s fans flock to the 3Arena for the first in a series of concertsTue Nov 01 2016 - 21:21
Una Mullally: Turns out ‘sharing economy’ not that generousUber and Airbnb live in the type of economy where wealth never trickles downMon Oct 31 2016 - 01:00
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Dingle is going to America, but 'Bake Off' is leaving its spiritual homeSun Oct 30 2016 - 16:00
Waking the Feminists: The year women awoke and dared to dreamCentenary commemoration was missing one crucial ingredient – an act of rebellionSat Oct 29 2016 - 06:00
Clipping frontman Daveed Diggs: ‘We don’t owe anybody anything’“Broadway was weird,” says Diggs of his time on award-winning musical Hamilton. Now back with his hip-hop outfit Clipping, Una Mullally meets the LA trio on their home turfFri Oct 28 2016 - 08:00
Independent Alliance will rue abandoning abortion principlesZappone operating in hostile environment rarely in tune to needs of women’s rightsThu Oct 27 2016 - 21:11
Una Mullally: US gays take aim at gun violenceGays Against Guns draws on LGBT veterans of direct-action Aids campaignsMon Oct 24 2016 - 10:28
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Aisling Bea and Bram Stoker are rising fast, while Sterling is going the opposite directionFri Oct 21 2016 - 16:00
Trump’s lasting legacy will be that he made crazy mainstreamHis baseless attack on the election process feeds every crackpot conspiracy theorist and extremist out thereFri Oct 21 2016 - 15:14
Two Door Cinema Club: ‘We went through hell’Constant touring, drink, drugs and demons tore the band apart. They’ve put the pieces back together for their third album, ‘Gameshow’, and now they’ve everything to play forWed Oct 19 2016 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Yet another budget leaving tenants out in the coldWhy are all the benefits for landlords? Some 20 per cent of TDs own rental propertyMon Oct 17 2016 - 05:00
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Coldplay are very popular right now – Twitter spam on the other hand...Sat Oct 15 2016 - 16:00
Una Mullally: Women were right about Trump but will men listen?Post-Trump Tapes, will women be more ‘allowed’ call out misogyny as they see it and experience it?Fri Oct 14 2016 - 10:42
Kate Tempest: ‘I’m in love with human beings’The poet/ rapper/ playwright/ novelist is in full flow as she talks about her novel ‘The Bricks that Built the Houses’, her new album ‘Let Them Eat Chaos’ and her firm belief in loveFri Oct 14 2016 - 06:00
Other Voices sets up stage in the Lone Star stateOther Voices decamped to Austin for a new series. Here are 10 things learnedTue Oct 11 2016 - 14:00
Una Mullally: Is it okay not to vote?Is abstaining from voting a political act or an anti-political one? In a contest with so much at stake, is it ethical at all?Mon Oct 10 2016 - 05:00
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?The girls are taking charge (hooray!) and so are the farmers (hmm)Fri Oct 07 2016 - 16:00
Una Mullally: Edward Snowden’s warnings fall on deaf earsWe seem unwilling to face to up the reality of the level of state surveillance of citizens that he exposedFri Oct 07 2016 - 12:58
Sharon Horgan: from Catastrophe to DivorceInterviews of the Year: This highly successful, Bafta award-winning writer and actor is currently running two television shows, but when it comes to the trappings of fame she still feels like an outsiderFri Oct 07 2016 - 10:00
Una Mullally: If we can cut road deaths, we can tackle suicidePolitical will and ‘joined-up thinking’ saved lives before, and could do so againMon Oct 03 2016 - 05:00
Una Mullally: Trump’s awfulness means Hillary gets a bye on the vision thingThe obvious thing would be to sell a vision of blinding positivity. Remarkably, Clinton hasn’t been able to do that.Fri Sept 30 2016 - 13:24
Una Mullally: Ireland’s tipping point on abortion just took to the streetsThis generation is not going to take what they have inherited in the ConstitutionSun Sept 25 2016 - 19:21
Una Mullally: This is not the moment to tone down the Repeal the 8th campaignIf you aim for the clouds, you might get to the rooftops. If you aim for the stars, you might reach the cloudsSat Sept 24 2016 - 11:44
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Ruth Negga is a star to be reckoned with – real stars, not so muchFri Sept 23 2016 - 16:00
Grace Jones delivers an awesome, transcendental performance in Dublin’s OlympiaThis was not so much a concert, but an experience, akin to a truly great exhibition at MoMA or a life-changing meal at NomaThu Sept 22 2016 - 13:42
Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope: is a show about women’s lives a lesser form of comedy?Tanya Sweeney: Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope didn’t please everyone but for me it hit the comedy bullseyeTue Sept 20 2016 - 16:30
Dublin Fringe reviews: RIOT is the festival's most exhilarating spectacleRIOT - Can a great night out also count as a political act?Mon Sept 19 2016 - 16:05
Bad Bones: Making her own kind of music the DIY waySal Stapleton has knocked out five tracks and videos without leaving her bedroomMon Sept 19 2016 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Why must parents put pictures of their kids on Facebook?Oversharing photo-posters are embarrassing themselves as well as their childrenMon Sept 19 2016 - 01:00
Kreuzberg: Berlin’s cheap, cool and creative quarterKreuzberg and its neighbour, Neukölln, have kept their bohemian style without losing their edgeSat Sept 17 2016 - 02:30
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Hurray for hot chocolate, boo to those lost Ear PodsFri Sept 16 2016 - 16:00
Una Mullally: TV learned the lessons of the music and newspaper industriesAn irritating number of streaming services is the price we pay for quality programmingThu Sept 15 2016 - 17:06
Dublin Fringe reviews: Penny Arcade leaves us longing for more'Hope Hunt'/'Wrongheaded' double bill dissects effects of patriarchy as 'Megalomaniac' shows vaulting ambitionTue Sept 13 2016 - 14:00
Donald Trump the Frankenstein creation of ‘us v them’ thinkingProgressive political rhetoric in US died after 9/11. Reactionary stupidity reignedMon Sept 12 2016 - 01:45
So what’s hot and what’s not this week?Good week for digital breaks, bad week for digital breakdownsFri Sept 09 2016 - 16:00
Una Mullally: Clubs are part of the fabric of any brilliant cityClosure of iconic London club highlights paucity of Dublin’s clubbing sceneFri Sept 09 2016 - 12:30
Apartheid, apathy and the Dunnes strike: Mandela memories in DublinFormer Dunnes Stores striker Cathryn O’Reilly and cast members of ‘Mandela Trilogy’ discuss the turbulence surrounding apartheid in the 1980sFri Sept 09 2016 - 11:00
