A little bit of monkey magic shows how art can liven up a city’s dead spaceOn a little corner of Dublin, Art Lot, a derelict space, is managing to hold its own as an open air public exhibition spaceFri Apr 24 2015 - 14:00
Una Mullally: Karen Buckley tragedy is every woman’s worst nightmare‘Any time I write about violence against women, there’s a volley of abuse in the comments on The Irish Times website. Some people just don’t want to hear about it’Sun Apr 19 2015 - 18:12
Rock memoirs worth their saltThis October, Patti Smith will publish a new memoir M Train. We can’t wait. But we’ll have to, so until then, we’ll re-read our favourite rock memoirs.Fri Apr 17 2015 - 12:00
Una Mullally: New political engagement by young peopleGovernment generally avoids interacting with youth, viewing them with suspicionMon Apr 13 2015 - 09:03
A new British/Irish documentary on Grace Jones is in the pipelineShe’s one of the most compelling singers to ever grab a microphone and glare down the barrel of an audience, but how much do we really know about Grace Jones?Fri Apr 10 2015 - 15:30
‘Work harder than everyone else’: Storm Large’s route to successStorm Large is a full-on, larger-than-life performer, part rock’n’roll, part cabaret, who scares men and doesn’t care about taking stick from feminists for using her sexuality on stageThu Apr 09 2015 - 02:00
Una Mullally: RTÉ referendum memo sends out the wrong messageAccusing RTÉ of bias is a national sport, but the term is being misused in this debateMon Apr 06 2015 - 05:00
Timbaland strikes back in EmpireThe rapper and producer is on the comeback trail with his cracking hip-hop TV showFri Apr 03 2015 - 12:00
The Meltybrains? way: masks, madness and mistakesThe members of Meltybrains? might be classically trained musicians, but their music is indefinable, their fans look like cult members and their live shows are bewilderingThu Apr 02 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: The drugs might not work, but neither do the lawsNobody – aside from criminals – benefits from drug prohibitionMon Mar 16 2015 - 05:00
Offset 2015: what we learnedFeaturing Tomi Ungerer, Forsman & Bodenfors, Snask, Niels Shoe Meulman, Veronica Ditting and Ian Anderson of the Designers Republic, last weekend’s creative convention in Dublin hosted designers and innovators from around the world. There was a lot to absorbSat Mar 14 2015 - 01:00
Una Mullally: Videoed acts of violence now terrifyingly commonWhat was once alarming is now seen as ‘content’ in our film-everything cultureMon Mar 09 2015 - 05:00
Bitch Falcon’s ultimate International Women’s Day playlistIn celebrations of Women’s Day, we asked Dublin band Bitch Falcon to compile their ultimate playlist of female songmakersSun Mar 08 2015 - 10:00
One-woman wonders: album gigs we’d like to see happenIn honour of International Women's Day 2015, Una Mullally lists seven classic records that need to be given the full live treatmentSun Mar 08 2015 - 09:00
‘Speed-dating’ with the best creative businesswomen at OffsetA recent event gave newcomers a chance to learn from some of the smartest women in the local creative industriesThu Mar 05 2015 - 01:00
Look back, it’s Aer Lingus: Why can’t we hold on to what we create?Scratch the surface of many ‘Irish’ brands and you’ll find they’re owned by faceless multinationalsMon Mar 02 2015 - 12:29
The real mad men: how adverts get off the drawing boardThe advertising industry produces some cutting-edge art. Two of the creatives who’ll be at the Offset conference explain how their ideas take shapeSat Feb 28 2015 - 12:00
Adult Swim’s latest bag of tricksAdult Swim are at it again, this time with John C Reilly packing shopping bagsFri Feb 27 2015 - 15:32
Una Mullally: Why Greece’s rebellious streak is so appealingWatching Greece assert itself, regardless of the outcome, is encouragingMon Feb 23 2015 - 01:18
Selfishness has little to do with not having childrenPope Francis said couples who don’t have children are ‘selfish’ and part of ‘greedy’ generationMon Feb 16 2015 - 13:47
Backstage at the OscarsDo you really end up having a laugh with George Clooney? Or becoming best friends with Jennifer Lawrence in the ladies’ loos? Markéta Irglová and other Irish nominees give us the lowdown on being at the Academy AwardsSun Feb 15 2015 - 07:00
Una Mullally on vocal fry, women’s latest afflictionVocal fry is a creak that sometimes happens at the end of a sentence or a statement when you’re talkingMon Feb 09 2015 - 14:35
Bob Dylan’s on album 36, but he still trails well behind music’s most prolific artistsNice try Bob. Who’s made the most?Fri Feb 06 2015 - 06:00
Una Mullally: Standing up to threats and violence on the streets of Dublin‘If you confront violence in a successful way, chances are the perpetrators will think twice before they attack someone again’Mon Feb 02 2015 - 12:23
There is no ‘other side’ to any type of bullying‘If parents are genuinely perturbed by the idea of anti-homophobic bullying initiatives, then perhaps they too would benefit from a workshop’Fri Jan 30 2015 - 00:01
Una Mullally: Transgender rights are human rights and new Bill needs to recognise thisWhile the Gender Recognition Bill is welcome, there are huge shortcomingsMon Jan 26 2015 - 13:20
Leo Varadkar shows there’s no standard way to come outFor most in LGBT community coming out is a positive experience but problems remainWed Jan 21 2015 - 01:00
‘This might be awful’: the Theatre Machine testEach evening, audiences pay €14 to see four short works in progress. You might see a disaster or an embryonic hitTue Jan 20 2015 - 06:00
Varadkar coming out as gay is a gust of fresh air in Irish lifeRole models such as the Minister for Health show being gay is not a hindrance in Irish societyMon Jan 19 2015 - 12:01
Aaron Paul on Breaking Bad, beards, books and deathThe actor, best known for his role in Breaking Bad, was in Dublin recently, so we put a fat stack of short, sharp questions to himThu Jan 15 2015 - 16:45
Why a referendum on blasphemy is long overdueGiven its stranglehold on societies for generations, religion should be poked and proddedTue Jan 13 2015 - 07:33
Protect the uniqueness of Irish pubs from JD Wetherspoon’s inexorable advanceOpinion: pubs are one of our biggest draws for visitors and natives alikeMon Jan 05 2015 - 00:01
Seven New Year resolutions to get 2015 off to a flying start‘Abstinence and cutting back are tough enough at the best of times, but in grim January, it’s even more torturous’Mon Dec 29 2014 - 12:00
10 things we learned from this year's Other VoicesThe open, authentic Dingle festival shows no sign of losing its Midas touch despite a drop-off in media attentionSun Dec 28 2014 - 03:00
Una Mullally’s cultural highs and lows of 2014Dolly Parton singing ’9 to 5’ at Glastonbury was amazingSat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00
Just what you need for Christmas – a digital detoxSeven steps to give yourself an online breakFri Dec 26 2014 - 14:26
Pulling ‘The Interview’ sends a dark message about free speechIt may be a ‘silly comedy’ but allowing it to be censored sets a terrible precedentMon Dec 22 2014 - 12:01
A golden year for music when Irish acts did the businessMusicians, labels, promoters and fans can all take credit for a perfect storm of factors that made 2014 a special year for musicThu Dec 18 2014 - 01:00
A tale of two cities: rich Dublin and poor Dublin‘The public has become a Simon Cowell to the Government’s ‘X Factor’. Ministers stand up and perform, and we slate them . . . If we could, we’d vote them off every week’Mon Dec 15 2014 - 12:01
Other Voices: every music fan should experience the joy of what happens in DingleOther Voices is a gem in Dingle with free gigs in pubs and a programme of concerts in a churchMon Dec 15 2014 - 01:00
Outhouse library: a new home in Dublin for LGBT literatureCiarán Clark has brought the Outhouse centre’s library back to life and created a city centre gem in the processTue Dec 09 2014 - 06:00
BAI ruling on marriage equality comments stifles ongoing debate‘I have been told by national radio stations that in order to discuss my history book, there must be someone present who opposes rights for gay people’Mon Dec 08 2014 - 14:30
A breakthrough for RTÉ2: how the station is winning younger viewersA year and a half into the job, RTÉ2 channel controller Bill Malone is claiming some victories in persuading younger audiences and women to switch over, although Pantigate was a blip and budgetary problems remainMon Dec 08 2014 - 14:00
Una Mullally: Enda’s pint in gay bar a sterling show of solidarityTaoiseach’s appearance in Pantibar showed a widening acceptance of LGBT issuesSat Dec 06 2014 - 09:33
Gays, Greens and Fianna Fáil: the civil partnership battleA new oral history book by the ‘Irish Times’ columnist Una Mullally looks back on the long campaign that led to the upcoming referendum on same-sex marriage. In this extract, key players recall a 2007 battle between the then coalition ‘partners’ over the introduction of civil partnershipSat Dec 06 2014 - 06:00
Ticket Stubs: Fanapo, Van Morrison and the ghost of Christmas tweeWhat's tickling our cultural fancy this weekFri Dec 05 2014 - 08:00
The killing of Tamir Rice – another black and white issue‘If you want to look at inequality in America, look at East St Louis’Mon Dec 01 2014 - 12:00
Both sides now: Joni Mitchell looks backThe singer-songwriter, whose new box set is a reworked retrospective of her career, is still refreshingly out of sync with the timesSat Nov 29 2014 - 06:00
