The Irish Times

In a Word . . . Media

Irish media for a long time did a medium job – at best – of holding power to account

Sat Jun 26 2021 - 00:30

Journalism and blindness: This week’s theatre highlights

Two stand out productions from last year’s Dublin Fringe Festival go on tour

Sat Sept 07 2019 - 10:21

‘Breathtaking, rule-breaking, legend-making’: Dublin Fringe Festival winners

After 16 days and 80 productions, festival wraps up with awards in 11 categories

Mon Sept 24 2018 - 14:36

Oneday review: An absorbing experiment, both arch and obsessional

What happened on March 13th, 2012? Dick Walsh makes it his mission to know

Tue Sept 11 2018 - 10:49

The Game – The Story of Hurling: epic clash of history and hype at the speed of a sliotar

Review: With so much ground to cover, an epic three-part documentary on hurling moves at breakneck pace

Mon Jul 30 2018 - 22:40

Dr Noël Browne: ‘The furthest thing from a career politician’

Late ex-minister published incendiary autobiography Against the Tide 30 years ago

Mon Dec 26 2016 - 13:44

Tiger Dublin Fringe: five ways to choose what to see

From Panti Bliss and Hot Brown Honey to The Vaudevillians, here’s what you might pick

Sat Sept 03 2016 - 05:00

John Horgan: How Facebook and Google are killing independent journalism

Behemoths will have to be regulated or broken up if the public interest is to be protected

Wed Jul 13 2016 - 00:29

Diarmaid Ferriter: Eight years on and it is political business as usual in Ireland

What we are witnessing are testosterone fuelled, arrogant assertions that the establishment have things under control

Sat Jan 30 2016 - 00:31

Playing God: the perks of the play-writing job

Three plays in the Dublin Theatre Festival attempt to capture the mess of modern life

Fri Oct 02 2015 - 15:00

Review: Dangerman/Some Baffling Monster

A curiously unsettling double bill from the deadpan Dick Walsh teases out the options within politics, stories and free will. Do we really have a choice?

Wed Jun 25 2014 - 15:42

Collisions of the everyday and artistic experience

You can’t legislate for an audience’s reaction, which is the fire in the belly of the Live Collision festival

Wed Apr 24 2013 - 05:00

After the armed struggle, Sinn Féin’s struggles

‘Towards a New Republic’ is the theme of this weekend’s conference. More accurately, it is ‘Towards a new Sinn Féin’

Fri Apr 12 2013 - 20:09