Hugh Linehan
Does Ireland’s neutrality leave room for increased defence spending?
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Election Daily podcast: Who came out on top in the final debate?
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Election Daily podcast: Poll leaves Humphreys in need of ‘unprecedented turnaround’
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Election Daily podcast: Is Heather Humphreys playing it too safe?
Inside Politics podcast: Jack Horgan Jones and Ellen Coyne join Hugh Linehan to launch our daily podcast coverage
Presidential debate: who came out on top and who struggled?
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Brian Cowen and The Crash: a new look at the handling and political cost of the Celtic Tiger collapse
A new Irish Times podcast series looks back at the crash with the benefit of 14 years’ hindsight
Where does Mairead McGuinness’s shock withdrawal leave the presidential race?
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Crash, part two: austerity bites and Brian Cowen’s Morning Ireland humiliation
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Can ‘technocratic daddy’ Mark Carney solve Canada’s deep-rooted problems?
Inside Politics podcast examines Canada election results and the unlikely comeback of former central banker
A handful of billionaires and a million artists in penury: big tech’s effect on culture, and what you can do about it
Hugh Linehan: This is my last Ticket column. I’ve seen huge changes over my 25-year involvement with the section. But there’s cause for optimism
Jeff Bezos has made a sacrificial offering of the Washington Post. A once-great newspaper is dying in darkness
The paper’s billionaire owner has said its opinion pages will in future support and defend ‘two pillars: personal liberties and free markets’
As it turns 100, meet the most reliable New Yorker you’ll ever encounter
The illustrious magazine remains rooted in the principles and traditions of print journalism. There is surely a lesson there
The Arts Council is about to enter a world of pain. It could be even worse for the artists it’s meant to help
Loss from abandoned €7m computer project could have a knock-on effect on cultural organisations
The Irish musical slammed by the White House as an ‘insane’ waste of $70,000
‘As an American taxpayer I don’t want my dollars going towards this crap,’ Donald Trump’s press secretary told reporters
Ireland’s cultural sector was hoping for an inspiring choice of Minister. It got Patrick O’Donovan
New Minister has inherited two pressing issues. His record doesn’t instil confidence
US culture is making a U-turn. Be prepared to feel the illiberal backlash in Ireland
The past few months also illustrate how shallow the diversity agenda has been, particularly in the corporate world
‘Meta sees me as a golden goose.’ How Zuckerberg’s AI creations went rogue and gave the game away
Facebook and Instagram have pulled the plug on AI avatars Grandpa Brian and Liv but their successors will soon flood our lives with lies on a hitherto unimaginable scale
Dismayed by pop culture’s shift towards Trump? Then you might be one of the people to blame
Progressive principles held an iron grip on big-budget US entertainment in Donald Trump’s first term as US president. Did that serve those principles well?
One of Stanley Kubrick’s greatest films was made free to watch on YouTube. It’s a sign of the trouble movie studios are in
Warner Bros’ experiment with Barry Lyndon and Michael Collins is a sign of its contortions as it tries to reshape itself to modern viewing habits
Jeff Bezos might not be to blame, but Amazon’s Prime Video has made a mess of a Christmas classic
The streamer’s cut version of It’s a Wonderful Life is an abomination – but perhaps not a woke bowdlerisation of the original
Why do so many news sites look so boringly similar? Because they have to play by Google and Meta’s rules
But that hegemony will end, perhaps soon. If you value good journalism and good design, give someone you love a newspaper subscription this Christmas
Catherine Martin has been the most consequential minister for culture since Michael D Higgins
The outgoing Green Party TD delivered on her predecessors’ promises to address Ireland’s woeful shortfall when it comes to supporting cultural activity
Beneath the vote for stability and small-c conservatism, darker currents are stirring
Our system of PR is praised for incentivising consensus and civility. But it can also lead to entropy – a gradual decline into uncertainty and disorder
America’s system of checks and balances will be severely tested by Trump’s presidency
With a supreme court majority sympathetic both to Republican policies and to a more expansive definition of presidential power, the new administration will have nearly all the tools it needs
Cillian Murphy’s Small Things Like These has become a cause celebre of the Make Ireland Great Again brigade
Cillian Murphy probably didn’t expect to be taken literally when he compared Ireland in the 1980s to the dark ages, but that is where we are now
Donald Trump on The Joe Rogan Experience: three hours of meandering, falsehood-filled talk marks a big moment for podcasts
Podcasts used to be a marginal force. Now they’ve taken centre stage. But with their baggy informality and authenticity also comes a lack of rigour
Big tech has been stealthily training its AI models. Creatives are finally waking up to the dangers. Are they too late?
More than 20,000 artists, writers, composers and other cultural creatives are objecting to unlicensed scraping of their work in the AI space race
RTÉ seems content to let Montrose moulder. It should jump at the chance to move back to the GPO
A proposed return by the national broadcaster to its birthplace is apt as it redefines itself, and could benefit a neglected part ot Dublin
When Delia Smith and Hugh Grant team up in protest, it’s worth your attention. So why are they defending a Sunday paper?
Guardian Media Group wants to sell the Observer, now 232 years old, to the news website Tortoise. It has a fight on its hands
The Apprentice controversy: Donald Trump and the ‘toughest, meanest, loyalest, vilest’ lawyer in the US
The new Trump origin film is not a flattering portrayal either of the former president or of Roy Cohn, the legal attack dog and Mob fixer who was his mentor
Phil Coulter and John Sheahan vs Lankum and The Mary Wallopers: Sit back and enjoy the music-industry hatred
What a pleasure to observe the flare-up between the composer and last surviving Dubliner and the drone-folk maestros and bouncy balladeers
A massed army of audio bots is coming over the hill. What will it do to us?
You’d be hard pressed to tell latest AI voices from the real thing. It’s bad news for actual human beings who fear being left on scrapheap
The billion-dollar Rings of Power is part of the weird new age of television
Prime Video is investing untold amounts in its Lord of the Rings fantasy. But the fastest-growing new streamer has a very different approach
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