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Shane Hegarty

Shane Hegarty

Shane Hegarty is Arts Editor of The Irish Times and a weekly columnist. He is the author of The Irish Times Book of the 1916 Rising (with Fintan O'Toole) and The Irish and Other Foreigners.
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Check out this brilliant technology. It’s called a ‘book’

I’ve begun to devour physical, printed books again – but not for the obvious reasons

“We really should get that fourth wall fixed, Mossy”: Chris O’Dowd and Richard Ayoade in The IT Crowd
Titter ye not: thank Graham Linehan for Brendan O’Carroll’s Mrs Brown’s Boys

The traditional British sitcom wasn’t dead: it just needed the kiss of life from an Irishman

Photograph: Robyn Mackenzie/ISP/Getty
Male, Irish, 40, love stats? Look away now

An Irish man creeping up on his fifth decade really has reached the crest of the hill. After that it is a slow, backaching roll to(...)

She’s been framed: how Google is promoting its glasses
Google Glass is on the way in, and the last of your privacy is on the way out

Don’t die, phone: my battery-life anxiety

A phone that tracks your eyeballs? Just give me one that lasts a day

Priceless prose: would you have spotted the error on the coin? Photograph: Central Bank of Ireland
There’s a typo in my column? Implossible

Pay attention: it’s time to celebrate the age of the short

So what if our attention spans are short, and we demand brevity. It’s about time we trimmed some of the cultural fat

Astronaut Chris Hadfield celebrated St Patrick's Day from the International Space Station
On the space station now: Ireland’s first fear spáis

From hundreds of kilometres above Earth, Chris Hadfield has tweeted his way into Irish hearts

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