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Patrick Freyne

Patrick Freyne

Patrick Freyne is a feature writer with the Irish Times and regularly appears on the Last Word on Today FM discussing television. He formerly wrote columns about television and radio for the Sunday Tribune and the Evening Herald and business articles for Business and Finance. He won the NNI Critic of the Year award in 2011.

Anthony Crowley at breakfast in the Capuchin Day Centre, Bow Street, Dublin. “I know everyone here. I mightn’t know all their names but we know each other. They’ve been through the wars and they’ve lost their illusions, but they’re good people.” Photographer: Dara Mac Dónaill
‘In Ireland you are two steps away from having nowhere to live, with just the clothes you stand in’

The Capuchin Day Centre on Bow Street in Dublin feeds up to 950 people every day who are down on their luck

Emilia Clarke as Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones. The actress speaks Valyrian and Dothraki in the show, two languages created by David J Peterson
Speaking in tongues: the man who made a career of making up languages

David J Peterson is not an actor nor a composer but some of his best work can be heard in ‘Game of Thrones’. Meet the president of(...)

Seosamh Ó Maolalaí at the Teachers Club in Parnell Square, Dublin, where the Dublin Yarnspinners meet to tell and listen to stories. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Savouring flavour of tales best taken with a pinch of salt

Tall stories and tangled tales are a staple at the Dublin Yarnspinners

Pages from history: some early websites, including The Irish Times’s. Illustration: Dearbhla Kelly/The Irish Times
The internet archaeologists digging up the digital dark age

Who’s exploring the ancient internet? As Cern reconstructs the world’s first website, other web archive projects are trying to ret(...)

“You get the odd sting, all right,” says beekeeper Liam McGarry. “But the more you get, the less sore they are.” Photograph: Eric Luke
Nothing like a good smoke and a whiff of danger to give beekeepers a buzz

Liam McGarry is an advocate of the beekeeping life but it isn’t all sweetness and flight

Much of Cassely’s Xtreme Funfair’s work comes from local festivals, where prestige pieces such as the Ferris wheel do well. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Success is a fair-weather friend for one of the world’s oldest entertainment businesses

It has been around since 1913 but even Cassely’s has to bow to a high wind

Simply Darina

Darina Allen talks to Patrick Freyne about overseeing a food empire in good times and bad

From left, Clement Attlee, Harry Truman and Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference in July 1945
From war hero to war crimes: Oliver Stone’s journey through US history

With his new series, Oliver Stone wants to revise the accepted version of American history. It’s controversial, unapologetic and, (...)

How rich do you feel?

Can you live on €30,000 a year if your mortgage is €2,000 a month? Is €48,000 a good salary? How does an asylum seeker live on €19(...)

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