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Does last week’s anti-establishment revolt contain the seeds of a change?
Hugh Linehan: The RTÉ tragicomedy has helped to show where the arts brief ranks in the political pecking order
Minister’s move to effectively sack RTÉ chair Siún Ní Raghallaigh on television escalated political aspect of crisis
Hugh Linehan: When it comes to Taylor Swift, for example, only the tinfoil-hat-wearers of the US extreme right have a bad word to say about her
Hugh Linehan: David Nicholls, whose novel the Netflix series is based on, posted the mixtapes on Spotify. Do they give a sense of history being rewritten?
Hugh Linehan: The still largely untold saga of Toy Show the Musical has the makings of that rarest of RTÉ beasts: an actually funny comedy
Toy Show the Musical and executive exit payments among the topics at today's hearing. But where do we go to from here?
Hugh Linehan: His backers believe the comedian can help turn the tide against a Trump victory in November. The media has changed too much for that
Hugh Linehan: The desperate far right thinks a witchy nonbinary performer might offer them an opportunity
Hugh Linehan: Cillian Murphy puffs his way through Oppenheimer, as Bradley Cooper does through Maestro. Blame cigarettes’ classification as ‘adult content’
Hugh Linehan: The actor Andrew Scott is right. It’s time to get rid of the expression ‘openly gay’
Hugh Linehan: With the scourging of the broadcaster well under way, one of its recent successes could help it reinvent itself
Hugh Linehan: Their take on Middle-earth mixes arrested adolescent kitsch with an undercurrent of menace
Our relationship with the science of cartography has changed profoundly, and we use maps more than ever before
Hugh Linehan: It took a crisis to create an opportunity. The resulting ‘fiscal gimmickry’ appears to be the Irish way of getting things done