‘We are caring for your parents like they are our parents - but we can’t bring our families here’
Many migrant workers who care for our most vulnerable have been separated from their families for years due to a €30,000 earnings restriction. Campaigners are seeking urgent changes
Who is Colin O’Sullivan, the Irish author behind the big Apple TV show Sunny?
Haven’t heard of the Irish writer? He moved to Japan to teach English for a year. That was more than 20 years ago. His life there gives him lots of time for his fiction, he says
Anthony Hopkins’s new prestige drama has given me a great idea. It involves buttocks
Those About to Die: Anyone can achieve their dreams if their father is an emperor
Danny Dyer could play a flautist in wartime Budapest, Percy Bysshe Shelley or Jesus Christ. He’s just that good
Instead he must play a cockney geezer with a penchant for violence but a heart of gold, over and over. He’s good at that, too
Yvonne McGuinness: ‘I’m much more at ease in the muck of a field with a class of nine-year-olds than I am with a red carpet’
Dublin artist Yvonne McGuinness lives on the fringes of a starry world, thanks to her marriage to Cillian Murphy, but says she feels more at ease in a mucky field than on a red carpet
Nathan Carter’s Castlerea prison concert: Patrick Freyne goes behind the scenes of a surreal gig
Event in aid of paediatric ward in Sligo hospital, Mayo hospice and Roscommon youth services
Fish-out-of-water TV is back and it’s great fun altogether
Literal fish-out-of-water dramas are short and sadly predictable but here are my figurative favourites
These Criminal Minds folks look and sound as if they work for Accenture
The behavioural-analysis unit all feel like the sort of people who can do accounts. That might be why I default to the A-Team when I try to think about them
Gabor Maté: I began to notice that the people who got chronically ill had trouble saying ‘no’
One of the most influential thinkers of the 21st century, Maté believes our dysfunctional societies are making us ill
Joey Essex was raised by television, his mother a camera, his father a boom microphone
I’m pretty sure even Joey Essex doesn’t know he’s on Love Island. He probably thinks he’s just on holiday with his family, the camera equipment
Irish composer Jennifer Walshe on AI music: ‘If you came up with the idea for I Glued My Balls to My Butthole Again, is that art?’
The Oxford professor of composition’s long use of artificial intelligence in her work makes her a good judge of its merits and its dangers
‘They have very few opportunities to be happy’: Syrian child refugees face bleak future in Lebanon
After the Syrian war began in 2011, 1½ million Syrian refugees entered Lebanon. Initially the nation was welcoming, but since the economy collapsed in 2019, anti-refugee sentiment has grown
Jedis were once a seasoning, like salt. We liked the salt, and now Disney is serving us big bowls of salt
The Acolyte, Disney’s emotionally and visually flat new Star Wars spin-off, needs to stop with all the confusing lightsabre fights
Burj al Barajneh refugee camp: ‘It is a continuous tragedy’
Site in Beirut originally established for 500 families but is now home to 18,000 Palestinians and 40,000 Syrians
‘Our mental health is completely destroyed. We are living in constant sadness’
More than 90,000 people, including 30,000 children, have been displaced from their homes since October; 250 of them are living in the Tyre Technical School