Being back in the city where her husband gave his final concert was a reminder for the artist that there’s no demarcation between life, art, politics and love

This Game of Thrones spinoff goes big, and like much CGI, it often looks like a rich and creamy soup with human-shaped croutons floating in it

The exiled Russian writer, who is coming to Dalkey Book Festival next week, talks about the ‘inner emigration’ of her friends under Putin and how even her father accepted regime propaganda

A decade after the UK decided to leave the EU, many in Britain regret the outcome – but not the vote

My favourite form of reporting is not the celebrity interview or political profile; it’s approaching ‘people’ in ‘places’ and asking them questions about ‘stuff’

The avuncular veteran broadcaster, who is turning 70, on facing some hostility on his return to RTÉ, his moustache, and his ‘threat’ to keep working for as long as he can

Patrick Freyne: I lose count of how many people the Punisher kills over the course of 50 minutes

In her best-selling memoir the Irish author and journalist ‘excavated her own soul and, in so doing, helped us look more closely at ourselves’

Four young adults who have spent time in Ireland’s care system tell Patrick Freyne about their lives

Subscribers to Irish Times Nites will still get the dirty bits. We really like to service all of our readers

James Bloodworth, author of Lost Boys: A Personal Journey Through the Manosphere, on how boys and men go from looking for a girlfriend to extreme misogyny

Working-class children were routinely underestimated when the singer was at school. She wants her gigs to give people the sense of connectedness that sustained her community

Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster is back on Disney+. Here’s how such shows have developed since TV introduced sex to Ireland in the 1960s

The Dublin actor says the main trick to being a professional is doing the work and learning the lines. ‘And then just staying as healthy and as fit as you can. There’s no excuse’

Netflix, Prime Video and Apple TV clearly have money to burn on big-budget series, but are they worth the eye-watering cost?