Pat Kenny’s bad news diet: ‘There’s only so much you can take’
Radio Review: Newstalk host tackles tricky topics in characteristic fashion
Patrick Freyne: Britain has four armed forces – army, navy, air force and Ross Kemp
Kemp is a celebrity vassal for Bridge of Lies, a whimsical TV entity that has needs
Patrick Freyne: If I know anything about women, it’s that they love a man who whines
Netflix's Love is Blind: If a blue rectangle of light is your sexual fantasy, you should apply
Michael Lewis: My pandemic prediction ‘was only partly right’
In his new book the Moneyball and Big Short author tackles the US response to Covid-19
Jennifer O’Connell: Outcry over ‘Dubai Two’ is full of lazy prejudice
The media was so convulsed by the circus, there was little energy left for other issues – like why five people have strolled out of our soft border quarantine
Caroline Calloway: ‘I love fame. I love being written about’
Is the Instagram influencer a ‘scammer’, a performance artist or just a savvy self-promoter?
Radie Peat: On My Culture Radar
Lankum singer on the tear-jerking properties of Olivia Colman, and the podcasts of Jon Ronson.
Online porn and our kids: It’s time for an uncomfortable conversation
Children viewing endless, sexually explicit, violent material shouldn’t be inevitable
Being Frank: The Chris Sievey Story – A look at the man inside Frank Sidebottom's head
Review: His comic creation – Sievey in a papier-mâché head – inspired Lenny Abrahamson’s ‘Frank’
Bound for a Wellness Weekend in the west, I pack boiled eggs
A Westport therapy session, yoga class and massage bring all the relaxation I’d craved
Jennifer O’Connell: ‘There’s no TripAdvisor to separate the good people from the bad’
Women being more equal at work and men being more hands-on at home means we all have to learn new ways to behave
Is it too much to hope that this is how it all ends for Katie Hopkins?
The undoing of hate-peddler Hopkins is the perfect parable for the age of outrage
Okja review: a mad tale of giant pigs and evil corporations told with vigour
Cannes 2017: Snowpiercer director Bong Joon Ho’s latest is brasher, madder and more fun than anything he’s done before
What’s hot: Daisy Buchanan’s new book and IMMA’s current exhibition
What’s not: Home ownership at its lowest rate since 1971, and athleisure overdose
Chicken soup for the self-help fanatic: my secret library
Reading books aimed at personal growth has always been a furtive activity for many
Angela Nagle: What the Alt-right is really all about
Their key concern is race, as they embrace slippery use of irony and sense of hip elitism
‘Black Mirror’: Charlie Brooker’s dark, disturbing reflections of who we are
Television review: ‘Black Mirror’, ‘Crazyhead’ and ‘Paying for Sex’
Laura Slattery: Diary of a despairing, caffeine-dependent hack
A year of ‘Poldark’, paranoia and seeing off a threat from Pixie Pickle Pants
Radio: It’s a struggle to move on when all roads lead to Paris
Review: ‘Sunday with Miriam’, ‘Marian Finucane’, ‘The Right Hook’, ‘Off the Ball’, ‘Tom Dunne’, ‘Moth’
Read it and weep: how teenagers relate to the books written for them
Young adult fiction is the largest growing genre in contemporary fiction
Queen Maeve: Higgins on her new book ‘Off You Go’
‘My career is different to my male peers. I was always told that I was ‘niche’
Gleeson and Scott win at British Independent Film Awards
Respective performances in ‘Calvary’ and ‘Pride’ recognised with male acting prizes
Calvary receives four nominations at British Independent Film Awards
John Michael McDonagh nominated for best director, Brendan Gleeson in running for best actor
My Cameroon odyssey with the preacher man
The Ian Paisley I knew displayed an admirable lack of vanity
Summer books that sizzle – whether it’s sunny or not
It’s hard to beat the pleasure of settling down on a sun lounger or sofa with a good book. Here are 25 of the season’s best to choose from
Lenny talks Frank: the movie that won't give him a big head
In Lenny Abrahamson’s latest film, Michael Fassbender plays the lead character from inside a huge papier-mache head. The Irish director gives us the lowdown on the notorious noggin, his ‘Celtic Tiger Trilogy’ and more
Fassbender and stars attend ‘Frank’ opening in Dublin
Film inspired by Jon Ronson memoir depicts both joyous creativity and mental collapse
Jon Ronson: ‘I still see myself as marginal’
The writer often focuses on people who live in irrational bubbles, such as Frank Sidebottom – but then, it’s a state of mind he has personal experience of
Screen by screenwest
This year’s South By Southwest film festival features winning movies in ‘Chef’, with Jon Favreau, Dustin Hoffman and Robert Downey jnr, ‘Frank’, with Maggie Gyllenhaal, Michael Fassbender and Domhnall Gleeson; Mike Myers’s ‘Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon’; and ‘The Legend of Shorty’, about the cartel boss Joaquin ‘El Chapo’ Guzman
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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