Danny Dyer
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EastEnders reaches peak absurdity with a 35th anniversary shipwreck
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 21, 2020, 22:46
No other soap opera does bleak and nasty quite like EastEnders. If Coronation Street is the equivalent of a quiet pint with an old friend, its BBC riv(...)

How to turn racists’ genetic arguments against them
- Innovation
- February 13, 2020, 04:35
It was funny once. The perfectly square bit of dirt on the window. The shocked reactions of Craggy Island’s Chinese community. The local farmer who do(...)

Who wants to be a TV game show genius?
- Media & Marketing
- October 15, 2019, 05:49
Your starter for 10: what, apart from the Late Late Toy Show, is the most-watched programme on Irish television this century? By the metric of average(...)

David Cameron: ‘I’d hate people to think I don’t worry desperately’
- TV, Radio, Web
- September 19, 2019, 22:00
All political careers end in failure, we know, but that is where The Cameron Years (BBC One, Thursday, 9pm), a two-part documentary on David Cameron’s(...)

Piers Morgan is the lickspittle of the reality TV ecosystem
- Culture
- June 28, 2019, 05:00
I don’t believe in cockneys. I’m a cockney truther. I believe that they’re an entirely made up thing like unicorns or hobbits or regretful Brexit vote(...)

Brexit: An idiot's guide to the United Kingdom leaving the European Union
- Politics
- February 4, 2019, 14:15
From Bino to Remoaner, we give you the essential tools to hold a Brexit pub conversation As the deadline for Brexit approaches and the talking g(...)

The 2018 Irish Times Christmas Prize Quiz
- Life & Style
- December 24, 2018, 06:00
Answer all 100 questions in our special Christmas Quiz to be in with a chance of winning one of the following prizes: 1st prize: One night (...)

Review of 2018: Reality TV becomes preferable to actual reality
- TV, Radio, Web
- December 11, 2018, 05:00
With world leaders taking their cues from the tropes of reality telly this year – from Theresa May creakily dancing around like a dusty cadaver on Bri(...)

What could Mullinalaghta achieve if they were a full parish?
- Gaelic Football
- December 9, 2018, 20:46
Their supporters must have wondered if they’d ever see the day. The players might have had their doubts too. They’d endured much more than their fair (...)

In theory, an episode of Who Do You Think You Are? is only ever as good as the charisma factor of the person doing the digging. And the British and Am(...)