David Walliams
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Gone With the Wind hasn’t been banned. Quite reasonably, it’s been temporarily removed
- Culture
- June 13, 2020, 05:00
A great many people have let us know they “never liked Little Britain anyway”. Expect a bit more of that now Gone With the Wind has been temporarily r(...)

The Gaeltacht was basically a sex camp established by Éamon de Valera
- Culture
- June 5, 2020, 05:00
In the world of the reality-television show First Dates Hotel (Channel 4, Thursday), lovelorn mopers are sent away on a special holiday where kindly m(...)

Normal People sends Sally Rooney to top of bestseller lists in Ireland and UK
- Books
- May 14, 2020, 17:33
Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People has topped the bestseller lists in both Ireland and the UK more than two years after it was published, thanks to th(...)

The coronavirus crisis is an opportunity to make the most of our children
- People
- March 21, 2020, 06:04
I spotted a headline during the early hours of lockdown last week. “Could squatting in the office save your life?” it read. It’s a sign of these trou(...)

Pinch of Nom: ‘Fat is a word people use willy-nilly. It makes me angry’
- Food & Drink
- January 8, 2020, 12:00
Kay Featherstone and Kate Allinson were at a Spice Girls concert last spring, just two figures in a sea of people. As they gazed around the stadium, F(...)

Patrick Freyne: Britain’s Got Talent is making me want a no-deal Brexit
- Culture
- September 27, 2019, 05:00
Britain’s Got Talent: The Champions (Virgin Media One, Saturday), a show featuring winners from various international Got Talent franchises, begins wi(...)

List of most borrowed library books revealed
- Books
- May 20, 2019, 21:02
Published over two decades ago, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone topped the list of the most borrowed library books in Ireland last year. The(...)

Illustrators who refuse to be left out of the picture
- Books
- March 13, 2019, 06:00
In January, leading industry magazine The Bookseller published a chart listing the top 20 illustrators in the UK in 2018. Tony Ross, who has created t(...)

Clodagh Hawe relatives ask why Alan felt need to kill his family
- Crime & Law
- February 25, 2019, 23:15
The following is an edited transcript of interviews conducted on Her Name is Clodagh – a Claire Byrne Live special, broadcast on RTÉ One television on(...)

Paul McKenna: My life was very much a pleasure driven life
- People
- February 15, 2019, 06:00
When Paul McKenna veered away from his day job as a radio presenter and began investigating mind matters in the early 1990s, no wonder it was seen as (...)