This week we’re loving great coffee but exhausted with loyalty card overload

Nothing stopping the city awarding 70 women the Freedom of the City to achieve gender parity

Men need to call out unacceptable behaviour by their friends, writes Una Mullally

Labour must ask why the leaders of tomorrow aren’t gravitating towards them

Becoming a mother in Sierra Leone brings with it the highest rate of maternal death on the planet. Una Mullally travels to the wes(...)

Also nominated for a best-song Oscar last week was Anohni, the first transgender person ever to be in the running for an Academy(...)

Candidates who specifically positioned themselves as against choice failed miserably

The electorate clicked its heels and didn’t just end up in a tornado but created one

Unbound - a new ‘InstaMiniSeries’ of 15-second videos - promises to take viewers on a journey of ‘meaning, metaphor and intention’(...)

We’re enjoying pink bomber jackets but ’storage almost full’ messages are driving us crackers

Frenetic and funny, touching and blunt, equal parts Pure Mule, Skins and Glee, Eipic is currently one of the best things on Irish (...)

‘I’m allergic to their voices, their butchering of language, their PR’d answers, their deflection, their evasiveness’

Author Harper Lee’s death is sad but her first novel has life lessons for us all

We’re cray for Bey and sick of election mail

Free tin whistles, education changes and plenty of funding are just some of the arts promises in the various political parties' ma(...)

No issue exposes the unwillingness to engage on important topics more than abortion: we are all part of the conspiracy of silence (...)

Beyoncé is no stranger to Dublin. Ahead of her tour, here’s her city guide

Anything that comes into view during an election campaign automatically takes the shape of a football before the eyes of a politic(...)

Entire childhoods are being lost in the direct provision system

This week we’re liking ’Chelsea Does’ but we’ve had enough of neon running shoes

Media empire Vice’s unstoppable youth-culture charge continues as it sets its sights on the 24-hour TV market

It is incredible how no party has capitalised on young people's political involvement in referendum

A solid framework of education on consent and sex makes things a lot less blurry

Centre housing more than 70 studios must look for a new Dublin home

Forget ‘The Revenant’ and fancy doughnuts, and focus on sorting out your festival schedule

Jackie Chan takes on the IRA in his latest film. Here’s how we see it playing out

The 1990s show - which returns to TV this week - was often dismissed as fodder for teenagers and conspiracy theorists, but its leg(...)

The highest level in Europe of so-called ‘legal high’ drug use was found among young Irish people

We're a bit cold and miserable, it's January alright?

We are all shamed when one of our own does something terrible in another country

While awards season can be unpredictable, there are certain things you can also be damn sure will go down on the night of the Acad(...)

Artist went from androgyny to outer space, before becoming elder statesman of British music

His music was an portal escape, a sense that with a lightening flash we could be heroes

While international outfits benefit from our crew and acting talent, homegrown TV drama has yet to translate to an internation(...)

Education, disability access, direct provision and women’s rights will likely be on the agenda in 2016

As Jigga plots the all-pop-conquering future of Harry Styles, here are some other dynamic duos

The Rising reminds us of greatness; a time when political leaders had big ideas

Our obsession with maintaining an online presence is now creeping into the afterlife

‘Free’ fees already cost €3,247, yet there are plans to burden young people further

The street art that emerged around the marriage referendum coloured not just walls and doorways but also conversations

In the last nine months, there have been moments that I never want to relive

Offensive language of anti-choice tells women we do not know our own bodies

In the hypothetical ‘How To Get Elected To Office In Ireland’, the ‘merit’ chapter is pretty small

Gender balance, a sophisticated vibe and great acts mark this festival out

“Tax is a problem the past concerned itself with. This is the brave new world, and we do things differently here. Look, there’s a (...)

Helen Linehan had an abortion because of a fatal foetal abnormality. Now she and her husband, the ‘Father Ted’ creator Graham Line(...)

Carrickmines blockade did not take place in a vacuum, but in our discriminating society

Panti, Rory O’Neill’s drag queen, is the subject of a new film. Her persona and what she represents are the result of decades of c(...)

1D begins a weekend of gigs at the 3Arena in Dublin on Friday night - all sold out of course

Foster’s blood-doping preparations place him among a pantheon of actors who go that extra mile of crazy for their art

‘The sexualisation of breast cancer awareness has been almost inevitable. I don’t have breast cancer, but if I did I’m not sure ho(...)

Aisling Law, a great-granddaughter of the rebel, feminist and social activist, is opening her doors to the public for the Muse of (...)

Dismantling of generic Irish restaurant menu is to be welcomed

‘My career is different to my male peers. I was always told that I was ‘niche’

Is there life on Mars? wailed Bowie, slightly prophetically. And is wasn't the last time a song predicted the future

It fed into a loose narrative that Dublin was legit in the tech world

Ireland now has 205,150 fewer twenty-somethings than six years ago

‘In between the time you woke up this morning and go to bed tonight, a dozen Irish women will have left this country to have an ab(...)

Singer-songwriter, actor, writer, painter, drag queen . . . ‘V’ lets loose about her upcoming Fringe show, getting creative at the(...)

An anti-stand-up show that could be very good indeed

What starts out as a small crowd in the Little Big Tent ends up as an appreciative throng

‘In Trolley Land, hundreds of HSE workers push pens around while bandaged mummies moan on their stretchers’

Pop music is popular, shocker

Ladies and gentlemen, our first 5 star review from Electric Picnic 2015

A set that is beefy, brilliant and unforgiving in its forcefulness

Even the most casual observer couldn’t help but realise why Grace Jones is an icon

The two biggest things – love and death – happen to you no matter what you do

‘The permanent pensionable job has been gone for some time, but now most things resembling it have disappeared’

The honeymoon period is over for social media platforms

On the tedium-o-meter, I’d put it after looking at pictures of other people’s children on Facebook

Comic’s appearance with director Judd Apatow in Dublin the hottest ticket in town

‘Maybe it’s not motherhood punishing women’s earning power, maybe it’s heterosexual motherhood’

Review: The Late Review and The Great British Bake Off

Smaller Dublin apartments? We have really learned nothing

Review:‘Bright Sparks’, 'Liveline' and 'Pat Kenny Show'

Grand Canal Dock’s regeneration has made it shiny and new - but off-putting

‘He took the painful Leaving Cert English essay style we had all arrived with and destroyed it’

What’s the deal with all the bloke-centric festival bookings?

‘I’m staring at November on the calendar, when I might get to the Airwaves festival in Reykjavik (I hope the doctors aren’t readin(...)

Black, lesbian, transgender . . . The Netflix hit has been the ‘breath of fresh air we didn’t even know we needed’, according to i(...)

The internet is a democratic tool – if only political parties could learn to use it

The Corrs are set to release new material, with live dates lined up for September. Una Mullally can't wait

‘For the first time in people’s young lives, they saw the direct connection between their individual actions and changing the worl(...)

Series already shown on RTÉ Junior will now reach international audiences

It is remarkable that Horses, a record released 40 years ago, and its creator, can still summon such urgency

Why are women continuously absent in Irish films?

‘At Dublin Castle I couldn’t help but think of all of those who lived secret lives’

This is also about people who never made it this far, the shoulders we are all standing on

At last, a trailer has emerged for the Steve Jobs film, stylised as steve jobs

Inspired by The Meeting on the Turret Stairs, mural shows two female figures in a tender pose

In the 1803 Proclamation of Independence, Robert Emmet wrote: ‘Show to the world that the Irish are not only a brave, but also a g(...)

When it comes to sci-fi TV, Philip K Dick is your only man

The biggest impact might not even be on marriage equality, but on the wider Irish political horizon

‘I was just starting to focus when the doctor told me they found a tumour. They didn’t have the biopsies yet, but straight away kn(...)

‘Any time I write about violence against women, there’s a volley of abuse in the comments on The Irish Times website. Some people (...)

Government generally avoids interacting with youth, viewing them with suspicion

She’s one of the most compelling singers to ever grab a microphone and glare down the barrel of an audience, but how much do we re(...)