Late Late Toy Show host Patrick Kielty on fronting RTÉ’s biggest show of the year
Despite having had a trying year, the host is in chipper mood Patrick Kielty has seen satire become…
‘It was a racket. But it was a racket RTÉ started.’ Myles Dungan on freelance contracts, losing ‘Late Date’ and moving into fiction writing
The broadcaster reflects on losing his father, some brutal episodes at school, and RTÉ Historian and broadcaster Myles…
Victoria Mary Clarke on loneliness: ‘I realised that I really don’t want to spend the rest of my life just killing time until it’s over’
The author and artist talks about the excruciating silence she faced when her husband died and the different…
Dónal Lynch: World Cups, Westlife and another lefty woman in the Áras – set the sat-nav for the Walkinstown roundabout and party like it’s 1990!
Vulture Fans roar on Ireland during their quarter-final against the hosts in Italia ’90. Photo: Getty So often…
Piers Morgan’s new book argues that ‘Woke is Dead’
The contrarian with an audience of millions and a father from Offaly on why he thinks wokeism can…
Dónal Lynch: Britney Spears, like Sinéad O’Connor, has earned the benefit of the doubt
Vulture Britney Spears and Kevin Federline in those proverbial ‘happier times’ of 2004. Photo: Getty In an ordinary…
Tim Wheeler on early fame: ‘I got hammered during the gig. The next day we were doing MTV interviews but I woke up in my own vomit. Management were really upset’
The Ash frontman tells Pat Carty how he now feels he suffered a burnout after their first album…
Declan Lynch: Maria Steen’s tremendous irony, Marty Morrissey does his best with Kathleen Kennedy Townsend and Johnny Cash in the dancehalls
Radio reviews Maria Steen was discussing the lack of choice. Photo: Collins You could argue that the spoilt…
Life, Work, Everything review: Miriam O’Callaghan is a lovely woman, but don’t expect her memoir to reveal any dark secrets
Memoir RTE broadcaster Miriam O’Callaghan. Photo: David Conachy Anyone wanting to read an advance copy of Miriam O’Callaghan’s…
Life, Work, Everything review: Miriam O’Callaghan is a lovely woman, but don’t expect her memoir to reveal any dark secrets
Memoir RTE broadcaster Miriam O’Callaghan. Photo: David Conachy Anyone wanting to read an advance copy of Miriam O’Callaghan’s…
Podcast host Laurie O’Dwyer: ‘I do love a good food festival. The amazing food producers we have in Ireland always shine at such events’
My Cultural Life Podcast host Laurie O’Dwyer with wife Sonya Cork’s Laurie O’Dwyer hosts the Whiskey Chats Podcast…
Artist Francis O’Toole: ‘I spent a long time in St James’s Hospital watching my foot, and lower leg, slowly rot and turn black. I eventually ended up with a below-knee amputation’
Art: What Lies Beneath ‘The Waste Land’, by Francis O’Toole For Francis O’Toole, the beginning was ordinary enough.…