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Djamel White: "There’s always this elevated status given to these gangland characters – they’re spoken and almost gossiped about like celebrities"
  • Opinion
  • 10 May 26

Djamel White: "There’s always this elevated status given to these gangland characters – they’re spoken and almost gossiped about like celebrities"

Jan Carson: "I want to write with a degree of hope... There’s a lot of potential in the North"
  • Opinion
  • 04 May 26

Jan Carson: "I want to write with a degree of hope... There’s a lot of potential in the North"

The Secret Drug Addict: "You cannot quite understand the power of addiction until you’ve seen it eat like acid through everything you are"
  • Opinion
  • 26 Apr 26

The Secret Drug Addict: "You cannot quite understand the power of addiction until you’ve seen it eat like acid through everything you are"

Mary Costello: "One thing’s for sure, man’s survival does not depend on missile defence systems, or political alliances or any of that"
  • Culture
  • 17 Apr 26

Mary Costello: "One thing’s for sure, man’s survival does not depend on missile defence systems, or political alliances or any of that"

Madeleine Dunnigan: "I’m interested also in punk’s relationship with reggae and ska, and I watched a lot of documentaries with Don Letts”
  • Culture
  • 14 Apr 26

Madeleine Dunnigan: "I’m interested also in punk’s relationship with reggae and ska, and I watched a lot of documentaries with Don Letts”

Gabriel Tallent: "I feel like friendship is perhaps a little undermined in literature"
  • Culture
  • 23 Mar 26

Gabriel Tallent: "I feel like friendship is perhaps a little undermined in literature"

Tanya Sweeney: "We treat celebrities like deities. We’ve always done that, but social media has turbocharged it"
  • Opinion
  • 21 Mar 26

Tanya Sweeney: "We treat celebrities like deities. We’ve always done that, but social media has turbocharged it"

Leon Diop of Black & Irish: "I do think it’s possible to change people’s minds. I actually think that’s more aligned with our nature"
  • Culture
  • 08 Jan 26

Leon Diop of Black & Irish: "I do think it’s possible to change people’s minds. I actually think that’s more aligned with our nature"

Booker Prize winner David Szalay: "Joyce was definitely a writer who mesmerised me as a young person"
  • Opinion
  • 08 Jan 26

Booker Prize winner David Szalay: "Joyce was definitely a writer who mesmerised me as a young person"

Wendy Erskine: "It’s interesting, the whole thing of exchange, transaction and money – it’s so central to the book... the idea of the monetisation of women’s bodies"
  • Culture
  • 06 Jan 26

Wendy Erskine: "It’s interesting, the whole thing of exchange, transaction and money – it’s so central to the book... the idea of the monetisation of women’s bodies"

My 2025: Andrea Mara - <i>Best thing you saw online?</i> "The Troy Parrott goal"
  • Culture
  • 20 Dec 25

My 2025: Andrea Mara - Best thing you saw online? "The Troy Parrott goal"

Miriam O’Callaghan: "I just hope people learn a little bit more about me – and think I’m an okay person at the end of it"
  • Opinion
  • 07 Dec 25

Miriam O’Callaghan: "I just hope people learn a little bit more about me – and think I’m an okay person at the end of it"

Rose Keating on <i>Oddbody:</i> "I would start writing at around 8pm and then I’d stay up until 6am. I listened to music to keep me going"
  • Culture
  • 25 Nov 25

Rose Keating on Oddbody: "I would start writing at around 8pm and then I’d stay up until 6am. I listened to music to keep me going"

Wayne Byrne on his new <i>Halloween Book</i>: "The original movie is perfect in every way"
  • Film And TV
  • 15 Oct 25

Wayne Byrne on his new Halloween Book: "The original movie is perfect in every way"

Caragh Maxwell: “I leave facets of myself in everything I write. I’m a big proponent of ‘write what you know’"
  • Culture
  • 06 Oct 25

Caragh Maxwell: “I leave facets of myself in everything I write. I’m a big proponent of ‘write what you know’"

Ragnar Jónasson on working with Ridley Scott: “He’s a legend and I’m a big fan, so to do a film he’d be associated with would be quite something"
  • Culture
  • 04 Sep 25

Ragnar Jónasson on working with Ridley Scott: “He’s a legend and I’m a big fan, so to do a film he’d be associated with would be quite something"

Arthur Baker: "I’ve been asked about ‘Planet Rock’ probably more than anything I’ve ever done"
  • Culture
  • 13 Aug 25

Arthur Baker: "I’ve been asked about ‘Planet Rock’ probably more than anything I’ve ever done"

Tim MacGabhann: "I was never very good at maths, but I was good at a particular calculus – low effort, low energy expenditure, and a high yield of getting buckled"
  • Opinion
  • 11 Aug 25

Tim MacGabhann: "I was never very good at maths, but I was good at a particular calculus – low effort, low energy expenditure, and a high yield of getting buckled"

Yasmin Zaher: “When you come from a situation where your life is already unstable and risky, you’re going to search for a profession that can give you more stability"
  • Culture
  • 07 Jul 25

Yasmin Zaher: “When you come from a situation where your life is already unstable and risky, you’re going to search for a profession that can give you more stability"

Jeanine Cummins on her latest novel: “One of the great joys of writing this book was to imagine a different outcome for her, and for my dad, really”
  • Culture
  • 02 Jul 25

Jeanine Cummins on her latest novel: “One of the great joys of writing this book was to imagine a different outcome for her, and for my dad, really”

Vogue Williams - <i>Best of Ireland</i> Cover Story: "Where you're from becomes a part of you. It's where you feel your most calm and happiest"
  • Culture
  • 26 Jun 25

Vogue Williams - Best of Ireland Cover Story: "Where you're from becomes a part of you. It's where you feel your most calm and happiest"

Andrea Mara: “I just love that idea of unpeeling layers and discovering something extraordinary about an ordinary person, and deep dark secrets – all of that”
  • Culture
  • 24 Jun 25

Andrea Mara: “I just love that idea of unpeeling layers and discovering something extraordinary about an ordinary person, and deep dark secrets – all of that”

Seán Hewitt: "When a lot of people fall in love, the line between what’s real and what’s not kind of blurs a bit"
  • Opinion
  • 24 May 25

Seán Hewitt: "When a lot of people fall in love, the line between what’s real and what’s not kind of blurs a bit"

Eoin McNamee: "That was a private dread, but if you spread it out, there was a kind of public dread of living along the border"
  • Opinion
  • 10 May 25

Eoin McNamee: "That was a private dread, but if you spread it out, there was a kind of public dread of living along the border"

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