Joining Dearbhail to discuss the modern meaning and relevance of Nollaig na mBan (“women’s Christmas”) are activist and founder of Topical Popical, Andrea Horan; interfaith minister, singer and theolo...

Christmas is a holiday that we celebrate at home. The dining table and fireplace take centre stage. We watch movies on the couch, there’s mulled wine and hot chocolate brewing on the hob, and on Chris...

Irish folklore is having a moment. Whether it’s the ubiquity of Claddagh jewellery, St Brigid getting her own bank holiday or the Morrígan finding her way into one of the most popular romantasy book s...

There is no version of the internet that is safe for children. There is simply no way to securely fence in an area where children can exist online and interact with only other children and their paren...

It would be incorrect to say that skinny is back. Skinny simply never went away. The last few decades have given us different versions of it – everything from heroin chic to the curvier Kim Kardash­ia...

Dublin City Council’s annual collection of twinkling lights and projections are coming back to the city this year.

Growing up, once children learn to recognise themselves in the mirror, they begin to ask themselves some important questions.

It must have been easier to get into ­politics before the internet. Before digital cameras and social media sites. Before everything came with a paper trail. Before consequences.

Forget hover cars, jetpacks and colonising Mars – the strangest people you know have found a way to let you have sex with the dictionary. Finally.

Brainrot is a word that has come to define much of the content on our phones. It is content that is usually absurd, notably low in quality, sometimes offensive and always addictive. It keeps you scrol...

Watching the presidential debate on Monday night, I could not escape the creeping feeling that it is all a bit pointless.

In the age of streaming, it is rare to sit down with friends and find you are all watching the same thing.

Thirty years ago, if you had 10,000 followers you would have been a successful cult leader. Today, 10,000 followers will not even qualify you to be an influencer – there will be no brand deals or free...

C AO offer day is not easy. The queasy anticipation, the fear, the unshakeable feeling that whatever offer you get will set you on an irreversible collision course with your future. The hope that all ...

A political shift is happening on X. Recently, your feed may have been dominated by AI-generated photos of California governor Gavin Newsom. He might have been riding a dinosaur and waving the America...

Every August, TikTok gets taken over by “RushTok” – the term for content created by, and centring on, hopeful new recruits for American college sororities. The name comes from “rush week”, the period ...

We may already have the word of the year, if not the decade: clanker. Originating from the Star Wars universe, it has become a catch-all term used to refer to robots and AI. Any technology can be refe...

We are all adept multi- taskers: listening to music while we walk, watching a show while we cook, messaging a friend while we are reading a book. With phones, laptops and televisions all within easy r...

Instagram users may have noticed a change in their app experience over the last week: strange pop-ups that you cannot skip, vague regulatory language dressed up in preppy social media speak, blue hype...

Forgetting the name of someone you just met at a party – that’s cringe. Referencing a meme that’s gone stale? That’s cringe. The video of all the celebrities singing Imagine during the pandemic? Unima...

Elon Musk is a science-fiction fan who refuses to learn anything from classic works of science fiction.

The Government continues to struggle to meet its housing targets, and it is all out of ideas. Except for one: what if apartments were smaller? What if they pared back regulation and allowed developers...

It is likely that you have never heard of Tiny Chef, the stop-motion character who starred in an Emmy-winning Nick Jr show. And if you have heard of him, it’s probably because you saw his heartbreakin...

Over the last 15 years, we have seen technology replace humans in countless ways. Supermarket cashiers and customer service operators have been replaced by technology. Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa ...

Foreign students applying for visas to study in the US are now required to list “all social media user names or handles of every platform they have used from the last five years” on their application ...

Joining Dearbhail to dissect the Sunday papers are Donnacha Ó Beacháin, Professor of Politics at the school of Law and Government, DCU, Kate English, Chief Economist for Deloitte, Philip Ryan, Head of...

Have you ever seen something online that gave you an uncanny, eerie feeling, as though something you cannot pinpoint was amiss? Maybe it was an obviously AI-generated image that no one in the comments...

This may be the worst time in history to be a young woman on the internet. The internet of the 2010s was not a good place for women: there was body shaming, slut shaming, objectification and fetishisa...

Spend any time talking to a child with a smartphone and you will hear about “Italian brainrot”, the latest meme sweeping social media. If you can’t even begin to imagine what that means, you’re part o...

The Rick O’Shea Book Club presents: WRITEHAWKS at Books Upstairs With Anna Carey, Mark O’Connell and Catherine Prasifka Join broadcaster and columnist, Rick O’ Shea, as he speaks to writers about the ...

Join us for an evening with Catherine Prasifka and her latest novel about the danger and potency of a life lived online

<p>Abstract: Themes of inclusion and exclusion have long characterised Irish fiction. Latest narratives, however, provide a new emphasis on belonging, or rather, the lack thereof. Recent female-author

The series shows how adults catastrophically misunderstand what their teenagers are doing online, mistakenly believing them to be safer than in the outside world

The European Federation of Associations and Centres of Irish Studies focuses on the study and debate of all aspects of society, culture and literature of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland, and...