“For freelancers – who make up the bulk of arts journalists – the picture is even starker. Pay hasn’t matched inflation for decades, while the pool of outlets commissioning reviews has contracted, leaving patchwork careers held together by goodwill and side jobs.” www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

My @IrishTimes column today www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/0...

Slight change of plan: we'll be on stage at the later time of 5.15 today so more time for a lie in if you need one ☀️ @hlinehan.bsky.social @irishtimes.com

See you on Sunday 😊 🎪 🎵 🍻

Come and join @ellenmcoyne.bsky.social Jack Horgan Jones, Pat Leahy and me for the Inside Politics live show at noon on Sunday in Mindfield at #electricpicnic.

‘On the one hand, the most grandiose predictions of imminent machine overlords or silicon utopias seem, at best, premature. On the other, the technology is already reshaping fundamental aspects of how we work, learn and communicate.’ My cilumn today www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

I had some thoughts on democracy and whether you can have too much of it as well as too little www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

The opening episode of our latest Inside Politics series drops today. Pat Leahy and I tell the story of three catastrophic years when hubris and deception came home to roost. Part one: bonfires in Offaly. www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

My media column in today’s Irish Tumes. www.irishtimes.com/media/2025/0...

I joined @hlinehan.bsky.social and Pat Leahy this morning on the @irishtimes.com Inside Politics podcast to discuss yesterdays National Development Plan review launch. www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

I’m not normally in the habit of writing personal pieces but this is about my experience of declining vision. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Welcome to Bluesky.

As it happens I talked to Susan last week. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...

Looking forward to discussing America’s current political moment with Senator Bernie Sanders and his chief adviser Jane O’Meara Sanders in Vicar Street on May 27th. www.ticketmaster.ie/artist/52285...

Looking forward to discussing America’s current political moment with Senator Bernie Sanders and his chief adviser Jane O’Meara Sanders in Vicar Street on May 27th. www.ticketmaster.ie/artist/52285...

www.irishtimes.com/business/202... Today’s column

Garron Noone controversy: ‘It propelled him into a different stratosphere, which is the culture war realm’ On today’s In the News podcast I discussed Garron Noone’s interesting week www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/in-...

I don’t know Kathleen, but she clearly has great taste.

An Editor’s Note worth noting. @lauraslattery.bsky.social

Today’s column is my 583rd in the media slot: Blank-tape bliss can never be repeated www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

I joined @eamonryan.bsky.social and @hlinehan.bsky.social on the @irishtimes.com Inside Politics podcast. We discussed the billions in fines faced by Ireland for missing EU climate commitments. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...

This is my last column for Ticket. It’s almost 25 years since the supplement launched under my editorship. I have a few thoughts about it all…

A sad announcement at the end of today’s show Arrivederci Jen. podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...

With Ireland 99th in world for the no. of women in parliament what next for #morewomen? Listen to WfE chair, Aldagh McDonogh, @jenniferbray.bsky.social @hlinehan.bsky.social dicuss challenges & solutions to having a better politics with a balance pf men & women www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

“Should the Government end Rent Pressure Zones - and what would replace them?” www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins... @irishtimes.com @hlinehan.bsky.social @mickbyrne.bsky.social

On today’s podcast I talk to Michael Brendan Dougherty about why he voted for Trump and how he thinks it’s going. www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

Brilliant portrait by @hlinehan.bsky.social of my daily reality “Everything is grimy, shabby and dispiriting. It’s in places like these that Dublin feels like a city designed by people who despise its inhabitants.” www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...

Rhiannon Giddens singing a song associated with the civil rights movement as part of the "insane" "woke" Irish "musical" funded by USAID (actually a US embassy event). It's great. As written about by @hlinehan.bsky.social here: www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag... www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ8R...

‘You won’t get any of them to admit it, but there will have been glum faces among those who run the State’s culture industries when O’Donovan’s name was pulled out of Micheál Martin’s hat nine days ago.’ www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

Today’s podcast: Are ‘super-juniors’ unconstitutional? www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

The title of this slightly obscures the fact it is essentially a conversation between @hlinehan.bsky.social and @denisstaunton.bsky.social on life in contemporary China. Fascinating insight into politics, the economy, and shifting demography there. open.spotify.com/episode/1Z7n...

Excellent plan.

As we head into inauguration day, I’m on the @irishtimes.com politics podcast talking about what the new Trump administration means for Ireland With @paulcolgan.bsky.social, Pat Leahy & @hlinehan.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/i...

‘Trump’s success was built on a motley gang of media outsiders from the worlds of podcasting, gaming and martial arts. The mainstream entertainment establishment got a bloody nose. It will surely take note.’ My Irish Times column today www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

‘One can only wonder what Kubrick would have thought of people being able to watch Barry Lyndon on their phones.’ My weekend @IrishTimes column. www.irishtimes.com/culture/film...

Thanks to Apple TV’s free weekend I saw Blitz. It was not very good at all. Had a look back at the (very tolerant) reviews. Touch of emperors’s new clothes about the whole thing.

“The newspapers were right…” youtube.com/watch?v=A_-K...

www.irishtimes.com/My bah humbug A to Z of Christmas in today’s Irish Times. life-style/people/2024/12/24/donald-trump-millennials-and-vegans-an-a-z-guide-on-christmas-conversation-killers/

It’s Christmas Eve, which means it’s time for the Irish Times Inside Politics team to r listener questions in the first instalment of our FESTIVE AMA. www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

‘An irony of this postimperial phase of their history is that the design and appearance of newspapers are of a higher quality than ever.’ My column today. www.irishtimes.com/culture/2024...

Our last Friday Wrap of the year on the Inside Politics podcast, recorded this morning, is up now. It's been a blast this year. There's two ask me anythings over the festive period, too. And now: sleep. @hlinehan.bsky.social @decconlon.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/podcasts/ins...

So when I wrote my article about polarisation, @jessesingal.com and the future of Bluesky, I didn’t expect quoting @kevinmkruse.bsky.social would turn out so badly. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

Interesting article here by @hlinehan.bsky.social and I have experienced similar situations on the 2 platforms. Note: @irishtimes.bsky.social doesn't give a link to @bsky.app so it is apparently deemed less relevant. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

Fair comment on social media extremism. @hlinehan.bsky.social Good luck Bluesky in trying to preserve balance and sanity on the platform! www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

It seems appropriate to post this nuanced article by @hlinehan.bsky.social about online platforms and political polarization here. And I probably won’t post it in the other place cos I’ve pretty much stopped posting there 🤷‍♂️. www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

An excellent article by @hlinehan.bsky.social, flagging an increasingly likely chance that #Bluesky becomes just a different echo chamber to Twitter. Can it "hold the line on its aspiration to be an open and respectful space or just end up as Musk’s black mirror?" www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT. The Irish Times Inside Politics podcast will be recording its Yuletide Ask Me Anything show this week. Send your questions to [email protected] by 10am on Dec 18. Or @ me here.