What on earth is House of Guinness? Is Alien: Earth any use? and what do we know about Slow Horses season 5? We cover all that and LOADs more - including an interview with the one and only Neil Hannon - on Get Around To It this week: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...

The result of #TraitorsIRL is the only good thing to happen so far in 2025 🥹

Still enough time for Oyin to gather enough support to run for President, surely #TraitorsIRL

On the eve of the release of Pôt-Pot’s excellent debut album, Warsaw 480km, I chatted w/ Mark Waldron-Hyden for my newsletter about how it morphed into a five-piece group from a solo project, how his bandmates have shaped his artistry & more. Subscribe: zarahedderman.substack.com/p/the-bad-ar...

There's been a little wave of new Irish arts/culture-related podcasts lately - amazing to see, and clearly it's because people really want MORE places to discuss everything arts/culture in Ireland. Get Around To It is a magazine-style show, which is pretty unusual when it comes to Irish podcasts

Speaking of podcasts - the latest episode of Get Around To It is a deep-dive into why Gen Z are getting obsessed with the series Girls, plus an interview with musician Farah Elle! Listen here, if you enjoyed it please share :) podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...

Love listening to Screenland - was great fun being a guest on it! We chatted about The Worst Person in the World and covered MANY diverse topics during the chat

This was so much fun - great crowd and the album was cranked up VERY loud @nialler9.com

Thank you so much for chatting to me about your journey and experiences, Nadia!

New episode of The Point of Everything podcast is out today 🎧 TPOE 366: Junior Brother discusses his third The End, which is inspired by fairy forts and the horrors of the modern world. We talk storytelling, childhood stories, and the Irish music scene Listen/subscribe: tr.ee/Cq4S-xfcXQ

Thanks so much for sharing our pod!

We review or preview (deep breath)… The Traitors Ireland, The Paper, NewDad, a new book about Waking the Feminists, Sanatorium, Spinal Tap II, CMAT… and more! And guests telling us what they got around to lately in culture are: Michael Fry, Alison Spittle and actor Frank Blake.

Listened to our arts & culture podcast Get Around To It yet? We’re number one in Arts in Apple podcasts in Ireland! Thanks so much to everyone who has listened in so far - please do spread the word. Listen in here: podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/g... or here open.spotify.com/episode/0Mqg...

Never been SO glad to see the back of a traitor #traitorsirl

Very excited to say myself and @laurenmurphyjourno.bsky.social have launched an Irish arts & culture podcast! It’s a reboot of our former podcast, only bigger and better. Get Around To It will be weekly, with a deep-dive episode every second week podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/g...

And after reading that you can check out my column on not using ChatGPT - and why I think creatives should be leery of it

Terrible news about the untimely death of Seán Rocks - I can hardly believe it... grateful to get to pay tribute to him for @thejournal.ie: www.thejournal.ie/tribute-to-s...

Our bonus content – all of which is now available in our main feed – includes full-length interviews with our incredible guests, including a trip down Irish internet memory lane with @sweetoblivion.bsky.social. Listen here, and explore 30+ more bonus episodes: podfollow.com/for-techs-sa...

Éilís Ní Dhuibhne is a brilliant writer, thinker, activist, Irish language champion and a wonderful person. An excellent appointment as the next Laureate for Irish Fiction. youtu.be/a-3Utp8tdDw @artscouncilireland.bsky.social

A legend!!

Here's my interview with @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social on this: www.newstalk.com/podcasts/hig...

A live Nialler9 Podcast episode from The Big Romance Discussing LCD Soundsystem – Sound Of Silver (Listen Closely live with Kelly-Anne Byrne and Eoghan O’Sullivan) nialler9.com/podcast-lcd-...

Can't believe there's no national policy framework for commercial drones! It was so obvious something like this would happen. Nuts.

Going to on @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social show on @newstalkfm.bsky.social at around 3.30pm/3.40pm talking about this

Latest column in the Sunday Times was about the dire representation of women (or indeed anyone who isn't a man) on most Irish music festival bills - more here and in my Insta stories www.instagram.com/p/DLxHjVnte2...

Nice uncluttered airspace you got there… it’d be a shame if something happened to it

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at our phones

NEW: The Greens are calling on Anthony Albanese to speak with Donald Trump about the "deliberate shooting" of Australian journalist Lauren Tomasi, who was hit with a rubber bullet fired by a police officer in Los Angeles WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFH1...

Expanding on my Sunday Times column about there not being a magazine-style TV show on RTE - with memories of my time on Community of Independents sweetoblivion.substack.com/p/whats-miss...

friends i come to you again with a book thing. we are having a party. would you like to come?

This. All of this. From @sweetoblivion.bsky.social: www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Something I think about a LOT - where's the arts show on RTE Television that we're crying out for? It's not for want of content, people pitching, or audience interest... (though the show will HAVE to be on earlier than 11.15pm!) www.thetimes.com/world/irelan...

Answered a few Qs for @writersdigest.bsky.social ✊

50 years after the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Dubliners peer back into the past – as they understand it. For some, life is an inherited ache to leave Vietnam and half-remembered stories and unprocessed feelings embodied in what grandparents said, or didn’t say, about the past. www.dublininquirer.c...

You know what to do, folks in the US!

Book Launch Details for Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way 21.5 Foyles Charing Cross Road 23.5 London Irish Centre, Hammersmith 27.5 Kenny’s Bookshop 29.5 Books Upstairs Tickets online via each venue! Love to see you! 🍷

Latest column today (not online sorry!) for the Sunday Times - a look at a collection of essays by autistic people living in Ireland (called Wired Our Own Way, pub by @newislandbooks.bsky.social). Felt important in the wake of recent coverage of autism diagnoses to turn to a book like this.

These women - working together to recover & help each other recover from trauma & sexual assault experienced during the Sudan war - are hugely inspiring. The women's centre was set up by refugee & social worker, Zahra Adam Khimes (photos from Chris Maddaloni) www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I wrote about the Trump administration’s embrace of the pro-natalist movement, and the need to combat pro-natalist misogyny in cultural terms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Here’s a further report from a second camp for Sudanese refugees in east Chad with photos by Chris Maddaloni (there’s a lot of upsetting testimony from people here) www.irishtimes.com/world/africa...

The launch of Let Me Go Mad in My Own Way @kennysbookshop.bsky.social May 27th at 6pm All welcome! @uniofgalway.bsky.social This is a free but ticketed event 🐎

Really looking forward to it, Cauvery! @granardbooktown.bsky.social

‘A lot of children die’: Patrick Freyne reports from inside Chad camps for Sudanese refugees

My forthcoming column this week in the Sunday Times is about the exact opposite of this… because we shouldn’t ‘relax’, actually

On The World 🌎 today: 🌐 @matthewjbell.bsky.social: South Korea's president ousted 🌐 Meningitis outbreak in Ghana outpaces vaccines 🌐 Maltese poachers travel to Egypt to hunt birds 🌐 @orlabarry.bsky.social: Irish writers take on tech giant Meta Tune in 📻 bit.ly/3xyRRfD

Is Meta stealing the works of some of Ireland's finest writers? My report coming up shortly on @theworld.org with contributions from @sweetoblivion.bsky.social and @conorkostick.bsky.social Tune in: theworld.org

ICYMI - my recent column for the Sunday Times (Culture magazine) on this

Was on @seanmoncrieff.bsky.social show yesterday talking (wearily) about genAI and big tech not valuing artists' work (note I said the Google motto was 'move fast and break things' but that was a brain fart - it was of course Facebook!) www.newstalk.com/news/author-...

On the show today: The Nixon-Lynch row; Heteropessimism; @sweetoblivion.bsky.social on AI stole my book; Does exercise warp time?; @zenbuffy.bsky.social on monitoring the gender pay gap; World news; The lost cameras of Loch Ness..

This week's column for the Sunday Times - AI stole my book, but I'm less worried about myself personally than the fact that we've allowed AI tech gods to do whatever the hell they want www.thetimes.com/article/2e8d...