'AI has no oil on its feathers, no capacity to laugh at you or itself'

To listen to one of Tom Lehrer's recordings from the 60s is to be enthralled by the uniqueness of writing and performance

One of the truly great things about modern Ireland is that we’ve chucked the old weather rules; we cast a clout the minute we can

Percy Pig sweets which are hugely popular, selling 18m bags a year, launched in the US last week but could now fall foul of the US president’s tariffs

The demeaning photographs used to characterise older people during the pandemic drove me nuts

An anti-book club would work the opposite way to the “buy me” clubs. It would warn potential buyers off truly God-awful offerings

One of the saddest threads running through Ireland's economic stagnation and abject poverty 80 years ago was the paradoxical self-esteem drawn from concealing it

By exposing a bizarre financial system, the actor — in a small way — is helping to reverse the generational damage debt can deliver

It’s a fear added to by the fact that one of the US president’s close supporters — Elon Musk — responded to an event which carries profound life-and-death implications for the people of Ukraine with a laughing/crying emoji

Somewhere along the line, the notion of the public space as worthy of careful design and implicit respect for the passerby has died