3+ hour, 47+ min ago  (372+ words) I'm pretty agreeable to the extent that maybe it's a problem in my life. I've got people-pleaser energy in me, but I think it's nice because if that's the energy you give off in the world, then that's the energy…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (718+ words) Almost everybody enjoys humour and likes a good laugh. We find humour relaxing, which reduces stress; therefore, most people tend to believe that humour is good for our general health. But the scientific evidence that humour is beneficial to our…...

6+ day, 10+ hour ago  (730+ words) It is hard to be in Paris without reflecting on the life of Oscar Wilde, who lived in the city as a rising star: fluent in French, penning several plays, charming the literary salons. Later on, disgraced and imprisoned for…...

1+ week, 23+ hour ago  (276+ words) I believe the spirit goes on. It has to. Whatever about the body, I think the energy of the individual is so much more than the physical. I still absolutely feel the presence of people I've loved in my life,…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago  (1563+ words) Henri Rousseau gave up his day job as a low-ranking collector of tax on wine unloaded from boats on the Seine, in Paris, in 1893, when he was 49. He wanted to devote himself full-time to his passion for painting, which he…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (1812+ words) As I meet Ciar'n Hinds, the most hearty and unaffected of actors, he is taking a day's rest from filming in Co Wicklow. "I'm working on Walk the Blue Fields," he says. "The Claire Keegan adaptation by Conor Mc Pherson,…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (354+ words) A North Macedonian coming-of-age drama that won the World Cinema audience prize at Sundance?" you say. No thanks. I've already chewed all the healthy raw vegetables I need today. [La Grazia review: Paolo Sorrentino gets his groove back with a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (469+ words) Jesus was someone I looked up to a lot growing up," Aisling Bea jokes at Vicar Street on Sunday night, referring to the picture of Christ that hung in her home. The line comes from Older Than Jesus, her new…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (564+ words) Being the custodian of so much was no easy path, but she knew she could not stop singing Dolores Keane's honesty about her demons was as piercing as her singing Being the custodian of so much was no easy path,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (620+ words) Fuelled by the raw star power of a then-unknown Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones, Lenny Abrahamson's Sally Rooney adaptation became a lockdown sensation " a surreal turn of events for a show that features Mescal playing a star corner forward on…...