Radius Speaking With

With Banríon, Trinity’s Róisín Ní Haicéid is Tearing Up the Script

The frontwoman of Trinity's biggest new band talks about growing in creative confidence and writing music as a disability activist.
By Ellie O'Neill

Meet the Society Spreading Laughter in Uncertain Times

Its activities have been halted by the coronavirus, but DU Comedy Society is dynamic and vibrant – and a vital source of laughter in hard times.
By Kate Fergusson

JYellowL Entertains and Enlightens – By Talking About What’s Real

Dublin rapper JYellowL is a hot property – he's opened for Nelly, among other successes. Now he's back, with his hardest-hitting single yet.
By Joe Coughlan

With Wendy Erskine, an Unrestricted Dive into Literary Imagination

The acclaimed Belfast author on the bizarreness of life, the power of brevity and the 'nonsense talked about writing'.
By Martha Kirwan

Precocious Youth Becomes Award-Winning Director: Meet Neasa Hardiman

The Dublin director, whose feature film Sea Fever closes this year's Dublin Film Festival, talks Berlin, Fair City – and designing RTÉ's logo.
By Holly Moore

Horror, Comedy and the Supernatural: Lorcan Finnegan Pushes Film’s Envelope

The filmmaker talks about creating landscapes that are both haunting and haunted, and how anger informs his work.
By Stephen Patrick Murray

Roderick Ford Brings ‘the Hidden Aspects of Being’ to the Project Arts Centre

The poet and playwright talks about his new play, called The Spider's House, and expressing the neglected side of things on stage.
By Emer Tyrrell

Poet Eva Griffin is Fighting for a More Diverse Dublin

Eva Griffin is a co-founder of the Not4U Collective – which provides a platform predominantly, although not exclusively, for LGBTQ+ poets.
By Carla Meaney

How Lemoncello Are Giving New Voice to Irish Folk

The Maynooth duo talk about their influences – including Seamus Fogarty Sam Amidon – and and how their sound comes from within.
By Ellie O'Neill

With Splonk, Smart Literature for a Smart(phone) Generation

Splonk is a new journal of 'flash' literature – stories, poetry and other experimental writing, with brevity and speed at its heart.
By Ellen Finnerty