Strike: The Ink Black Heart review: JK Rowling’s unlikely cult hit is a gift that keeps on giving
Television: BBC’s sixth adaptation of author’s Robert Galbraith crime books is full of rumpled charm
From Baby Reindeer and The Traitors to Bodkin and The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In: The best and worst television of 2024
The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictable
100 Years of Solitude review: A woozy, feverish watch to be savoured in bite-sized portions
Television: Lavish adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez’s 1967 novel is both meditative and steamy, sometimes to the point of hilarity
No Good Deed review: Even Lisa Kudrow can’t save this pre-Christmas turkey of a dark comedy
Television: LA suburbia-set series is just too miserable to make viewers laugh. It’s like the grimmest ever season of Location, Location, Location
Tori Amos: Diving Deep Live – An A-grade tour of the singer’s lesser-spotted B-sides and deep cuts
Few cut a more fascinating figure than Amos, whose stage performances have long offered a more profound and esoteric experience than her studio work
Inside Aer Lingus review: A dull infomercial masquerading as a behind-the-scenes documentary
Television revivew: A potentially promising idea is wasted by a film that serves as a glorified commercial for the airline
Paul Mescal on Saturday Night Live review: Gladiator II star skewers America’s bizarre views about Ireland
TV review: Paul Mescal displays no mercy in his opening monologue on Saturday Night Live and brings all his Hollywood charisma to bear
Late Late Toy Show review: Patrick Kielty is fuelled by enough raw adrenaline to power Santa’s reindeer
Mariah Carey pops up with a video message as 150-minute show reaches the finish line with a group performance of All I Want For Christmas Is You
Who is Zach Bryan, the country music star who’s just sold out summer concerts at the Phoenix Park?
Is the musician from Oklahoma the next Garth Brooks? Well, about 100,000 people will flock to Dublin for three concerts next June see the 28-year-old superstar going supernova in real-time
Black Doves review: Keira Knightley is delightfully sweary as a devoted wife by day and deadly assassin by night
Television: There’s an awful lot going on in Joe Barton’s espionage romp – a surprise cameo from Galway band The Stunning’s Steve Wall, for one thing
The Young Offenders deserves better than to be dumped on RTÉ’s online player
Television: Handed a hit comedy by the BBC, RTÉ has once again fumbled its big punchline
Scannal: Savita review – Heartbreaking chronicle of the medieval essence at heart of Irish healthcare system
Television: Sensitive and wrenching documentary series recounts the death of Savita Halappanavar after she suffered a miscarriage 17 weeks into her pregnancy
Ed Sheeran and Mary Robinson are right. It’s time to bin Band Aid
Band Aid revisionism hasn’t dropped from the clear blue winter sky. It’s been there since the start
James Vincent McMorrow: ‘I’ve been building back a version of me that made me happy rather than crying every night’
The Dubliner isn’t the first name that comes to mind as a songwriter for a boy-band megastar. But working with Louis Tomlinson was just what he needed after his record-label disappoinment
‘I wasn’t used to people in their early 20s, getting sick and dying’: The harrowing story of Aids in Ireland
Memorial – The Story of HIV/Aids in Ireland review: An empathetic yet unsentimental documentary