The Traitors Ireland differs only from other versions in that the contestants are a mite swearier and the budget is visibly lower

On Play, Ed Sheeran returns to his day job of churning out annoyingly catchy bangers

Television: Glúin Z is sharpest when discussing Ireland’s apocalyptic accommodation situation, but the property crisis doesn’t just impact Gen Z

Even by the tawdry standards of reality Television, Davina McCall’s new show is painful watching. This is pop culture rock bottom

Television: The second Traitor is unveiled, leaving a conclave of one

Television: Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short return for more deadpan skewering

After banishing yet another innocent, the Faithful are proving inept at unmasking the Traitors in their midst

Sarah Cracknell and co are going out on a high with their 13th album. They talk about Britpop, their labelmates Kneecap and Gen Z’s strange yearning for the 1990s

Television: US local news may be on its uppers, but American cringe comedy is on the mend

Television: David McCullagh is chummily informal and in command of the facts, but even he can’t unpick the enigma that is de Valera

Sabrina Carpenter’s ambitious LP lacks the sense of fun that crackled through Short n’ Sweet

Television: Siobhán McSweeney presides over a made-to-measure version of the international social-deduction hit

The frontman has certainly come closer than many. He opens up about mortality, how he tried and failed to quit music, and the ‘very complex and multilayered junkie’ Mark Lanegan

Hozier has pivoted into thunderous soul-pop that blazes like a glitterball strapped to a bulldozer

One of festival’s largest ever crowds witnesses typhoon of pop performance