Dancing with the Stars week 6: ‘Such a powerful performance, such a powerful message’Panti Bliss, dancing as Rory O’Neill, dedicates his paso doble to the doctor who treated him when he was diagnosed with HIVMon Feb 13 2023 - 12:40
Weyes Blood review: Five stars for Natalie Mering’s gorgeously spectral Dublin concertSinger’s dazzling voice – not to mention banter – helps overcome technical glitches to give outstanding performance at Vicar StreetMon Feb 13 2023 - 09:32
Cops, robbers and nicotine stains: The Gold is a love letter to the 1980s Britain the Irish knew so wellThe BBC’s dramatisation of the Brink’s-Mat heist is slow to get going, but it brilliantly evokes the era of Ford Capris and mandatory office-based sexismSun Feb 12 2023 - 22:00
Jeremy Clarkson’s back on his farm, selling €40 crisps. But he could soon be put out to pastureTV: Clarkson’s Farm went down a treat in Britain, where fans queued up at the Diddly Squat shop. As the second season begins, his biggest headache is BrexitFri Feb 10 2023 - 04:00
‘You have a very strong accent’: Miriam Margolyes hits peak Brit Abroad mode with Lynn RuaneIn Lady Gregory: Ireland’s First Social Influencer the unlikely pair have a merry time traversing Ireland to unpick the Abbey cofounder’s lifeThu Feb 09 2023 - 23:15
Florence at 3Arena: Fans in Midsommar-style garlands hold her gaze obsessively. ‘Is it a cult?’ she jokes. ‘What’s going on?’Florence + the Machine, back on the road after being derailed by a freak injury, put on a frilly, florid and ferocious performance in DublinThu Feb 09 2023 - 10:34
The Secret Artists: A balm for the mind and spirit in a noisy, overwhelming worldThe comic Colin Murphy and a former paramilitary are among the aspiring artists submitting work to the Royal Ulster Academy in Hilary Fennell’s documentaryWed Feb 08 2023 - 23:25
Consent: A teenage sexual attacker swans onwards. His victim’s life is in ruinsTelevision: The Channel 4 drama is a grimly plausible account of a sexual assault and ensuing cover-up at a posh English schoolWed Feb 08 2023 - 12:26
Happy Valley: Is this grim British cop show the best crime drama of the year?The much-hyped season finale packs a punch, even as it descends into sillinessMon Feb 06 2023 - 10:59
Smother: is it an edge-of-seat whodunnit or an over-the-top soap opera?The third and final season of the RTÉ' drama still cannot decide whether it’s an edge-of-seat whodunnit or over-the-top soap operaSun Feb 05 2023 - 22:30
Dancing with the Stars week 5: A one-way trip to light entertainment purgatoryPaul Brogan may have just been voted off the show – but he sounds like the happiest person under the disco ballSun Feb 05 2023 - 21:15
Late Late Eurosong special: It’s not every day you see Jedward give advice to Johnny RottenEurovision 2023: The veteran pop-rock Dubliners Wild Youth edge out 19-year-old Connolly to go forward to this year’s contest in LiverpoolSat Feb 04 2023 - 00:37
Gunther’s Millions: This dog has a mansion, a yacht and a personal chef. But something’s not rightFeaturing a crew of weirdos who help the Alsatian spend its fortune, this Netflix series wants to be the new Tiger KingThu Feb 02 2023 - 13:33
St Brigid the ‘kick-ass warrior poet and goddess’: Siobhán McSweeney finds a very Irish superheroIt would be easy to for Siobhán McSweeney to become lost in the new-age psychobabble surrounding the saint. But this is a heartfelt, illuminating portraitWed Feb 01 2023 - 11:48
‘Every morning I see a penis I haven’t asked to see’: The routine abuse of a woman in the spotlightCyberflashing is just part of what the TV presenter Emily Atack is bombarded with each day. Asking for It? is an unflinching account of many women’s experiencesTue Jan 31 2023 - 22:00
Upfront with Katie Hannon: Strait-laced, a bit po-faced, except when it’s trying to be cuddly. Then it is unbearableTelevision: RTÉ new current-affairs show is off to a solid if not earth-shattering startTue Jan 31 2023 - 06:31
Pamela Anderson: ‘I blocked that stolen tape out of my life, and now it’s coming up again I feel sick’ Pamela: A Love Story, Ryan White’s Netflix documentary about the Baywatch star, finally gives the traumatised actor a voiceTue Jan 31 2023 - 05:45
Dancing with the Stars week 4: Cruella de Vil and her pirouetting pooch axed after a spotty 101 Dalmatians foxtrotTelevision: ‘There was a section where you really lost control,’ Brian Redmond tells the second celebrity to be eliminatedMon Jan 30 2023 - 10:47
The 1975 at 3Arena: ‘You Irish are a simple people. You’re easily pleased – that’s good to know’Matty Healy lives up to his reputation for extravagant gobbiness at the exhilarating Dublin show of a band who know how to hold an arena in their thrallSun Jan 29 2023 - 23:36
Room to Improve: Dermot Bannon goes through the wringer at the end of a season that ‘nearly killed’ himTelevision: The wow wars are only the beginning of Ann-Marie and Andy Gray’s woesSun Jan 29 2023 - 22:30
BalconyTV: ‘The Buzzcocks just looked at the balcony and went, ‘where the f**k are we playing?’ ’The story of a Dublin music start-up’s extraordinary rise to global brand and fall to oblivion is told in a new three-part documentary podcastSat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
Weyes Blood: ‘The standard is so low in terms of what young people are used to hearing, it all gets a pass’After her wisely acclaimed 2022 album, Natalie Mering thinks orchestral pop is more radical than ‘boring’ experimental noiseSat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
Harrison Ford’s gone all funny and charming. What’s happened to cinema’s grumpiest A-lister?Television: In Shrinking, on Apple TV+, the 80-year-old matinee idol brings gravity and dry wit to a psychobabble scriptFri Jan 27 2023 - 10:09
Joe Canning’s story, or the highs and lows of a down-to-earth superstarIn Laochra Gaela, the Galway hurling great gives a compelling insight into a unique career while showing that sport is never just about sportThu Jan 26 2023 - 22:25
Extraordinary: Never mind the, er, misfiring IRA gags. Watch it for star-in-the-making Máiréad TyersTelevision: Emma Moran’s London-set Disney+ comedy needs to work on its gags, but the young Irish actor’s performance makes it worth your timeWed Jan 25 2023 - 12:04
TV review: Everyone Else Burns – Evangelical Christians bumping against social norms: comedy or horror story?While it may set the antenna of Irish viewers tingling, the Channel 4 sitcom fails to land its punchesTue Jan 24 2023 - 11:32
Dancing with the Stars week 3: ‘I gave it a shot,’ says first ejected celeb. ‘I can’t dance’Week 3: ‘I’m feeling okay. With my limited dancing abilities it was always a very real possibility,’ the actor says after she is voted outSun Jan 22 2023 - 21:27
10 great TV series to get hooked on, from modern classics to new releases Including The Sopranos, Only Murders in the Building, Alice in Borderland, The Last of Us and Secret InvasionSun Jan 22 2023 - 06:00
Måneskin: ‘People are going to talk s**t about you. It’s part of the game’From X Factor to Eurovision to interstellar fame, the Italian rockers have turned not being cool into a superpowerSat Jan 21 2023 - 05:00
Travel Man: 48 Hours in Dublin – Like being trapped on an English stag weekend in Temple BarSomeone should have shredded Joe Lycett’s itinerary and asked him to work harder at bringing the real Dublin to the screenFri Jan 20 2023 - 21:00
Heilung: Blood-soaked horsehair, undead percussion and Valkyrie singing. Beat that, Toy Show the MusicalAt the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre the folk collective sweep the audience far away from Dublin on a chilly Thursday in JanuaryFri Jan 20 2023 - 10:26
That ’90s Show review: Weed, free beer and, er, Alanis MorissetteNetflix’s reboot of the flimsy sitcom That ‘70s Show features creaky gags, gales of canned laughter and a certain rickety charmThu Jan 19 2023 - 05:00
Bring back Love Island’s Irish contestants. The British ones can be, er, less than self-awareEntrants from Ireland aware of how absurd the entire fandango is, whereas Brits seem to believe this truly is their ticket to the big timeTue Jan 17 2023 - 11:31
George Hook on the ‘rape culture’ comments that got him sacked and the despair he once feltOn Eating with the Enemy the media bruiser breaks bread with the comedian Martin Beanz Warde. But it becomes a bit of a one-sided conversationMon Jan 16 2023 - 23:35
Love Island 2023: Everything you need to know before the new series beginsBuckle up for lashings of banter and ‘grafting’ as the show goes south for winterMon Jan 16 2023 - 06:00
Dancing with the Stars week 2: Shane Byrne’s brain-melting flips steal the showTelevision: Host Jennifer Zamparelli isn’t the only one lost for words at the former Ireland rugby international’s routineSun Jan 15 2023 - 21:42
Ladytron: Adorable mix of pop and pretensionFourpiece’s smart, emotional synthpop is winning a new generation of admirers on social mediaSat Jan 14 2023 - 05:00
Vikings: Valhalla – Lots of shouting, axe swinging and lines like ‘I must meet Forkbeard’Television: Viking virgins may become lost in all the hair, tunics and glumness as the show returns to the bountiful kingdom of NetflixThu Jan 12 2023 - 06:00
U2 are doing a Taylor Swift and covering their own songs. Are the results any good?The band are releasing Songs of Surrender on St Patrick’s Day. Fans are already arguing about the wisdom of rerecording Pride and other classicsWed Jan 11 2023 - 21:48
Margo Price: ‘There’s always been a war on the poor, on black people, queer people, women’The country music sensation discusses American divisions, ditching alcohol and making her new album, StraysWed Jan 11 2023 - 05:00
The Last of Us review: Heavily hyped show is a chilling, heart-shredding vision of the futureThe video game’s mix of melancholy, melodrama and post-apocalyptic dread has been faithfully transposed to TV in HBO’s new adaptationTue Jan 10 2023 - 10:23
Prince Harry interview: A lost man looking for purpose in a life full of privilegeTelevision: There are no bombshells in the 90-minute broadcast, which veers from fascinating to indulgent and interminably dullSun Jan 08 2023 - 23:42
Room to Improve: house whisperer Dermot Bannon goes to battle over a pergolaTelevision: the magic ought to be fading, yet the series is thriving – and Bannon’s mix of charm and chutzpah plays big partSun Jan 08 2023 - 22:30
Dancing with the Stars: ‘Could you have gotten trousers any tighter than that?’The dancing juggernaut returns under a cloud about its future – not that you could tell from the performances of the celebritiesSun Jan 08 2023 - 21:23
Editors’ Tom Smith: ‘You can have 20-year-olds put under enormous pressure...’Editors are a part of a secret history of British bands who found success internationally while being the subject of disdain at homeSat Jan 07 2023 - 05:21
Dancing with the Stars 2023: Everything you need to knowTelevision: Get ready for some serious glitz and glam to light up Sunday nights as 11 celebrities battle it out to be crowned the champion dancerFri Jan 06 2023 - 12:36
First Dates takes a serious turn that jars with the frivolityIt is important that the victims of domestic violence are heard. There are better ways to allow people tell their storiesThu Jan 05 2023 - 22:30
When you remove the tough love from Operation Transformation, what’s left?Television: RTÉ's annual fitness frenzy has dropped its humiliating weigh-in segment, but it’s all a bit flabbyThu Jan 05 2023 - 05:00
The Style Counsellors: the kind of disposable entertainment at which RTÉ is accomplished Television: The format may have had a makeover but the show still surfs along on an air of positivity and mutual appreciationTue Jan 03 2023 - 21:00
Baz Ashmawy blinks back tears. Then everybody else has to as wellTelevision: On DIY SOS – The Big Build Ireland, the presenter and his team of volunteers restore a row of Irish homes for Ukrainian refugeesFri Dec 30 2022 - 19:30
