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
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
‘No violence – we hate violence,’ Terry Hall pleaded the night The Specials played DublinPeople in the crowd in January 1981 suggested the gig was somewhere between a fracas and a fascist rallyFri Dec 30 2022 - 05:47
‘I can’t believe I said that thing about the sweat’: Prince Andrew has never been so entertainingTelevision: Prince Andrew – The Musical lands like Spitting Image soundtracked by Gilbert and SullivanThu Dec 29 2022 - 22:05
Glam foreigner wreaks havoc after marrying into stuffy royal family. Whoever could this series have in mind?Television: Marie Antoinette should be an epic account of privilege and downfall. But it becomes a triumph of powdered wigs over gripping storytellingThu Dec 29 2022 - 21:55
After Glen Hansard reaches in to pull your heart out, Imelda May’s hurricane-force cheer carries the dayTelevision: Christmas in Ireland with Imelda May and Friends is all sorts of hokey, but what would Christmas be without a sprinkling of schmaltz?Sat Dec 24 2022 - 22:45
Dirty tricks, ‘mature recollection’ and a starry-eyed Micheál MartinTelevision: There’s plenty of gossipy goodness in the second instalment of Two Tribes, Seán O’Rourke’s documentary on Fianna Fáil and Fine GaelThu Dec 22 2022 - 23:05
Two Tribes part 1: Haughey and FitzGerald square up, with Olivia O’Leary as ringmasterTelevision: Seán O’Rourke’s first big RTÉ project since Golfgate is at its best as a sort of Reeling in the Years for political anoraksWed Dec 21 2022 - 22:30
The Wagatha Christie trial was jaw-dropping. This Irish-directed dramatisation? Not so muchTelevision: Vardy v Rooney – A Courtroom Drama features lots of grim grilling of the footballers’ wives by their respective megabucks barristersWed Dec 21 2022 - 22:00
Westlife at 3Arena: One miraculous resurrection, three fashion disasters and two astonished blokes in the crowdIreland’s pop princes are playing the former Point Depot for the 72nd time in their career, in the first of three sold-out concertsWed Dec 21 2022 - 10:30
Emily in Paris review: First, World Cup defeat. Now season 3. Will France’s horreur ever cease?Television: Despite French apoplexy, season three steamrolls onwards like Kylian Mbappé hurtling into the penalty areaWed Dec 21 2022 - 08:41
His Dark Materials season 3: Not so much My First Book of Atheism as a potshot at CatholicismTelevision: Philip Pullman’s fantasy series is back for its final season. The first episode is rescued by a sparkle of the fantasticalSun Dec 18 2022 - 20:00
U2’s gobsmackingly quiffed Adam Clayton brings us on a true adventureTelevision: In his film about Francis Bacon, the U2 bassist convincingly argues that this great ‘British’ artist is a lot more Irish than we might thinkThu Dec 15 2022 - 23:15
Harry & Meghan: Shouting matches, toxic in-laws, a miscarriage – the royal bombshells finally dropTelevision: Forget Harry & Meghan Volume I. Volume II of the Netflix documentary series delivers raw, headline-generating punchThu Dec 15 2022 - 15:31
The Irish Civil War part 3: By the final credits, even narrator Brendan Gleeson sounds ready to check outOn the 100th anniversary of the war, the sprawling, three-hour documentary lacks the necessary visceral punchTue Dec 13 2022 - 22:40
The Irish Civil War part 2: into the grisly heart of brother killing brotherThe tragedy is obvious but the documentary misses out on the experiences of those who lived through itMon Dec 12 2022 - 22:40
The Irish Civil War part 1: scale of the onrushing tragedy powerfully conveyedWhile cliches are ticked off ruthlessly, this is impressive big-picture documentary-makingMon Dec 12 2022 - 09:43
The best television of 2022, and where you can still watch itFrom Bad Sisters to Andor, there’s been plenty of great viewing – plus a few high-profile disappointmentsSat Dec 10 2022 - 05:00
I Am Ruth review: Kate Winslet brings Oscar-grade acting to a Channel 4 two-hander, and it doesn’t quite takeThe real heavy lifting in this dark drama comes from the star’s real-life daughter, Mia ThreapletonThu Dec 08 2022 - 23:05
Harry & Meghan: A heartfelt, gloopy – and sometimes unwatchable – plunge into Planet SussexTelevision: Amid the archive dross of the new Netflix documentary only an occasional nugget glimmersThu Dec 08 2022 - 11:14
Tommy Tiernan’s Epic West: We’ve gone peak Tiernan and it is strange and scaryTelevision: The programme goes peak Tiernan, and it is strange and scaryWed Dec 07 2022 - 22:35
Bin the bling: Ireland’s super-rich prefer discretion when it comes to luxury homes like theseTV: Selling Ireland’s Dream Homes doesn’t have Selling Sunset-style glamour, just lots of luxury homes tucked out of sight of the gawping massesMon Dec 05 2022 - 22:35
What Ireland listened to on Spotify in 2022 – and why it’s bad news for Irish musicTaylor Swift was the most-streamed artist, Harry Styles’s As It Was the most-streamed song. Only two Irish acts got a look-inMon Dec 05 2022 - 05:20
