Fontaines D.C. get political, slamming ‘the gall of Fine Gael and the fail of Fianna Fáil’I Love You, the band’s ‘devastating’ angst-rock new song, lambastes the Government’s recordFri Feb 18 2022 - 06:00
Home of the Year: It’s not MMA, but an architect-designer squabble is the next best thingTV review: The season is off to a lively start. Hopefully the judges will continue to disagreeWed Feb 16 2022 - 09:18
Inventing Anna: With this scam artist drama, Netflix is hustling its audience a little tooTV review: This mini-series falls flat and offers no insight into Anna Delvey or her crimesFri Feb 11 2022 - 12:00
Generation Dating: The real love affair is the friendship between Tony (81) and Isabel (22)TV review: Virgin Media’s new dating show proves friendship can blossom in unlikely placesWed Feb 09 2022 - 22:00
Big Thief: ‘Sideways’ songs and hard work leave them poised for the next levelNot even the divorce of two members or a pandemic could derail the band’s progressWed Feb 09 2022 - 05:00
This Is Going To Hurt: A bruisingly real medical drama, brimming with comedyTV review: Based on the diaries of a doctor, you’ll be glad you stayed with this – even if you’re squeamishTue Feb 08 2022 - 16:16
Late Late Eurosong Special: Only RTÉ could make Eurovision stranger than it already wasYou wonder if you are watching television or are trapped in a waking dream, writes Ed PowerSat Feb 05 2022 - 11:00
The late Frank Callanan has his final say on Joyce and UlyssesTV review: RTÉ’s 100 Years of Ulysses is a fitting swansong for the barrister and scholarThu Feb 03 2022 - 23:15
Pam & Tommy: X-rated yuck-fest too silly to be seriousTV review: Disney+ show has the craziness of a Mötley Crüe video, the zaniness of BaywatchWed Feb 02 2022 - 12:45
‘I don’t have many friends. Do they just want to be your friend because you’re Janet Jackson?’TV review: Sky’s Janet Jackson works best as a rumination on fame and the toll it extractsTue Feb 01 2022 - 11:13
Cate Le Bon was stranded in Wales so she made a lockdown album‘Flipping between despair and optimism’, her sixth album, Pompeii, emergedSat Jan 29 2022 - 05:00
Katie Price morphs into Dermot Bannon with hair extensions and a barbie tracksuitTV review: Katie Price’s Mucky Mansion sees the return of the ultimate marmite celebrityThu Jan 27 2022 - 15:06
The Irish Times Winter Nights Festival: Paul Howard meets a rugby greatAt our online festival, Brian O'Driscoll talks about life during and after his rugby careerWed Jan 26 2022 - 22:55
The Gilded Age – with its kind rich people and racist Irish maid – has nothing to sayTV review: Julian Fellowes gives Americans a romanticised take on their own historyWed Jan 26 2022 - 19:00
Damon Albarn’s criticism of Taylor Swift is ‘hopelessly out of date’Comment: He wrongly said she didn’t write her own songs – revealing a pop-vs-indie snobberyTue Jan 25 2022 - 13:24
Black Country, New Road’s tale of triumph unfolds in the shadow of tragedySuper-charged septet follow up on their ‘utterly mesmerising’ debut by going brighter and bolderSat Jan 22 2022 - 05:00
Meat Loaf’s ‘warm memories’ of a ‘middle-of-nowhere’ Irish tour that restored his passion for rockCareer: He sang some of rock’s most enduring hits, faded away, then had a huge 1990s comebackFri Jan 21 2022 - 10:48
Ozark returns this week for its final season. Here’s why it’s a must-seeJason Bateman returns as the money-laundering creep in Netflix’s hit crime dramaFri Jan 21 2022 - 06:00
‘Women whose lives have been ruined by sociopathic creeps’TV review: Stalking victims must be hyper-vigilant every hour, says Stacey DooleyThu Jan 20 2022 - 13:02
Why Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein made such a ghastly pairingReview: According to ‘Ghislaine, Prince Andrew and the Paedophile’, she ‘normalised abuse’Wed Jan 19 2022 - 12:16
Aurora: ‘Enya has been medicine to me my whole life’The Norwegian singer on new music and why the world needs a more feminine outlookWed Jan 19 2022 - 05:00
Dancing With the Stars week 2: Erica-Cody and Jordan Conroy wow the judgesEvening pivots from torture to scorcher as sound glitches followed by sizzling entranceSun Jan 16 2022 - 21:30
Dancing With The Stars 2022: Everything you need to knowThe show returned last week after two years, with some familiar and some new facesSun Jan 16 2022 - 06:00
Boy Harsher realised their new album was a soundtrack, so they made a film tooConsidering the dystopian pop duo’s film background, their latest album is a nice fitSat Jan 15 2022 - 05:00
Ricky Gervais: Britain’s most controversial comedian is actually a softieTV review: After Life’s saving grace is the cast of lovable freaks around GervaisFri Jan 14 2022 - 06:00
The Apprentice: Alan Sugar fires former Leinster rugby player Conor GilsenanTV review: The Irish self-described ‘corporate panther’ exits the backstabbing BBC showThu Jan 13 2022 - 22:15
Orlando Weeks: ‘I was nervous the strains of parenthood would be too much’The Maccabees frontman on fatherhood, new music and life after the band break-upWed Jan 12 2022 - 05:00
Couples Therapy: The birthday threesome was a nice gesture, but her heart just wasn’t in itTV review: This is first-rate curtain-twitcher television. Your inner nosey parker will love itTue Jan 11 2022 - 14:40
Dancing with the Stars returns to RTÉ, meaner and leaner than BBC’s StrictlyTV review: Jockey Nina Carberry’s natural athleticism carries the day in Episode 1Sun Jan 09 2022 - 22:51
Brian Friel – Shy Man, Showman: Conventional tribute to an experimental geniusTV review: This quietly stirring documentary is a straightforward record of life and careerFri Jan 07 2022 - 01:00
Screw: Derry Girl Jamie-Lee O’Donnell goes to prisonTV review: Her first big post-Derry Girls project is as prisoner to a so far poor scriptThu Jan 06 2022 - 23:00
Operation Transformation 2022: Should the ‘triggering’ show be decommissioned?Eating disorders group seeks ‘more inclusive’ approach. Others just want the show cancelledWed Jan 05 2022 - 14:50
‘Donie O’Sullivan: Capitol Man’ could have aired only on Irish TVTV review: A film on the talented CNN reporter from Kerry felt like two documentaries in oneWed Jan 05 2022 - 12:25
‘Spouting gibberish to the opposite sex’: Channel 4 borrows the Irish mating ritualTV review: The Language of Love places British and Spanish monoglots in an Andalusian villaWed Jan 05 2022 - 06:00
Around the World in 80 Days doesn’t quite take to the skiesTV review: The BBC’s bumpy new adaptation of Jules Verne’s book may yet soarSun Dec 26 2021 - 19:30
Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas Special: Hold the double entendres – Agnes gets earnestBrendan O’Carroll is as sincere as he is potty-mouthed in a sentimental special episodeSat Dec 25 2021 - 22:10
How streaming services have taken sword and sorcery mainstreamA decade ago the critics laughed at Game of Thrones but it launched a viewing revolutionThu Dec 23 2021 - 05:00
Emily in Paris: First it stereotyped the French. Now for the BritsTV review: Emily’s new love interest, is fish and chips and a can of lager in human formWed Dec 22 2021 - 06:00
Mare of Easttown lived up to its billing, Succession was 2021’s letdownTV highlights and lowlights of 2021: Television’s tentacles were everywhereSat Dec 18 2021 - 05:00
The Witcher: Season two brims with action, adventure and twisting, tentacled nastiesReview: Netflix has sorted out the pacing issues that sucked so much fun out of season oneFri Dec 17 2021 - 11:05
Irish dancing? It’s all about one-upmanship, says Jean ButlerTV review: ‘Steps Of Freedom: The Story Of Irish Dance’ chronicles the Riverdance effectThu Dec 16 2021 - 23:15
Voices of Ireland: Imelda May presents the Carroll’s gift shop version of Irish cultureTV review: May is charming but the cliches come thick and fast in this Sky Arts docWed Dec 15 2021 - 12:07
Succession finished on a high after a flabby season. Now it should endOne fundamental truth about the hit show – it’s a comedy until suddenly it isn’tTue Dec 14 2021 - 15:14
Kevin Whelan: ‘We were offered this million-dollar contract that we walked away from’The former Wrens songwriter on that band’s messy demise and new project Aeon StationMon Dec 13 2021 - 05:00
And Just Like That: Sex and the City sequel redeems itself with a genuinely shocking sceneContains spoilers ... Episode 1 seems unsure of itself at first. Then it gets our attentionThu Dec 09 2021 - 12:54
Landscapers: Olivia Colman murder-drama is the ghastliest show this yearTV review: A queasy farrago that’s buried its moral compass in the gardenTue Dec 07 2021 - 22:00
You Don’t Know Me is more than a Sunday night thriller. It’s engrossing, political and realTV: Compelling whodunnit draws on the lived experience of black LondonersMon Dec 06 2021 - 11:03
Michael C Hall: ‘We’ve tried to lead with the music’Dexter star on Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum and shifting from messenger to messageSat Dec 04 2021 - 05:00
Never come between an Irish person and their 1970s bungalowTV: My Bungalow Bliss turns out to be as bog standard as the homes it sets out to transformWed Dec 01 2021 - 22:35
Hawkeye’s been missing the target. At last it’s taking offTV: The least interesting Avenger has finally perked up in Disney+’s small-screen spin-offWed Dec 01 2021 - 12:50
