Bernard O’Shea and the ‘did you leave the immersion on?’ school of Irish comedyTV review: Bernard’s Working Comics seldom ventures beyond surface-level laughsMon Mar 22 2021 - 22:20
Line of Duty: Episode 1 of series 6 explodes from the trapsKelly Macdonald’s new character is plunged straight into action in Line of Duty’s sixth seriesMon Mar 22 2021 - 00:01
Julie Burchill: Her apology, publisher problems and history of weird ideas about IrelandThe British columnist apologised this week for ‘racist comments’. It didn’t end thereFri Mar 19 2021 - 11:45
Lana Del Rey: Chemtrails Over the Country Club review – A low-key masterpieceUS singer stands tall as pop’s most singular talent with new ‘country folk’ albumFri Mar 19 2021 - 10:15
The Late Late Show St Patrick’s Day Special: It was cheesy, misty-eyed – and just rightThe historic broadcast made it a little easier to feel green on a strange March 17thThu Mar 18 2021 - 00:45
Caroline Flack was subject to bile as vicious as that directed at Britney SpearsTV review: Documentary on death of Love Island host confronts culture of online abuseWed Mar 17 2021 - 22:00
My Little Big Day: A beacon amid the dreariness of Covid-19TV: There isn’t much to this film. But there wasn’t much to the daily life we miss so much, eitherMon Mar 15 2021 - 22:35
Bloodlands finale review: Confusion, contrivances and coincidences aboundAs a glowering antihero James Nesbitt saves a silly, overbaked seriesSun Mar 14 2021 - 22:25
Oprah with Meghan & Harry: One by one the bombshells dropTV review: The couple’s devastating interview is a damning portrait of Britain’s sacred institutionMon Mar 08 2021 - 08:24
Smother: This is what an Agatha Christie-themed Glenroe looks likeTV review: Restrained Dervla Kirwan steals the show from melodramatic Seána KerslakeMon Mar 08 2021 - 00:25
Irish people are too polite to make Eating with the Enemy workVirgin Media’s new show can’t deliver on its promise to pit clashing egos against one anotherThu Mar 04 2021 - 14:49
Arab Strap: Older, wiser and still miserableAidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton are back together, with a definite middle-aged tingeThu Mar 04 2021 - 05:00
‘I don’t even know when I was born’: Scale of illegal adoption is hard to take inTV review: RTÉ Investigates – Ireland’s Illegal Adoptions lets victims speak for themselvesWed Mar 03 2021 - 23:05
Max Clifford: A grubby predator operating in plain sightTV review: Max Clifford – The Fall of a Tabloid King refuses to glamorise its wicked subjectTue Mar 02 2021 - 14:53
Julien Baker: ‘I feel this need to be transparent about what the lyrics are about’Singer talks about her latest album and her revelations around sobriety and faithSat Feb 27 2021 - 00:00
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry – A bit eye-rolley, a bit woke, a bit Spinal TapFilm review: This isn’t a warts-and-all peek behind the pop-star curtain, but it is absorbingFri Feb 26 2021 - 09:37
Gordon Ramsay’s Bank Balance: A few cheese boards short of a four-course mealTV: The funniest thing about this quiz show is how invested the chef is in the game itselfWed Feb 24 2021 - 22:40
Big Sky: About as cutting edge as Magnum, PI or Murder, She WroteTV: David E Kelley’s golden touch deserts him in Disney+’s stonkingly underwhelming thrillerTue Feb 23 2021 - 11:30
Behind Her Eyes is crazy – making it the perfect show for these crazy daysEven writing an article about the unhinged Netflix thriller starring Eve Hewson is confusingMon Feb 22 2021 - 06:00
Bloodlands review: So grim – and a seriously bad advertisement for a weekend break in BelfastTV review: James Nesbitt is a PSNI officer dragged into a Peace Process conspiracySun Feb 21 2021 - 22:00
Enya and The Corrs are superstars, loved around the world. Why not in Ireland?Ed Power: Country has rarely looked kindly on those who stood out, who dared sing differentlySun Feb 21 2021 - 05:00
Framing Britney Spears takes a mirror and points it straight at the culprits: you and meBritney’s not the only one we victimised. The club includes Paris Hilton and Lindsay LohanWed Feb 17 2021 - 13:21
Behind Her Eyes: An over-the-top, oversexed – but wonderful – Netflix thrillerEve Hewson can lower the temperature of a scene simply by flashing her frosty peepersWed Feb 17 2021 - 10:16
Home of the Year: Cork ‘doom barn’ steals the showTV review: In episode 1, a minimalist farmhouse vies with a a dark-hued wonderTue Feb 16 2021 - 21:00
On First Dates Ireland, Covid-19 is merely a background detailTV review: It’s a surprise how minor a distraction coronavirus is as the series returnsThu Feb 11 2021 - 22:30
Kenneth Egan: ‘I do get thoughts of drinking sometimes. Not as much as I used to’TV review: After winning an Olympic medal in Beijing, the boxer began drinking himself numbWed Feb 10 2021 - 22:30
‘It’s more than a pandemic. It’s a plague that’s taking hold of people’s lives’RTÉ Investigates: Covid-19 – The Third Wave is the broadcaster’s most unsettling dispatch yetTue Feb 09 2021 - 23:10
The best new TV shows to watch in February and MarchFirst Dates Ireland, Home of the Year, Line of Duty return. Eve Hewson stars in Behind Her EyesMon Feb 08 2021 - 05:00
ZeroZeroZero: Gabriel Byrne stars in a drama so dark you can’t look awayTV review: Fast, gruesome and twisting narcowars thriller is a binge-watcher’s paradiseThu Feb 04 2021 - 22:10
This would be so much better with Dermot BannonTV review: Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr cries out for the marquess of minimalismWed Feb 03 2021 - 11:45
Davy Fitzgerald’s life lessons for the lost boys of IrelandDavy’s Toughest Team won’t revolutionise reality television. It’s far better than thatMon Feb 01 2021 - 22:35
Oscar Wilde’s ‘crucial’ role in the gay rights struggleTV review: TG4 celebrates the life and legacy of one of the greatest figures in Irish literatureWed Jan 27 2021 - 21:00
Emma Dabiri: George Nkencho’s death ‘brought me back to the Ireland I grew up in’‘People were seeking justifications for why George had deserved to die ... It was triggering’Wed Jan 27 2021 - 20:45
Snowpiercer: Think of it as Mad Max – The All Ireland Final Matchday SpecialTV review: Who can object to a show that gives us Jennifer Connelly as a neurotic anti-hero?Tue Jan 26 2021 - 17:00
Katie Price: Harvey and Me – Celebrities are real people, tooTV review: The former glamour model has especially acute worries about her sonTue Jan 26 2021 - 12:52
Euphoria: The show that makes teenage self-destruction look weightless and beautifulAn unnerving but mesmerising journey into dark adolescence, Euphoria returns tonightMon Jan 25 2021 - 06:00
Arlo Parks: ‘We’re all individuals in Generation Z’The singer-songwriter on creating her debut album in a B&B rental during lockdownSat Jan 23 2021 - 05:00
It’s a Sin: The first great, gut-punch TV drama of 2021 is hereTV review: This is a self-consciously sprawling chronicle of the Aids epidemic in LondonFri Jan 22 2021 - 22:00
Behind Her Eyes: Eve Hewson could have found star-making role in Netflix thrillerBono’s daughter, cursed with obscure or badly written roles until now, plays cheated housewifeFri Jan 22 2021 - 13:24
Call My Agent! season four: The best thing since buttered croissantThere are no berets, no Emily in Paris chintz. This is just watchable, witty French televisionFri Jan 22 2021 - 05:40
Fontaines DC are reborn as punk-funk disconauts, and the results are crackingBelgian DJs Soulwax have released a glittering remix of Fontaines DC’s A Hero’s DeathWed Jan 20 2021 - 05:30
‘Our history with Ireland, lots of English people just don’t know it’Goat Girl, the English guitar group, on knocking Churchill, surviving cancer and missing gigsTue Jan 19 2021 - 05:00
‘Tonight, like every night, homeless people in hope of a bed will call the freephone number’TV review – RTÉ Investigates: Stuck In The Rough tells a tale of institutional dysfunction, Irish-styleMon Jan 18 2021 - 22:35
We’ve had decades of poverty, stifled dreams and lives unlived. But look on the bright sideRTÉ’s The Way We Were successfully dusted off the Reeling in the Years formulaSun Jan 17 2021 - 23:05
WandaVision: The most audacious – and entirely bonkers – TV in recent entertainment historyReview: WandaVision is a mystery, a satire and a love letter to the great American sitcomFri Jan 15 2021 - 12:00
Jessie Buckley: Kerry’s bright star lights up the new season of FargoFargo, season four review: Kerry actor Jessie Buckley is chilling as psychokiller Nurse MayflowerTue Jan 12 2021 - 23:40
Inside the world of the Irish men who married one another for tax reasonsTV review: Matt Murphy and Michael O’Sullivan used marriage-equality laws in a novel wayMon Jan 11 2021 - 22:35
The Serpent: The BBC’s big new year drama has lost its wayTV review: With constant flashbacks and a labyrinthine storyline, it’s a sweltering muddleMon Jan 11 2021 - 13:56
Clear History: Yet another not so funny RTÉ comedy showTV review: In fairness, there are sections where it doesn’t feel like an endurance testThu Jan 07 2021 - 22:00
Operation Transformation: Tears flow freely as a new series beginsWith our emotions in a swirl, these conversations from the heart feel devastatingThu Jan 07 2021 - 11:00
