Marian Finucane: moving meditation on grief and the impossibility of letting goTV review: Finucane documentary, grounded in her shellsocked husband’s recollections, makes for riveting viewingMon Jan 04 2021 - 23:05
The Great: Blackadder meets Downton romp not as clever as it thinks it isTV Review: Elle Fanning is arresting and Nicolas Hoult has fun too in this self-declared ‘occasionally true story’Sun Jan 03 2021 - 22:05
TV to the rescue again: A sneak peek at 2021’s big showsFrom Avengers spin-off WandaVision to Sally Rooney’s Conversations with FriendsSat Jan 02 2021 - 05:00
Why’s Ronan Keating trying to sound like Tom Waits trying to sound like Shane MacGowan?Fairytale of New York: The five most memorable covers. And not always in a good wayMon Dec 21 2020 - 12:00
Late Late Show busking special: Bono and the Edge top the bill, but they’re not the starsGlen Hansard’s duet with Philip Powell, who was homeless for 20 years, gives us all FaithSat Dec 19 2020 - 11:59
Best TV of 2020: What we watched in the weirdest of weird yearsOur escapist viewing included The Crown, Normal People, Industry and The UndoingSat Dec 19 2020 - 06:00
Christy Ring: Man and Ball: gripping portrait of a folk heroTV Review: This part documentary, part hagiography, part social history illuminates Ring’s almost mythological auraThu Dec 17 2020 - 23:15
The Belturbet bombing: The story of two young lives destroyedTV review: A wrenching account of the largely forgotten killing of two teenagers in FermanaghTue Dec 15 2020 - 14:23
John Gilligan: From feared gangland figure, to failed, jailed criminalArrested in October, Gilligan is now one of 800 inmates in a Spanish prison build for 400Mon Dec 14 2020 - 22:00
John Banville: It ‘makes me physically ill’ to read my own workReview. On The Works Presents, the writer says he prefers his crime writing to his ‘Banville books’Fri Dec 11 2020 - 11:12
Taylor Swift: Evermore review – This ‘secret wedding album’ sweetly sweeps you awayAfter the walk in the woods of Folklore, Swift is back in the log cabin, gazing into the fireFri Dec 11 2020 - 05:00
Like CSI: Galway, only with a real-life calamity breaking a family’s heartsReview: The Case I Can’t Forget is a fascinating look at the day-to-day grind of policingWed Dec 09 2020 - 22:35
‘Was that going through his mind – that he was never going to have a funeral?’Review: Ireland Under Lockdown – Covid Stories is at its best telling personal storiesWed Dec 09 2020 - 11:00
The TV equivalent of Larry Gogan’s own Golden HourReview: Low-key but brimming with warmth, this is a fitting homage to the pioneering DJTue Dec 01 2020 - 19:30
Spotify reveals Ireland’s most-streamed artists in 2020Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny is most streamed artist globally, with 8.3bn playsTue Dec 01 2020 - 05:01
‘Bodies left for weeks. People eaten by dogs’: What the Famine did to IrelandReview: The Hunger is all the better for being a thoroughly conventional documentaryMon Nov 30 2020 - 22:35
Yungblud: ‘My generation is over being divided’The singer-songwriter on BLM protests, his latest record and swift rise to fameMon Nov 30 2020 - 05:30
John Boyega’s ‘Jedi’ copper makes a lone stand against racismReview: Small Axe: Red White And Blue is gritty interrogation of a problem encoded into British policingSun Nov 29 2020 - 22:20
Late Late Toy Show: Music, tears, Tubridy’s F-bomb and €5m for charity. What a night!TV review: As with every Toy Show, the sense of occasion is as big as the event itselfFri Nov 27 2020 - 22:30
The Late Late Toy Show: Everything you need to knowWhat time is it on? Will there be surprise guests? What will Ryan Tubridy’s jumper be like?Fri Nov 27 2020 - 06:00
‘He’s Jekyll and Hyde’: The inside story of an Irish barrister and conmanTV review: This is no Netflix true-crime exposé, but an exercise in journalistic diligenceThu Nov 26 2020 - 10:00
How much damage might your money be doing on Black Friday?Review: The Truth About Amazon paints the online giant as an insatiable profit machineTue Nov 24 2020 - 22:15
I’m a Celebrity 2020 isn’t working. Get an Irish contestant – quickReview: Shane Richie, Mo Farah, Victoria Derbyshire et al aren’t exactly riveting companyMon Nov 23 2020 - 12:00
Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H Kirk: ‘I don’t want to go down the road of nostalgia’Frontman breaks 26-year silence with electronica albumSat Nov 21 2020 - 05:00
The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special is a hoot – for children and adultsDisney+ tempts back fans with precision-tooled chuckles. Could this be a New Hope?Tue Nov 17 2020 - 19:20
Bloody Sunday, 1920: Too many historians spoil the docReview: They offer multiple perspectives, but the volume of testimony is overpoweringMon Nov 16 2020 - 22:35
The Crown offers a ‘Now That’s What I Call The Troubles!’ version of Irish historyThe Crown season four review: The ‘angry Nordie’ stereotype is long past its sell-by dateMon Nov 16 2020 - 05:00
The Crown: The queen’s nasty side looms into viewQueen Elizabeth comes across as petty and boorish and the Windsors as a ghastly bunchSun Nov 15 2020 - 06:10
Industry is frantic, cruel and addictive televisionBBC’s gripping new high-finance drama portrays a world of utter immoralityTue Nov 10 2020 - 23:59
His Dark Materials, season two: Frankly it’s a bit of a dragIt has a strong cast, but ultimately Phillip Pullman’s source material is too preachyMon Nov 09 2020 - 14:30
The Den: A brilliantly rowdy return. It’s perfectReview: As Ray D’Arcy reunites with Zig and Zag and Dustin, it’s clear everyone is winging itSun Nov 08 2020 - 20:45
Niall Horan plays a sort-of gig for a kind-of audience. It’s a bit of a triumphIt’s not like being in the Royal Albert Hall. But, for now, it’s as close as any of us can getSat Nov 07 2020 - 23:00
Deirdre O’Kane Talks Funny: RTÉ has another uninteresting – and unfunny – chat with itselfReview: O’Kane is convivial, quick and professional. She deserves a better showSat Nov 07 2020 - 22:00
‘I wish Simon had survived’: BBC reporter on the attack that killed Irish cameramanTV review: Frank Gardner on the trauma of the life-changing injury he suffered in the shooting that killed Simon CumbersThu Nov 05 2020 - 22:00
The return Zig and Zag on The Den: ‘People need a bit of mayhem, madness and boldness’Zig and Zag’s surrealist anarchy might be the Christmas treat that arrives a month earlyWed Nov 04 2020 - 06:00
Marika Hackman: ‘There’s the classic thing where men get called geniuses and women called crazy’The singer gives her take on Radiohead and Beyoncé on her wonderful new albumTue Nov 03 2020 - 05:00
Deliveroo: Secrets Of Your Takeaway – I want my money backReview: The title suggests lifting the lid on the company that has stormed the food industryMon Nov 02 2020 - 23:00
Dead Still: the most ‘un-RTÉ’ thing RTÉ has done in yearsReview: Thriller set in Victorian Ireland is unapologetically pulpy, yet dares to be differentSun Nov 01 2020 - 22:25
Chris de Burgh: ‘To this day, people love Patricia the Stripper’Spanish Train, released 45 years ago, still stands the test of time – except for one songSat Oct 31 2020 - 06:00
Bickering architect and builder take the shine off a feel-good storyTV review: Home Rescue’s Róisín Murphy and Peter Finn are an odd pairingThu Oct 29 2020 - 19:30
‘Black hair is so much more than hair’: Emma Dabiri’s passionate exploration of identityTV review: The Irish author thoughtfully tells the deep truth of centuries of cultural erasureTue Oct 27 2020 - 23:15
The Undoing: Hugh Grant is wonderfully inscrutable as he plays his greatest hitsTV review: An average show elevated by the performances of Grant and Nicole KidmanMon Oct 26 2020 - 22:10
Late Late Show: In Covid-19 Ireland, Tony Holohan is bigger than Bruce SpringsteenReview: The Chief Medical Officer gets star billing above Springsteen and McConaugheySat Oct 24 2020 - 10:17
What Terence MacSwiney’s body went through during his 74-day hunger strikeRTÉ’s sharp-eyed documentary is at its weakest when analysing his physical deteriorationWed Oct 21 2020 - 22:35
The Billion Dollar Art Hunt: Searching for a Vermeer with Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley30 years ago, paintings worth $1bn were stolen in Boston. A Dublin criminal says they’re hereTue Oct 20 2020 - 11:10
If I had a fiver for every time Dermot Bannon says ‘stunning’Dermot Bannon’s Incredible Homes offers some desperately needed light reliefMon Oct 19 2020 - 09:56
BBC delivers a cliché of British TV drama: Sarah Greene’s alcoholic Irish womanGreene plays an Irish journalist opposite Hugh Laurie’s Boris Johnson-like politician in RoadkillSun Oct 18 2020 - 23:41
Trump seriously considered taking the oath of office on his bestseller The Art of the DealTV Review: The Trump Show is a zippy recap of the absurd early months of his presidencyThu Oct 15 2020 - 22:00
Beabadoobee: ‘I make music for girls my age, boys my age, gays my age’The 20-year-old Londoner is unashamedly in thrall to 1990s stars like The CranberriesTue Oct 13 2020 - 05:00
Voyeuristic priests used Confession ‘in an erotic way, drawing out people’s dirty stories’The Confessors: A ‘busy’ Saturday now consists of 6-10 pensioners seeking absolutionMon Oct 12 2020 - 22:35
