Fontaines DC v The Coronas: Ireland has a Blur v Oasis moment to call its ownBoth bands release albums today. Who’s like the Gallaghers and who like Damon Albarn?Fri Jul 31 2020 - 06:00
The concerts and events still taking place across Ireland this summerGovernment restrictions have limited capacity but some festivals are still onTue Jul 21 2020 - 05:00
Diarmuid Gavin invites us inside his Xanadu of split levels, balconies and fancy foliageGardening Together: Gavin is the Dark Knight to Dermot Bannon’s caped crusaderFri Jul 17 2020 - 20:30
Don’t blame Rupert Murdoch for Covid-19. But everything else ...TV review: Shakespearean bathos hangs over BBC’s The Rise of the Murdoch DynastyWed Jul 15 2020 - 15:59
50 best Irish albums of all time – in orderA list that reflects contemporary Irish music as much as it pays its respects to the pastSat Jul 11 2020 - 06:00
Mrs America: Cate Blanchett and Rose Byrne light up the screenTV review: This dramatisation of US equal-rights battles features megawatt performancesThu Jul 09 2020 - 09:56
Alan Bennett’s Talking Heads 2020 show their ageTV review: They are most satisfying when Bennett lets his penchant for the grisly take overWed Jul 08 2020 - 21:00
Yellowstone: Kevin Costner looks like he’s just stepped on something sharpTV review: This deeply dreary series comes to RTÉ two years after its US debutWed Jul 08 2020 - 20:59
John Cleese has a faulty sense of humour about the IrishThe comedian’s mockery of Irish people and names began in 1975 and continued this weekThu Jul 02 2020 - 13:00
Penny Dreadful: City of Angels – Nazis, deathless demons and police brutalityTV review: Natalie Dormer is a fantastic shape-shifting fiend in this prime-time pulpThu Jul 02 2020 - 11:05
Inside Ireland’s Covid Battle: You might be fighting tears before the first ad breakTV review: RTÉ reports, with great dignity, on the lives of Covid-19 patients at St James’sMon Jun 29 2020 - 23:11
Straight-faced Anne Doyle presenting Waterford Whispers News should be a full-time seriesRTÉ Does Comic Relief review: Actually funny comedy from the national broadcaster? Pinch meSat Jun 27 2020 - 11:00
Not so much Reeling in the Years as Reeling in the Chairs – and it’s charmingTV review: Saoi sa Chathaoir, which begins with Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh, is a welcome stress-busterTue Jun 23 2020 - 21:19
This lavish remake is Perry Mason, but not as we know himTV review: HBO private-eye series is hard to warm to when it’s as bleak as the day is longTue Jun 23 2020 - 11:51
Eve Hewson is a wonderful actor but she picks some strange showsIn The Luminaries, Hewson is fantastic as a Dubliner in 1860s New ZealandSun Jun 21 2020 - 22:00
O’Casey In The Estate spins a powerfully human storyRTÉ follows a group of striving actors from Dublin’s East Wall, avoiding the usual luvviedomThu Jun 18 2020 - 23:15
Come on, Mr Portillo, say ‘Dáil’ again. You know we like itHawks & Doves, Michael Portillo’s Irish history lesson, crackles with melodramaWed Jun 17 2020 - 22:35
Jessie Ware: 'Paul Mescal better watch out when the lockdown finishes'The popstar on her new album, watching Normal People and getting some of the best reviews of her careerSat Jun 13 2020 - 05:00
Normal People: How well do you know Connell and Marianne? Test your knowledgeThe hit television series ends today on RTÉ. See how closely you’ve been paying attentionTue Jun 02 2020 - 06:00
The Late Late Show rediscovers its original purposeSeason finale review: There was steel in the Late Late’s sinews in this final show of the seasonSat May 30 2020 - 11:15
Jehnny Beth: ‘There is something very cool about Irish people’The Savages singer talks about being bisexual, leaving the UK and Cillian Murphy, who features on her new solo album To Love Is To LiveSat May 30 2020 - 05:00
Nadine Shah: ‘As a woman you get referred to as a ticking time bomb’The indie pop powerhouse on double standards, Brexit racism and Keir StarmerSat May 23 2020 - 05:00
There will be floods, zombies and, yes, viruses. Plus this infernal train rideIt’s a rough moment for Netflix to release Snowpiecer, its new future-shock franchiseFri May 22 2020 - 05:00
Normal People: Connell still can’t speak in complete sentencesTV review: Director Lenny Abrahamson has passed the glum baton to Hettie MacdonaldTue May 19 2020 - 06:00
Johnny Logan, grand daddy of Eurovision, leads an Irish-flavoured showEurovision: Europe Shine A Light TV review. It feels held together with duct-tape, but its heart is in the right placeSun May 17 2020 - 11:01
Perfume Genius: ‘It does feel like a strange time to be promoting or releasing anything’Mike Hadreas’s Set My Heart on Fire Immediately isn’t out yet but it’s already gathering heatSat May 09 2020 - 05:00
Normal People: Who are the Irish musicians on the soundtrack?The TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel is a shop window for the best of Irish musicMon May 04 2020 - 12:59
Late Late Show: The moment Leo Varadkar forgot his homeworkThe episode shows either that the Taoiseach didn’t know his brief or that he cares about detailSat May 02 2020 - 11:00
One World: Together At Home review - Lots of glamour but where was the anger?It is an evening to suit every taste - musically and also in terms of home furnishingsSun Apr 19 2020 - 22:01
Graham Norton, live from his lean-to, is jittery without his adoring audienceThe Graham Norton Show returns to BBC, demonstrating that ‘banter’ is impossible over SkypeSat Apr 11 2020 - 11:00
Britain’s Got Talent: Everything you need to knowWhen is it on TV, who are the judges, are there any Irish acts and moreFri Apr 10 2020 - 13:30
What is Houseparty, the app everyone’s talking about – and not in a good way?In February it was barely known. In March, massive. Now, users want to delete itFri Apr 03 2020 - 05:30
What we need now: A primer in an all-consuming and fast-moving crisisTV review: Miriam O’Callaghan’s Prime Time is far more effective than her Late Late ShowWed Apr 01 2020 - 10:15
Ah, 2008. At least back then you didn’t have to sit inside your negative equity propertyTV review: RTÉ recounts nightmares of Irish people who bought ‘dream homes’ overseasTue Mar 31 2020 - 10:16
Anne Doyle reveals her dry humour, bird statues and celebrity-kissing historyTV review: In Keys to My Life the former newsreader visited her former homesMon Mar 30 2020 - 14:41
Late Late Show with Miriam O’Callaghan: The most surreal primetime TV I’ve ever watchedScraggly Hozier gave a preview of what everyone’s hair will look like post-shutdownSat Mar 28 2020 - 10:43
Murder Most Foul: Bob Dylan’s strange, meandering, comforting 17-minute new songHere, as Martin Scorsese does with The Irishman, a great visionary takes stockFri Mar 27 2020 - 14:56
Operation Covid Nation: ‘What the actual f**k?’RTÉ is right to make a show about coping with coronavirus. But scrap the trivialising nameThu Mar 26 2020 - 15:09
Cloch le Carn: Big Tom – Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll don’t get a look inTV review: The Irish singer was like a Johnny Cash who knew his way around a Massey FergusonWed Mar 25 2020 - 13:21
The Mandalorian does an excellent job of living up to expectationsThe new Disney+ show combines tight action with the dinginess of the original Star WarsTue Mar 24 2020 - 18:40
Candid, cool-headed Claire Byrne talks about her Covid-19 guiltTV review: The broadcaster describes her eerily normal temperature and simmering achesTue Mar 24 2020 - 09:38
Dominic Cummings, the power behind BoJo’s inflatable throneTV review: Taking Control, on the BBC last night, was both absorbing and unnervingThu Mar 19 2020 - 08:37
Claire Byrne Live from her shed was low-key terrifying – or maybe just terrifying terrifyingReview: The TV presenter is self-isolating after developing coronavirus symptomsTue Mar 17 2020 - 13:10
‘Things got weird’: How Dancing with the Stars coped with coronavirusLet’s hope in 12 months all we have to fret about are dancing priests and Nicky Byrne’s quiffMon Mar 16 2020 - 13:20
Belgravia review: Like Downton Abbey with knobs onJulian Fellowes’s gloriously convoluted story is everything fans loved about Downton, only with more of itSun Mar 15 2020 - 22:00
Dancing with the Stars: Lottie Ryan wins a very surreal finalReview: ‘I have no words . . . this has been the best thing I have ever said ‘yes’ to,’ says 2FM presenterSun Mar 15 2020 - 21:30
Dancing with the Stars 2020: Final to take place tonight – Everything you need to knowCoronavirus fears see semi-final abandoned and final brought forward by one weekSun Mar 15 2020 - 15:09
I Am Patrick on Netflix isn’t even slightly tacky. How disappointingThe acting is good, the academics informative, the narration measured. What a letdownSat Mar 14 2020 - 12:19
Breeders: This is a portrayal of parenthood warts – or screams – and allTV review: Martin Freeman has an authentic take on the undignified reality of child-rearingThu Mar 12 2020 - 22:35
Child of Our Time: Turning 20 – Watching people grow up is hypnoticTV review: The real lesson of the show is that children aren’t projects to be mouldedThu Mar 12 2020 - 12:00
