Squid Game: The Challenge - It’s brutal and manipulative, and one of the best reality shows in yearsTelevision: The ultimate victory prize is more than €4 million, which means players are very much in it to win itWed Nov 22 2023 - 07:50
10 Things To Know About ... ageing well: ‘I do believe people are more capable of things than they realise’Television: RTÉ's zippy science show on a subject with which we will all have to reckon, sooner or laterMon Nov 20 2023 - 20:58
I’m a Celebrity 2023: Nigel Farage maintains his jolliness while taking orders from a FrenchmanTelevision: After a stodgy first episode, viewers will hope the figurative gloves come off sooner rather than laterMon Nov 20 2023 - 09:05
The Murder Capital in Dublin: A powerful end to the night after a slow start‘Well, well, well – ye showed up didn’t ye,’ frontman James McGovern says as the seated audience rise to their feet midway through the gigMon Nov 20 2023 - 00:04
‘After I watched Cork City flop against St Pat’s, I broke down and cried’Something worrying has happened to the League of Ireland - it has become fashionableSun Nov 19 2023 - 06:15
Tomorrow Tonight: Ireland 2050 review – Welcome to Prime Time meets The Twilight ZoneTelevision: Mark Little returns to RTÉ in a show about climate change in Ireland that is both dull and unintentionally side-splittingThu Nov 16 2023 - 17:38
The Crown final season review: Netflix should brace itself for a firestormTelevision: The first half of the final season lands on Netflix today. There’s no denying it’s enjoyable – but it’s also borderline tawdryThu Nov 16 2023 - 08:01
Six Silent Killings: Ireland’s Vanishing Triangle - a British perspective on futures never livedColette Camden’s thoughtful documentary on Sky avoids true crime sensationalismMon Nov 13 2023 - 09:08
Johnny Jewel: ‘The first David Lynch film I saw was Elephant Man. I cried for over a week’ Before performing in Dublin, the producer, musician and artist Johnny Jewel explains why The Weeknd is a fine actor, outlines his ‘visual approach’ to making music and debunks myths surrounding the Chromatics album that never happenedMon Nov 13 2023 - 05:00
The Crown: ‘I never imagined it as Diana’s ghost in the traditional sense’Peter Morgan is open about his Netflix blockbuster on the British royal family being an interpretation of history. It’s an approach with many criticsSat Nov 11 2023 - 05:30
‘Corkchester’ and the sound of the ‘Lee beat’ in the citySultans of Ping set Irish music alight. As their first album is reissued, we pay tribute to the scene they were part ofSat Nov 11 2023 - 05:15
Beirut’s Zach Condon: ‘I was a high-school dropout. I was a disorganised mess. I still am. I like chaos’The American alt-pop songwriter moved to the Arctic Circle to make his new album, Hadsel. It was a perfect way to clear his head, he saysThu Nov 09 2023 - 05:00
Robbie Williams review: you wonder if his demons have been put back in their bottleTelevision: Netflix documentary shows Williams remains uneasy about fame and not sure if it was worth the priceWed Nov 08 2023 - 09:45
Blue Lights: Belfast cop show arrives on RTÉ like a spritz of fresh airTelevision review: While Blue Lights acknowledges the faultlines running through post-Troubles Northern Ireland, it has broader things to sayTue Nov 07 2023 - 23:15
Slowdive in Dublin: The shoegaze rockers cut loose at the end of the show with a head spinning performance The band’s latest music takes their 1990′s dewy-eyed vulnerability and stirs in oodles of middle age-ennuiTue Nov 07 2023 - 12:52
The Nobody Zone: Interview with an Irish Serial Killer ignores the story of Irish in London slipping between the cracksTelevision review: The Nobody Zone is an unsatisfactory portrait of Kieran Patrick Kelly, an Irishman in 1980s London suspected of a multiple murdersMon Nov 06 2023 - 22:35
Liz Bonnin’s Wild Caribbean: Dubliner’s personal mission to celebrate family’s homelands lacks emotional momentsTelevision review: While Liz Bonnin brings lightly worn scientific rigour to her work, the blockbuster grandeur of top-rank nature telly is thin on the groundSun Nov 05 2023 - 22:00
What happened at the Bletchley Park AI summit?World leaders, computer scientists and business leaders such as Elon Musk all gathered in England this week to debate the future of AISat Nov 04 2023 - 06:00
David Holmes: ‘I was able to see the real Sinéad O’Connor. She was fiercely intelligent, ridiculously funny’The DJ, producer and sountrack composer is releasing his first solo album for 15 years. He’d also like to release the songs he made with the late singerSat Nov 04 2023 - 05:30
The Beatles: Now and Then review - A near miraculous, sad, fab farewell There is plenty of spirit on Now and Then. John Lennon has never sounded more emotionally presentThu Nov 02 2023 - 14:00
Ireland 100: An Old Song Resung: The best moment of this rousing celebration is the most subversive Television review: RTÉ is to be congratulated for an ambitious project that tries to reflect the successes but also the failures of the StateMon Oct 30 2023 - 23:15
Time review: lives of drug addict teen, in-over-her-head mother and a child killer make for riveting prison dramaTelevision review: Jodie Whittaker, Bella Ramsey and Tamara Lawrance excel in season two Jimmy McGovern’s gritty seriesSun Oct 29 2023 - 22:00
Ireland’s Fittest Family: Sonia O’Sullivan struggles to get a word in as shouty Davy Fitzgerald dominatesTelevision review: For someone with much wisdom to impart from her years as a track and field champ, restricting Sonia O'Sullivan to shouting from the sidelines seems like a missed opportunity for the latest series of Ireland's Fittest FamilySun Oct 29 2023 - 20:00
Matthew Perry could never shake off Chandler Bing or his demonsFriends actor, who died aged 54 in apparent drowning, was victim of demons far more pernicious than typecastingSun Oct 29 2023 - 14:13
Gazelle Twin: ‘Our brains are these strange labyrinths. They store stuff and it waits to spring out on us later in life’Elizabeth Bernholz, a singular chronicler of the dark and the ominous, revisits traumatic childhood memories on new album Black DogThu Oct 26 2023 - 05:00
Have the past 100 years in housing really been a ‘crisis without end’?Television review: TG4 documentary is an unabashed love letter to the State as a provider of housingWed Oct 25 2023 - 22:30
Hania Rani at Vicar Street: An extraordinary show sweeps the audience to a twilight realmReview: The Polish pianist and composer remains under the radar in the English-speaking world. But around Europe she’s a star in the makingWed Oct 25 2023 - 10:39
My BodyFix review: Kathryn Thomas is empathetic as serious health issues sharedTelevision: It’s hard to understand how a heart patient’s health issues are illuminated by the 3D component of My BodyFixTue Oct 24 2023 - 21:00
The Gone: Is RTÉ taking licence-fee payers for fools by passing this off as Irish drama?Television review: At what point does an ‘Irish’ thriller cease to be Irish? The Gone is really a New Zealand tale with a passing Irish involvementSun Oct 22 2023 - 22:30
Give Me a Crash Course in ... the new Rolling Stones album released this weekendA new Rolling Stones album? Aren’t they on a greatest-hits tour until the end of time?Sat Oct 21 2023 - 06:00
Radie Peat of Øxn: ‘I love murder ballads. I’m not mad about the fact it’s always men murdering women’The mood is folk horror meets Krautrock and Celtic folk in the experimental supergroup formed from Lankum and PercolatorSat Oct 21 2023 - 05:20
The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In: Laddism is especially jolting in this attempt to bring 1990s British TV backTelevision: Guests lined up for the first episode remind us that this is, in fact, still RTÉFri Oct 20 2023 - 10:53
The Real Wagatha Story: Most interesting aspect of new documentary is the woman at the centre of itTelevision: New Disney+ documentary follows the faux-scandal but it’s nothing we haven’t seen beforeWed Oct 18 2023 - 14:35
The Reckoning: The BBC ignored Jimmy Savile’s crimes. Now it’s doing it all over againTelevision: As the curtains close, it is still not clear what the BBC had hoped to achieveWed Oct 18 2023 - 10:18
Best Place to Be: If you are looking for advice about starting a new life abroad, don’t ask Baz AshmawyTelevision review: Baz Ashmawy is a past master of feel-good telly and he brings a sparkle to his new frothy lifestyle show about Irish people who have embarked on a new lifeTue Oct 17 2023 - 20:03
‘It’s pretty much my life savings’: A former punk, a Frank and Walter and a Ford factory musicalKevin Fitzsimons is hoping that Twin Flames, set around the Marina in Cork and the old Majorca ballroom in Crosshaven, will sell out its eight-night runTue Oct 17 2023 - 05:00
‘At first I didn’t believe the Irish dancing cheating allegations. Then I felt foolish for not seeing it earlier’Television review: The Year That Rocked Irish Dancing opens before an explosive ‘fixing’ scandal had become publicMon Oct 16 2023 - 23:40
Tony Holohan on The Meaning of Life: Joe Duffy takes off the gloves, but he’s no Jeremy PaxmanTelevision review: Fascinating conversation with Joe Duffy confirms Tony Holohan to be an ordinary man caught up in extraordinary circumstancesSun Oct 15 2023 - 23:00
Troye Sivan: ‘I’m becoming more comfortable with my body and accepting it for what it is’For the first time, Troye Sivan is letting it all hang out – he’s an artist reborn on his new album. The pop star and actor has worked hard to figure out who he isSun Oct 15 2023 - 06:30
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour movie hits Irish cinemas this weekend – am I too late to get tickets?It’s just like seeing the singer in concert. Only you don’t have to take out several mortgages or have anything to do with TicketmasterSat Oct 14 2023 - 06:00
Frasier: The return of Kelsey Grammer’s beloved sitcom after 20 years is a massive letdownTelevision: Kelsey Grammer is clearly enjoying being back as the egghead psychiatrist Frasier Crane, but the jokes and support cast are a big disappointmentFri Oct 13 2023 - 11:00
‘You could say it all started with Charles Self’s murder when we started fighting back against the gardaí'Television review: A horribly gripping episode of TG4′s Irish language documentary series Misneach tells the story of the 1982 murder of RTÉ set designer Charles SelfWed Oct 11 2023 - 22:30
Haircut 100 live in Dublin: ‘There’s love here, isn’t there? Let’s do it!’Irish debut for 1980s pop band filled with upbeat energy and their fan base are thrilled to have themWed Oct 11 2023 - 10:17
‘I timed it so my parents were away at church. I just took off my clothes and set up my little tripod’For Jonny Pierce, of the cult alternative band The Drums, posing naked in an empty house full of traumatic memories was an act of reclamationWed Oct 11 2023 - 05:00
The Reckoning episode two review: How Jimmy Savile became leader of British entertainment’s parade of shame and horrorTV review: At moments The Reckoning is too awful to sit through. At the same time, Steve Coogan’s ability to recreate Jimmy Savile’s cheesy anticharm is uncannyTue Oct 10 2023 - 22:00
The Reckoning: Steve Coogan delivers a powerfully slithering performance as Jimmy SavileTelevision: Drama seems uninterested in the institutional indifference that enabled the DJ’s years of sex abuseMon Oct 09 2023 - 23:44
Big Brother returns, as cynical and airheaded as everTelevision: While Big Brother has been off the air for five years, it’s remarkable how little it has changedSun Oct 08 2023 - 23:43
The Late Late Country Music Special: Patrick Kielty delivers a hoedown brimming with chutzpahTelevision: Some things just can’t be faked. Kielty’s delight when welcoming Declan Nerney and Philomena Begley is 100 per cent genuineSat Oct 07 2023 - 10:33
Fools for Love? Online dating in a cesspit crawling with creeps and compulsivesTelevision: Journalist Aoife Moore investigates the politics of love – and what a horrific subject it turns out to beWed Oct 04 2023 - 22:35
Love in the Country: ‘Anyone working in rural Ireland – it is quite difficult to meet someone’Television: The gentle pacing sets RTÉ’s new dating show apart, with presenter Anna Geary pivoting with ease from the sports field to mainstream entertainmentMon Oct 02 2023 - 22:30
