New Order in Dublin: A spectacularly emotive evening retracing the arc of their careerBernard Sumner isn’t the most naturally gifted vocalist and, at 67, he is an endearingly awkward frontmanMon Oct 02 2023 - 10:59
The Money List review: Quizmaster Baz Ashmawy is in his element as people compete for thousands of euroTelevision: It has everything you’d want from a prime-time quiz - psychological torture, knife-edge tension and strangers locked together in sound-proof boothsMon Oct 02 2023 - 09:28
The Graham Norton Show: Lack of A-listers proves the Late Late still has reason to existTelevision: As Norton begins his 31st season on the BBC, there’s no glossing over the sheer RTÉ-ness of the enterpriseSat Sept 30 2023 - 10:34
Nick Heyward: ‘The Fureys’ manager said, I’ve been trying to get my band to wear Aran sweaters their whole career – how did you do it?’Haircut 100 had it all – adoring fans, critical kudos, alluring knitwear – before burning out. Forty years later they’re about to play their first Irish gigSat Sept 30 2023 - 05:15
U2 at the Las Vegas Sphere: 25 dates, $1m a show and 1,586 speakers to blast out the hitsFriday marks the first of 25 shows as part of the band’s UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere concertFri Sept 29 2023 - 07:00
The Long Shadow: ceaseless retelling of Yorkshire Ripper story for mass entertainment has to stopTelevision: Serial killer drama is sensitive to victims but what is to be gained from revisiting these crimes?Thu Sept 28 2023 - 22:00
Obituary: RTÉ's new dark comedy is ghoulishly good fun. Shame it often forgets the laughsTelevision: Siobhán Cullen gives a powerful central performance as a Gen Z journalist obsessed with deathTue Sept 26 2023 - 23:20
Who Killed Jill Dando? review: Irish viewers will sit up when the action switches to CorkTelevision: The BBC presenter, who was killed in 1999, remains unknowable – another tragic cipher fed into the Netflix true-crime machineTue Sept 26 2023 - 13:02
Grá ar an Trá: it’s all fun and games until Gráinne Seoige swoops in and starts the interrogation Television: It’s encouraging to see Irish presented in fun context, but it feels a bit tacked onMon Sept 25 2023 - 22:00
The Continental: John Wick’s world turns into an all Irish affair and not a begorrah in sight Television: Irish intonations aside, is it any good? Yes – provided you appreciate the manic gunplay of the Keanu Reeves moviesFri Sept 22 2023 - 12:00
The National in Dublin: a night of gusto, gloom and heartfelt melancholia ends in a big, happy sing-along Singer Matt Berninger plunges into the crowd for hugs and selfies like a Taylor Swift for crestfallen middle-aged peopleFri Sept 22 2023 - 09:57
The Super Models: Up close and impersonal with Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Christy TurlingtonTelevision: This documentary knows it is an absorbing portrait of an era when models eclipsed movie stars and beauty was the ultimate commodityWed Sept 20 2023 - 19:00
The Truth About the ‘Skinny’ Jab: Are weight-loss injections a magic wand or potential health disaster?Television: Presenter Anna Richardson explores how drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy work and the potential side effectsWed Sept 20 2023 - 18:29
Neighbours: A New Chapter – Glitzier, starrier and more sexed-up Television: Unsurprising this Ramsay Street revival feels more like a partial reboot from AmazonMon Sept 18 2023 - 15:48
Russell Brand: In Plain Sight review – shocking, ghastly exposé of a litany of alleged sex attacksTelevision: Brand was enabled by those around him as his career took him from Big Brother to Hollywood, says Channel 4Sun Sept 17 2023 - 12:43
The Late Late Show: Slicker, suave Patrick Kielty starts brightly – if better guests lie aheadNew host appears up for the challenge. He certainly isn’t afraid to kick RTÉ where it hurtsSat Sept 16 2023 - 07:02
Phoebe Bridgers of Boygenius: ‘I can go wherever I want for an abortion. We’re singing to kids it’s impossible for’Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker on being a band before they were friends, music industry men behaving badly and Sinéad O’Connor’s ‘purity’Sat Sept 16 2023 - 05:30
Seán Quinn on Prime Time: aptly for someone who made his money in concrete, he’s expert at keeping a stony facadeTelevision: 'Forget about what Seán Quinn says,' says Seán Quinn. 'Go by the facts ... what’s on the record'Fri Sept 15 2023 - 10:43
Ghosts of Baggotonia: Homage to a lost Dublin, never to returnTelevision: As an outsider who associates Baggot Street with rugby fans, traffic jams and office workers, it is a revelationFri Sept 15 2023 - 06:00
The Morning Show: Now Jennifer Aniston does a Ryan TubridyTelevision: Season three of the show works thanks to the star power of its leads — Jennifer Aniston and Reese WitherspoonWed Sept 13 2023 - 09:00
Upfront with Katie Hannon: RTÉ's bonfire of the Tubridys has been good TVTelevision: Hannon is effective host but her attempt at a Jeremy-Paxman-style gotcha moment failsTue Sept 12 2023 - 11:27
Johnny Logan: ‘I’ve done my best, I’ve screwed up many times’Television: On Joe Duffy’s The Meaning of Life, two-time Eurovision winner Johnny Logan reveals his spirituality is deeply felt and slightly muddledSun Sept 10 2023 - 23:00
Romy: ‘I’m writing about one particular relationship. It felt new and exciting to be more honest’The xx singer’s new solo album, Mid Air, is searingly personalSat Sept 09 2023 - 05:25
Kristin Hersh: ‘I really liked Sinéad personally. We were the same age. We had records out when we were 19. We bonded over that’The Throwing Muses singer never liked the major-label music business or being pigeonholed – just like her old friend Sinéad O’ConnorSat Sept 09 2023 - 05:15
The Lovers: Meet-cute? Check. Simmering romantic tension? Check. Authentically Irish? Check againTelevision: This romantic comedy starring Róisín Gallagher aims to do for Belfast what Love, Actually did for picture-postcard LondonThu Sept 07 2023 - 21:40
Cheap Irish Homes: ‘Oh my word,’ says Maggie Molloy’s househunter, wowed by an affordable place to liveRTÉ host’s positive thinking during housing crisis has turned her into unlikely property guruThu Sept 07 2023 - 19:35
Ed Power: I have been let down so often by public transport I am incapable of trusting itI have been let down so often by public transport I am incapable of trusting itThu Sept 07 2023 - 06:00
Top Boy: Barry Keoghan has made the most terrifying 10 seconds of TV you’ll see this yearTelevision: The Oscar-nominated Dublin actor steals every scene as he lands in Ronan Bennett’s guilty-pleasure Netflix showWed Sept 06 2023 - 21:00
Dr Cassidy’s Casebook: ‘Unfortunately, it could knock on anyone’s door’ Former state pathologist was met by two gardaí and a double murder when she arrived in Ireland from Glasgow in 1997Tue Sept 05 2023 - 12:17
John Gilligan comes across as smirking and shifty in Confessions of a Crime BossTelevision: Confessions of a Crime Boss alarmed Ministers concerned it might sanitise the drug dealer. He doesn’t come out well from the first episodeTue Sept 05 2023 - 06:00
Hidden Assets season two: Halfway to being an effective Irish cop show Television: The Irish scenes of this pan-European thriller crackle with chemistry. The confusingly written Belgian plot is harder to care aboutMon Sept 04 2023 - 10:39
Billie Eilish at Electric Picnic 2023: ‘I have a fat fever. I’m sick as balls. I need you guys to give me all you got’Electric Picnic 2023: The 21-year-old is a fantastic headliner, flu or not. The rest of the festival will have its work cut out to match herSat Sept 02 2023 - 04:18
Wet Leg at Electric Picnic 2023: Smart, punchy, shin-kicking pop from Rhian Teasdale and Hester ChambersElectric Picnic 2023: Their music is full of zing on record, but dark, funny tracks such as Ur Mum and Chaise Longue are even better liveSat Sept 02 2023 - 03:00
Give Me a Crash Course in ... StarfieldThere’s an official theme song by Imagine Dragons and a reported $200 million budgetFri Sept 01 2023 - 11:08
Co Meath biochemist goes in search of herself and her ‘lady bits’ Yewande Biala is charming and full of empathy in Secrets of the Female Orgasm, where she speaks forthrightly about her sexual hang-upsThu Aug 31 2023 - 23:05
Electric Picnic: 15 of the most memorable moments, from a blistering Fontaines DC’s set to Lana Del Rey’s tearsStradbally has welcomed thousands of acts since 2004. As this year’s festival approaches, here are 15 moments that stick in our mindsThu Aug 31 2023 - 11:08
Dónal Finn on The Wheel of Time effect: ‘People travelled from phenomenal distances. They were incredible fans’The Cork man is taking over as protagonist Mat in the fantasy series, a character he believes has an ‘inherently Irish’ qualityThu Aug 31 2023 - 05:30
Boygenius in Dublin: Full-on rock-star performances from Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker At Royal Hospital Kilmainham on Monday night, the crowd’s excitement tips into a pinch-yourself giddinessTue Aug 29 2023 - 10:04
The Peculiar Sensation of Being Pat Ingoldsby: An unlikely star of Irish children’s televisionTelevision: If chatting Pat remains essentially mysterious, what fascinating company he providesMon Aug 28 2023 - 23:30
The Woman in the Wall: Ruth Wilson’s Irish accent runs aground on the rocks of this drama’s stereotypes Television: The BBC’s hysterically overcooked Magdalene-laundry series is like a reboot of EastEnders’ donkey-in-the-pub episodeSun Aug 27 2023 - 22:00
Slowdive: ‘I became very disenchanted, having met a lot of the journalists. It was the idiots who gave us bad reviews’The shoegaze luminaries on confounding those 1990s critics, the weird Creation years and their fifth albumSat Aug 26 2023 - 05:30
Keep It a Secret: Point Break meets Father Ted film is window to an Ireland largely erased from historyPoint Break meets Father Ted film is window to an Ireland largely erased from historyFri Aug 25 2023 - 07:56
Ahsoka: Rosario Dawson stars in an enjoyable return to lightsaber-wielding first principlesTelevision: For Star Wars fans and Disney executives alike, this series is a new hope worth cheering onWed Aug 23 2023 - 11:33
Ben Schwab: ‘To be in your 70s and see your music reissued on Spotify – it’s a trip for my dad’Sylvie’s music honours the dreamy soft pop of 1970s California, including Mad Anthony, the group Schwab’s father took a shot at the big time withTue Aug 22 2023 - 05:00
Tommy Jessop Goes to Hollywood: A talented and driven role model – why won’t anyone give him a job?Television: As Jessop pushes for greater representation, the feelgood quality of this show continues to the endMon Aug 21 2023 - 22:00
Blessed are the geeks. We have inherited the EarthThe 20,000 people who attended last weekend’s Dublin Comic Con were living proof that nerd culture has gone mainstreamFri Aug 18 2023 - 05:30
At Home with the Furys: Packed lunches, camping trips ... A €200m boxer’s suprisingly normal lifestyleTelevision: Netflix’s breezy fly-on-the-wall documentary leaves Tyson Fury’s mental-health challenges – and Irish heritage – largely in the shadowsWed Aug 16 2023 - 10:17
Henpocalypse!: A bash, bawdy chortle-fest with a sliver of ice in its soulTelevision: A hen party has to survive on chocolate penises as civilisation collapses in Caroline Moran’s offbeat comedy horror seriesTue Aug 15 2023 - 22:30
Arushi Jain: ‘They didn’t understand the language. I was taken aback – I felt not a part of this system’The producer and composer was shocked when she arrived in the US from India. Her music explores the challenges of immigrant identityTue Aug 15 2023 - 05:09
In the Name of Gerry Conlon: Horrifying revelations about Britain’s treatment of the Guildford FourTelevision: Italian photographer Lorenzo Moscia’s documentary is a striking portrait of someone who lost everythingMon Aug 14 2023 - 22:45
