‘When we left Donegal, I spent my whole school year yearning to go back’Hannah Peel’s Mercury-nominated Fir Wave, her Dancing at Lughnasa soundtrack, her Game of Thrones score – all are illuminated by a longing that folds into how she feels about IrelandSat Aug 12 2023 - 01:15
Painkiller: Matthew Broderick goes for broke in this queasy take on the Sacklers’ Purdue Pharma horror showTelevision: Hard not to feel Netflix’s take on an American tragedy verges on being in poor tasteThu Aug 10 2023 - 09:33
Only Murders in the Building: Meryl Streep steals the show, riffing off Steve Martin and Martin ShortTelevision: Third time out, this giddy whodunit has not lost its charmWed Aug 09 2023 - 08:59
Laura Whitmore Investigates: ‘I was the victim of a stalking incident ... It was scary’Television: The Irish TV presenter mixes empathy and journalistic verve in these frank and sometimes shocking documentariesWed Aug 09 2023 - 06:00
Iggy Pop at All Together Now: untamed, cathartic and still refusing to play by the rulesAmerican singer brings down the curtain at Curraghmore in a blaze of gnarled, playful gloryMon Aug 07 2023 - 11:48
Lorde at All Together Now: Knockout performance underscores singer’s star power‘It’s such a privilege to come back here,’ says the artist. ‘My dad is Irish’Mon Aug 07 2023 - 09:24
Billie Eilish’s last Electric Picnic appearance drew the biggest crowd in the festival’s history. But things have changed The 21-year-old singer has certainly inherited a very Irish melancholy: ‘My one wish is to not take things for granted’Mon Aug 07 2023 - 05:00
Max Richter and the RTÉ Concert Orchestra at All Together Now: Pure joyWith summer finally arriving at the festival, Richter brings all four seasons, remixed and wonderfulSun Aug 06 2023 - 20:29
All Together Now: Homage paid to Sinéad O’Connor at Waterford festivalThe mood was celebration rather than grief as artists performed covers of the singer’s hitsSun Aug 06 2023 - 20:00
Lisa O’Neill at All Together Now: Folk singer pays thoughtful tribute to Sinéad O’Connor All Together Now 2023: ‘I loved her … Sinéad got into trouble but it was the right kind of trouble’Sat Aug 05 2023 - 21:26
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart: Sigourney Weaver is magnificently aloof in hypnotic show that gets under your skinTelevision: This adaptation of Holly Ringland’s bestseller is as grim as anything and beautifully absurdFri Aug 04 2023 - 16:49
Dara Ó Briain takes on the moon and the places ‘Irish people know but the British seem never to have heard of’Television: The Irish comedian’s new show, Wonders of the Moon, has the gently rambling quality of a lecture conveyed by a funny, eccentric professorTue Aug 01 2023 - 22:00
Noël Browne had a vision for a healthy, compassionate Ireland. The church and the medical profession blocked himTelevision: Alan Gilsenan’s film The Seven Ages of Noel Browne profiles the ‘problematic’ minister, champion of the mother-and-child schemeMon Jul 31 2023 - 23:10
Dot Allison: ‘My name comes at the end of the credits – a bit of everyday sexism’The Scottish singer had her moment in the pop spotlight almost three decades ago, but her music continues to delight and inspireSat Jul 29 2023 - 05:00
Good Omens: Neil Gaiman’s bromance is as silly as a vicar in a tutu – and perfect escapismTelevision: Michael Sheen and David Tennant return in a second season that benefits from plenty of fun, and surprisingly gory, plot paddingFri Jul 28 2023 - 06:43
Sinéad O’Connor’s 10 most important songs: From Mandinka to The Skye Boat SongThe one constant in Sinéad O’Connor’s musical journey was her refusal to be pinned downThu Jul 27 2023 - 13:50
The Girl from Plainville: A teenage friendship, a suicide and a mission to untangle the truthElle Fanning is excellent as real-life Michelle Carter, whose relationship with Conrad Roy ended tragicallyWed Jul 26 2023 - 23:00
Bethany Cosentino: ‘It’s tough not to grab on to things an absolute stranger says about you’The musician, formerly half of Best Coast, is indie-rock royalty. That doesn’t mean she has had an easy rideWed Jul 26 2023 - 05:15
Women’s World Cup: Before Ireland v Canada, it’s time to settle the clash of the songs Sweetlemondae’s Turn the World and Zrazy’s Come on Ireland will be blaring out today. Which is better?Wed Jul 26 2023 - 05:00
Million Dollar Pigeons review: ‘Two million dollars? Relax, mate. It’s a pigeon’Million Dollar Pigeons never gets its feathers in a flap as it shows how pigeon racing has gone from backyard pursuit to cash-rich industryMon Jul 24 2023 - 23:25
Fifteen-Love: Ella Lily Hyland and Aidan Turner are searing together in this gripping tennis dramaTelevision: Hyland plays a tennis wunderkind fallen on hard times, with Turner as her slimy former coach, in this Prime Video seriesMon Jul 24 2023 - 08:09
Georgia: ‘My drinking got quite heavy over lockdown’On new album Euphoric, a big, emotion-filled pop odyssey, the musician sheds that bleakness and lives in the momentSat Jul 22 2023 - 05:00
This TV show’s title made some contributors quit. But it’s a grippingly heartfelt filmTelevision: In Am I a R*tard? the comedian Rosie Jones lays bare the abuse she faces every day because of her disabilityThu Jul 20 2023 - 23:05
Aslan’s final song with Christy Dignam: The Fields Of Athenry - uninhibited and emotiveReview: Band bring epic polish to the last ever recording with Dignam, whose vocals give the release a shiny stadium rock glossThu Jul 20 2023 - 16:00
The Bear: When Jamie Lee Curtis and Olivia Colman sign up for cameos, you know you’ve hit the big time Television: Back for a second season, Disney+’s surprise hit sticks to the recipe that sustained the first seriesWed Jul 19 2023 - 02:00
The Murdochs: Empire of Influence – A crash course in relentless ambition Television: If Succession’s Roys were a nasty bunch, their real-world equivalents are no less ruthlessTue Jul 18 2023 - 23:20
The Sixth Commandment: Éanna Hardwicke gives a masterclass in creepy understatementTelevision: Irish actor plays the murderer Ben Field, who inveigled his way into the lives of two vulnerable older peopleMon Jul 17 2023 - 22:00
It’s the first post-Paxman University Challenge. The smarty-pants students are still hereTelevision: Amol Rajan becomes only the third host in the quizshow’s 61 years – a bit like The Late Late Show without the payments controversyMon Jul 17 2023 - 21:00
Morrissey in Dublin review: There’s a surprise towards the end of this cathartically cranky gigAt the first of two sold-out Vicar Street gigs, flashes of the controversial singer’s old drollness emerge between moments of trolling ireSun Jul 16 2023 - 10:22
Forever Young Festival 2023: Stage times, full line-up, ticket info, weather forecasts and moreEverything you need to know about the music festival at Palmerstown House Estate, Kildare, on Friday, July 14th to Sunday, July 16thSat Jul 15 2023 - 14:27
Foundation: Set phasers to Overambitious – season two is like Game of Thrones on psychedelicsTelevision: Naked robot wrestling sets the scene for the new season of Apple’s daft take on Isaac Asimov’s sci-fi sagaFri Jul 14 2023 - 12:06
The Waterboys in Dublin review: Preshow nerves, then Mike Scott’s dewy-eyed stomper lights up the nightThe first of two sold-out concerts at the Iveagh Gardens is a home-town triumphFri Jul 14 2023 - 10:43
‘The British are always the heroes. That isn’t the reality’: English radio host discovers his Irish rootsUK radio presenter Dev Griffin digs into an Irish revolutionary past in Who Do You Think You Are?Thu Jul 13 2023 - 22:00
Tubridy at Oireachtas: By the final curtain, the eyes are red, the mouth pursed. ‘It’s all changed now’Television review: Tubridy has two settings – super-jaunty and hyper-sincere. Nobody wanted jauntiness so the hyper-sincerity bubbled upTue Jul 11 2023 - 20:38
Dairy’s Dirty Secret: A squealing calf is tossed, terrified, into a truck. First-rank reporting shows what happens nextRTÉ Investigates: Milking It is a grisly exposé of the mistreatment of livestock in parts of the Irish dairy industryMon Jul 10 2023 - 22:30
A Spy Among Friends: fascinating portrayal of well-connected British chaps realising their days are numberedWhile the espionage thriller never goes entirely James Bond, the real-life tale of skulduggery in the British intelligence services is slow burnerSun Jul 09 2023 - 22:15
Lana Del Rey in Dublin: ‘I’m sorry I didn’t give you enough notice’An ecstatic performance doubles as full-throttle love-in with the anti-Adele in the 3ArenaSat Jul 08 2023 - 09:40
Waiting for news on Taylor Swift tickets is the stadium pop version of the Hunger GamesEd Power: Only a percentage of those who registered with Ticketmaster will be ‘selected’ for a ‘purchase link’ to – potentially! – nab one. It’s a far cry from sleeping bags outside HMVWed Jul 05 2023 - 12:34
Wham! on Netflix: Two ordinary boys mucking around who happened to write some of the greatest pop songs ever Television: The story of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s rise to pop stardom may lack a neat finish, but it is great fun and brims with teenage nostalgiaWed Jul 05 2023 - 11:15
The Heiress and the Heist: Rose Dugdale was a figure almost too riotous for real lifeBritish debutante turned IRA armed robber reminds us how during The Troubles truth was routinely stranger than fictionTue Jul 04 2023 - 22:30
Brigid Mae Power: ‘I underestimated how vulnerable I would feel with everyone knowing my business’Galway-based songwriter says on her #MeToo experience and arguing with nuns in schoolTue Jul 04 2023 - 05:00
The Idol: The Weeknd’s TV project plumbs dire depths not witnessed since the end of Game of ThronesWho thought this hollowed-out cringe fest was a good idea?Mon Jul 03 2023 - 22:00
Julie Byrne: ‘It’s a memorial to the moments between us. And that includes grief and heartache’Buffalo-born singer-songwriter on her new album The Greater Wings which was a collaboration with a beloved friend whose death has both overshadowed and fuelled its completionMon Jul 03 2023 - 05:00
Give Me a Crash Course in... Why Lewis Capaldi is taking a breakThe 26-year-old songwriter from a village near Edinburgh is taking a break from touring to focus on his mental health. It means he’ll be skipping Electric PicnicSun Jul 02 2023 - 05:00
John Torode’s Ireland: The Return of the King of tourist-board advertorialsTelevision: You would hope we had arrived at a point where visitors were not astonished that everyone is walking upright – but apparently, there is still a way to goFri Jun 30 2023 - 21:30
Hijack: An excellent showcase for Idris Elba - shame about the angry Irishmen Television: The real-time thriller on Apple TV+ draws on many influences to conjure that is moslty engaging, though predictableWed Jun 28 2023 - 16:15
Your Home Made Perfect: The BBC gets the right amount of Angela Scanlon sizzle Television: The Co Meath presenter introduces just the right amount of sizzle on the BBC, compared with her RTÉ outputWed Jun 28 2023 - 11:12
‘The throuple was intense. I’m really happy I had that experience. I’m equally happy I’m no longer in it’Amber Bain, aka The Japanese House, has made an extraordinary album after her fraught three-way relationshipTue Jun 27 2023 - 05:15
Elton John at Glastonbury delivers a send-off to remember, Britney or no BritneyThe Sunday night grandee slot goes to the Rocket Man singer playing his last ever UK showSun Jun 25 2023 - 23:53
Today’s Ryan Tubridy Show is about to begin. Then a deathly silence fills the airwaves Oliver Callan stands in for the first post-Tubs Ryan Tubridy Show, there is a sense of an embattled institution circling the drain and picking up speedFri Jun 23 2023 - 14:49
