Robert Ballagh: ‘Betty was really good at assessing things. I don’t have that any more’The artist and political activist has written his ‘reluctant memoir’ at 75. It’s dominated by one major absence: his wife and artistic compass, Betty, who died in 2011Sat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00
Newstalk’s Captain Sensible and Sid Vicious bicker onIt can be easy to forget that Shane Coleman and Paul Williams have formidable news pedigreesSat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00
Running + Walking In The Phoenix Park review: Offbeat jogging show runs out of breathDublin Fringe: Multimedia drama on traversing Dublin’s municipal space has absorbing elements but eventually wears thinFri Sept 14 2018 - 11:15
Ireland's Call review: A stark anthem to life on the marginsDublin Fringe Festival: John Connors lends a charismatic presence to his polemical portrait of urban deprivationThu Sept 13 2018 - 11:30
Brendan Galileo for Europe review: A frenetically enjoyable one-man showDublin Fringe Festival: Fionn Foley is irresistible as an anti-establishment politicianWed Sept 12 2018 - 10:37
Agony uncle Ray D'Arcy gives relatively good adviceD’Arcy doles out the advice while admirably brisk Mary Wilson is baffled by midlife crisesSat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00
Miriam O’Callaghan’s unrelenting grilling of ‘posh’ Eoghan MurphyO’Callaghan shows a different kind of class in her inteview with Jastine Valdez’s parentsSat Sept 01 2018 - 05:00
Could happen to a bishop: Excruciating seconds of dead airRadio review: Presenter Gavin Jennings asserts his authority on ‘Morning Ireland’Sat Aug 25 2018 - 05:00
Katie Hopkins’s only talent: being tiresome and repellentRadio: 4FM’s Niall Boylan invites Hopkins on to discuss race relations. It’s shock-jock overkillSun Aug 19 2018 - 16:21
Aretha Franklin: When she sang, nothing else matteredMick Heaney: Her impact went far beyond music – she changed the world around herThu Aug 16 2018 - 15:44
No contest as majestic Miriam O’Callaghan wears her crown lightlyPresenter brings overlooked strengths to ‘Today’ show, while Liveline has unlikely glowSat Jul 28 2018 - 05:00
Pat Kenny pushes cocaine line to surreal limitsRadio review:Pat Kenny proves stimulating company while Jordan Peterson interview breathes life into Marian Finucane’s showSat Jul 21 2018 - 05:00
Come On Home: A tale of sexual repression and provincial suffocationReview: Phillip McMahon's story of a returning emigrant offers few innovations but vivid performances and resonant dialogueWed Jul 18 2018 - 11:20
Mario Rosenstock finds that being himself is a tricky actRadio Review: Rosenstock’s wit, invention and observation are absent from his radio showSat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00
Tinnitus: ‘Like stormtroopers marching on gravel’Radio Review: A compelling documentary about the hearing condition; Lyric uses sound to re-create visionsSat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
Ivan Yates complains about people who complain all the timeRadio review: “Do people ever stop bitching?” asks Yates. Has he met Mr Pot and Mr Kettle?Sat Jun 30 2018 - 05:00
Alcoholidays: Drunken tales from planes, trains and automobilesRadio review: Joe Duffy listeners share stomach-churning stories of abusive passengersSat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00
Radio review: Listening to Pat Kenny talking about LSD is a tripKenny describes attending a festival in the 1970s with “a dopehead” who had taken acidSat Jun 16 2018 - 05:00
Red nose, White House: when Ryan Tubridy met Bill ClintonMeanwhile, Muireann O’Connell is unembarrassed on Today FMSat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
No Joe as Philip Boucher-Hayes puts positive stamp on ‘Liveline’Stand-in host brings distinctive spin to adoption and referendum issues, but Gay Byrne remains the old masterSat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00
A jolting glimpse into the whirrings of Pat Kenny’s mindRadio Review: Pat Kenny – being Pat Kenny – goes off on a bizarre tangent on Jastine Valdez’ migration statusSat May 26 2018 - 05:00
Ronan Farrow interview shows Sean O’Rourke at his bestRadio review: Sean O’Rourke discusses Trump’s America with Maureen Dowd and Ronan FarrowSat May 19 2018 - 05:00
A livid John McGuirk has all the nuance of a grenade attackRadio review: Presenter Matt Cooper has fractious exchanges with anti-abortion campaignerSat May 12 2018 - 05:00
RTÉ presenters keep cervical screening on the air as authorities fail the testJoe Duffy, Ray D’Arcy and Mary Wilson highlight different aspects of the controversySat May 05 2018 - 05:00
The best-groomed male in Newstalk? There’s no competitionRadio review: Paul Williams and Shane Coleman blend news and jocular slaggingSat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
City slicker Ryan Tubridy walks the country roads with easeRadio review: Suprisingly, the RTÉ presenter is the ideal person to pay tribute to Big Tom McBrideSat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. But what planet is David Quinn from?Radio: The columnist find it strange he is ‘not allowed to say something good about men’Sat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00
A quietly forceful rebuke to Danny Healy-Rae’s outburstRadio: No papal bull as radio presenters give muted welcome to pontiff’s visitSat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
Ivan Yates: liberal-baiting shock jock or rebel without applause?Radio review: Newstalk host’s insurgent style masks a complex personaSat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
Ryan Tubridy’s Cheltenham quiz should have been a non-runnerIt’s an uneasy experience to hear a big online betting company given so much promotionSat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
Pest from the west puts Taoiseach under pressure as airwaves gets snowed underRadio review: Varadkar favours snow talk over 2040 publicity campaign while Cormac Ó hEadhra enjoys a Brexit scrapSat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
A bit ‘icky’: Dermot and Dave’s cheery critique of a porn videoGiving the irreverent duo this high-profile slot underlines a shift in direction at Today FMSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
Does RTÉ think it takes three women to do one man’s job?‘Late Debate’ takes a new direction; Joe Duffy hears painful stories of callous bureaucracySat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
Sebastian Barry: ‘Part of me when I was young would have poisoned the soup of every other writer’The new Laureate for Irish Fiction on his predecessor, Anne Enright; his neuroses as a young writer; and the book that drove him to drinkSat Feb 10 2018 - 06:00
Irexit event brings Pat Kenny down with dyspepsiaKenny decries the “hypocrisy” of Nigel Farage taking a European Parliament salarySat Feb 10 2018 - 05:00
It’s time for Ray D’Arcy to wake up from his Montrose torporRadio Review: The former Today FM host sounds jaded on RTÉ Radio 1Sat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Ryan Tabloidy? Tubridy veers close to scaremongeringRadio: The presenter’s discussion on internet safety stokes deep parental fearsSat Jan 27 2018 - 00:00
Dolores O’Riordan and Joanne Hayes coverage shows women's voices are still stifledRadio Review: Today FM deftly covers both events, but reminds us that old attitudes lingerSat Jan 20 2018 - 00:00
Joe Duffy left stunned by ‘Home Alone’ booby trap taleLiveline host alarmed by crime experiences, while Kingsmill exercises Sean O’RourkeSat Jan 13 2018 - 06:30
Snooze talk: George Hook’s Saturday morning show falls flatControversial broadcaster’s underwhelming Newstalk comeback takes aim at familiar targetsSat Jan 06 2018 - 13:43
Brenda Donohue gives a masterclass in inconsequential fluffRadio review: Seán Moncrieff’s choice of subjects is as esoteric as everSat Jan 06 2018 - 05:00
Kenny puts the boot in on misery, as Tubridy gets an early Christmas presentGleeson reminds book lovers what they’ll be missing when she departs the airwavesSat Dec 23 2017 - 05:00
Miriam O’Callaghan has her work cut out with Shane MacGowanHis reticence is revealing in O’Callaghan’s most entertaining interview in a long timeSat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
Ivan Yates dislikes all ‘Nordies’ equallyThey are ‘caught in a time warp between the Tricolour and Union Jack’, says the Newstalk hostSat Dec 09 2017 - 05:00
Gabriel Byrne: ‘Sex pests’ and ‘abject sexism’ rife in RTÉ in 1970sThe actor also alleged production was halted on ‘The Usual Suspects’ over Kevin Spacey’s behaviourWed Dec 06 2017 - 12:20
Angry, indignant, honest Sean O’RourkeRadio Review: Both O’Rourke and Cormac Ó hEadhra find politics difficult to stomachSat Dec 02 2017 - 05:00
Curmudgeon Vincent Browne Vs Ray D'Arcy - it's radio goldVincent grumbles to Ray, while Muireann O’Connell is the new safe pair of hands in Al Porter's former Today FM slotSat Nov 25 2017 - 05:00
Pat Kenny’s coddled millennials comments miss the pointRadio review: The Newstalk presenter reveals a novel view on property problemsSat Nov 18 2017 - 05:00
Back in the USSR: Fionn Davenport’s arts show has a red scareRadio Review: After a slow start, the RTÉ presenter offers a vivid portrait of the Soviet UnionSat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
Trump is a “kind, compassionate man” Irish-American tells Marian FinucaneRADIO REVIEW: RTÉ host hears a folksy defence of the US president, while a once-controversial guest sounds conciliatory with MiriamSat Nov 04 2017 - 05:00
