Ciara Kelly’s prescription for a new show: rational discussion and bracing furyThe GP turned broadcaster makes George Hook’s Newstalk slot her ownSat Oct 28 2017 - 05:00
Airwaves give as good as they get in the eye of Storm OpheliaStorm Ophelia brings out the best from radio’s presenters, as each show gives us their own take on Monday’s hurricaneSat Oct 21 2017 - 05:00
Paschal Donohoe: another self-satisfied Varadkar ministerDonohoe gives off the smug air that has marked many a ministerial radio appearance since Leo Varadkar became TaoiseachSat Oct 14 2017 - 05:00
King of the Castle review: An overlooked work steps into the canonDruid’s production picks away at the tensions of rural life with a savage eyeThu Oct 12 2017 - 13:15
Emotions run high, but Mary Wilson stays coolRadio review: The Las Vegas reports are radio that you wish you didn’t have to hear, but that’s hard to forgetSat Oct 07 2017 - 05:00
George’s Newstalk replacement knows how to hook listenersCiara Kelly is an assured on-air presence, a GP whose radio career is blossomingSat Sept 30 2017 - 05:00
This is a room . . . review: The contemporary fear of not having a homeA sprawling devised drama from Dublin Youth Theatre uses a large cast and vivid vignettes to illustrate timeless themesFri Sept 29 2017 - 10:40
Ploughing Seán O’Rourke not as good as Studio Seán O’RourkeThe gruff interrogator seems to enjoy the Ploughing Championships but it doesn’t really suit himSat Sept 23 2017 - 05:00
A Fringe play that lets you choose your own plot, and a sharp take on autismTwo plays that are tricky and smart in very different waysWed Sept 20 2017 - 12:00
Dublin Fringe Festival: shows to catch while you canThe latest reviews including Birdy, Everything Now, Kicking All The Boxes, Raven Eyed and MDLSXSun Sept 17 2017 - 16:00
Newstalk presenters uncharacteristically quiet on George HookRadio review: A listener who missed the apology might not even know of the controversySat Sept 16 2017 - 05:00
Ivan Yates hasn’t gone soft, but he’s not that ‘hard’ any more‘Straight-talking’ Yates helms Newstalk's early-evening The Hard Shoulder. It's a misnomerSat Sept 09 2017 - 05:00
Vintage Pat Kenny: Let’s hear it for wronged landlordsRadio Review: Ray D’Arcy gets emotional about HPV vaccine. Kenny defends accidental landlordsSat Sept 02 2017 - 05:00
Tubridy goes from bland to bitter and a little bit creepyRadio review: Tubridy's not bothered about projecting a mainstream image while on 2FM Conor McGregor’s friends and foes get in the ringSat Aug 26 2017 - 05:00
Could do better: Al Porter’s sick patter putters onRadio: Today FM’s star host fails to deliver, but Sean Moncrieff thrivesSat Aug 05 2017 - 05:00
What Irish broadcasting needs: more Bibi BaskinsRay D’Arcy’s interview with former broadcaster shows what Irish radio is missingSat Jul 29 2017 - 07:00
Gloves come off as Michael O’Leary and Joe Duffy slug it out over seatsRadio review: Ryanair boss hogs the airwaves but meets his match in Sean O’RourkeSat Jul 22 2017 - 07:00
Pat Kenny’s number crunching would drive you to drinkDrink driving coverage is illuminating and spirit-crushingly tediousSat Jul 15 2017 - 07:00
PJ Gallagher’s relentless quest to make a joke of everythingReview: His wacky voices can be exhausting, but he can also be gut-bustingly funnySat Jul 08 2017 - 07:00
Paul Williams vs Pat Hickey. No contestRadio Review: It's was less Rumble in the Jungle and more Cakewalk on NewstalkSat Jul 01 2017 - 07:00
When you’re in a hole, Ryan Tubridy, stop diggingRadio Review: The RTÉ host’s interview with Orla Brady turns cringeworthySat Jun 24 2017 - 07:00
Hook to Coppinger: ‘You have no manners. Now shut up’George Hook, decrying the erosion of civility, fails to practise what he preachesSat Jun 17 2017 - 07:00
Ray D’Arcy and Dave Fanning’s masterclasses in inane chatterRadio Review: Pointless conversations are not the wished-for antidote to horrific newsSat Jun 10 2017 - 06:00
Bob Dylan’s Nobel lecture: I was ‘pals with the wild Irish rover’In a gnarled voice, the ever-defiant songwriter explains his music and lyricsTue Jun 06 2017 - 13:50
Breakfast Republic presenters serve up menu of witless drivel2FM's morning show is a joyless exercise, but the station has more appealing presenters waiting in the wingsSat Jun 03 2017 - 06:00
Musical poverty: If ‘Oliver!’ can do it, so can ‘Angela’s Ashes’Ellen Frey McCourt on the musical version of her late husband’s harrowing childhood memoirSat May 27 2017 - 06:00
Irish presenters handle Manchester news with admirable calmRadio review: RTÉ and Newstalk reports get across the full horror without histrionicsFri May 26 2017 - 12:00
Philip Boucher-Hayes places rational interest over religious beliefRadio review: Liveline’s apparitions and Healy-Rae’s Last Word on road safetyFri May 19 2017 - 12:00
Nanny-state and teenage sex make for a cringeworthy Pat Kenny showRadio review: Newstalk host airs pet peeves, while Miriam hears of liaisons in LuggalaFri May 12 2017 - 12:51
Not much to sink your teeth into with Nicky Byrne and Jenny GreeneRadio review: 2FM duo stick to cheeky banter and Second Captains tog out for RTÉ’s first teamFri May 05 2017 - 12:24
'You can't afford to take their word for it. The church has tentacles everywhere'Radio review: ‘Father Ted’ writer Graham Linehan, talking to Newstalk’s Sean Moncrieff, is clear on his opposition to the nuns owning the National Maternity HospitalFri Apr 28 2017 - 12:00
Hammy Joe Duffy would make a panto dame blushRadio Review: The RTÉ presenter gets fully into character for an Easter special, before showing his strengths on more familiar groundFri Apr 21 2017 - 13:00
George Hook cites "truth and integrity" but revels in know-nothing prideRadio review: But novelist Howard Jacobson celebrates education with Matt CooperFri Apr 14 2017 - 14:00
No women need apply as Ivan Yates brings manly swagger to SundaysNewstalk adds more middle-aged male voices to its roster in the form of Yates and Bobby Kerr, but the formula is wearing thinFri Apr 07 2017 - 13:00
Wheels come off Newstalk as Paul Williams drives Shane Coleman to distractionRadio Review: The hosts bring real needle to their Odd Couple routine over cyclist issueFri Mar 31 2017 - 15:46
Pat Kenny irons things out with the Dáil’s ‘Untuckables’Radio Review: Ray D’Arcy shows the odd flash of prickly pedigree in a show that is sleepwalking through the schedulesFri Mar 24 2017 - 09:45
Ryan Tubridy is transitioning from young fogey to old codgerRadio review: He scorns political correctness like a grumpy old man, but in one respect he is still young at heartFri Mar 17 2017 - 10:00
The ‘fake news’ about Tuam: Sean Moncrieff blows a gasketRadio Review: Newstalk host takes Catholic Leaguer Bill Donohue to task over claim of baby mass grave ‘myth’ and ‘hoax’Fri Mar 10 2017 - 10:50
Joe Duffy offers hope to a 50-year-old woman trapped in a nursing homeMoving tale of quiet desperation on ‘Liveline’, while Moby is an antidote to gloom on digitalFri Mar 03 2017 - 05:00
Going on ‘Newstalk Drive’? Don’t make Sarah McInerney angryThe radio presenter is never less than lively – especially when she takes a swipe at Pat KennyFri Feb 24 2017 - 14:00
Al Porter could become ‘a real star of Irish radio’Radio review: Porter’s show sounds footloose and carefree. By comparison, Matt Cooper seems out of touchFri Feb 17 2017 - 05:00
The Meath Gaeilgeoirs who couldn't get on and the commuters who love their drivesNewstalk’s absorbing documentary recounts the rivalry of ‘planters’ from ConnemaraFri Feb 10 2017 - 05:00
Radio review: 'Dermot and Dave still talking loudly and saying nothing'The Today FM duo's incessant banter is still tiresome despite their new slotFri Feb 03 2017 - 14:00
Radio: Standing up to Trump – a story of Scots resistanceMoncrieff is back to his offbeat best while Joe Duffy glumly hears tales of rural desperationFri Jan 27 2017 - 14:00
Bertie Ahern loses his bottle as Pat Kenny gazes into Brexit’s crystal ballFormer taoiseach says EU Brexit discussions won’t linger on ‘who threw the bottle out of the pram’Fri Jan 20 2017 - 14:00
Paul Williams simmers down as Tubridy swipes at snowflakesRadio review: Northern Ireland and 'cosseted millennials' let the broadcasters show their true feelingsFri Jan 13 2017 - 14:00
Radio review: no cure for the common hospital crisisThe A&E trolley crisis has a wearily familiar sound. A bit like Joe Jackson’s Leonard Cohen tapesFri Jan 06 2017 - 15:14
Radio review: No escape from the jaws of the past as a grim year endsJim Lockhart hosts a grim chart countdown of the great musicians who died in 2016Fri Dec 30 2016 - 14:00
Insurgent Newstalk targets stagnant RTÉ but 2016’s real revolution occurs off the airwavesIn a year when the commercial talk station turned angry and the national broadcaster stayed still, the music radio sector provided ominous omensFri Dec 23 2016 - 14:00
Radio review: Matt Cooper stands back as Simon Coveney sets low barMinister for Housing’s reminder of humanitarian acts sounds calculated on Last WordFri Dec 16 2016 - 14:00
