First Listen: Harry Styles’ Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally. is a retro letdown of an album
With Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally, Harry Styles genuinely wants to push forward creatively, but the results are more honourable pastiche than profound artistic statement
Home of the Year review: The late Hugh Wallace gives it socks in poignant return of this fun series
Television: In the wake of the unexpected death of the chummy and clubbable Wallace, it is wonderful to see the architect on screen one final time
Goodman – Too Big to Fail: A riveting portal to the world of Charles Haughey, cheap suits and bad hair
Television: Just as Larry Goodman symbolised something bigger than the 1980s beef industry, so this film symbolises more than a corporation’s rise and fall
Dancing with the Stars review: Something feels amiss in the dance-off picks
As rower Philip Doyle crashes out, could Paudie Moloney have a shot at the Glitterball Trophy?
A trip through the masochist’s paradise that is the League of Ireland First Division
The stadiums are remote and the crowds are sparse, but all who attend are strengthened by the experience
Kneecap: Fenian – Never mind the outrage, here’s the brilliantly catchy, five-star album
First listen review: Kneecap’s second record captures the glee and giddiness of their live performances
Gorillaz: The Mountain – beautifully tender record with a sad smile plastered to its face
Damon Albarn looks past western music for inspiration but album never sounds like the meanderings of a tourist
Legacy of Monsters on Apple: Kurt Russell versus Godzilla is perfect B-movie escapism
Television: Lead star is obviously having the time of his life as he squares up to Godzilla, Kong and pals
Scrubs on Disney+ review: Older, sadder, and moderately wiser – but with its funny bone intact
Television: Previously zany cast are now in the trenches of middle age and finding Gen Z even more annoying than our heroes were 25 years ago
Young Sherlock star Dónal Finn: Why I turned Holmes’s enemy Moriarty into a Kerry man
Don’t be surprised if Guy Ritchie’s new series catapults the young Cork actor into being Ireland’s next acting superstar
AI Confidential with Hannah Fry: A stark message about the shadowy side of machine intelligence
Television: Absorbing first episode of three-part series explores ominous possibility that AI isn’t so much stealing our jobs, as our souls
Dancing with the Stars review: Dear Irish Voting Public, please take a long, hard look at yourself
Front-runner Jordan Dargan faces a second dance-off in two weeks as Stephanie Kelly departs
Stereolab at NCH review: Eloquent Anglo-French favourites rise to the occasion
Laconic frontwoman Laetitia Sadier and her bandmates put on a clever and wondrous Dublin show with danceable grooves and art-rock jams
Mumford & Sons: Prizefighter – song with Hozier is one of the few rousing moments
Group return to the hoedown mother lode for their well-intentioned if fizz-free sixth album
RTÉ crime drama Kin is coming back, and based on more recent offerings, it can’t come soon enough
Kin gave RTÉ of its biggest ratings hits since its previous big crime show, Love/Hate















