Cill Stuifín on TG4 review: ‘We spent our childhoods terrified of seeing Cill Stuifín’
Television: A wonderfully eerie story about a Co Clare village that seemingly vanished beneath the waves
Toxic Threads review: ‘I was getting all this hate for wanting to be a dad’
Television: Brian Dowling Gourounlian chronicles his experiences of social media abuse in moving documentary
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring in Concert sweeps 3Arena off to Middle-earth
Review: Howard Shore’s music for Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings movies is one of the great achievements in film scoring in the 21st century
Dopamine Chamber is the sound of Fontaines DC becoming megastars. Is bigger always better?
The Irish band’s new album lacks the poetic intimacy and postpunk punch so long a feature of Fontaines at their best
Tolkien: the original Greta Thunberg-style eco‑warrior or a proto‑Elon Musk?
Those who love what the writer really stood for despair at the misuse and misunderstanding of his works
A Man from the Future review: What took Pet Shop Boys so long to release this wonderful album?
The tragedy of Alan Turing’s life is at the heart of Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe’s synth-pop rock opera about the gay computer pioneer
The Lion, the Witch and the Ulsterman on RTÉ: Andrew Trimble takes on the thorny issue of CS Lewis’s Irishness
Television: Lewis is a beloved but polarising figure, which may explain his exclusion from the pantheon of significant Irish literary figures
Small Prophets on Apple TV: A new genre that is funny, fantastical and heartbreakingly tender
Television: The magical realism is unexpected - it’s like turning on Alan Partridge only for someone to ride in on a dragon
Deepfake Ireland on Virgin Media One: Gráinne Seoige’s distress in this grim film is palpable
Television: Seoige revisits her experience of AI-generated deepfake images while looking at the wider issue of misogyny on the internet
Jake Xerxes Fussell: Why I’m bringing my Napoleonic sea shanties to Ireland
The American singer has become a category of one: a singer with two feet in the past and his head in the present
How Cathal Coughlan and The Fatima Mansions made one of Ireland’s greatest rock songs
Filled with regret after the demise of his forerunner band Microdisney, the Cork songwriter brought all his wrath to bear on Blues for Ceaușescu, a prescient warning about western complacency
The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In review: A turkey with all the trimmings. End this craic attack
Television: The chicken fillet roll has gone cold, the immersion has indeed been left on all night and Mammy is reaching for the wooden spoon
Joy Division: Eternal review – A buttoned-down band unbowed, unravelled and gloriously unleashed
This €124 box set is not the best place for the Joy curious to start. But it is a stunning testament to the greatness of the Manchester four-piece
Celebrity Traitors on BBC One: An ego-filled riot of characters come roaring out of the traps
Comedian Joanne McNally - the inevitable Irish contestant - is keeping her head down and could be a potential dark horse as the action picks up
East of Eden on Netflix: Florence Pugh’s powerful turn threatens to overwhelm this Steinbeck classic
Writer Zoe Kazan has sought to make ghastly Cathy’s character sympathetic, but Pugh has other ideas depicting a ferocious, almost emotionless villain