The Rose of Tralee 2024 first night review: Card tricks, harp-playing and The Proclaimers parped out on the bagpipesTelevision: It’s the 63rd year of the contest that Father Ted paradied as the Lovely Girls Competition, and there’s no sign of it running out of steamTue Aug 20 2024 - 00:08
The Omagh Hum: The low-frequency drone drove locals to distraction. It also led to this charming documentaryTelevision: Alex Fegan favours a sort of low-key quirkiness for his films, which could be a bit twee but here works perfectlyMon Aug 19 2024 - 23:11
Rose of Tralee: what time does it start, who will win and everything you need to knowTelevision: Contest has survived huge changes in society and remains popular – if controversial – part of national calendarMon Aug 19 2024 - 16:23
Electric Picnic 2024 highs and lows: Kylie has an ‘absolute moment’, drink-laden plastic-cup missilesIt was the biggest edition of festival so far, with 75,000 people in Stradbally for the weekend. Here’s what we loved and hatedMon Aug 19 2024 - 05:00
Manchán’s Europe by Train: An alternative to jetting off on holiday that doesn’t send us all on a guilt tripTelevision: Manchán Magan’s extremely watchable journey around the Continent is the first leg of a quest for atonementSun Aug 18 2024 - 19:28
Noah Kahan at Electric Picnic 2024: ‘I got all my tricks from Irish singer-songwriters. You guys are sad as f**k’The Stick Season singer pulls off his Main Stage set with a mix of genuine humility and a knack for bunging vast choruses into his downcast songsSat Aug 17 2024 - 11:17
Beth Ditto: ‘The NME cover with the naked shoot, I was only 25. I look at my niece who’s 25 and I’m, like, wow’The Gossip singer remembers that part of her life as a blur. But, as the band prepare to play Dublin, she has no regrets, she saysSat Aug 17 2024 - 07:00
NewDad at Electric Picnic 2024: A little bit of indie heaven comes to StradballyThe Galway band alchemise their alternative-rock influences into a fresh, unique sound in their first Stradbally setFri Aug 16 2024 - 22:58
Sophie Ellis-Bextor at Electric Picnic 2024: Kitchen Disco diva puts on a killer gig with a few tricks up its sleeveThe Murder on the Dancefloor singer performs her own hits and some blitzing covers before a gleeful, giddy, glammy finaleFri Aug 16 2024 - 22:13
The Walking Dead: Daryl Dixon – Fan-favourite Norman Reedus resurrects the struggling zombie franchiseSpin-off with shades of The Last of Us finds Daryl washing ashore in France, determined to return to his nearest and dearest in America (ie, his crossbow and bike)Fri Aug 16 2024 - 15:30
Emily in Paris review: The equivalent of binging on marzipan – delicious at first, too much after a whileTelevision: Lily Collins delivers a performance full of comedic zing in season four, even as the story goes to potentially dark placesThu Aug 15 2024 - 16:33
Hozier’s new single is Nobody’s Soldier. Could it be a Too Sweet-style juggernaut? We take a first listenNobody’s Soldier, from Andrew Hozier-Byrne’s excellent Unaired EP, pairs his expressive howl with a rumbling blues guitar lineThu Aug 15 2024 - 12:19
Talos: To listen to Eoin French’s music was to be transported to a hauntingly beautiful parallel dimensionAs they mourn his death, fans of Talos will take solace in the extraordinary body of work left behind: music that pulsates with wonder and is illuminated by French’s humanityWed Aug 14 2024 - 18:00
Bad Monkey review: Vince Vaughn atones for his atrocious True Detective with a freewheeling crime caperTelevision: Carl Hiaasen’s sloppy sleuth almost always gets his man – and, even when he doesn’t, is too busy cracking wise for anyone to careWed Aug 14 2024 - 02:00
Matt Johnson of The The: ‘Starmer’s no different than Sunak. He’s a Tony Blair-type character, no different from a Tory’The The, who play Dublin this month, were one of the most important British bands of the 1980s. Matt Johnson is still ready to slide in studs upTue Aug 13 2024 - 05:15
The Cable That Changed the World review: A bit like a double history lecture on a hot dayTelevision: Even narrator Jessie Buckley sounds as if she’s ready to check out. On a Monday night on RTÉ, this documentary is a bit of a snoozeMon Aug 12 2024 - 23:15
Eamon Dunphy: ‘You can’t say a word against Michael D ... All that stuff is bad and dangerous for journalism’The 79-year-old podcaster discusses Roy Keane, Ryan Tubridy and Michael D HigginsSat Aug 10 2024 - 06:00
Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA review: Shouting, swearing and crying in this hot and spicy serving of reality TVTelevision: Foodies will be appalled at the shenanigans, but for those who enjoy their reality TV, Kitchen Nightmares remains highly snackableThu Aug 08 2024 - 23:00
Mari Samuelsen: ‘I was probably the rebel. I was not interested in going down the same rabbit hole as the others’The Norwegian violinist, who is giving a series of performances in Ireland, stands out in the classical world as a widely admired outsiderThu Aug 08 2024 - 15:18
The Umbrella Academy review: Robert Sheehan’s nervy charm shines in the wildly enjoyable final seriesTelevision: This show is great fun but you need to be up to speed with its convoluted storyline, and series four is not the place to startThu Aug 08 2024 - 11:45
Around My Island review: The Meath sailor is an engaging figure but the film is anticlimacticTelevision: Thomas Dolan is an engaging figure but the documentary tells a story that feels as if it has yet to reach its conclusionTue Aug 06 2024 - 22:35
House of the Dragon finale review: An end as disappointing as the final days of Game of ThronesTelevision: It is heartbreaking to witness the Game of Thrones franchise fall into the same pitfall of selling its characters down the riverTue Aug 06 2024 - 10:34
The Prodigy at All Together Now: Did Maxim really just dedicate a song to former Cork City goalie Mick Devine?Rumbling breakbeats and blitzing strobes can’t stop the set feeling like something you’ve seen and heard beforeMon Aug 05 2024 - 12:38
All Together Now 2024 highs and lows: Barry Can’t Swim ends up bowled over, a Glastonbury bad habit creeps in From Natasha Bedingfield in the Saturday sun and a smoking-belching dragon to headliner confusion and annoying festivalgoersMon Aug 05 2024 - 10:07
Future Islands at All Together Now: Joyous hour of soul-baring indie popDad dancer Samuel T Herring is magnetic as he refuses to be self-conscious about his manic movesMon Aug 05 2024 - 08:41
The National at All Together Now: A sad-dad singalong to cherishReplacing Róisín Murphy at the top of Saturday’s bill, the band put on a performance that is more than just a showcase for diehard fansSun Aug 04 2024 - 00:23
The Mary Wallopers at All Together Now: Tub-thumpers of the first order storm through a rapturously received setMusically, the Dundalk group update The Dubliners and The Clancy Brothers, while their politics are rooted in the present daySun Aug 04 2024 - 00:10
Interview with the Vampire review: Gripping, grotesque and gorily watchable funTelevision: BBC’s adaptation of Anne Rice novel does well to put daylight between itself and Neil Jordan’s 1994 caper by slowing the pulse of the storyThu Aug 01 2024 - 22:00
Batman: Caped Crusader review – Noirish reboot stays true to moody, brooding rootsTelevision review: This is old-school Batman set in a 1940s-inspired world and it is fantasticThu Aug 01 2024 - 10:59
Saucy! Secrets of the British Sex Comedy review: the funny side of a blizzard of bare bumsTelevision review: The message is that the slap-and-tickle flicks of the 1970s represented a glorious moment in UK cinemaSun Jul 28 2024 - 23:30
The Decameron review: Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson battles ridiculous hipster haircut in unfunny rompTelevision review: This newly decanted Decameron succeeds only in laying bare the chasm between good and bad televisionThu Jul 25 2024 - 11:30
The Body Detectives review: stark reminders of the wounds left when a loved one disappears without a traceTelevision review: Search for a man who went missing on holiday in 1984 makes for heartbreaking viewingTue Jul 23 2024 - 22:00
Bishop Casey’s Buried Secrets review: ‘He had no fear of being caught’Television: Searing documentary about sex abuse allegations may forever cast Eamonn Casey in a damning lightTue Jul 23 2024 - 10:23
Lady in the Lake review: Natalie Portman casts a potent spell in eerie period thrillerTelevision: Apple TV’s latest melancholic drama has a nightmarish quality that occasionally verges on the supernatural. It isn’t for everyoneFri Jul 19 2024 - 11:00
Those About to Die review: Peeved Anthony Hopkins thrown to the lions in over-sexed ancient Rome epicTelevision: Nobody can keep their robes on for longer than 10 minutes at a time in Roland Emmerich’s splashy, trashy Amazon showFri Jul 19 2024 - 06:00
Suspect review: If you like your TV thrillers bonkers and unhinged, this is for youTelevision: Anne-Marie Duff stars in the new season of this weird Nordic-noir crime seriesWed Jul 17 2024 - 22:00
Elaine Howley: ‘It’s nice that there are many layers to the way music can find its way ... It doesn’t have to be instant’Experimental musician will collaborate with composer Irene Buckley and Crash Ensemble on an ambitious reinterpretation of her workWed Jul 17 2024 - 05:15
The Jetty review: Serial killer drama exploring grooming of young women misses the markTelevision review: While The Jetty functions as a commentary on gaslighting and victimisation of vulnerable teenagers, as a thriller it is let down by a confusing plotMon Jul 15 2024 - 22:00
Pillow Queens at Iveagh Gardens review: band’s biggest concert is a triumph from start to finishPillow Queens' performance is brimming with heavy guitars, feather-light hooks and feverishly effervescent songsSun Jul 14 2024 - 13:00
Glass Animals: ‘Our drummer nearly died. An absolutely genius surgeon in Dublin saved his life’Frontman Dave Bayley reflects on his drummer’s brush with death, the slow boil of the band’s success, his own insertion as an introvert into a chart-topping life and the forthcoming albumSun Jul 14 2024 - 05:15
Sunny review: excellent paranoia-soaked thriller based on novel by Killarney writer Colin O’SullivanTelevision: Full points to Apple for achieving peak menace from a standing startWed Jul 10 2024 - 09:58
Spent review: A smart comedy that cleverly peppers a bleak picture of modern life with laughsTelevision: Michelle de Swarte is compelling as a former catwalk star who finds herself in the depths of the gig economyMon Jul 08 2024 - 23:30
House of the Dragon has finally found its roar with this jaw-dropping episodeTelevision: The Game of Thrones spin-off has finally kicked up a gear, becoming fantasy at its finestMon Jul 08 2024 - 15:00
A Lazarus Soul’s Brian Brannigan: ‘I don’t know if the world is darker now. But it feels like dark times’The Dublin post-punk band’s leader on the malign influence of smartphones, his disappointment in Nick Cave and his horror at anti-immigration protests in FinglasMon Jul 08 2024 - 05:00
The Turkish Detective review: compelling mystery stitched into this thriller makes it worthwhileTelevision review: The Turkish Detective, adapted for the screen by the BBC, is an evocative introduction to the tumult of IstanbulSun Jul 07 2024 - 22:00
Nils Frahm at NCH review: German classical ambient wizard blasts into orbit right from the startAvant-garde superstar even finds time to joke about England’s advance to the semis in Euro 2024Sun Jul 07 2024 - 10:27
Fran Healy of Travis: ‘Do not f**k with us. I’ll knock you out’The Glasgow band have been pummelled by life over the past decade. Their new album confirms as pure myth the idea of them as wet-blanket indie boysSat Jul 06 2024 - 05:15
Murdaugh Murders: The Movie review – Bill Pullman is masterful in cheesy retelling of gruesome crimeTelevision: This breezy adaptation is, for all its lack of dramatic substance, deeply bingeableThu Jul 04 2024 - 13:48
The Man with 1,000 Kids review: Would you accept a sperm donation from a raw meat-eating amateur surfer?Television: Curly-haired Dutchman Jonathan Jacob Meijer is thought to have fathered some 1,100 childrenWed Jul 03 2024 - 10:00
A grim look at a broken Britain but are we in any position to scoff?Television review: Tim Harford investigates the reasons why Britain’s economy is in dire straits but many of these systemic flaws are equally relevant to IrelandMon Jul 01 2024 - 22:00
