Last night’s Late Late Show could have been Patrick Kielty’s last. Who needs the other more?Television: With contract-renewal negotiations seemingly in limbo, there’s a chance the RTÉ host won’t be back next season Sat May 02 2026 - 02:30
Tori Amos: In Times of Dragons review – This album wants to soar. But it’s firmly earthboundThe LP tries to be both a plunge into Irish mysticism and an anti-Trump protest. The singer is reluctant to fully commit to either visionFri May 01 2026 - 04:42
Big Thief at 3Arena: Gen Z’s favourite indie band steal the show with brilliantly cathartic concertAdrienne Lenker and her bandmates provide a night of highs, lows and heartbreaking digressionsThu Apr 30 2026 - 11:37
Big Mood on Channel 4: Nicola Coughlan shines in this showTelevision: This second season feels like a regression from series one and the earnestness with which it tackled mental healthThu Apr 30 2026 - 06:00
Widow’s Bay on Apple TV: After Amazon’s Melania Trump doc, this is the second scariest show to stream this yearTelevision: Comedy-horror starring Matthew Rhys does not veer into nastiness or gore, making it all the more unsettlingWed Apr 29 2026 - 06:00
The first film I saw at a cinema was Christopher Reeve’s Superman. It upended my childlike mindSuperheroes deserve some of the backlash they’ve been receiving of late, but is there a risk of throwing Batman out with the bathwater?Tue Apr 28 2026 - 05:13
Celebrity Super Spaces: Like Vogue Williams' pink countertop, this show is a bit muchThis feel-good filler has no huge aspirations but is amiable Sunday-evening viewingSun Apr 26 2026 - 21:45
‘Working with Oasis? It’s tricky to talk about’: Richard Fearless of Death in VegasThe musician on turning his back on the charts to follow his muse, summers in Donegal and why producing big bands was not for him Sat Apr 25 2026 - 05:18
Noah Kahan: The Great Divide review – 17 tracks about being a bit outdoorsy and hugely famousSteel yourself for an album about tree lines, county lines and the invisible lines between you and the people you grew up withFri Apr 24 2026 - 10:24
The Dry on RTÉ One review: Wry and relentless, this series has matured into an earnestly funny dramedyTelevision: The Dry accurately captures the travails of well-to-do Dubliners with property who have found lots of other things to be unhappy aboutThu Apr 23 2026 - 22:45
Michael Jackson was breathtaking at Páirc Uí Chaoimh. But what was the 10-year-old doing at his hotel?While the king of pop – the subject of a new biopic – was thrilling audiences in Cork in 1988, concerned reporters were offering to help James Safechuck escapeWed Apr 22 2026 - 05:16
MasterChef on BBC One review: Dublin chef Anna Haugh helps to banish sour taste left by Torode and WallaceTelevision: New presenters chef Anna Haugh and food critic Grace Dent go together like Tayto and red lemonadeTue Apr 21 2026 - 20:15
Mint on BBC One review: Piping hot, deliriously strange new crime drama steeped in magical realismTelevision: Charlotte Regan has gone out on a limb with this tale of star-crossed lovers in small-town ScotlandMon Apr 20 2026 - 21:18
Tori Amos in Dublin review: This mother of dragons still knows how to roarGame of Thrones vibe adds sense of the epic to Amos’s stark warning about tyrants in our midstMon Apr 20 2026 - 11:09
Zayn was always One Direction’s best singer, but his album Konnakol is another missed opportunityKonnakol could have been so much more than a muffled collection of anti-bangers. In the year of 1D comebacks, Zayn is lost among the trailing packFri Apr 17 2026 - 11:20
A Gorilla Story on Netflix: David Attenborough at his most chill pill-sounding back where it all beganTelevision: As he approaches his 100th birthday, veteran wildlife presenter catches up with descendants of primates he met on Life on EarthFri Apr 17 2026 - 06:30
RTÉ radio wanted more modern jingles. Now it sounds like an illegal rave circa 1989 Ultimate verdict, in the end, rests with us, the listenersThu Apr 16 2026 - 05:00
Young Forever: The Death of Ageing? – An unflinching look into the anti-ageing industryTelevision: Kathryn Thomas’s thought-provoking documentary explores man and medicine’s quest to delay the ageing processMon Apr 13 2026 - 21:55
Euphoria season 3 review: Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney have outgrown this seriesEuphoria’s jaded nihilism always had a best-before date, this tawdry, tedious and underwhelming new series suggests it has finally passedMon Apr 13 2026 - 11:28
Holly Humberstone: ‘I have to look nice, or my album isn’t going to sell. The same rules don’t apply for dudes’The singer was still at school when the BBC discovered her. By 2024 she was opening for Taylor Swift – yet she still doesn’t have the music industry all figured out, she saysSun Apr 12 2026 - 05:22
Tomora: Come Closer review – Mesmerising melding of minds between Tom Rowlands and AuroraGlittering, supersized dance juggernaut fuses the Chemical Brother’s propulsive electronica and the Norwegian’s icy, eerie singing and productionFri Apr 10 2026 - 15:48
Intinní Áille – Beautiful Minds: A thoughtful RTÉ documentary on adult neurodivergenceRóisín Ní Thomáin explores whether she may be neurodivergent and hears from parents seeking support for autistic childrenThu Apr 09 2026 - 22:45
The Pitt review: A supremely tense and addictively terse drama. It’s like ER minus George ClooneyTelevision: Starring Noah Wyle, The Pitt bears a jarring resemblance to the joys of the Irish medical systemThu Apr 09 2026 - 11:23
Ronan Keating’s Wild Atlantic review: The singer’s grief is raw and real during his travels Television: Sightseeing takes a back seat as Keating talks about his brother Ciarán, who died in 2023Wed Apr 08 2026 - 14:36
Belle and Sebastian in Dublin review: A warm, wistful hug of a show from 1990s indie heroesAt the 3Olympia, the Scottish band insult Trump, quote Churchill and serve up winning qualities of nostalgia in charming anniversary concertMon Apr 06 2026 - 14:47
Shaun Ryder: ‘Bez and I have had a sexless marriage for 32 years. I’m with him all the time’The Happy Mondays frontman on living in Ireland, the band’s drug-fuelled Madchester years, and being back on tourSun Apr 05 2026 - 05:23
The Young Offenders on BBC One: Lowbrow gags sitting neatly between Benny Hill and Mrs Brown’s BoysTelevision: The cast is outstanding, Cork looks great – what a tragedy this can’t aspire to more than old-school British sitcom in a Cork jerseyFri Apr 03 2026 - 21:58
Dermot Kennedy: The Weight of the Woods review – A landslide of dude dirgesThe Irish star’s album is a missed opportunity. As the wonderful Turnstile makes plain, he should be making more indie rock with a pep in its stepFri Apr 03 2026 - 00:01
Race across the World: Irish dad and daughter enter derring-do spirit of amiable travel showIn tense times, geopolitically speaking, there is an undeniable pleasure in watching people embrace the stress and excitement of travelThu Apr 02 2026 - 20:30
Babies on BBC One: Siobhán Cullen is quietly searing in beautifully made show suffused with dreadTelevision: Series is to be applauded for sensitively addressing the anguish of being unable to have a child and the related pain of miscarriageMon Mar 30 2026 - 19:00
Searows: ‘Finding out Gracie Abrams was a fan gave me impostor syndrome’Gender isn’t a defining force in Alec Duckart’s music; it’s part of who he is, not something he thinks about every time he picks up a guitarSat Mar 28 2026 - 19:00
Robyn: Sexistential review – Breathtaking, beautifully bittersweet popSexistential is less a celebration of sexuality than a meditation on Robyn’s changing relationship with her physicality and her sensualityFri Mar 27 2026 - 11:26
Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen taps into what we all know: our other half’s family is weird The Duffer brothers’ new show, featuring Camila Morrone and Adam DiMarco as a couple en route to their wedding, is stylish, witty and terrifyingThu Mar 26 2026 - 07:00
Stephen Colbert will co-write a new Lord of the Rings film. What thumpingly grim newsLord of the Rings: Shadow of the Past: please don’t do to The Lord of the Rings what Saruman did to the ShireWed Mar 25 2026 - 13:00
Dry Cleaning: ‘We’re all such Gilla Band fans. We gave them some of the trickier songs’Florence Shaw and Lewis Maynard talk soap, Taylor Swift and recording some of Mercury Prize shortlist-tipped Secret Love in DublinTue Mar 24 2026 - 19:00
Luke Combs: The Way I Am review – Everydude cliches mixed into the sorriest country-rock schmaltzEnough is never enough for the country star Luke Combs, whose tiresome new LP runs down the clock with a patience-testing 22 tracksTue Mar 24 2026 - 15:05
Lisa Kudrow’s Valerie Cherish is one of the great cringe-comedy creations this side of David BrentHBO’s blackly comic The Comeback is a perfect vehicle for the former Phoebe Buffay in FriendsTue Mar 24 2026 - 12:52
Cheap European Homes on RTÉ One: A rare property show that doesn’t feel out of touchTelevision: Maggie Molloy is down-to-earth and seems to appreciate that she is helping people meet a basic need in their lifeMon Mar 23 2026 - 08:49
The Other Bennet Sister on BBC One: A love letter to outsiders, introverts and people who don’t fit inTelevision: Hooray for weirdos who live inside their heads – and for this sly, pointed deconstruction of the costume drama industrial complexFri Mar 20 2026 - 06:00
Welcome to Moore Street on RTÉ One: Unflinching documentary raises questions on how Dublin is administeredTelevision: Shuttered stalls, plunging footfall, drug addiction and lawlessness – it’s a wonder this wasn’t called Farewell to Moore StreetThu Mar 19 2026 - 22:45
Imperfect Women on Apple TV: Flaws here are clunky scripting and an implausible plotA tale of lies, female friendship and dreadful men set in upper-middle-class California that somehow doesn’t feature Nicole KidmanThu Mar 19 2026 - 06:00
Glenroe, Bosco, Mrs Brown’s Boys: The best and worst Irish TV shows ever madePut your feet up as we bring you the best of Irish television – and then take a deep breath as we run through the worstTue Mar 17 2026 - 05:09
Feel-good ending to Dancing with the Stars as Katelyn Cummins claims the crownKatelyn Cummins claims the Dancing with the Stars crownSun Mar 15 2026 - 21:20
James Blake: Trying Times review – Quietly mesmerising comedown album with no bottom floor, only endless depthsOn his first LP since going independent, James Blake blends stillness and beauty with quietly roiling rageFri Mar 13 2026 - 12:04
Iron Ladies: Gripping insight into Cold War and pursuit of justice by Irish Jewish womenTelevision: Slice-of-life memories a stark reminder of arbitrary cruelty of former Soviet UnionThu Mar 12 2026 - 22:45
Woman of Substance on Channel 4: Emmett Scanlan steals show in bodice-ripping romp with strong Irish castTelevision: There hasn’t been so much exposed flesh since a heatwave at Bray seafront in MayThu Mar 12 2026 - 16:34
Louis Theroux – Inside the Manosphere: A tentative dip into the world of toxic masculinityTelevision: Documentary often feels like conversation on misogyny without any input from the victimsWed Mar 11 2026 - 06:00
Laufey at 3Arena review: Gen Z sensation splits the G as she pays tribute to IrelandLaufey brings an old-school sound thrillingly up to date during an evening of jazz-tinged joyMon Mar 09 2026 - 10:04
Dancing with the Stars review: A ludicrous decision hits the contest’s credibility Paudie Moloney has had an open-ended get-out-of-jail-free card in the RTÉ competitionSun Mar 08 2026 - 21:50
The Scratch: ‘They want to decide what you can say on stage. Where do you draw the line?’The trad-metal Irish band on solidarity between artists, the Hoxton Hotel protests and why success for other groups is ‘a lovely thing to see’Sat Mar 07 2026 - 05:28
