Tradfluencer – The Sharon Shannon Story review: A folk superstar never cut out for celebrityTelevision: Fascinating portrait of pioneering musician fails to find the person behind the musicMon May 18 2026 - 22:06
Eurovision 2026 review: Father Ted, controversy and Ireland’s absence as Bulgaria winsBoos, boycotts and tensions over Israel overshadow the 70th Eurovision Song Contest, in ViennaSun May 17 2026 - 07:33
Yacht-rocker Christopher Cross: ‘I certainly didn’t have the money for a yacht. Never had one’ Along with The Doobie Brothers and Steely Dan, the Grammy-winner made some of the greatest pop ever. But success never seemed a givenSat May 16 2026 - 05:13
Drake: Iceman review – The rapper can write great pop. But this is a listless, forgettable albumFor all the Kendrick Lamar background heat, Drake sounds like an artist adrift, with little to cling to beyond an enthusiastically nurtured sense of victimhoodFri May 15 2026 - 17:27
Rivals season two: Irish duo Aidan Turner and Victoria Smurfit seem appropriately embarrassedTelevision: Did someone look at the personal life of Boris Johnson and think, hey, you could get some really great telly out of that?Fri May 15 2026 - 08:09
Uncharted with Ray Goggins: Sergeant-major routine is ditched for a chummy Boy’s Own romp Television: Riding into the sunset with the actor Liam Cummingham and the comedian PJ Gallagher, it’s like an Irish version of old Top Gear specialsWed May 13 2026 - 22:00
A Traveller Family review: Quietly thoughtful insight into a proud community struggling with identityTelevision: Alex Fegan’s documentary will hopefully go some way towards opening people’s eyes – it lets its subjects speak for themselvesTue May 12 2026 - 10:25
Lemoncello: ‘Dublin is squeezing the life out of musicians. It’s not a home for artists any more’Claire Kinsella and Laura Quirke form the duo Lemoncello, now one of the most important young folk acts in IrelandSat May 09 2026 - 05:23
Aldous Harding: Train on the Island review – Hypnotic, wonderfully bizarre goth popIf you appreciate music that’s in little hurry to be liked, Aldous Harding is the acquired taste you’ve been looking forFri May 08 2026 - 05:00
Legends on Netflix: Steve Coogan in his element in a gripping true crime thriller Television: Excellent drama about an unglamorous cabal of customs officers tackling gangs who are flooding the UK with heroinThu May 07 2026 - 12:03
Oprah Winfrey is coming to Dublin. Here are 10 of her most memorable moments through the yearsThe world’s most famous chat show host visits Dublin in SeptemberThu May 07 2026 - 06:00
Amandaland on BBC One: Amanda is one of the best comedy roles British TV has produced in yearsTelevision: Amandaland’s greatest asset is not its cast but a steady supply of zingers, which keep the action ticking alongWed May 06 2026 - 21:00
David Attenborough wrote me, an annoying child in 1980s Cork, a letter to explain his mistakeSadly, a letter from a posh man on the BBC - the same one who turns 100 on Friday - was not seen as that big a deal back thenWed May 06 2026 - 06:00
How brilliantly cheeky of RTÉ to essentially launch their version of Who Do You Think You Are? Review: The programme brings a satisfyingly human touch to our understanding of the 1926 census, showing the complicated lives behind the raw facts and figuresSun May 03 2026 - 19:18
Gary Lydon: Actor best known for Banshees of Inisherin dies aged 61The actor, who also had roles in The Clinic and Love/Hate, was born in London to Irish parents and returned to Wexford as a child Sun May 03 2026 - 10:47
Psychedelic rockers The Lemon Twigs: ‘Singing for Brian Wilson at his birthday was surreal’Hanging out with The Beach Boys’ troubled genius a signpost for still-youthful industry veterans Michael and Brian D’AddarioSat May 02 2026 - 05:18
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
