St Vincent: ‘I feel the 1970s are very similar to where we are now’Annie Clark is reclaiming the story of her dad’s incarceration on her funky new albumSat May 08 2021 - 05:00
Ian Wright: Home Truths – Abused in childhood, a black hole of suffering and rageThere are no happy endings when the Arsenal striker investigates domestic violenceThu May 06 2021 - 22:00
The Big DIY Challenge: A ropey construction that just about hangs togetherTV review: RTÉ is actually pretty good at this sort of low-stakes disposable entertainmentThu May 06 2021 - 21:00
The Battle for Britney: Wow. This is a Line of Duty-level anticlimaxTV: Louis Theroux might do the story justice. But this feels like showbiz reportage by numbersWed May 05 2021 - 22:00
Tommie Gorman’s Ireland, Cancer and Me could have been riveting, emotive TV. It wasn’tTV review: Most of the programme is about important but obtuse changes in the HSEWed May 05 2021 - 11:32
Inside the Northern Bank robbery: ‘I was waiting for the bullet in the back of the head’TV review: Several moments chill the blood in ‘Heist: The Northern Bank Robbery’Mon May 03 2021 - 22:35
Line of Duty finale: Have we just sat through our final Ted talk?TV Review: After ‘a mental 10 years’ it seems mad to quit the UK’s most popular dramaMon May 03 2021 - 10:58
Rag’n’Bone Man: ‘Every cool venue I used to go to is now gone’The music business has changed since Rory Graham hit big with Human – and so has heSat May 01 2021 - 05:00
GunPlot introduces us to a gallery of … well, were they rogues, patriots or victims?TV review: RTÉ’s Arms Crisis documentary has elements of a John le Carré thrillerWed Apr 28 2021 - 22:50
What is Death Note, and is it really Ireland’s Netflix favourite?An international survey of search data finds Ireland’s most Googled Netflix property in 2021Tue Apr 27 2021 - 13:43
Starstruck: A giddy confection that helps rehabilitate the romcomTV review: Rose Matafeo’s new show is Notting Hill for Generation InstagramTue Apr 27 2021 - 13:22
Secrets of the Whales: Is the House of Mouse taking the mickey?TV review: A visually stunning Disney+ series that improves with the mute buttonThu Apr 22 2021 - 14:37
A European Super League? The Derry City story shows what being a soccer fan is really aboutTV: Different League is a timely chronicle of Derry’s mid-1980s League of Ireland arrivalTue Apr 20 2021 - 16:25
Kate Winslet is riveting in Mare of Easttown. Her Irish pronunciation not so muchTV: This murder mystery is a Springsteen song repurposed as high-calibre proceduralTue Apr 20 2021 - 09:30
Colm Tóibín: ‘I don’t think I learned anything at all from cancer’TV review: On Memory’s Shore is an enjoyable portrait of the unshowy authorMon Apr 19 2021 - 22:30
Leonardo: Aidan Turner has great stubble, but don’t expect Bridgerton-with-brushesThe canvas cracks a bit when the Irish actor is called on to channel Leonardo da Vinci’s virtuosityFri Apr 16 2021 - 11:40
Game of Thrones 10th birthday quiz: Why did Jon Snow leave Winterfell?Can you name the direwolves? Tell Lyanna Stark from Lyanna Mormont? If so, play onFri Apr 16 2021 - 01:00
Frank of Ireland: If you like toilet humour, you’ll love Brian and Domhnall Gleeson’s new comedyTV: The Gleesons are a lively double-act, and the scatological jokes arrive at an impressive clipThu Apr 15 2021 - 22:30
Game of Thrones is 10 years old ... and already feels irrelevantTwo years ago, the world was transfixed by the TV fantasy show. Now we see how shallow it wasThu Apr 15 2021 - 06:00
The US version of The Circle is brasher, more annoying – and twice as addictiveSeason two review: Netflix has dropped four episodes at once, with more arriving weeklyWed Apr 14 2021 - 14:22
‘Fame? If you have any personal demons, you’re quite not prepared for it’Hannah Reid of London Grammar on saying whatever she wants after struggling with successTue Apr 13 2021 - 05:00
Mary Coughlan revisits her past: ‘It was everywhere. Bags of cocaine, champagne and tequila’TV review: In ‘Keys To My Life’, well known people travel to the places they have livedMon Apr 12 2021 - 10:00
Sarah McInerney and Fran McNulty are solid, but Prime Time has gone gaudyTV review: RTÉ made a song and dance about the show’s makeover and ‘super high tech’ studioWed Apr 07 2021 - 00:11
Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic – Is this for real?TV review: This Tiger King film feels slightly patched together, but it’s still grippingTue Apr 06 2021 - 06:00
Iarnród Enda: Alan Partridge might have dreamed this up in a desperate pitching sessionTV review: It’s hard to dislike Enda Kenny pedalling along Ireland’s old railway linesMon Apr 05 2021 - 22:05
Give me a crash course in ... nonfungible tokensThe hot internet trend for people with all the money in the world and nothing to spend it onSat Apr 03 2021 - 06:00
Taylor Swift is having a better lockdown than any of usSomething about the great pause gripping the world has brought out the best in herSat Apr 03 2021 - 05:00
You’ve had lockdown fatigue. Now comes lockdown-documentary fatiguePandemic 2020 review: We’ve all endured a lot. Few have endured as much as these peopleThu Apr 01 2021 - 22:00
Grey’s Anatomy catches Covid-19 – but it’s nothing seriousSeason 17, episode 1 review: It’s springtime in Seattle, and Covid has hit like a hurricaneWed Mar 31 2021 - 23:30
Martin King reveals how dementia, like a monster in the night, crept up on his family‘We Need To Talk About Dementia’ explores one of the leading causes of death in over-65sSun Mar 28 2021 - 23:15
Line of Duty episode two: 60 minutes of twists, turns and – hang on, Jimmy Savile?TV review: You’ll need a lie-down after this onslaught of twists, turns and Adrian DunbarSun Mar 28 2021 - 22:45
Ben Howard: ‘England at the moment – it’s quite a strange place’Devon musician on beatnik grandfather, definitions of folk and weaving truth and fictionSat Mar 27 2021 - 05:00
In 50 years this will probably be a museum exhibit about the pandemicTV review: ‘This Is My House’ wouldn’t have got past the elevator pitch before the pandemicWed Mar 24 2021 - 22:00
Bernard O’Shea and the ‘did you leave the immersion on?’ school of Irish comedyTV review: Bernard’s Working Comics seldom ventures beyond surface-level laughsMon Mar 22 2021 - 22:20
Line of Duty: Episode 1 of series 6 explodes from the trapsKelly Macdonald’s new character is plunged straight into action in Line of Duty’s sixth seriesMon Mar 22 2021 - 00:01
Julie Burchill: Her apology, publisher problems and history of weird ideas about IrelandThe British columnist apologised this week for ‘racist comments’. It didn’t end thereFri Mar 19 2021 - 11:45
Lana Del Rey: Chemtrails Over the Country Club review – A low-key masterpieceUS singer stands tall as pop’s most singular talent with new ‘country folk’ albumFri Mar 19 2021 - 10:15
The Late Late Show St Patrick’s Day Special: It was cheesy, misty-eyed – and just rightThe historic broadcast made it a little easier to feel green on a strange March 17thThu Mar 18 2021 - 00:45
Caroline Flack was subject to bile as vicious as that directed at Britney SpearsTV review: Documentary on death of Love Island host confronts culture of online abuseWed Mar 17 2021 - 22:00
My Little Big Day: A beacon amid the dreariness of Covid-19TV: There isn’t much to this film. But there wasn’t much to the daily life we miss so much, eitherMon Mar 15 2021 - 22:35
Bloodlands finale review: Confusion, contrivances and coincidences aboundAs a glowering antihero James Nesbitt saves a silly, overbaked seriesSun Mar 14 2021 - 22:25
Oprah with Meghan & Harry: One by one the bombshells dropTV review: The couple’s devastating interview is a damning portrait of Britain’s sacred institutionMon Mar 08 2021 - 08:24
Smother: This is what an Agatha Christie-themed Glenroe looks likeTV review: Restrained Dervla Kirwan steals the show from melodramatic Seána KerslakeMon Mar 08 2021 - 00:25
Irish people are too polite to make Eating with the Enemy workVirgin Media’s new show can’t deliver on its promise to pit clashing egos against one anotherThu Mar 04 2021 - 14:49
Arab Strap: Older, wiser and still miserableAidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton are back together, with a definite middle-aged tingeThu Mar 04 2021 - 05:00
‘I don’t even know when I was born’: Scale of illegal adoption is hard to take inTV review: RTÉ Investigates – Ireland’s Illegal Adoptions lets victims speak for themselvesWed Mar 03 2021 - 23:05
Max Clifford: A grubby predator operating in plain sightTV review: Max Clifford – The Fall of a Tabloid King refuses to glamorise its wicked subjectTue Mar 02 2021 - 14:53
Julien Baker: ‘I feel this need to be transparent about what the lyrics are about’Singer talks about her latest album and her revelations around sobriety and faithSat Feb 27 2021 - 00:00
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry – A bit eye-rolley, a bit woke, a bit Spinal TapFilm review: This isn’t a warts-and-all peek behind the pop-star curtain, but it is absorbingFri Feb 26 2021 - 09:37
Gordon Ramsay’s Bank Balance: A few cheese boards short of a four-course mealTV: The funniest thing about this quiz show is how invested the chef is in the game itselfWed Feb 24 2021 - 22:40
