Michael C Hall: ‘We’ve tried to lead with the music’Dexter star on Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum and shifting from messenger to messageSat Dec 04 2021 - 05:00
Never come between an Irish person and their 1970s bungalowTV: My Bungalow Bliss turns out to be as bog standard as the homes it sets out to transformWed Dec 01 2021 - 22:35
Hawkeye’s been missing the target. At last it’s taking offTV: The least interesting Avenger has finally perked up in Disney+’s small-screen spin-offWed Dec 01 2021 - 12:50
Nils Frahm: ‘Spotify and Apple encourage a way of listening that is only half-ass’Clubbers adore the German musician, as do classical aficionadosWed Dec 01 2021 - 05:00
‘Joe said he’d kill Rachel if he got away with it’: The capture of an Irish murdererTV: The Case I Can’t Forget calmly charts Joe O’Reilly’s arrest and trial for Rachel Callaly’s deathMon Nov 29 2021 - 22:35
The Late Late Toy Show review: If you didn’t cry a little, you must be made of LegoIt isn’t about the toys or Broadway routines, but it’s the most watched programme in IrelandFri Nov 26 2021 - 22:35
The Late Late Toy Show: Everything you need to knowDon your jingliest, jangliest elf hat. It’s going to be a jungly Late Late Toy Show 2021Fri Nov 26 2021 - 08:45
Other Voices: From small beginnings to a must-play gig for musiciansHow the founder went from scrambling to fill seats to having the biggest artists on the line-upWed Nov 24 2021 - 05:00
David O’Doherty, the anti-Tommy Tiernan, is funny by osmosisTV review: Along for the Ride with David O’Doherty, a perfect vehicle for his quirky witTue Nov 23 2021 - 16:50
A tale of two dysfunctional institutions: Fleet Street and the British monarchyTV review: It’s a fascinating mess. Thank goodness we don’t do things like that over hereTue Nov 23 2021 - 13:20
Anna B Savage: ‘I lost all my self-confidence. I just kind of crumbled’For the musician, identifying with a Sally Rooney character was a jarring revelationTue Nov 23 2021 - 05:00
I’m a C-list Celebrity… Get Me Out of North Wales!Richard Madeley is as close as it gets to real celebrity in the 21st season of the annual creep-out showMon Nov 22 2021 - 12:45
The Wheel of Time is the latest fantasy to plunder Irish culture. Are we okay with that?The Wheel of Time’s plentiful borrowings lean into a long-running fantasy clicheMon Nov 22 2021 - 05:00
Tiger King, season two: A lazy cash-grab sequel that has nothing to sayTV review: Millions of subscribers bayed for more Joe Exotic content. Netflix found a wayWed Nov 17 2021 - 08:00
Should religion be part of Northern Ireland’s ‘pathway to peace’? I’m none the wiserTV review: Mary McAleese fails to answer the central question her documentary posesTue Nov 16 2021 - 10:40
How Top Gear switched off the insults, turned on the tears, and drove to petrolhead paradiseEpisode 1 of the new series proves wrong those who say Top Gear is just for dinosaursSun Nov 14 2021 - 23:05
Idles frontman Joe Talbot: ‘A lot of the criticism of us was my fault’The British-Irish bank have been mocked as preachy punks, but they’re ready to move onThu Nov 11 2021 - 05:00
Don’t numb yourself to the callousness at Tuam mother and baby home. Stay angryTV review: For the makers of The Missing Children, this isn’t history. It’s unfinished businessWed Nov 10 2021 - 14:45
‘There’s a generation of young female artists who are all about oversharing’Singer Holly Humberstone on her ‘lockdown career’ and the influence of Damien RiceWed Nov 10 2021 - 00:00
The Outlaws: Christopher Walken isn’t doin’ enough talkin’The Hollywood star seems to have gone walkabout for much of Stephen Merchant’s comedyTue Nov 09 2021 - 17:36
Keelin Shanley’s final recordings help us think about living and about dyingTV review: Faraway, Still Close includes the late journalist’s taped messages to her childrenMon Nov 08 2021 - 22:35
Hidden Assets: An unlikely mishmash of suicide bombers, Irish gangsters and Angeline BallTV review: The Irish-Belgian-Canadian drama is Irish stew with moules-frites and maple syrupSun Nov 07 2021 - 22:30
Tamara Lindeman: ‘People have this weird moralising when it comes to climate’Weather Station singer on acting, authenticity and crisis concept behind her new lpSat Nov 06 2021 - 05:00
U2: Your Song Saved My Life – The pipe and slippers phase of the megastars’ careerThe band’s new track is like a slowed-down Beautiful Day bobbing in a huge mug of OvaltineWed Nov 03 2021 - 20:51
The emotional texture of an Irish wedding: Nerves, giddiness, joy, banalityTV review: RTÉ’s The Irish Wedding is about the event itself, and says little about marriageTue Nov 02 2021 - 00:01
For Doctor Who fans, the next five weeks could be a trial by TardisIn Doctor Who: Flux, John Bishop undergoes a body transformation worthy of Christian BaleMon Nov 01 2021 - 15:25
Kin ends with a shameless rip-off of The GodfatherClare Dunne is utterly convincing as a grieving mother turned avenging angelSun Oct 31 2021 - 22:35
Kin finale: Eight questions the last episode must resolveAfter seven sometimes thrilling, sometimes plodding weeks, season one concludes tonightSun Oct 31 2021 - 12:15
There’s no drama at John Connors’ Acting AcademyHis show about actors from marginalised backgrounds is humanity TV, not reality TVWed Oct 27 2021 - 22:11
Breastfeeding My Boyfriend: Queasy viewing of a weird pastimeTV review: Channel 4 gawps without analysis at some people with an unusual hobbyTue Oct 26 2021 - 16:44
Without Gunther, Friends would have been very differentJames Michael Tyler – more barista than actor – was recruited from a Hollywood coffee shopMon Oct 25 2021 - 15:30
Joe Lycett vs The Oil Giant: Goliath walks away unhurtTV review: Celebrity-led documentaries can be powerful, but this one fails to hit its targetMon Oct 25 2021 - 13:30
Kin review: Let’s hope the finale is better than the uneventful penultimate episodeIt’s hard not to feel that episode 7 could have been efficiently compacted into episode 8Mon Oct 25 2021 - 00:15
Tori Amos: ‘We all carry around our damage’Ocean to Ocean is the artist's latest album, written shortly after the death of her motherSat Oct 23 2021 - 05:00
Four Hours at the Capitol: ‘I was not going to die on the f**king floor of Congress’TV: The January 6th riot looked like a closing scene of the Trump freak show. It was much worseWed Oct 20 2021 - 22:30
Impeachment: Another Monica Lewinsky story, another easy smearing of a womanTV: American Crime Story flubs its retelling of Lewinsky’s affair with President Bill ClintonTue Oct 19 2021 - 22:15
Succession series 3 review: TV’s smartest, cruellest, funniest show runs out of storylineThird time out, the novelty, such as it was, is starting to wear slightlyMon Oct 18 2021 - 22:00
Kin episode 6 review: The Michael Corleone of the Kinsellas emergesClare Dunne is the black sheep who rejects a life of crime, then becomes the brains of the outfitMon Oct 18 2021 - 00:26
Adele, the wine-bar Wagner, is back. So is her new single any good?With Easy on Me, after a six-year recording hiatus, Adele is back in the business of being AdeleFri Oct 15 2021 - 09:53
Reservation Dogs: Deliciously bingeable and quietly provocative underdog taleTV: New series set on Native American reservation upends coming-of-age narrativesThu Oct 14 2021 - 09:05
Barney Curley: The life story of a very Irish sort of scoundrelTV: The Man Who Beat the Bookies told the tale of a hustler turned philanthropistTue Oct 12 2021 - 09:41
Kin episode 5 review: Family bonds crack as an explosive finale beckonsCiarán Hinds’s thuggish godfather targets the Kinsella children Anthony and AnnaSun Oct 10 2021 - 22:30
Finneas O’Connell: ‘Being as famous as Billie seems like a drag’Billie Eilish’s brother on working with his sister, setting career goals and his new LP, OptimistSat Oct 09 2021 - 05:00
The Altered Hours inject doomed Irish romanticism into psychedelic rockThe band’s gorgeously melodramatic second album, Convertible, is a gripping listenSat Oct 09 2021 - 05:00
Ian Rankin’s Murder Island: Forget whodunnit. This is more of a whywatchit?The superstar crime writer’s contribution to this reality show won’t enhance his reputationWed Oct 06 2021 - 12:53
The Wolf of Wall Street meets Glenroe: Ireland at the height of the Eircom bubbleSold: The Eircom Shares Saga is riveting as an oral history of another great Irish debacleMon Oct 04 2021 - 22:35
Agnes O’Casey looks like she is going to be a starTelevision: Sean O’Casey’s great-granddaughter is riveting in BBC’s Ridley RoadMon Oct 04 2021 - 10:30
Kin is slowly turning into RTÉ’s best drama in yearsEpisode four review: A tense confrontation shows the crime drama at its bestSun Oct 03 2021 - 22:30
‘Is this some This Is Your Life s***e?’ Bob Geldof looks uncomfortable on his Late Late hagiographyTwo-hour broadcast is brisk and banter-filled while Mary Robinson creates sparkSat Oct 02 2021 - 12:47
What is Squid Game, Netflix’s ultraviolent breakout hit show?Heavily indebted people play games in the hope of winning a cash prize. You lose, you dieThu Sept 30 2021 - 11:45
