The Crown: The queen’s nasty side looms into viewQueen Elizabeth comes across as petty and boorish and the Windsors as a ghastly bunchSun Nov 15 2020 - 06:10
Industry is frantic, cruel and addictive televisionBBC’s gripping new high-finance drama portrays a world of utter immoralityTue Nov 10 2020 - 23:59
His Dark Materials, season two: Frankly it’s a bit of a dragIt has a strong cast, but ultimately Phillip Pullman’s source material is too preachyMon Nov 09 2020 - 14:30
The Den: A brilliantly rowdy return. It’s perfectReview: As Ray D’Arcy reunites with Zig and Zag and Dustin, it’s clear everyone is winging itSun Nov 08 2020 - 20:45
Niall Horan plays a sort-of gig for a kind-of audience. It’s a bit of a triumphIt’s not like being in the Royal Albert Hall. But, for now, it’s as close as any of us can getSat Nov 07 2020 - 23:00
Deirdre O’Kane Talks Funny: RTÉ has another uninteresting – and unfunny – chat with itselfReview: O’Kane is convivial, quick and professional. She deserves a better showSat Nov 07 2020 - 22:00
‘I wish Simon had survived’: BBC reporter on the attack that killed Irish cameramanTV review: Frank Gardner on the trauma of the life-changing injury he suffered in the shooting that killed Simon CumbersThu Nov 05 2020 - 22:00
The return Zig and Zag on The Den: ‘People need a bit of mayhem, madness and boldness’Zig and Zag’s surrealist anarchy might be the Christmas treat that arrives a month earlyWed Nov 04 2020 - 06:00
Marika Hackman: ‘There’s the classic thing where men get called geniuses and women called crazy’The singer gives her take on Radiohead and Beyoncé on her wonderful new albumTue Nov 03 2020 - 05:00
Deliveroo: Secrets Of Your Takeaway – I want my money backReview: The title suggests lifting the lid on the company that has stormed the food industryMon Nov 02 2020 - 23:00
Dead Still: the most ‘un-RTÉ’ thing RTÉ has done in yearsReview: Thriller set in Victorian Ireland is unapologetically pulpy, yet dares to be differentSun Nov 01 2020 - 22:25
Chris de Burgh: ‘To this day, people love Patricia the Stripper’Spanish Train, released 45 years ago, still stands the test of time – except for one songSat Oct 31 2020 - 06:00
Bickering architect and builder take the shine off a feel-good storyTV review: Home Rescue’s Róisín Murphy and Peter Finn are an odd pairingThu Oct 29 2020 - 19:30
‘Black hair is so much more than hair’: Emma Dabiri’s passionate exploration of identityTV review: The Irish author thoughtfully tells the deep truth of centuries of cultural erasureTue Oct 27 2020 - 23:15
The Undoing: Hugh Grant is wonderfully inscrutable as he plays his greatest hitsTV review: An average show elevated by the performances of Grant and Nicole KidmanMon Oct 26 2020 - 22:10
Late Late Show: In Covid-19 Ireland, Tony Holohan is bigger than Bruce SpringsteenReview: The Chief Medical Officer gets star billing above Springsteen and McConaugheySat Oct 24 2020 - 10:17
What Terence MacSwiney’s body went through during his 74-day hunger strikeRTÉ’s sharp-eyed documentary is at its weakest when analysing his physical deteriorationWed Oct 21 2020 - 22:35
The Billion Dollar Art Hunt: Searching for a Vermeer with Martin ‘The Viper’ Foley30 years ago, paintings worth $1bn were stolen in Boston. A Dublin criminal says they’re hereTue Oct 20 2020 - 11:10
If I had a fiver for every time Dermot Bannon says ‘stunning’Dermot Bannon’s Incredible Homes offers some desperately needed light reliefMon Oct 19 2020 - 09:56
BBC delivers a cliché of British TV drama: Sarah Greene’s alcoholic Irish womanGreene plays an Irish journalist opposite Hugh Laurie’s Boris Johnson-like politician in RoadkillSun Oct 18 2020 - 23:41
Trump seriously considered taking the oath of office on his bestseller The Art of the DealTV Review: The Trump Show is a zippy recap of the absurd early months of his presidencyThu Oct 15 2020 - 22:00
Beabadoobee: ‘I make music for girls my age, boys my age, gays my age’The 20-year-old Londoner is unashamedly in thrall to 1990s stars like The CranberriesTue Oct 13 2020 - 05:00
Voyeuristic priests used Confession ‘in an erotic way, drawing out people’s dirty stories’The Confessors: A ‘busy’ Saturday now consists of 6-10 pensioners seeking absolutionMon Oct 12 2020 - 22:35
Samuel L Jackson investigates a crime that spanned continentsThe great historical sin of slavery is framed as a scar on Africa, a stain on Europe’s soulMon Oct 12 2020 - 15:30
Fantasy Ireland review: toothless satire caught in a 1990s time warpReview: Zig and Zag creators Ciaran Morrison and Mick O’Hara wear their 1990s heritage a little too conspicuouslyFri Oct 09 2020 - 07:25
Adult Material: humour cannot keep porn’s horrifying reality at bayTV review: The porn industry is worthy of dissection but this series is more horror than comedyTue Oct 06 2020 - 10:00
The tangle of confusion, hope and fear of school in autumn 2020A Big Week In September captures the challenge of mobilising a generation of childrenMon Oct 05 2020 - 22:35
Speak out against wrongdoing in an Irish workplace, and here is what happensSay ‘whistleblower’ and the Irish hear ‘rat’ or ‘snitch’, this RTÉ investigation foundMon Sept 21 2020 - 22:33
Mary Lou McDonald talks frankly of her struggles with anxietyIn The Meaning of Life, McDonald discusses Covid-19 and confronts the ghosts of IRA victimsMon Sept 21 2020 - 07:30
Life from the age 40 until your first hip-replacement is actually rubbishReview: BBC’s Us tells chilling truths about what happens to relationships in the autumn of lifeSun Sept 20 2020 - 22:45
‘People in raincoats with short hair were going ‘what the f***’s this?’ ’Factory legends A Certain Ratio on Curtis, Martin Hannett, Grace Jones and a new albumSat Sept 19 2020 - 05:00
Netflix’s Nurse Ratched is a pale imitation of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest characterReview: Any resemblance of Ryan Murphy's thrilling curio to One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest is entirely coincidentalFri Sept 18 2020 - 06:00
A line-by-line, death-by-death reminder of the evil of the TroublesUnquiet Graves details the grim work of the loyalist Glennane Gang of the 1970sWed Sept 16 2020 - 23:05
David Attenborough has become the voice of the apocalypseExtinction: The Facts asks whether we can prevent the devastation of the natural worldMon Sept 14 2020 - 16:08
The best 50 Irish music acts right now – in orderIt’s a particularly thrilling time for Irish music – here’s our countdown of the finestSat Sept 12 2020 - 06:00
Bearman of Buncrana: not the odyssey into rural Ireland’s heart of weirdness we wantedReview: The show about wildlife park owner Killian McLaughlin is not as OTT as it should beThu Sept 10 2020 - 21:00
The Deceived: Paul Mescal, as charismatic as ever, but where’s his inner GAA hunk gone?Review: The Normal People star appears in a new thriller from Derry Girls creator Lisa McGeeMon Sept 07 2020 - 23:00
‘Grief has been delayed.’ Love and Loss in a PandemicReview: Unbearable trauma is captured in RTÉ’s respectful, unflinching documentaryMon Sept 07 2020 - 22:31
Late Late Show review: Russell Crowe swigs on a pint and talks scary tarantulasRyan Tubridy captures the hopes, frustrations, heartbreak and weirdness of life during coronavirusSat Sept 05 2020 - 10:20
Suzanne Vega: ‘Fame is the handsome neighbour across the hall’The voice of the 1980s folk explosion talks superstardom, touring and her new albumSat Sept 05 2020 - 06:00
Without Electric Picnic, summer’s end seems strangeThousands should be descending on Co Laois next weekend, but it’s oh so quietSun Aug 30 2020 - 05:45
Roblox: The booming video game that’s now bigger than MinecraftCreated in 2006, the game platform has grown hugely among pre-teens in the pandemicWed Aug 19 2020 - 13:19
The hatred of HP Lovecraft: Racist, anti-Irish bigot and horror masterThat the Irish were among the ‘inferior’ races struck the Rhode Island writer as obviousSat Aug 15 2020 - 05:00
Scarlet for ya: Paul Mescal does classic Connell in The Rolling Stones’ new videoThe Normal People star has more in common with the Stones than you might thinkThu Aug 06 2020 - 20:55
Fontaines DC v The Coronas: Ireland has a Blur v Oasis moment to call its ownBoth bands release albums today. Who’s like the Gallaghers and who like Damon Albarn?Fri Jul 31 2020 - 06:00
The concerts and events still taking place across Ireland this summerGovernment restrictions have limited capacity but some festivals are still onTue Jul 21 2020 - 05:00
Diarmuid Gavin invites us inside his Xanadu of split levels, balconies and fancy foliageGardening Together: Gavin is the Dark Knight to Dermot Bannon’s caped crusaderFri Jul 17 2020 - 20:30
Don’t blame Rupert Murdoch for Covid-19. But everything else ...TV review: Shakespearean bathos hangs over BBC’s The Rise of the Murdoch DynastyWed Jul 15 2020 - 15:59
50 best Irish albums of all time – in orderA list that reflects contemporary Irish music as much as it pays its respects to the pastSat Jul 11 2020 - 06:00
Mrs America: Cate Blanchett and Rose Byrne light up the screenTV review: This dramatisation of US equal-rights battles features megawatt performancesThu Jul 09 2020 - 09:56
