'OK, you get that corner . . .'TV Review: The way Roddy Collins tells it in The Rod Squad , when he mentioned to John Courtney that Carlisle United was for…Sat Aug 09 2003 - 01:00
I'm a cad: get me out of hereTV Review: 'They're doing this because I'm a complete shit," explained James Hewitt as to why a camera was following him about…Sat Jul 26 2003 - 01:00
A proud tradition of effing and blindingBad language has gained new respectability, and swear words which oncewere taboo have lost their shock value, writes Shane Hegarty…Sat Jul 12 2003 - 01:00
Impossible dreamProfile: From the playing fields of Meath to the newsrooms of Dublin, LiamHayes has come a long waySat Jul 12 2003 - 01:00
Tuning in to the high price of Irish gigsIt has proved an expensive summer to be a music fanSat May 31 2003 - 01:00
Living with the wreckageTV REVIEW: For a documentary one might have presumed would be about death, Crash was instead about lifeSat May 31 2003 - 01:00
One for the scrapbookTV Review: The least palatable thing about The Real Father Ted: A Portrait of Dermot Morgan came before it startedSat May 17 2003 - 01:00
Theatre for twoThey used to head for the pub after a production; now it's home to a cup ofcocoaMon Feb 24 2003 - 00:00
Make your waves, your wayOne million Irish people went on package holidays last year, and the Holiday World Experience at the RDS offers plenty of choice…Fri Jan 24 2003 - 00:00
Sopranos reign supremeTV 2002: Have you had enough of reality yet? The answer, it would appear, is yesSat Dec 28 2002 - 00:00
Sole scribe, present and correctHow Jonathan Franzen must relish these words: "I'd be delighted if the audience for serious fiction increased by an order of …Sat Nov 16 2002 - 00:00
Drama as exotic as a tea bagITV run stings to mark the ad breaks during those "Drama Premieres" that spread like oil slicks across its schedule every Monday…Sat Sept 28 2002 - 01:00
'West Wing' has the power when it comes to awardsTV Critic: The West Wing was the big winner at this year's Emmy awards, held in Los Angeles on Sunday night.Tue Sept 24 2002 - 01:00
Richard and Judy unpluggedHusband-and-wife TV presenters Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan have made their reputation covering everything from cookery …Wed Sept 11 2002 - 01:00
The good, the bad and the ugly on the boxWith summer over, it's time to settle down to an autumn of new televisionMon Sept 02 2002 - 01:00
Trainspotters from the deepTV REVIEW: We never met the wives of Noel and Roy Spence, but they must be very patient women indeedSat Aug 17 2002 - 01:00
Few questions, less answersTV REVIEW : Prime Time RTÉ1, Tuesday, Wednesday; Questions and Answers , RTÉ1, Monday; Auf Wiedersehen Pet , BBC1, Sunday Teachers…Sat May 04 2002 - 01:00
Straining the telly standTV Review: The attack of the feature-length episodes continues uncheckedSat Apr 13 2002 - 01:00
Scared waiting for answersTV REVIEW: Prime Time (RTÉ 1, Thursday) Smallpox: Silent Weapon (BBC2, Tuesday) No Tears (RTÉ1, Monday) Questions and Answers…Sat Feb 09 2002 - 00:00
Misplaced sympathies on planet EarthA selection of this week's television programmes reviewed, including No Tears , Conor Cruise O'Brien: The Suspecting Glance, …Sat Jan 19 2002 - 00:00
The secret is in the soakingIf this makes any sense, it will be a minor miracleSat Dec 29 2001 - 00:00
On the right trackKen Loach's The Navigators was a drama set around the privatisation of the British railwaysSat Dec 08 2001 - 00:00
Scoring an own goalThings are moving so slowly in On Home Ground that even one of its own characters seemed to collapse into a coma with the stagnancy…Sat Dec 01 2001 - 00:00
Drifters, dreamers, chancersFor a programme about three men, possibly the most authentically female moment in Bachelors Walk came at the very end of the …Sat Nov 24 2001 - 00:00
Brothers in armsLast week, one of the battle scenes in Band of Brothers was so powerful that the sound of a shell exploding during one particularly…Sat Nov 10 2001 - 00:00
On mullets and bulletsIf ever there was a documentary that could be used to determine one's generation, it is The Road To God Knows WhereSat Oct 20 2001 - 01:00
It's a bachelor's lifeIn Bachelors Walk, Barry - part-time theatrical agent for buskers, full-time dosser - has the best linesSat Oct 06 2001 - 01:00
The meekest linkPeople used to hate Eamon Dunphy, something that is recorded in one of Ireland's finest novelsSat Sept 22 2001 - 01:00
Hope. Disbelief. Fear. Life. History.You will have an image that sticks in your head, which you keep replaying in your mind. The plane hitting the second towerSat Sept 15 2001 - 01:00
RTE's festival fare stuck somewhere in timeIn the ever competitive, slick, demanding world of modern television, there would seem to be little room for parochial, twee …Wed Aug 29 2001 - 01:00
Grim tales of warIf there was any moment this week to make you do a double take, it was when, in Townlands: If These Walls Could Talk, a young…Sat Aug 25 2001 - 01:00
Many ways to test your mettleIt was one of those weeks in which you found yourself watching television through your fingersSat Aug 11 2001 - 01:00
Pointless, watchable rubbishThey probably don't get ITV in Tonga, but if they managed to pick it up with the aid of a coconut shell and bamboo satellite …Sat Jul 21 2001 - 01:00
Godot finally arrivesBeckett On Film - RTE1, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, ThursdaySat Mar 24 2001 - 00:00
