Ireland event guide: The Rocky Horror Show, Public Image Ltd and other best things to do this week
August 9th-17th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
The Music Quiz: The title of Wonderwall was inspired by a solo album by which Beatle?
Plus: In 2002, Oasis requested the British army to withdraw a recruitment video that used which song?
Leah Stack: ‘Horses can be quite unreliable at times ... so I have a few backup investments’
Kildare showjumper Leah Stack is competing at the RDS Dublin Horse Show
Jerry Fish: ‘I’m a London-born Dub but I discovered most of my DNA is from exactly where I now live’
The musician talks about the last wolf in Ireland, long-term grief and his happiness at being a father
Event guide: The Weir, Kilkenny Arts Festival and other best things to do in Ireland this week
August 2nd-8th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
The Music Quiz: The Undertones’ Top Twenty features lines from which T Rex hit?
Plus: The Bear includes which former member of hip-hop collective Odd Future?
Naomi Moore: ‘I’d love to go back to having no fear of anything’
The chief executive of Windmill Lane Recording Studios talks about summer childhood, family values, and being born ‘under a lucky star’
The Guide: Billie Eilish, Mogwai, All Together Now and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
July 26th-August 1st, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
The Music Quiz: The Cranberries song Yeats’ Grave quotes from which of the great man’s poems?
Plus: What was the original name of Kilkenny alt-metal outfit Kerbdog?
‘I wear the same shoes and clothes all the time, which means I don’t shop often’
Me & My Money: Kyla Cobbler, comedian
Four music books chart unconventional lives in the industry
Influences and life moments behind the musicians from the ‘70s to ‘90s are revealed
Ireland’s ‘film censor’ Ciarán Kissane: ‘My mother told me I watched too much TV and now I watch movies for a living’
Director of Irish Film Classification Office on the magic of scuba diving, being a glass-half-full person, and his grandfather’s sudden death
The Guide: The Murder Capital, Cian Ducrot, Forest Fest and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
July 19th-25th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
New Irish albums reviewed: Sons of Southern Ulster, Poor Creature, Darragh Morgan, The Swell Season and California Irish
July 2025 releases include Through the Bridewell Gate, All Smiles Tonight, Forward and more
The Music Quiz: Which Co Meath town is mentioned in CMAT’s song The Jamie Oliver Petrol Station?
Plus: Madonna’s 2005 song, Hung Up, samples which ABBA song?