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Retro riding: A history of sex on Irish TV, from the Late Late Show to Rivals
Jilly Cooper’s bonkbuster is back on Disney+. Here’s how such shows have developed since TV introduced sex to Ireland in the 1960s
Once We Were Punks review: If you’re over a certain age, this is a moving Irish music documentary
Older punks recall the oddness of once trying to be The Damned in a remote corner of Cavan
Frida Slattery as Herself, by Ana Kinsella: It’s easy to see why this debut excited editors
This is an effortless, elegant and impressive debut from a promising young writer
Uncharted with Ray Goggins: Sergeant-major routine is ditched for a chummy Boy’s Own romp
Television: Riding into the sunset with the actor Liam Cummingham and the comedian PJ Gallagher, it’s like an Irish version of old Top Gear specials
Silvia Gribaudi: Suspended Chorus review – Grace, fluidity and a sense of abandon
Dublin Dance Festival 2026: One-woman show illuminates vulnerability of performers, particularly female dancers who defy Instagrammable stereotypes
‘Please don’t mention anything that happens here,’ Derren Brown says. But I have to tell you about it
At the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, we start to doubt the authenticity of the illusion and wonder how much of what we are seeing has been baked in advance
Cannes 2026: Glamour, sheer excruciation and the vanishing Irish-shot film Bucking Fastard
The festival opened with a very French, very odd ceremony featuring Jane Fonda, Peter Jackson and bad impersonations of Robert De Niro and Julia Roberts
Obsession: The best US horror film of the 2020s – starring a ringer for Paul Mescal
Twisted love story directed by Curry Barker delivers a chilling critique of human relationships
A new Wild Atlantic Way? How nine ‘literary routes’ could form a map of Irish writing
The proposed ‘Literary Ways’ criss-crossing Border counties highlight writers from WB Yeats and Seamus Heaney to Nell McCafferty and Lisa McGee
The Christophers review: Steven Soderbergh’s film scrapes by thanks to a compelling cast
Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel generate a tense and witty dynamic
The Music Quiz: A singer from which Irish band is co-lead in the Irish production of Oklahoma!
Plus: According to Rolling Stone, which guitarist is the King of the Licks?
RTÉ: Saints, Scholars and Scandals by Shane Ross - bringing a sharp eye to barter accounts and clandestine payments
There is an extended profile of Ryan Tubridy - 'RTÉ’s fallen hero' - but Ross reserves most criticism for Moya Doherty and Dee Forbes
Israel through to Eurovision final after shouts of ‘stop the genocide’ during song
Noam Bettan will compete on Saturday night in the boycott-hit 70th year of the song contest, held in Vienna
The BBC’s First Homosexual review: A poignant, revelatory look at an era when gay liberation remained a mirage
In Stephen M Hornby’s play, a young gay man tries to find his way in a hostile 1950s world as the broadcaster investigates ‘the homosexual condition’
The Nuremberg Women by Natalie Livingstone: Memory always a question of where we choose to look
Work builds an archive against absence, showing how the story of Nuremberg has been shaped by the forgetting of women
