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Carlyle will star alongside Martin Compston, Vicky McClure and Adrian Dunbar in series seven

Kin gave RTÉ of its biggest ratings hits since its previous big crime show, Love/Hate

From a warm, funny series about connection to the embodiment of cuddly evil, these are the recent(ish) shows I’ve liked most

Clinton calls on ‘slow-walking’ US department of justice to ‘get the files out’ with some 3m documents being withheld

February 15th-19th highlights: including The Tony Blair Story, Yellowjackets, and 56 Days

Threats to a free press from oligarchs are now greater than ever, warns journalist as he departs reporting role

Director-general Tim Davie tells staff broadcaster aims to trim annual budget by hundreds of millions of pounds

Speaking of strange islands, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor’s less famous brother Charles has a documentary on Prime Video

You tune in expecting scorched earth insights into the fundamental ugliness of humanity – but instead it’s a glorified David Attenborough documentary

Nobody wants casting directors to be administering DNA tests to establish the genetic suitability of auditioning actors

February 8th-14th highlights, including Lord of the Flies, The Summit, and How to Get to Heaven from Belfast

Radio: Vetaran broadcaster is flooded with messages from wellwishers as he leaves his weekday slot on Newstalk

News that the food guru is to join the Channel 4 cookery show has sent journalists crackers

Nasa’s avoidable tragedy exemplified 1980s overconfidence and haunted a generation, but the allure of space exploration endured

Mayo-born actor on her new play at the Gate Theatre, getting a ‘cringey’ photo with Joanna Lumley and Jennifer Saunders, and coming from a long line of women who ‘live into their 100s’

Cast as a traitor, the communications executive from Newry has played a brave yet clever game. But is it over?

Labour peer was sacked as UK’s ambassador to US when details of his support for Epstein emerged

Television: In series four of the critically adored HBO/BBC drama Mickey Down and Konrad Kay have broadened the canvas and darkened the picture

The former Republic of Ireland goalkeeper was asked for his thoughts on Nancy’s reign on BBC’s Final Score show and replied with insensitive language

January 11th to 16th highlights: Industry returns; Room to Improve in Raheny; Neven’s in Northumberland; Any Given Day at CUH

Television: With three gimmicks in the latest UK series, the makers seem terrified of the blueprint going stale

The first season of the BBC’s John le Carré spy story aired a decade ago. The sequel has arrived via an unusual route

Public broadcasters are under scrutiny like never before and even their legitimacy is being questioned

Television: The class distinctions will quickly bore Irish viewers, but the mystery is at least compelling

Jan 3rd-9th highlights: RTÉ favourites like Room to Improve return, BBC crime dramas reboot and streaming giants unleash big-budget programmes

Television: Suave sleuth Jonathan Pine (Tom Hiddleston) emanates movie star glamour, but the world he inhabits is notably murkier than before

There is a sense of being caught between outdated structures and increasingly unstable new realities

Including Industry, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Tip Toe, Lord of the Flies and Grown Ups

Pommel horse specialist won Ireland’s first gymnastics gold medal

When ill with the flu, I craved quizzes, recovering animals and countryside homes

I’m taking a break from the ‘gradual erosion of self-worth’ and staying firmly in outie mode

Television: Oh, for a gag about breaking wind or a well-deployed single entendre to interrupt the monotony

Irish actors to appear alongside new series cast members Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Roth

Be it animated adventures, a ghost story, comedy or music, there’s plenty to see on the festive entertainment roster

Few industries have escaped our hapless misuse of this troubling technology

The stars of Hamnet, Chloé Zhao’s Oscar-tipped film, talk Shakespeare, acting and growing up in different Irelands

One of the many negative effects of the housing crisis is making Ireland a cold place for culture in all its forms

The clue is in the title: this BBC show moves people

Northern Irishman becomes first golfer to win award since 1989

US president accuse British broadcaster of splicing two parts of speech ahead of 2021 US Capitol riot