Event guide: Galway comedy, Pillow Queens and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
October 18th-24th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Dara Ó Briain
Electric Picnic 2025: Chappell Roan, Dara Ó Briain and other must-sees at this year’s festival
Music, comedy, podcasts and more from William Orbit, Mango, I Dreamed I Dream and Drinks Theatre
Dara Ó Briain: ‘I’m a man, I can’t manage family at the best of times ... now I’ve willingly taken on a 600% increase in family members’
Ó Briain describes his revelatory new stand-up show about the search for his biological father as like a real-life version of the film Elf
Shona McCarthy, the Irish woman running the world’s biggest arts festival, is heading home: ‘I’m tired. You feel it to your bones’
After 35 years of nonstop work, this ardent advocate for the arts is about to catch her breath
The Guide: Dara Ó Briain, Lisa O’Neill, TradFest and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
January 18th-24th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Five-Ring Circus: Noah Lyles puts his foot down about money-making plan
Olympics 2024: Dara Ó Briain goes green in Paris but the Seine is still polluted
Events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end
July 20th-26th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Rory Gallagher guitar auction causes Liveline listeners to cry blasphemy
Katie Hannon deftly oversees a lively discussion that would surely cause the famously low-key Irish rock star to blush
The Guide: Kilkenny Cat Laughs, Forbidden Fruit and more events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
June 1st-7th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Dara Ó Briain and Josh Widdicombe gleefully dive into the story of the ‘worst footballer ever’
Podcast review: On their way to recounting Ali Dia’s brief appearance for Southampton, the comedians tell a complex, compelling tale
Retained firefighters vote to end strike action and accept deal
Deal brokered at WRC accepted by 63% of Siptu members in ballot but work still to be done, union says
‘We’ve all done it’: Dara Ó Briain offers support to actor after only one person attends her show
Georgie Grier posted message on X about Edinburgh Fringe Festival experience with her one-woman play Sunsets
Dara Ó Briain takes on the moon and the places ‘Irish people know but the British seem never to have heard of’
Television: The Irish comedian’s new show, Wonders of the Moon, has the gently rambling quality of a lecture conveyed by a funny, eccentric professor
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
New drama series starring Sigourney Weaver, Celebrity MasterChef is back, and more
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices