Niall Breslin

TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight

March 7th-13th highlights, including: All That Remains with Niall Breslin; A Woman of Substance; a new Claudia Winkleman show; and more

Nonfiction books coming in 2026: From a new memoir by Louise O’Neill to Roy Keane’s impact on modern Ireland

Among promising titles are a book about France’s dark side and Jon Ronson’s exploration of multimillionaires searching for meaning in New England

2025 in music: The five best Irish albums of the year

Irish acts have released more than 300 albums over the past 12 months. These are our favourites

Róisín Ingle: I told the world to leave me alone, and it did. Wow

I desperately needed some distraction, and found it in new music from Taylor Swift, Lily Allen and Bressie

Best things to do around Ireland in the week ahead from Halloween festivals to Niall Breslin’s gigs

October 25th-31st, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Bressie’s Christmas: ‘Once someone suggested having duck. It was never mentioned again’

Niall Breslin, musician, podcaster and mental health advocate, talks turkey about Christmas

Bressie on his Army dad: ‘I remember him being picked up to go overseas and you wouldn’t see him for a year. I remember the fear of it’

Niall ‘Bressie’ Breslin is co-founder of Lust for Life, a PhD student, musician and host of Classical Wind Down on BBC Radio 3

The Guide: Jazzy, Kormac, Paco Peña and more events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end

March 30th-April 5th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Bressie aiming to ‘honour’ 1,300 unmarked graves at psychiatric hospital

Project under way to build memorial garden and to restore graves at St Loman’s Hospital in Mullingar

Blindboy, Naoise Dolan, Bressie, Ailbhe Smyth and more on what’s giving them hope for the year ahead

It’s hard to feel hopeful about the world right now, but these writers, broadcasters, entertainers, entrepreneurs, activists and conservationists are reaching for the light

Niall Breslin’s Where Is My Mind? has changed my mind about wellness podcasts

Podcast review: Bressie chooses his guests carefully, and often their insight is enough to make you question accepted thinking

Bressie: ‘I was quite an aggressive person, because I was repressing so much’

The singer, podcaster and children’s book author has found a new contentment. But getting there hasn’t been easy

The Blizzards: Sometimes We See More in the Dark – Garage band rawness

The story of my tattoo: ‘It sounds ridiculous, but it holds me to account’

Hope, love, trauma: Patrick Freyne hears the stories behind people’s body art