CMAT: Euro-Country review – Dunboyne Diana’s new album delivers joy and sadness in the same heartbeat
Ciara Mary-Alice Thompson’s excellent third album will make you want to cry and dance all at once
Irish Nurses in the NHS review: A wave of women who were Ireland’s loss and Britain’s gain
Television: The 30,000 Irish-born nurses that once worked in the NHS have been relatively overlooked
The Terminal List - Dark Wolf review: This series is fun and much smarter than it needs to be
Television: Dark Wolf is loud and noisy and not for everyone, but packs undeniable punch
Wolf Alice: The Clearing review – Indie royalty go off target in shot at the mainstream
Even Ellie Rowsell’s velveteen vocals can’t rescue the band’s unapologetic attempt to ape Fleetwood Mac
The Hives’ Pelle Almqvist: ‘I believe that in Ireland there is tall-poppy syndrome. There’s a lot of that in Sweden’
The garage-rock saviours never took their popularity two decades ago very seriously, expecting it to vanish, and are pleasantly baffled to see their audience trending towards Gen Z
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox review: Spectacularly odd treatment of a very serious subject
Television: Knox should never have put her name to this whimsical drama that lurches from silly to distressing
Sharon Van Etten at Collins Barracks review: Cult songwriter puts a sublime goth twist on her confessional pop
When Sharon Van Etten plays in Dublin, Collins Barracks is the perfect framing device for a performance wreathed in dry ice and nicely chilled angst
Hostage on Netflix: An incredibly silly premise but the stars Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy throw up sparks
Political thriller’s appeal rests 100% – more if possible – on the star power of Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy
Rose of Tralee finale: An occasionally entertaining, sometimes gruelling watch
The evening chugs by smoothly enough, with the Laois Rose crowned winner, though you wish Kathryn Thomas would stop addressing every Rose as ‘girrrrrl’
Maroon 5: Love Is Like review – Bland on the run
Adam Levine and co deliver 10 tracks that’ll have you urging the UN to declare zesty sax runs a crime against humanity
Rose of Tralee 2025 review: Another batch of warm, likeable overachievers makes for slightly plodding TV
Hosts Dáithí Ó Sé and Kathryn Thomas have negligible chemistry
I’ve seen the future of live music – and it isn’t Oasis
Give me a night of Blackpink’s future-facing cyberpop over cash-grab nostalgia any day of the week
Breaking Out: The remarkable life of gregarious and charismatic songwriter Fergus O’Farrell
Television: O’Farrell’s final years in Schull yank hardest at the heartstrings in this emotionally devastating documentary
Lucy Letby: Who to Believe review - Baffling exploration of convicted neonatal nurse’s case
Television: We learn a lot more about the charges against Letby, while being many times more confused as to her guilt or innocence
Sharon Van Etten on making her latest album: ‘We were trying to conjure as many ghosts as we could’
The New Jersey native talks from her parents’ basement about Sinéad O’Connor, growing older and being an angsty teen