Zayn was always One Direction’s best singer, but his album Konnakol is another missed opportunity
Konnakol could have been so much more than a muffled collection of anti-bangers. In the year of 1D comebacks, Zayn is lost among the trailing pack
A Gorilla Story on Netflix: David Attenborough at his most chill pill-sounding back where it all began
Television: As he approaches his 100th birthday, veteran wildlife presenter catches up with descendants of primates he met on Life on Earth
RTÉ radio wanted more modern jingles. Now it sounds like an illegal rave circa 1989
Ultimate verdict, in the end, rests with us, the listeners
Young Forever: The Death of Ageing? on RTÉ One: An unflinching – even gory – look into the anti-ageing industry
Television: Kathryn Thomas’s thought-provoking documentary explores man and medicine’s quest to delay the ageing process
Euphoria season 3 review: Zendaya, Jacob Elordi and Sydney Sweeney have outgrown this series
Euphoria’s jaded nihilism always had a best-before date, this tawdry, tedious and underwhelming new series suggests it has finally passed
Holly Humberstone: ‘I have to look nice, or my album isn’t going to sell. The same rules don’t apply for dudes’
The singer was still at school when the BBC discovered her. By 2024 she was opening for Taylor Swift – yet she still doesn’t have the music industry all figured out, she says
Tomora: Come Closer review – Mesmerising melding of minds between Tom Rowlands and Aurora
Glittering, supersized dance juggernaut fuses the Chemical Brother’s propulsive electronica and the Norwegian’s icy, eerie singing and production
Intinní Áille – Beautiful Minds: A thoughtful RTÉ documentary on adult neurodivergence
Róisín Ní Thomáin explores whether she may be neurodivergent and hears from parents seeking support for autistic children
The Pitt review: A supremely tense and addictively terse drama. It’s like ER minus George Clooney
Television: Starring Noah Wyle, The Pitt bears a jarring resemblance to the joys of the Irish medical system
Ronan Keating’s Wild Atlantic review: The singer’s grief is raw and real during his travels
Television: Sightseeing takes a back seat as Keating talks about his brother Ciarán, who died in 2023
Belle and Sebastian in Dublin review: A warm, wistful hug of a show from 1990s indie heroes
At the 3Olympia, the Scottish band insult Trump, quote Churchill and serve up winning qualities of nostalgia in charming anniversary concert
Shaun Ryder: ‘Bez and I have had a sexless marriage for 32 years. I’m with him all the time’
The Happy Mondays frontman on living in Ireland, the band’s drug-fuelled Madchester years, and being back on tour
The Young Offenders on BBC One: Lowbrow gags sitting neatly between Benny Hill and Mrs Brown’s Boys
Television: The cast is outstanding, Cork looks great – what a tragedy this can’t aspire to more than old-school British sitcom in a Cork jersey
Dermot Kennedy: The Weight of the Woods review – A landslide of dude dirges
The Irish star’s album is a missed opportunity. As the wonderful Turnstile makes plain, he should be making more indie rock with a pep in its step
Race across the World: Irish dad and daughter enter derring-do spirit of amiable travel show
In tense times, geopolitically speaking, there is an undeniable pleasure in watching people embrace the stress and excitement of travel