Dr Marie Cassidy brings a deep sense of justice to documentary on Ireland’s Last Witch Trial
Television: The former State Pathologist presents in a sober style and uses her expertise well to convey the severe punishment suffered by the accused
The Strokes in Dublin review: Last Nite and a blistering New York City Cops bring an out-of-body moment to 3Arena
Julian Casablancas and co serve up the sort of nostalgia that their overwhelmingly Gen Z audience craves
The Future with Hannah Fry on BBC Two: Just as humans stuck gorillas in zoos, could AI do the same to us?
Television: Despite being hopeless on Celebrity Traitors, scientist Hannah Fry is on much firmer ground with a deep dive into the subject of machine learning
Brandon Flowers at 3Olympia review: A master of arena rock still excited by his hits
In Dublin, Flowers exudes rock-star magnetism, his new country-rock-themed material topped off with a murderously enjoyable Killers hits set
The One About Matthew Perry on Netflix: Sad portrait of a much-loved actor who couldn’t love himself
Television: What really comes across in this well-intentioned documentary is the Friends star’s loneliness
Dónal Lunny work on Kate Bush’s defining album brought his music to its widest audience
Singer wanted The Hounds of Love album to draw on her Irish heritage, which led her to Dublin and a lifelong friendship with Lunny
My Chemical Romance: The Black Parade 20th Anniversary Edition – One of the few albums from 2006 that may live forever
The band’s operatic rock is made for our era of reduced attention spans, pivoting from punk to prog and back with such feral joy that you can’t not pay attention
Haunted Dancehall 2026 at NCH: Kelela brings superstar aura to risk-taking festival’s first night
Review: The avant-garde R&B singer embodies the genre-blurring ethos of a line-up that also features Nashpaints, Shampain, Voice Actor and Proc Fiskal
Nobody Wants This on Netflix: Chicken dipper TV – not unpleasant, but eminently disposable
Television: This third season bobs along in a pleasant middlebrow haze, with no sense that anything is ever at stake
The Experiment on Channel 4: An unflinching and provocative horror show dressed as satire
Television: No punches pulled as connection is drawn between Nazi dehumanisation of disability and modern day demonisation of disabled people as ‘benefits scroungers’
A Course Called Ireland review: Bill Murray leaves no cliche unbothered in this schmaltzy Oirish tour
Faux-trad diddly-dee muzak, the strategic deployment of the word “feck” and jokes about the Irish and their quirky patois
The strange but true story of the Daddy Cool disco divas
Warring egos, studio shenanigans and bad blood taken to the grave: after a turbulent career, the band are bringing their farewell tour to Ireland
Liam Gallagher, who hasn’t released a worthwhile song since 1995, is wrong about Fontaines DC
Liam Gallagher has accused Fontaines DC of ‘not being good enough’ to open for them despite releasing five dud-free albums while Oasis rack up a fortune as a nostalgia jukebox for Gen-Xers
Viral stars Angine de Poitrine at Vicar Street review: Silly, sublime, scintillating
Even in the TikTok era a band cannot thrive on huge rubber face masks alone. Angine de Poitrine have the tunes to go with the absurdist threads
Celebrity Traitors: Is James Acaster the worst Traitor in the history of the show?
Television: This tepid second season needs to find a way to raise the temperature in the time remaining