Small Prophets on Apple TV: A new genre that is funny, fantastical and heartbreakingly tender
Television: The magical realism is unexpected - it’s like turning on Alan Partridge only for someone to ride in on a dragon
Deepfake Ireland on Virgin Media One: Gráinne Seoige’s distress in this grim film is palpable
Television: Seoige revisits her experience of AI-generated deepfake images while looking at the wider issue of misogyny on the internet
Jake Xerxes Fussell: Why I’m bringing my Napoleonic sea shanties to Ireland
The American singer has become a category of one: a singer with two feet in the past and his head in the present
How Cathal Coughlan and The Fatima Mansions made one of Ireland’s greatest rock songs
Filled with regret after the demise of his forerunner band Microdisney, the Cork songwriter brought all his wrath to bear on Blues for Ceaușescu, a prescient warning about western complacency
The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In review: A turkey with all the trimmings. End this craic attack
Television: The chicken fillet roll has gone cold, the immersion has indeed been left on all night and Mammy is reaching for the wooden spoon
Joy Division: Eternal review – A buttoned-down band unbowed, unravelled and gloriously unleashed
This €124 box set is not the best place for the Joy curious to start. But it is a stunning testament to the greatness of the Manchester four-piece
Celebrity Traitors on BBC One: An ego-filled riot of characters come roaring out of the traps
Comedian Joanne McNally - the inevitable Irish contestant - is keeping her head down and could be a potential dark horse as the action picks up
East of Eden on Netflix: Florence Pugh’s powerful turn threatens to overwhelm this Steinbeck classic
Writer Zoe Kazan has sought to make ghastly Cathy’s character sympathetic, but Pugh has other ideas depicting a ferocious, almost emotionless villain
Blue Lights on BBC One: An unfortunate and cartoonish portrayal of racism in Ireland
There are echoes of British television’s historical tendency to portray Irish people as uncouth bruisers always up for a bit of fisticuffs
Westside Cowboy at Whelan’s review: Like watching tomorrow’s superstars grow up before your eyes
The Dublin entry-level venue already feels far too small for a band who seem to be getting bigger by the week
Taylor Swift’s Showgirl encore: Three superb new songs and a Colin Farrell cameo
Taylor Swift’s The Life of a Showgirl: The Encore feels like a highlight reel of the stadium-filling star’s past decade
Gilla Band: Pugnello review – Magnificently unhinged, hauntingly beautiful
The Irish band’s fourth LP is an endurance test. Stick with it to find diamonds in its void of howling, screeching anti-pop
Youth: This might be the best art-imitates-life show Sharon Horgan has attempted
Television: Now, in her 50s and divorced, she is once again wrenching chuckles from her life via looking‑for‑love‑in‑middle‑age dramedy
Aperitíf on TG4: This First Dates as Gaeilge show is cheap, cheerful and quietly disarming
Television: Must-see viewing this isn’t, but as a no-frills Irish language nightcap, it just about hits the spot
The Great British Bake Off review: Nigella Lawson is charm on a swizzle stick
Television: Lawson understands her job is to sprinkle upper-class fairy dust on an oikish reality show consumed by people who eat microwave food