Dancing with the Stars week 10: semi-final with a tense dance-off and bloody headbuttTelevision: comedian Kevin McGahern loses out to Suzanne Jackson, as she joins Brooke Scullion, Damian McGinty and dark horse Carl Mullan in the finalSun Mar 12 2023 - 21:30
Wild Isles: Quibbles about ‘our British Isles’ melt away in the face of David Attenborough’s passionAttenborough’s narration – at once stern and cosy – draws you in, as all worries evaporateSun Mar 12 2023 - 20:00
Match of the Day review: After a day of thunderous controversy, a deafening silence swallows BBC OneTelevision: With no Gary Lineker, pundits or commentators, the embattled broadcaster replaces its Premier League show with an eerie highlights packageSat Mar 11 2023 - 23:32
Cheap European Homes: Maggie Molloy’s solution to soaring Irish property prices – move to the Longford of EuropeA couple’s gung-ho move to Portugal says a lot about their adventurous spirit and tells us a great deal about the state of the Irish property marketThu Mar 09 2023 - 19:30
Spencer Matthews’s Everest journey is a reminder that grief can take you to unexpected places ‘The timing isn’t great’: The reality star risks everything to try find his brother’s body in Finding Michael, leaving behind his wife, Dublin podcaster Vogue Williams, and their three childrenThu Mar 09 2023 - 11:39
RTÉ Investigates: Ireland’s Unregulated Psychologists – Devastating public service broadcastingTelevision: One quibble aside, this is a shocking and important exposé of the exploitation of vulnerable families by charlatansTue Mar 07 2023 - 10:27
‘You can’t do what Bill Cosby did unless you have other people supporting what you’re doing’Watching The Cosby Show was a Sunday-evening ritual. The documentary We Need to Talk About Cosby chronicles his unmasking as a serial predatorMon Mar 06 2023 - 10:23
Dancing with the Stars week 9: Twirl too far for Panti Bliss as history-making drag queen voted offIt’s a long walk into the twilight for drag queen Panti Bliss who, with Samson, created history as the first same-sex couple on the showSun Mar 05 2023 - 21:21
Dublin Narcos: How heroin and the drug lords got a death grip on the cityA new look at the 1980s Dublin heroin epidemic and the covert Garda squad that tried to keep pace with the criminals flooding the city with drugsSun Mar 05 2023 - 13:37
Daisy Jones & the Six: Everyone looks perpetually glamorous, but it’s a soulless jingleThe TV drama starring Elvis’s grandchild Riley Keough is at its best when laying bare the misogyny of the music industryFri Mar 03 2023 - 09:14
The Dry: A comedy about addiction that’s all too easy to give upAs alcoholics go, the star of this Dublin-set dramedy seems suspiciously well put togetherWed Mar 01 2023 - 22:10
The Mandalorian season three is drifting in deep space - something is clearly missingTelevision: The first episode is perfectly adequate but a five-star property has become a three-star oneWed Mar 01 2023 - 15:20
Réaltaí na Gaeltachta: A pleasant, Peig-free way to learn Irish Television: This unassuming travelogue will charm even those who wouldn’t recognise a fada in a police line-upWed Mar 01 2023 - 09:10
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? The Cranberries’ debut album turns 30 todayThey were outsiders but, in one of the great self-fulfilling prophecies in Irish music, they quickly conquered the worldWed Mar 01 2023 - 06:00
Stories from the Street: This isn’t misery porn. It’s the grim reality of life without a homeTelevision: Luke McManus’s film, on Virgin Media One, lands its punches yet never strays into voyeurismTue Feb 28 2023 - 12:31
Unforgotten: Sinéad Keenan’s fantastic as the new Nicola Walker. What’s with the accents, though?Television: The Irish actor takes over as the cold-case drama’s outwardly tough, inwardly vulnerable lead detectiveMon Feb 27 2023 - 22:00
Bono, Edge and Letterman mooch about a Dublin so old and gloomy even the crow’s feet have crow’s feetA Sort of Homecoming: U2’s new album prompts the chatshow host’s first visit to Ireland. He lands looking ready for St Patrick: The Grunge YearsMon Feb 27 2023 - 06:00
Dancing with the Stars week 8: Shane Byrne’s luck runs out as Brooke Scullion edges closer to victoryTV: It’s a bittersweet sign-off from the rugby player – comic relief through most of the series – after his American smooth scores a not-at-all shabby 22Sun Feb 26 2023 - 20:55
Meghan Remy: ‘Sinéad O’Connor was a marked woman. People wanted to take her down’U.S. Girls singer is still stung by the hypocrisies of her Catholic upbringing as she releases her new album Bless This MessSat Feb 25 2023 - 00:01
Whatever happened to GPO Girl? The mind-boggling tale of a serial scammer who landed in IrelandTelevision: In 2013 a young woman was discovered, dishevelled and in distress, on O’Connell Street in Dublin. Con Girl retells an extraordinary storyThu Feb 23 2023 - 11:02
Katie Price’s Mucky Mansion: Celebrity Big Brother meets amateur Dermot Bannon Television: As property-makeover show, it’s fine. As a profile in celebrity, it stands on flaky foundationsWed Feb 22 2023 - 13:06
Fleishman Is in Trouble: A dose of fuel-injected narcissism starring Jesse Eisenberg and Lizzy CaplanTelevision: This superficially charming series will entertain those eager to breathe deep of life in chattering-class ManhattanWed Feb 22 2023 - 05:00
Radiohead’s Philip Selway: ‘If Bono is reading, I know all Larry Mullen’s parts’The drummer on his latest solo album, the perils of being a pampered rock star and lessons from their tour with REMWed Feb 22 2023 - 05:00
Super Agers:‘I don’t want to go to heaven just yet. I want to hang out here for a while’Television: Super Agers never condescends to the septuagenarians and octogenarians it shows living their best lives at the outer limits of the ageing processMon Feb 20 2023 - 22:35
Dancing with the Stars week 7: Did the wrong sports star get voted off?Television: An early shower was always on the cards for the former Ireland soccer internationalSun Feb 19 2023 - 21:14
‘We don’t want to dumb ourselves down’: Nova Twins on racism, rocking riffs and ignoring male producersThe English duo ignored lazy industry suggestions they should ‘go R&B’ and are forging their own explosive soundSat Feb 18 2023 - 05:00
Carnival Row: Cara Delevingne’s South Dublin accent is alarmingly not-so-awfulActor Cara Delevingne’s alarmingly not-awful South Dublin accent still front and centreFri Feb 17 2023 - 06:15
Mary Kennedy: ‘I had to give up work when I was 65. I didn’t choose to leave RTÉ’Former Nationwide presenter was obliged to retire. In Mary Kennedy: Fad Saoil she makes the case that older women still have an active role to playWed Feb 15 2023 - 22:30
Home of the Year is back, and a judge is triggered by a cupboard bristling with colourful wallpaper‘The patterns – they belong in there,’ Amanda Bone says with a shudder as RTÉ’s property series returns. ‘I belong out here’Tue Feb 14 2023 - 21:00
Dancing with the Stars week 6: ‘Such a powerful performance, such a powerful message’Panti Bliss, dancing as Rory O’Neill, dedicates his paso doble to the doctor who treated him when he was diagnosed with HIVMon Feb 13 2023 - 12:40
Weyes Blood review: Five stars for Natalie Mering’s gorgeously spectral Dublin concertSinger’s dazzling voice – not to mention banter – helps overcome technical glitches to give outstanding performance at Vicar StreetMon Feb 13 2023 - 09:32
Cops, robbers and nicotine stains: The Gold is a love letter to the 1980s Britain the Irish knew so wellThe BBC’s dramatisation of the Brink’s-Mat heist is slow to get going, but it brilliantly evokes the era of Ford Capris and mandatory office-based sexismSun Feb 12 2023 - 22:00
Jeremy Clarkson’s back on his farm, selling €40 crisps. But he could soon be put out to pastureTV: Clarkson’s Farm went down a treat in Britain, where fans queued up at the Diddly Squat shop. As the second season begins, his biggest headache is BrexitFri Feb 10 2023 - 04:00
‘You have a very strong accent’: Miriam Margolyes hits peak Brit Abroad mode with Lynn RuaneIn Lady Gregory: Ireland’s First Social Influencer the unlikely pair have a merry time traversing Ireland to unpick the Abbey cofounder’s lifeThu Feb 09 2023 - 23:15
Florence at 3Arena: Fans in Midsommar-style garlands hold her gaze obsessively. ‘Is it a cult?’ she jokes. ‘What’s going on?’Florence + the Machine, back on the road after being derailed by a freak injury, put on a frilly, florid and ferocious performance in DublinThu Feb 09 2023 - 10:34
The Secret Artists: A balm for the mind and spirit in a noisy, overwhelming worldThe comic Colin Murphy and a former paramilitary are among the aspiring artists submitting work to the Royal Ulster Academy in Hilary Fennell’s documentaryWed Feb 08 2023 - 23:25
Consent: A teenage sexual attacker swans onwards. His victim’s life is in ruinsTelevision: The Channel 4 drama is a grimly plausible account of a sexual assault and ensuing cover-up at a posh English schoolWed Feb 08 2023 - 12:26
Happy Valley: Is this grim British cop show the best crime drama of the year?The much-hyped season finale packs a punch, even as it descends into sillinessMon Feb 06 2023 - 10:59
Smother: is it an edge-of-seat whodunnit or an over-the-top soap opera?The third and final season of the RTÉ' drama still cannot decide whether it’s an edge-of-seat whodunnit or over-the-top soap operaSun Feb 05 2023 - 22:30
Dancing with the Stars week 5: A one-way trip to light entertainment purgatoryPaul Brogan may have just been voted off the show – but he sounds like the happiest person under the disco ballSun Feb 05 2023 - 21:15
Late Late Eurosong special: It’s not every day you see Jedward give advice to Johnny RottenEurovision 2023: The veteran pop-rock Dubliners Wild Youth edge out 19-year-old Connolly to go forward to this year’s contest in LiverpoolSat Feb 04 2023 - 00:37
Gunther’s Millions: This dog has a mansion, a yacht and a personal chef. But something’s not rightFeaturing a crew of weirdos who help the Alsatian spend its fortune, this Netflix series wants to be the new Tiger KingThu Feb 02 2023 - 13:33
St Brigid the ‘kick-ass warrior poet and goddess’: Siobhán McSweeney finds a very Irish superheroIt would be easy to for Siobhán McSweeney to become lost in the new-age psychobabble surrounding the saint. But this is a heartfelt, illuminating portraitWed Feb 01 2023 - 11:48
‘Every morning I see a penis I haven’t asked to see’: The routine abuse of a woman in the spotlightCyberflashing is just part of what the TV presenter Emily Atack is bombarded with each day. Asking for It? is an unflinching account of many women’s experiencesTue Jan 31 2023 - 22:00
Upfront with Katie Hannon: Strait-laced, a bit po-faced, except when it’s trying to be cuddly. Then it is unbearableTelevision: RTÉ new current-affairs show is off to a solid if not earth-shattering startTue Jan 31 2023 - 06:31
Pamela Anderson: ‘I blocked that stolen tape out of my life, and now it’s coming up again I feel sick’ Pamela: A Love Story, Ryan White’s Netflix documentary about the Baywatch star, finally gives the traumatised actor a voiceTue Jan 31 2023 - 05:45
Dancing with the Stars week 4: Cruella de Vil and her pirouetting pooch axed after a spotty 101 Dalmatians foxtrotTelevision: ‘There was a section where you really lost control,’ Brian Redmond tells the second celebrity to be eliminatedMon Jan 30 2023 - 10:47
The 1975 at 3Arena: ‘You Irish are a simple people. You’re easily pleased – that’s good to know’Matty Healy lives up to his reputation for extravagant gobbiness at the exhilarating Dublin show of a band who know how to hold an arena in their thrallSun Jan 29 2023 - 23:36
Room to Improve: Dermot Bannon goes through the wringer at the end of a season that ‘nearly killed’ himTelevision: The wow wars are only the beginning of Ann-Marie and Andy Gray’s woesSun Jan 29 2023 - 22:30
Weyes Blood: ‘The standard is so low in terms of what young people are used to hearing, it all gets a pass’After her wisely acclaimed 2022 album, Natalie Mering thinks orchestral pop is more radical than ‘boring’ experimental noiseSat Jan 28 2023 - 05:00
