Hania Rani at Vicar Street: An extraordinary show sweeps the audience to a twilight realmReview: The Polish pianist and composer remains under the radar in the English-speaking world. But around Europe she’s a star in the makingWed Oct 25 2023 - 10:39
My BodyFix review: Kathryn Thomas is empathetic as serious health issues sharedTelevision: It’s hard to understand how a heart patient’s health issues are illuminated by the 3D component of My BodyFixTue Oct 24 2023 - 21:00
The Gone: Is RTÉ taking licence-fee payers for fools by passing this off as Irish drama?Television review: At what point does an ‘Irish’ thriller cease to be Irish? The Gone is really a New Zealand tale with a passing Irish involvementSun Oct 22 2023 - 22:30
Give Me a Crash Course in ... the new Rolling Stones album released this weekendA new Rolling Stones album? Aren’t they on a greatest-hits tour until the end of time?Sat Oct 21 2023 - 06:00
Radie Peat of Øxn: ‘I love murder ballads. I’m not mad about the fact it’s always men murdering women’The mood is folk horror meets Krautrock and Celtic folk in the experimental supergroup formed from Lankum and PercolatorSat Oct 21 2023 - 05:20
The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In: Laddism is especially jolting in this attempt to bring 1990s British TV backTelevision: Guests lined up for the first episode remind us that this is, in fact, still RTÉFri Oct 20 2023 - 10:53
The Real Wagatha Story: Most interesting aspect of new documentary is the woman at the centre of itTelevision: New Disney+ documentary follows the faux-scandal but it’s nothing we haven’t seen beforeWed Oct 18 2023 - 14:35
The Reckoning: The BBC ignored Jimmy Savile’s crimes. Now it’s doing it all over againTelevision: As the curtains close, it is still not clear what the BBC had hoped to achieveWed Oct 18 2023 - 10:18
Best Place to Be: If you are looking for advice about starting a new life abroad, don’t ask Baz AshmawyTelevision review: Baz Ashmawy is a past master of feel-good telly and he brings a sparkle to his new frothy lifestyle show about Irish people who have embarked on a new lifeTue Oct 17 2023 - 20:03
‘It’s pretty much my life savings’: A former punk, a Frank and Walter and a Ford factory musicalKevin Fitzsimons is hoping that Twin Flames, set around the Marina in Cork and the old Majorca ballroom in Crosshaven, will sell out its eight-night runTue Oct 17 2023 - 05:00
‘At first I didn’t believe the Irish dancing cheating allegations. Then I felt foolish for not seeing it earlier’Television review: The Year That Rocked Irish Dancing opens before an explosive ‘fixing’ scandal had become publicMon Oct 16 2023 - 23:40
Tony Holohan on The Meaning of Life: Joe Duffy takes off the gloves, but he’s no Jeremy PaxmanTelevision review: Fascinating conversation with Joe Duffy confirms Tony Holohan to be an ordinary man caught up in extraordinary circumstancesSun Oct 15 2023 - 23:00
Troye Sivan: ‘I’m becoming more comfortable with my body and accepting it for what it is’For the first time, Troye Sivan is letting it all hang out – he’s an artist reborn on his new album. The pop star and actor has worked hard to figure out who he isSun Oct 15 2023 - 06:30
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour movie hits Irish cinemas this weekend – am I too late to get tickets?It’s just like seeing the singer in concert. Only you don’t have to take out several mortgages or have anything to do with TicketmasterSat Oct 14 2023 - 06:00
Frasier: The return of Kelsey Grammer’s beloved sitcom after 20 years is a massive letdownTelevision: Kelsey Grammer is clearly enjoying being back as the egghead psychiatrist Frasier Crane, but the jokes and support cast are a big disappointmentFri Oct 13 2023 - 11:00
‘You could say it all started with Charles Self’s murder when we started fighting back against the gardaí'Television review: A horribly gripping episode of TG4′s Irish language documentary series Misneach tells the story of the 1982 murder of RTÉ set designer Charles SelfWed Oct 11 2023 - 22:30
Haircut 100 live in Dublin: ‘There’s love here, isn’t there? Let’s do it!’Irish debut for 1980s pop band filled with upbeat energy and their fan base are thrilled to have themWed Oct 11 2023 - 10:17
‘I timed it so my parents were away at church. I just took off my clothes and set up my little tripod’For Jonny Pierce, of the cult alternative band The Drums, posing naked in an empty house full of traumatic memories was an act of reclamationWed Oct 11 2023 - 05:00
The Reckoning episode two review: How Jimmy Savile became leader of British entertainment’s parade of shame and horrorTV review: At moments The Reckoning is too awful to sit through. At the same time, Steve Coogan’s ability to recreate Jimmy Savile’s cheesy anticharm is uncannyTue Oct 10 2023 - 22:00
The Reckoning: Steve Coogan delivers a powerfully slithering performance as Jimmy SavileTelevision: Drama seems uninterested in the institutional indifference that enabled the DJ’s years of sex abuseMon Oct 09 2023 - 23:44
Big Brother returns, as cynical and airheaded as everTelevision: While Big Brother has been off the air for five years, it’s remarkable how little it has changedSun Oct 08 2023 - 23:43
The Late Late Country Music Special: Patrick Kielty delivers a hoedown brimming with chutzpahTelevision: Some things just can’t be faked. Kielty’s delight when welcoming Declan Nerney and Philomena Begley is 100 per cent genuineSat Oct 07 2023 - 10:33
Fools for Love? Online dating in a cesspit crawling with creeps and compulsivesTelevision: Journalist Aoife Moore investigates the politics of love – and what a horrific subject it turns out to beWed Oct 04 2023 - 22:35
Love in the Country: ‘Anyone working in rural Ireland – it is quite difficult to meet someone’Television: The gentle pacing sets RTÉ’s new dating show apart, with presenter Anna Geary pivoting with ease from the sports field to mainstream entertainmentMon Oct 02 2023 - 22:30
New Order in Dublin: A spectacularly emotive evening retracing the arc of their careerBernard Sumner isn’t the most naturally gifted vocalist and, at 67, he is an endearingly awkward frontmanMon Oct 02 2023 - 10:59
The Money List review: Quizmaster Baz Ashmawy is in his element as people compete for thousands of euroTelevision: It has everything you’d want from a prime-time quiz - psychological torture, knife-edge tension and strangers locked together in sound-proof boothsMon Oct 02 2023 - 09:28
The Graham Norton Show: Lack of A-listers proves the Late Late still has reason to existTelevision: As Norton begins his 31st season on the BBC, there’s no glossing over the sheer RTÉ-ness of the enterpriseSat Sept 30 2023 - 10:34
Nick Heyward: ‘The Fureys’ manager said, I’ve been trying to get my band to wear Aran sweaters their whole career – how did you do it?’Haircut 100 had it all – adoring fans, critical kudos, alluring knitwear – before burning out. Forty years later they’re about to play their first Irish gigSat Sept 30 2023 - 05:15
U2 at the Las Vegas Sphere: 25 dates, $1m a show and 1,586 speakers to blast out the hitsFriday marks the first of 25 shows as part of the band’s UV Achtung Baby Live at Sphere concertFri Sept 29 2023 - 07:00
The Long Shadow: ceaseless retelling of Yorkshire Ripper story for mass entertainment has to stopTelevision: Serial killer drama is sensitive to victims but what is to be gained from revisiting these crimes?Thu Sept 28 2023 - 22:00
Obituary: RTÉ's new dark comedy is ghoulishly good fun. Shame it often forgets the laughsTelevision: Siobhán Cullen gives a powerful central performance as a Gen Z journalist obsessed with deathTue Sept 26 2023 - 23:20
Who Killed Jill Dando? review: Irish viewers will sit up when the action switches to CorkTelevision: The BBC presenter, who was killed in 1999, remains unknowable – another tragic cipher fed into the Netflix true-crime machineTue Sept 26 2023 - 13:02
Grá ar an Trá: it’s all fun and games until Gráinne Seoige swoops in and starts the interrogation Television: It’s encouraging to see Irish presented in fun context, but it feels a bit tacked onMon Sept 25 2023 - 22:00
The Continental: John Wick’s world turns into an all Irish affair and not a begorrah in sight Television: Irish intonations aside, is it any good? Yes – provided you appreciate the manic gunplay of the Keanu Reeves moviesFri Sept 22 2023 - 12:00
The National in Dublin: a night of gusto, gloom and heartfelt melancholia ends in a big, happy sing-along Singer Matt Berninger plunges into the crowd for hugs and selfies like a Taylor Swift for crestfallen middle-aged peopleFri Sept 22 2023 - 09:57
The Super Models: Up close and impersonal with Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Naomi Campbell and Christy TurlingtonTelevision: This documentary knows it is an absorbing portrait of an era when models eclipsed movie stars and beauty was the ultimate commodityWed Sept 20 2023 - 19:00
The Truth About the ‘Skinny’ Jab: Are weight-loss injections a magic wand or potential health disaster?Television: Presenter Anna Richardson explores how drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy work and the potential side effectsWed Sept 20 2023 - 18:29
Neighbours: A New Chapter – Glitzier, starrier and more sexed-up Television: Unsurprising this Ramsay Street revival feels more like a partial reboot from AmazonMon Sept 18 2023 - 15:48
Russell Brand: In Plain Sight review – shocking, ghastly exposé of a litany of alleged sex attacksTelevision: Brand was enabled by those around him as his career took him from Big Brother to Hollywood, says Channel 4Sun Sept 17 2023 - 12:43
The Late Late Show: Slicker, suave Patrick Kielty starts brightly – if better guests lie aheadNew host appears up for the challenge. He certainly isn’t afraid to kick RTÉ where it hurtsSat Sept 16 2023 - 07:02
Phoebe Bridgers of Boygenius: ‘I can go wherever I want for an abortion. We’re singing to kids it’s impossible for’Lucy Dacus, Phoebe Bridgers and Julien Baker on being a band before they were friends, music industry men behaving badly and Sinéad O’Connor’s ‘purity’Sat Sept 16 2023 - 05:30
Seán Quinn on Prime Time: aptly for someone who made his money in concrete, he’s expert at keeping a stony facadeTelevision: 'Forget about what Seán Quinn says,' says Seán Quinn. 'Go by the facts ... what’s on the record'Fri Sept 15 2023 - 10:43
Ghosts of Baggotonia: Homage to a lost Dublin, never to returnTelevision: As an outsider who associates Baggot Street with rugby fans, traffic jams and office workers, it is a revelationFri Sept 15 2023 - 06:00
The Morning Show: Now Jennifer Aniston does a Ryan TubridyTelevision: Season three of the show works thanks to the star power of its leads — Jennifer Aniston and Reese WitherspoonWed Sept 13 2023 - 09:00
Upfront with Katie Hannon: RTÉ's bonfire of the Tubridys has been good TVTelevision: Hannon is effective host but her attempt at a Jeremy-Paxman-style gotcha moment failsTue Sept 12 2023 - 11:27
Johnny Logan: ‘I’ve done my best, I’ve screwed up many times’Television: On Joe Duffy’s The Meaning of Life, two-time Eurovision winner Johnny Logan reveals his spirituality is deeply felt and slightly muddledSun Sept 10 2023 - 23:00
Romy: ‘I’m writing about one particular relationship. It felt new and exciting to be more honest’The xx singer’s new solo album, Mid Air, is searingly personalSat Sept 09 2023 - 05:25
Kristin Hersh: ‘I really liked Sinéad personally. We were the same age. We had records out when we were 19. We bonded over that’The Throwing Muses singer never liked the major-label music business or being pigeonholed – just like her old friend Sinéad O’ConnorSat Sept 09 2023 - 05:15
The Lovers: Meet-cute? Check. Simmering romantic tension? Check. Authentically Irish? Check againTelevision: This romantic comedy starring Róisín Gallagher aims to do for Belfast what Love, Actually did for picture-postcard LondonThu Sept 07 2023 - 21:40
Cheap Irish Homes: ‘Oh my word,’ says Maggie Molloy’s househunter, wowed by an affordable place to liveRTÉ host’s positive thinking during housing crisis has turned her into unlikely property guruThu Sept 07 2023 - 19:35
