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Waxahatchee: ‘Our last stop on this tour is Ireland. It’s very nice to go out with a bang’

Waxahatchee: ‘Our last stop on this tour is Ireland. It’s very nice to go out with a bang’

In the first of three Dublin shows, the singer treats the sell-out audience to an evening of tidal emotions strummed simply on an acoustic guitar

Sun Apr 23 2023 - 11:01
Dead Ringers review: Rachel Weisz is electrifying and full-on maniacal from the first scene

Dead Ringers review: Rachel Weisz is electrifying and full-on maniacal from the first scene

Television: If you’ve ever flinched watching the Channel 4 maternity ward series One Born Every Minute, Dead Ringers will have you diving behind the couch

Fri Apr 21 2023 - 09:25
Davy’s Toughest Team: The cameras stop rolling – a sign of genuine crisis on reality TV

Davy’s Toughest Team: The cameras stop rolling – a sign of genuine crisis on reality TV

Television: ‘Things have got too dangerous,’ Davy Fitzgerald says as the group prepare to scale an Icelandic volcano. ‘We have to get to the jeep’

Thu Apr 20 2023 - 12:42
The Diplomat: Think Emily in Paris crossed with Hogwarts and a Boris Johnson after-party

The Diplomat: Think Emily in Paris crossed with Hogwarts and a Boris Johnson after-party

Television: Netflix’s new series, starring Keri Russell, is an overcooked example of the streamer’s ‘American goes abroad and is confused’ genre

Thu Apr 20 2023 - 01:00
The Mandalorian: Wacky casting, imploding ratings, tumbling appeal. What’s gone wrong with the Star Wars spin-off?

The Mandalorian: Wacky casting, imploding ratings, tumbling appeal. What’s gone wrong with the Star Wars spin-off?

Television: Jon Favreau’s ‘well-made pulp’ became a phenomenon. But season three has been a letdown. Can its finale arrest the decline?

Tue Apr 18 2023 - 21:00
Sometimes a simple act of kindness can make all the difference in the world

Sometimes a simple act of kindness can make all the difference in the world

Television: Am I Here? is a challenge to anyone who has ever stepped over, brushed past or otherwise ignored a homeless person. To all of us, in other words

Mon Apr 17 2023 - 22:35
999 Faoi Oiliúint: Would a bit more ow factor be too much to ask for?

999 Faoi Oiliúint: Would a bit more ow factor be too much to ask for?

Television: RTÉ’s new series about emergency-service recruits training for the front line has plenty of training but little front line

Mon Apr 17 2023 - 20:30
Angela Scanlon’s Ask Me Anything: The anti-Late Late with an eclectic bunch of headers

Angela Scanlon’s Ask Me Anything: The anti-Late Late with an eclectic bunch of headers

Television: Meath native is one of those rare Irish presenters who comes across as entirely comfortable in their skin, and that makes her hugely watchable

Sat Apr 15 2023 - 22:30
Mark Sheehan: Humble driving force who guided The Script to worldwide success

Mark Sheehan: Humble driving force who guided The Script to worldwide success

Guitarist conjured vast, empathic soundscapes, his virtuosity charged by a desire to connect with the listener

Sat Apr 15 2023 - 12:09
The National: ‘The Irish are such great singers and musicians – it’s almost daunting in a way’

The National: ‘The Irish are such great singers and musicians – it’s almost daunting in a way’

The music almost deserted the Cincinnati band when they began to write their latest album

Sat Apr 15 2023 - 05:00
Metallica, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and more: 20 of the best hard rock albums of all time

Metallica, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and more: 20 of the best hard rock albums of all time

Metal giants Metallica have just released their long awaited new album. Where do the US band sit in the pantheon of rock gods?

Fri Apr 14 2023 - 05:30
Home Rescue: The Big Fix – banishing the ‘floor-drobe’ is the new frontier in home makeovers

Home Rescue: The Big Fix – banishing the ‘floor-drobe’ is the new frontier in home makeovers

Designer Dee Coleman is off to a flying start in her first venture into DIY telly

Thu Apr 13 2023 - 22:30
For an erotic thriller, Obsession’s sex scenes are as titillating as doing the weekend chores

For an erotic thriller, Obsession’s sex scenes are as titillating as doing the weekend chores

Television: Enniscorthy actor Charlie Murphy and Richard Armitage star as doomed lovers sucked into a whirlpool of mutual desire and destruction

Thu Apr 13 2023 - 03:30
Fenne Lily: ‘I find it so frustrating to be angry about stuff. I’m trying to be more chill’

Fenne Lily: ‘I find it so frustrating to be angry about stuff. I’m trying to be more chill’

Everything isn’t amazing. Not for Lily, an indie songwriter whose melancholic new album, Big Picture, was forged amid upheaval

Wed Apr 12 2023 - 05:45
‘What are you crying about? You’ll get another wife’: John McAreavey speaks about Michaela’s murder investigation in new documentary

‘What are you crying about? You’ll get another wife’: John McAreavey speaks about Michaela’s murder investigation in new documentary

Television: BBC NI documentary follows reporters Darragh MacIntyre and Allison Morris as they track down one of the accused

Tue Apr 11 2023 - 11:29
Michaela McAreavey murder: ‘We had no sense of what was to come... it is probably a good job we didn’t’

Michaela McAreavey murder: ‘We had no sense of what was to come... it is probably a good job we didn’t’

In the first episode of Murder in Paradise documentary, the sense is that the bombshells, if there are any, are to follow

Tue Apr 11 2023 - 10:37
Succession: Bombshell for the ages drops in latest episode

Succession: Bombshell for the ages drops in latest episode

The outstanding prestige show of its era has at once stunned viewers while introducing a twist hidden in plain sight all along

Mon Apr 10 2023 - 12:14
‘We needed him and he was there’: how Fr Alec Reid got the IRA to talk peace

‘We needed him and he was there’: how Fr Alec Reid got the IRA to talk peace

Television: RTÉ's The Secret Peacemaker is an excellent portrait of Fr Alec Reid and his pivotal role in persuading the IRA that talking was in the end more productive than slaughter

Mon Apr 10 2023 - 00:15
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker: A long, gripping ride from teen prodigy to financial basket-case

Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker: A long, gripping ride from teen prodigy to financial basket-case

Television: Becker remains an enigma throughout this exhaustive – occasionally exhausting – film

Fri Apr 07 2023 - 13:02
Sharon Horgan and Lily Allen’s Dreamland promised lots of laughs. We barely got one

Sharon Horgan and Lily Allen’s Dreamland promised lots of laughs. We barely got one

Television: Horgan and Allen’s new dramedy has a big problem: it’s just not funny

Thu Apr 06 2023 - 21:30
Beef on Netflix review:  A black comedy where people have nothing left to enjoy but hate

Beef on Netflix review: A black comedy where people have nothing left to enjoy but hate

Television: Road rage is the starting point for a feud that quickly spins out of control where the ‘beef’ is a source of comfort and excitement

Thu Apr 06 2023 - 02:00
The Agreement part 2: When U2 showmanship helped conquer the foundering Yes campaign

The Agreement part 2: When U2 showmanship helped conquer the foundering Yes campaign

Pacy and detailed film examines complicated factors at play in run-up to Belfast Agreement referendum

Tue Apr 04 2023 - 23:20
The Agreement part 1: An unsettling trip back to the era of bullets, Bertie, Blair and Baby Spice

The Agreement part 1: An unsettling trip back to the era of bullets, Bertie, Blair and Baby Spice

RTÉ’s Belfast Agreement documentary sweeps you back to the days when Irish terrorism was routinely in the headlines

Mon Apr 03 2023 - 22:35
Claire Byrne kicks off her TV quizshow. First question: What was RTÉ thinking?

Claire Byrne kicks off her TV quizshow. First question: What was RTÉ thinking?

On Ireland’s Smartest, it seems a waste to have such a good current-affairs presenter posing stumpers about Scooby-Doo

Sun Apr 02 2023 - 20:00
Feist on cancelling her tour with Arcade Fire: ‘I couldn’t continue’

Feist on cancelling her tour with Arcade Fire: ‘I couldn’t continue’

Leslie Feist on the aftermath of learning about allegations against Win Butler, her post-baby album, and ‘singing poorly’ at the Grammys

Sat Apr 01 2023 - 05:30
‘I love coming in to work’: Meet the big players in Ireland’s growing tabletop gaming industry

‘I love coming in to work’: Meet the big players in Ireland’s growing tabletop gaming industry

Slaying monsters, casting spells... business is booming for the creators of RPGs such as Dungeon & Dragons, Warhammer and Broken Weave

Fri Mar 31 2023 - 05:30
Sisters review: They said it was the Irish Fleabag, then the sweary drunks and low-key anti-Semites showed up

Sisters review: They said it was the Irish Fleabag, then the sweary drunks and low-key anti-Semites showed up

Television: The show has some of Fleabag’s cruelty but it lacks its screwball energy and its jokes

Thu Mar 30 2023 - 22:15
Dylan McGrath’s Secret Service: One time villain chef’s kindness matters more than the catering

Dylan McGrath’s Secret Service: One time villain chef’s kindness matters more than the catering

TV Review: Dylan McGrath and the show come from a place of enormous kindness and that, more than the catering, is what ultimately matters

Wed Mar 29 2023 - 22:00
Bear Grylls Meets President Zelenskyy review: TV action man eager to set the world to rights

Bear Grylls Meets President Zelenskyy review: TV action man eager to set the world to rights

In this Channel 4 documentary, Grylls is very good at being earnest and is genuinely moved by the fortitude of Ukraine

Wed Mar 29 2023 - 13:56
Tori Amos at the Olympia: ‘It’s great to be in Dublin. You love people who understand guilt and shame’

Tori Amos at the Olympia: ‘It’s great to be in Dublin. You love people who understand guilt and shame’

The American singer is in snarling, stomping form and delivers a set dripping with emotional gore

Wed Mar 29 2023 - 11:28
If a script called for ‘befuddled Irishman’ who else would you hire but Chris O’Dowd?

If a script called for ‘befuddled Irishman’ who else would you hire but Chris O’Dowd?

Dusty is an Irish schoolteacher who has somehow ended up in small-town Louisiana – one of those amiably bedraggled types at which Chris O’Dowd excels

Wed Mar 29 2023 - 05:00
‘You’re a brave wee peeler, aren’t you?’ In Blue Lights, an uneasy peace grips Belfast

‘You’re a brave wee peeler, aren’t you?’ In Blue Lights, an uneasy peace grips Belfast

Television: In BBC’s gritty new cop drama, an idealistic PSNI recruit is quickly set straight on limits of what police could or should try to do

Tue Mar 28 2023 - 09:38
Succession is back for its final season. It’s firing on every cylinder – and the joke is on us

Succession is back for its final season. It’s firing on every cylinder – and the joke is on us

TV Review: Jesse Armstrong’s dramedy is playing the hits. But what smashes they are. And what zinging dialogue

Mon Mar 27 2023 - 09:52
Great Expectations review: Sweary, scary Dickens sounds interesting until you’re forced to sit through it

Great Expectations review: Sweary, scary Dickens sounds interesting until you’re forced to sit through it

Television: Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight lays the melodrama on with a trowel in this take on Dickens, starring Olivia Colman as Miss Havisham

Sun Mar 26 2023 - 22:00
Baz Ashmawy, after his run-in with protesters, returns with a wonderfully feelgood DIY SOS

Baz Ashmawy, after his run-in with protesters, returns with a wonderfully feelgood DIY SOS

Television: The Big Build Ireland kicks off its new season by making Adam Drummond’s home wheelchair accessible

Sun Mar 26 2023 - 19:30
In the Name of the Son: How a Cork woman who lost three children turned unimaginable grief into saving lives

In the Name of the Son: How a Cork woman who lost three children turned unimaginable grief into saving lives

The tragedies that have scarred Mags Riordan led her to setting up a clinic in Malawi where her third child lost his life

Thu Mar 23 2023 - 23:15
‘Cathal Coughlan was an inspiration’: Robert Forster on The Go-Betweens’ Irish spirit

‘Cathal Coughlan was an inspiration’: Robert Forster on The Go-Betweens’ Irish spirit

Australian songwriter on his friendship with Microdisney, overcoming Grant McLennan’s death, and why superstardom doesn’t appeal

Thu Mar 23 2023 - 06:00
Waco: American Apocalypse review: Portrait of institutional dysfunction makes for gripping viewing

Waco: American Apocalypse review: Portrait of institutional dysfunction makes for gripping viewing

Documentary chronicles catastrophic confrontation between FBI, ATF and David Koresh’s Branch Davidian cult

Wed Mar 22 2023 - 16:33
Gina Birch of The Raincoats: ‘We tried to make something a bit feisty, a bit courageous’

Gina Birch of The Raincoats: ‘We tried to make something a bit feisty, a bit courageous’

The punk icon, who has just made a fantastic solo album, on feminisim, Kurt Cobain and John Lydon

Tue Mar 21 2023 - 05:30
Sebastian Barry on his mother Joan O’Hara’s Sligo upbringing: ‘It was like tar on her shoes’

Sebastian Barry on his mother Joan O’Hara’s Sligo upbringing: ‘It was like tar on her shoes’

Television: The actor was ‘fettered’ by self-absorption, according to Barry, whose father apparently regarded philandering as his mission in life

Mon Mar 20 2023 - 22:35
Kin review: Dublin city is just a moody backdrop as gangsters bumble in the gloom

Kin review: Dublin city is just a moody backdrop as gangsters bumble in the gloom

It looks great but style only goes so far and, two seasons in, Kin’s lack of substance is impossible to ignore

Sun Mar 19 2023 - 22:35
Dancing with the Stars 2023: 2FM’s Carl Mullan wins in one of the biggest shocks in show’s history

Dancing with the Stars 2023: 2FM’s Carl Mullan wins in one of the biggest shocks in show’s history

The 2FM personality comes out on top ahead of bookies’ favourite Brooke Scullion and early frontrunners Suzanne Jackson and Damian McGinty

Sun Mar 19 2023 - 21:15
Dancing with the Stars final 2023: Everything you need to know

Dancing with the Stars final 2023: Everything you need to know

The time, the participants, the routines and some tips - here’s your handy guide to what could be the last episode of one of RTÉ's biggest franchises

Fri Mar 17 2023 - 10:58
A Sort of Homecoming: Bono and the Edge are a revelation as they go back to their roots with cantankerous David Letterman

A Sort of Homecoming: Bono and the Edge are a revelation as they go back to their roots with cantankerous David Letterman

Documentary is perfectly conventional and thumpingly agreeable and heart-warming

Fri Mar 17 2023 - 00:01
Ryan Tubridy’s top Late, Late moments: F-Bomb, Hozier’s Parting Glass, Francis Brennan’s duvet difficulties

Ryan Tubridy’s top Late, Late moments: F-Bomb, Hozier’s Parting Glass, Francis Brennan’s duvet difficulties

Love him or loathe him, Tubs has his share of headline-grabbing moments

Thu Mar 16 2023 - 15:15
Shadow and Bone: Sumptuous saga will appeal to fantasy fans who like a steam-punk twist

Shadow and Bone: Sumptuous saga will appeal to fantasy fans who like a steam-punk twist

Binge-friendly show spins traditional tropes into intriguing new directions that could be called “Romanov-chic”

Thu Mar 16 2023 - 14:53
Ultimate U2: The Irish rock giants’ 20 best tracks, in order

Ultimate U2: The Irish rock giants’ 20 best tracks, in order

The band release Songs of Surrender, featuring rerecordings of 40 songs from their catalogue, tomorrow. Here’s our choice of U2′s best songs

Thu Mar 16 2023 - 06:01
Ted Lasso: You’ll only enjoy this show if you’ve never been near a real soccer match before

Ted Lasso: You’ll only enjoy this show if you’ve never been near a real soccer match before

This feel-good comedy has recast the Premier League as a snuggly sporting Disneyland

Wed Mar 15 2023 - 15:42
Paula Yates documentary is a horribly riveting study in late 20th-century celebrity

Paula Yates documentary is a horribly riveting study in late 20th-century celebrity

Television: A fascinating reminder of anarchy and misogyny of British media in 1980s and 1990s

Tue Mar 14 2023 - 10:34
Brian and Arthur: A Very Modern Family – hiding in plain sight is a film exploring a uniquely Irish dysfunction

Brian and Arthur: A Very Modern Family – hiding in plain sight is a film exploring a uniquely Irish dysfunction

When it comes to surrogacy, Ireland’s legislation is a never-never land with few certainties and much guesswork

Mon Mar 13 2023 - 22:35
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