Thursday Murder Club review: The weak link here, sadly, is the greatest James Bond of allTelevision: A hollow page-turner adapted for film with all the zing of a lesser season of Inspector MorseFri Aug 29 2025 - 06:00
CMAT: Euro-Country review – Dunboyne Diana’s new album delivers joy and sadness in the same heartbeatCiara Mary-Alice Thompson’s excellent third album will make you want to cry and dance all at onceThu Aug 28 2025 - 11:09
Irish Nurses in the NHS review: A wave of women who were Ireland’s loss and Britain’s gainTelevision: The 30,000 Irish-born nurses that once worked in the NHS have been relatively overlookedWed Aug 27 2025 - 23:30
The Terminal List - Dark Wolf review: This series is fun and much smarter than it needs to beTelevision: Dark Wolf is loud and noisy and not for everyone, but packs undeniable punchWed Aug 27 2025 - 13:51
Wolf Alice: The Clearing review – Indie royalty go off target in shot at the mainstreamEven Ellie Rowsell’s velveteen vocals can’t rescue the band’s unapologetic attempt to ape Fleetwood MacWed Aug 27 2025 - 05:10
The Hives’ Pelle Almqvist: ‘I believe that in Ireland there is tall-poppy syndrome. There’s a lot of that in Sweden’The garage-rock saviours never took their popularity two decades ago very seriously, expecting it to vanish, and are pleasantly baffled to see their audience trending towards Gen ZTue Aug 26 2025 - 05:13
The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox review: Spectacularly odd treatment of a very serious subjectTelevision: Knox should never have put her name to this whimsical drama that lurches from silly to distressingFri Aug 22 2025 - 14:33
Sharon Van Etten at Collins Barracks review: Cult songwriter puts a sublime goth twist on her confessional popWhen Sharon Van Etten plays in Dublin, Collins Barracks is the perfect framing device for a performance wreathed in dry ice and nicely chilled angstFri Aug 22 2025 - 13:23
Hostage on Netflix: An incredibly silly premise but the stars Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy throw up sparksPolitical thriller’s appeal rests 100% – more if possible – on the star power of Suranne Jones and Julie Delpy Thu Aug 21 2025 - 12:22
Rose of Tralee finale: An occasionally entertaining, sometimes gruelling watch The evening chugs by smoothly enough, with the Laois Rose crowned winner, though you wish Kathryn Thomas would stop addressing every Rose as ‘girrrrrl’Wed Aug 20 2025 - 06:16
Maroon 5: Love Is Like review – Bland on the runAdam Levine and co deliver 10 tracks that’ll have you urging the UN to declare zesty sax runs a crime against humanityWed Aug 20 2025 - 05:00
Rose of Tralee 2025 review: Another batch of warm, likeable overachievers makes for slightly plodding TVHosts Dáithí Ó Sé and Kathryn Thomas have negligible chemistryTue Aug 19 2025 - 00:42
I’ve seen the future of live music – and it isn’t OasisGive me a night of Blackpink’s future-facing cyberpop over cash-grab nostalgia any day of the weekMon Aug 18 2025 - 13:19
Breaking Out: The remarkable life of gregarious and charismatic songwriter Fergus O’FarrellTelevision: O’Farrell’s final years in Schull yank hardest at the heartstrings in this emotionally devastating documentaryWed Aug 13 2025 - 08:50
Lucy Letby: Who to Believe review - Baffling exploration of convicted neonatal nurse’s caseTelevision: We learn a lot more about the charges against Letby, while being many times more confused as to her guilt or innocence Tue Aug 12 2025 - 10:51
Sharon Van Etten on making her latest album: ‘We were trying to conjure as many ghosts as we could’ The New Jersey native talks from her parents’ basement about Sinéad O’Connor, growing older and being an angsty teenTue Aug 12 2025 - 05:16
A Year at Kylemore Abbey: Clarkson’s Farm with rosary beads will leave you nun the wiserTelevision: RTÉ pitched this three-parter as an insight to the nuns community, but the focus is firmly on Kylemore Abbey, the tourist spotSun Aug 10 2025 - 19:30
Down with this sort of thing: Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights has naughty nuns, whips and a thirtysomething CathySounds disgraceful. When is it out?Fri Aug 08 2025 - 16:29
Ethel Cain: Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You review – Gorgeously vulnerableHayden Anhedönia tucks flashes of pop transcendence into deep folds of ambient popFri Aug 08 2025 - 13:28
MasterChef 2025 review: The cursed 21st season has made it to air with all hint of flavour removedTelevision: Gregg Wallace and John Torode’s screen time has been minimised and the result is as bland as over-boiled potatoesThu Aug 07 2025 - 11:05
North Circular review: ‘You’d have robbed cars flying around... It used to be chaos, but good fun’Television: Luke McManus’s love letter reveals the down-at-heel glamour of Dublin’s grittier postcodesWed Aug 06 2025 - 23:13
Do You Have ADHD? ‘It feels like there’s always a swarm of bees in my brain’ Dr Karan Rajan’s Channel 4 documentary is an enjoyable introduction to a much-talked-about conditionTue Aug 05 2025 - 20:59
All Together Now 2025 highs and lows: ‘CMAT for president’, €8 for two cans of SpriteCurraghmore Estate was packed with 30,000 festivalgoers overs the weekend. Here’s what we loved and hatedMon Aug 04 2025 - 13:47
Bob Vylan at All Together Now 2025: ‘Our fight is the Irish fight. And the Irish fight is the Palestinians’ fight’ The iconoclastic punks put in a fantastically furious set that breathtakingly meshes punk and politicsMon Aug 04 2025 - 10:48
Bob Geldof glows with awkward-customer energy as Boomtown Rats play All Together Now 2025As the singer condemns Israel’s actions in Gaza, Geldof the crazy-haired frontman and the sweary St Bob of Live Aid immortality are both on showMon Aug 04 2025 - 04:59
Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson: ‘Ryan Tubridy? I love him’The Leeds indie rockers’ frontman on drawing a blank with Bono, getting over Oasis insults and swapping book recommendations with our RyanSun Aug 03 2025 - 05:16
London Grammar at All Together Now 2025: A surprise duet and a rapturous ending from Saturday’s headlinersHannah Reid brings her slowly fizzing charisma to bear on a gripping set that the main-stage crowd laps upSun Aug 03 2025 - 00:12
CMAT’s powerhouse set could be the best performance at All Together Now 2025The country-pop sensation’s music glitters with dark depths during a rollercoaster main-stage turnSat Aug 02 2025 - 22:53
Fontaines DC at All Together Now 2025: Biggest Irish group since U2 hit ferocious highs at all-conquering homecoming gigShow could have been just another festival slot, but Fontaines make it clear they want to leave an impressionSat Aug 02 2025 - 00:41
Wet Leg at All Together Now 2025: Rhian Teasdale’s ex must feel his ears burning during this blistering setOn the Waterford festival’s first night, the zinging alternative anthems are by turns biting, bittersweet, loved-up and scathingSat Aug 02 2025 - 00:03
Mrs Brown’s Boys review: It’s surely time for this dreary and unfunny series to fade from our screensTelevision: After 14 years of this iffy humour, is it time for Brendan O’Carroll to pull the plug on his famous Finglas mammy?Fri Aug 01 2025 - 22:10
Reneé Rapp: Bite Me review – Killer closer brings a so-so second album out of its tailspinReneé Rapp’s grunge-infused track You’d Like That Wouldn’t You pinpoints her as an artist to watchFri Aug 01 2025 - 05:10
Football Families review: Affecting behind-the-scenes tale of what it takes to get to the topTelevision: Insight into Dublin club’s underage academies doubles as a picture of its imperial phase under erstwhile manager Damien DuffThu Jul 31 2025 - 23:10
Review: RTÉ must be commended for unflinching new documentary, but it’s a gruelling start to the weekIt’s a difficult but necessary viewing Tue Jul 29 2025 - 10:09
Billie Eilish at 3Arena review: Pop’s princess of pessimism conquers Dublin – but does she think she’s in the UK?The Birds of a Feather singer’s Dublin gig soars despite a geographical misstepSun Jul 27 2025 - 10:53
Joanna Lumley: ‘I love Ireland as much as you can if you’re not an Irish person’Lumley, a dedicated Hibernophile, was delighted to be in Wicklow filming the second series of Tim Burton’s Netflix hit WednesdaySun Jul 27 2025 - 05:21
Bob Geldof: ‘I never read about myself. I can’t stand the stupid f**king things I say’The singer and campaigner on how music is no longer a pillar of social protest and why it’s no surprise Live Aid sprang from the Irish communitySat Jul 26 2025 - 06:42
Veronica Electronica by Madonna: Lost album is like a postcard from the edge of the rave eraThere has never been a better moment for an outpouring of foot-to-the-floor Madonna nostalgiaFri Jul 25 2025 - 06:00
One Day in Southport: Heartbreaking, and a chilling insight into the new realityTelevision: Director Dan Reed tries to understand the anger that turned town centres across Britain into war zones last yearThu Jul 24 2025 - 22:00
Mrs Robinson review: Ireland’s first woman president deserves better than this often plodding filmStory of Mary Robinson is flattened out into a functional feel-good watchThu Jul 24 2025 - 09:03
Interviewing Ozzy Osbourne: ‘You can’t live that way forever. It catches up with you eventually’The Black Sabbath frontman and reality TV star has died aged 76. Ed Power met him in 2014Tue Jul 22 2025 - 20:42
The Murder Capital at Iveagh Gardens: A killer set subjects leafy Dublin to a satisfying salvo of mosh pit maniaJames McGovern’s onstage persona is a sort of Amnesty International Liam GallagherMon Jul 21 2025 - 13:20
The Narrow Road to the Deep North review: Unflinchingly savage war tale starring Ciarán Hinds is a gruelling watchTelevision: Justin Kurzel’s first foray into television marks a stark departure from the usual Sunday night staples of cosy crime or bingeworthy drama Mon Jul 21 2025 - 12:10
You’ll Be Alright, Kid by Alex Warren: expressive, exhaustive, angsty man-croonBehold, the TikTok star who needs to learn how to play to the gallerySat Jul 19 2025 - 06:00
What does the future hold for popular BBC show Masterchef?Presenter Gregg Wallace was accused of inappropriate sexual language and co-presenter John Torode of racist languageFri Jul 18 2025 - 08:05
Untamed review: Formulaic and a bit cheesy, but it has a nicely noirish zingTelevision: Eric Bana does well with the cliched part of a lone cop whose best friend is his horse, while Yosemite Park is the breakout starFri Jul 18 2025 - 06:00
Listen to the Land Speak review: A meandering love letter to a half-forgotten Ireland Television: Manchán Magan’s latest documentary is set against the backdrop of his stage four cancer diagnosis Thu Jul 17 2025 - 23:10
Mix Tape review: Unspools like a glorified cover version of Sally Rooney’s Normal People Television: Set in Sheffield but filmed in Dublin, the story hangs on the implausible premise of a rekindled teenage crushTue Jul 15 2025 - 21:30
Bill Callahan, high priest of 1990s bedroom angst: ‘Dublin was an early adopter of me’ For many years the indie songwriter refused to talk to journalists, but middle age and parenthood have brought a new mellownessTue Jul 15 2025 - 05:14
Wet Leg’s Rhian Teasdale: ‘I’m doing sexy body rolls, but I’m wearing lobster claws’On Moisturizer, the post-punk band’s thrilling second album, the Grammy-winning singer flexes her rock-star musclesSat Jul 12 2025 - 05:27
