Charli XCX: Music, Fashion, Film review – Grimy indie rock somehow makes self-absorption attractiveWhat must it be like to be Charli XCX in a post-Brat universe? The singer tells you all about it on this engaging, spirited LPFri Jul 24 2026 - 18:49
Beta Band at Vicar Street review: Brilliant boffins are still playing by their own wonky rulesThe re-formed group’s set brims with singalong moments and has an audience streaked with grey partying like it’s literally 1999Thu Jul 23 2026 - 14:48
Testimony on RTÉ One: Why didn’t Ireland do more to help victims of Magdalene laundries?Television: Aoife Kelleher’s film hums with a taut, sustained rage as it chronicles the years of thankless, thwarted work by campaignersWed Jul 22 2026 - 21:15
Building Ireland on RTÉ One: Exploring an Irish town ripe for rediscoveryTelevision: Athlone is a place ripe for discovery - a mission undertaken in this very watchable episodeTue Jul 21 2026 - 19:00
Garbage at Iveagh Gardens review: An exhilarating display of grunge pop – but is it their last gig?Dublin concert is a celebration of band’s 30-year history of romping, stomping pop-rockSun Jul 19 2026 - 13:53
Reality check: Can Julian Casablancas and The Strokes really save rock’n’roll?The Strokes are about to release a new album, Reality Awaits. A lot has changed in the 25 years since the band’s first Irish gigSun Jul 19 2026 - 05:22
Trinity’s Treasures with Ruth Negga on RTÉ One: Why restrict such a good idea to just one college?Television: With all the learning and accomplishments of Irish institutions RTÉ has – presumably for budgetary reasons – limited its scope here to Trinity College Fri Jul 17 2026 - 20:30
Paul Mescal turns songwriter on Gracie Abrams’s new LP, an album of dark thoughts lurking beneath polite songsOn Daughter from Hell the pop star doggedly maintains her familiar register of mid-tempo indie introversionThu Jul 16 2026 - 18:01
Breith, Beatha, Bás on RTÉ One: Charming snapshots of ordinary lives in a changed IrelandTelevision: The simple stories unpacked here depict an Ireland that has undergone huge upheavalsThu Jul 16 2026 - 18:00
The Hawk on Netflix: A tin-pot show with Will Ferrell stuck in the bunkerTelevision: This golf romp tries to replicate the magic of a genre whose time has passedThu Jul 16 2026 - 07:16
Austin, season two on BBC One: A well-judged and charming comic take on neurodivergenceTelevision: In real life, Michael Theo, who portrays Austin, is neurodivergent. There are loads of laughs, though never at the character’s expenseFri Jul 10 2026 - 09:07
Jack White: Frozen Charlotte review – Agreeable, moreish and very, very Jack WhiteishJack White still sings like a tomcat, and his caterwauling guitar keeps up his career-long argument for songs that chuck in every kitchen sink to handFri Jul 10 2026 - 04:27
Little House on the Prairie on Netflix: This gritty take on Laura Ingalls’ memoirs is no nostalgia bingeTelevision: Beautiful to look at and well-acted this revived series is so slow-moving as to appeal only to hardcore Laura Ingalls Wilder fansThu Jul 09 2026 - 06:07
Heart of a Servant: The Father Flanagan Story on RTÉ One – A national celebrity in the US shunned in IrelandTelevision: Fascinating story of an Irishman who became a pioneering advocate for the downtrodden in the US but was quietly written out of the history of his homelandMon Jul 06 2026 - 17:15
Dylan Gossett at Iveagh Gardens review: A blue-collar rock hero wrapped in country coloursA gritty voice, old-school country instincts and an enthusiastic Dublin audience combine for an impressive performanceSat Jul 04 2026 - 08:39
Madonna: Confessions II review – The star’s most confident record for yearsConfessions II boldly reasserts Madonna’s belief that the dance floor is where you go to forget yourself and discover who you really areFri Jul 03 2026 - 17:33
Elle on Prime Video: 1990s nostalgists will find lots to admire but are they the target audience?This Legally Blonde prequel raises all sorts of questions – to which there are no obvious answersThu Jul 02 2026 - 06:00
Réabhlóid Mheiriceá – Na Laochra Gael on TG4: Brisk account of Irish role in birth of the USCormac Ó hEadhra makes for chipper company as he introduces a host of colourful characters written out of historyWed Jul 01 2026 - 21:15
Wild Cherry on RTÉ One: Bingeably ridiculous capering tale of rich people’s bad behaviourTelevision: On paper, Wild Cherry reads like a blizzard of bad taste, yet somehow walks the line between glossy soap and gritty dramaWed Jul 01 2026 - 13:27
Ethel Cain at Fairview Park: A mesmerising performer with a beautifully cinematic voice The American singer-songwriter brings atmosphere, intensity and emotional depth to a captivating Dublin performanceSun Jun 28 2026 - 12:30
The Cure at Marlay Park: Rainswept gloom purveyors shine in an apocalyptic heatwave Robert Smith and co deliver magnificent performance for black-clad fans under aching blue skySat Jun 27 2026 - 00:03
The Wow! Signal review – Only Muse can make this gravity-defying sound. It’s ludicrous but great funThe trio’s 10th album, a glam odyssey, fuses metal, techno, science fiction and prog rock into an overstuffed inferno of absurdityFri Jun 26 2026 - 14:49
Grand Theft Auto 6: Why all the fuss about a video game that hasn’t even been released yet? The GTA franchise has clocked up sales of €8bn, and the latest release has been hotly anticipated for yearsFri Jun 26 2026 - 06:00
Stranger things have happened than the prospect of Messi vs Pico Lopes – but not manyFor many League of Ireland fans, this is our Italia 90 moment - our summer party, our time in the sunFri Jun 26 2026 - 06:00
The Bear, season five, on Disney+: This is a long goodbye with genuine sizzleFinal season is more about the experience than story as Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri and co return for last ordersFri Jun 26 2026 - 06:00
The American Experiment on Netflix: Tom Hanks doc explores the US’s rocky road to ‘greatness’Television: More than 60 experts, including Mike Pence and Hillary Clinton, weigh in on the US’s origins and enduring fabulosityThu Jun 25 2026 - 14:59
House of the Dragon review: This scorching Game of Thrones prequel is top-drawer fantasyTelevision: Like its predecessor, House of the Dragon has defied the naysayers to deliver a compelling watchTue Jun 23 2026 - 14:23
Singer Lucy Rose: ‘Almost every doctor I saw was like, Oh, I’ve never treated anyone with this’The singer on being a present parent, refusing to work the room, and coming to accept being diagnosed with a rare life-changing illnessTue Jun 23 2026 - 05:12
Olivia Dean at Marlay Park review: Brilliantly affirmative gig fuelled by approachable star powerOn Sunday, the second of two emotional, sold-out Dublin concerts, the Grammy winner brings her album The Art of Loving vividly to lifeMon Jun 22 2026 - 11:42
Foreign Tongues review: The new Rolling Stones album is freewheeling, frisky and fabulous Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood make growing old sound like the best fun everFri Jun 19 2026 - 05:10
Jeremy Clarkson’s journey from rogue to redemption is complete Jeremy Clarkson’s cancer reveal in the finale of Clarkson’s Farm will leave many quietly admiring the one-time pantomime villainThu Jun 18 2026 - 13:14
I Will Find You review: Harlan Coben deploys new highs of absurdity with typical ruthlessnessTelevision: This romp adheres rigidly to the Coben blueprint and is all the richer for its silliness and its refusal to be boringThu Jun 18 2026 - 06:15
The Light in the Hall: Still Waters review – This compelling thriller is Welsh noir at its bestTelevision: So good it was made twice, Wales provides the perfect backdrop for this tale of skulduggery and conspiracyWed Jun 17 2026 - 15:17
Bad – The Song That Saved My Life review: A U2 anthem linking two extreme trajectoriesTelevision: Bono never forgot his childhood pal Andy Rowen and tapped into his feelings about him for two of U2’s defining early anthemsMon Jun 15 2026 - 12:47
No sleep ’til Wicklow: Mike D brings a note of mayhem to a laid-back Beyond the PaleReview: The former Beastie Boy throws himself around like your dad cutting loose when the wedding DJ plays NirvanaMon Jun 15 2026 - 09:54
Is Olivia Rodrigo covering Fontaines DC and CMAT the pop artist’s bid to garner grown-up cred?With her album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, the singer wants a place as a grown-up artist. She tested the water with her Fontaines DC and CMAT songsSun Jun 14 2026 - 05:22
Olivia Rodrigo’s new album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, is brilliantly catchy and beautifully bittersweet Olivia Rodrigo’s third LP vindicates her willingness to take inspiration from alternative pop’s most woebegone weirdos and wunderkindsFri Jun 12 2026 - 14:17
Brexit - A Very British Civil War review: Ghastly portrait of ruling classes having a larkTelevision: If nothing else, this two-parter achieves the remarkable feat of making you grateful for parish-pump Irish politicsTue Jun 09 2026 - 21:23
BackStory on RTÉ One: ‘Some people would tell me I’m absolutely not Irish... I feel less accepted’ Television: Irish-Zimbabwean singer Siobhán McClean’s return to Africa takes on a new significance unimaginable a decade agoTue Jun 09 2026 - 11:41
No Three Lions: The 10 best soccer bangers, including World Cup Fever and World in MotionThe record industry loves a cash-in, but some songs rise above it all, just as the beautiful game doesTue Jun 09 2026 - 05:21
Making peil from pixels: is the new Gaelic football video game any good? The latest attempt to do digital justice to the GAA is Gaelic Football Laochra by Belfast developer Buck Eejit GamesMon Jun 08 2026 - 13:00
Aldous Harding review: At one point it could be Dolly Parton singing over a David Lynch filmThe indie star’s gift is to make normal life feel like a scary story spun around the campfire – or from a psychiatrist’s couchMon Jun 08 2026 - 09:48
Is it heresy to suggest the World Cup is more fun when Ireland aren’t in it?We all have our favourite World Cup memories, and in most cases, they involve sitting on a couch in a livingroom, staring at the screenMon Jun 08 2026 - 06:00
Niall Horan: Dinner Party review – Sorry, Harry Styles. This is the year’s best 1D albumThe One Direction alumnus knows what he’s good at. This spectacularly unspectacular LP feels rooted in a genuinely optimistic world viewFri Jun 05 2026 - 12:39
Cape Fear on Apple TV+: Schlocky genre revival that’s not half as clever as it thinks it isTelevision: Javier Bardem gets stuck into this script like an unhinged panto-dame, his histrionics leaving his fellow cast – including Amy Adams – at a lossFri Jun 05 2026 - 06:05
Addison Rae in Dublin review: Old school pop star exudes joy and glamour on rainy nightMoving and singing like a Gen Z Britney Spears, few other artists make putting on a show for your fans feel like such uncomplicated funThu Jun 04 2026 - 12:16
Clarkson’s Farm season five on Prime: A cuddly Jeremy Clarkson? On Diddly Squat farm, pigs truly do flyTelevision: Jeremy Clarkson has so thoroughly cuddly-ified himself that it is bracing to recall he was once the most controversial man in BritainWed Jun 03 2026 - 12:18
Paul McCartney: The Boys of Dungeon Lane review – Like a highlight reel of the Beatle’s adventures in rockA postcard from Paul McCartney to his younger self, The Boys of Dungeon Lane is a fine addition to his canonFri May 29 2026 - 00:01
Putin - In Ten Pictures review: An unsettling portrait of a Bond villain made flesh Television: This gripping documentary paints a sobering portrait of 21st-century despotism: suited, booted and ready for its close-upThu May 28 2026 - 20:21
The Four Seasons, season two: Steve Carell was right to bail on this show about pampered midlife AmericansTelevision: Tina Fey is the best thing here, and even she always seems just one eye-roll away from shrugging her shoulders and exitingThu May 28 2026 - 10:00
