Leftfield’s Neil Barnes: ‘Going through the mill is part of living’Modern electronica kingpin on being galvanised by surviving illness, having depression, being apart from Britpop and the looming release of a new album This Is What We DoTue Nov 29 2022 - 05:00
I’m a Celebrity final: Matt Hancock maintains his dignity as molluscs make a beeline for his crotchTelevision: The British MP is the first of the three finalists to be voted off the TV show as the England football star Jill Scott is crowned queen of the jungleSun Nov 27 2022 - 23:43
Hyperpop princess Namasenda: ‘I love the maximalist thing. I love when a lot of things are happening’ With fans like Charlie XCX, the Swedish artist, who is signed to fashion-forward PC Music, is going places at a dizzying dashSat Nov 26 2022 - 05:00
Late Late Toy Show: We’re all in tears when Saoibh is reunited with the friends she made at hospital Television: It wouldn’t be the Toy Show without a tear-jerker or three. Throw in munchkins, Garda Billy and the women’s soccer team and we’ve reached a state of transcendenceSat Nov 26 2022 - 01:14
The Late Late Toy Show: All you need to know, from hordes of chirruping children to a jolt of jollinessRyan Tubridy: ‘Get the treats in and prepare yourself for what I hope will be the greatest night of the year’Fri Nov 25 2022 - 09:05
Where’s Adrian Dunbar been all this time? Mother of God, at last we have our answer In My Ireland the actor’s clearly enjoying himself. But otherwise this is like being waterboarded by that guy in Temple Bar who dresses as a moth-eaten leprechaunWed Nov 23 2022 - 22:00
Wednesday: The Addams Family gets a Gen Z twist – and Tim Burton gets his mojo backTelevision: Jenna Ortega is a natural as the morbid teen Wednesday Addams. Catherine Zeta-Jones steals scenesWed Nov 23 2022 - 12:06
The single terrible word that still divides Irish people after 20 yearsTV: Saipan – Rebel without a Ball conveys the hysteria that convulsed Ireland when Roy Keane left the World Cup squad after a bust-up with Mick McCarthyMon Nov 21 2022 - 22:35
The Love Experiment: We’re just not right for each otherTelevision: On RTÉ’s new dating show, love seekers must quiz one another, Mastermind style. What was wrong with going to Sinnerz nightclub?Thu Nov 17 2022 - 22:45
I’m a Celebrity: Matt Hancock staggers on. Can he see Love Island on the horizon?Television: The former British health secretary’s arrival caused uproar last week. But opinion appears to have turnedTue Nov 15 2022 - 23:38
Bear Grylls: ‘I’m crying, my parents are crying ... I don’t think I dealt with it particularly well’Television: Louis Theroux hits his stride when he talks to the boy’s own adventure made flesh about boarding school, among other revealing topicsTue Nov 15 2022 - 21:45
‘What the effin’ hell do you think we’re going to do with that?’ How the World Cup was stolenTelevision: Who Stole the World Cup?, about the theft of the Jules Rimet trophy, features honest, decent criminals, lairy coppers and Del Boy–style narrationMon Nov 14 2022 - 23:05
Teletubbies has been rebooted. Is it still the weirdest way to spend 20 minutes?Television: The BBC original charmed kids while triggering lingering dread in their parents. Now Dipsy, Tinky Winky, Laa-Laa and Po are rebooted on NetflixMon Nov 14 2022 - 12:02
Reluctant TikTok star: Going viral was a new experience for Beach Bunny’s Lili TrifilioThe band have been compared to Olivia Rodrigo, and less plausibly, The CranberriesSat Nov 12 2022 - 05:00
The English: Ciarán Hinds is marvellously villainous. Emily Blunt dons a Mary Poppins dress and an Eli Wallach scowlTelevision: The BBC’s new series looks like a western but never particularly feels like oneFri Nov 11 2022 - 00:00
I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! Matt Hancock arrives to stunned looks. Buckle up. There’s no telling how weird this could getTelevision: ‘I can’t help thinking he should be at work,’ Chris Moyles says of the UK’s former health secretary. Boy George looks as if he might quit in disgustWed Nov 09 2022 - 23:12
Secrets from the Showroom: The Office meets Top Gear meets Glengarry Glen RossTV review: It could have been a cruise down misery boulevard, but RTÉ’s portrait of used-car salespeople is appealingly quirkyTue Nov 08 2022 - 13:56
I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here! With no Matt Hancock, it’s a bungle in the jungleTelevision: Without the show’s highest-profile contestant, episode 1 feels like a phoney warSun Nov 06 2022 - 23:49
The Crown season five contains a king’s ransom of inaccuracies. But never mind thatTelevision: Truth and fiction mingle in the Netflix royal drama’s new series. Its showrunner, Peter Morgan, has never pretended otherwiseSat Nov 05 2022 - 08:01
Relentless: The Connacht Way feels like a rugby promo reel, all ruck’n’roll hagiographyTelevision: RTÉ’s hour-long film is watchable and well put together but tells us little about Connacht rugby or its fansThu Nov 03 2022 - 23:15
‘This is not easy for me at all’: Gráinne Seoige makes a deeply personal, sometimes bleak filmTelevision: In Meanapás: Meon Nua, the broadcaster doesn’t try to sell a Hallmark vision of menopause as an opportunity for renewal or self-knowledgeWed Nov 02 2022 - 22:30
First Aid Kit: ‘We couldn’t believe what was happening to us. We just kept going’Sisters are one of the decade’s greatest country rock institutions even if they hail from suburban Stockholm rather than downtown NashvilleSat Oct 29 2022 - 05:00
Kanye West: A creative giant falls to earth, brought down by his own monstrous statementsYe, the hip-hop and fashion colossus, was until recently living proof that, if you’re famous and rich enough, ‘cancel culture’ does not applyThu Oct 27 2022 - 14:21
Build Your Own Home. Just don’t be surprised if the bank won’t fund itIn RTE’s new property show, the bank learns the couple aren’t hiring professionals - and pulls the fundingWed Oct 26 2022 - 22:35
Jimmy Carr Destroys Art: High budget, low concept TVTelevision: What C4 has served up is surface-level exploration of what ‘cancellation’ means leaving little room for nuanceWed Oct 26 2022 - 15:01
My Massive ****: Andy the Dubliner is all jitters. ‘I’m a little nervous. What if it’s not that big?’Television: Channel 4 and the BBC are marking 40 and 100 years on air in very different waysTue Oct 25 2022 - 12:40
Carmen Villain: ‘Model-turned-musician is such a cliche’The Norwegian musician on emerging from the shadow of depression with her critically acclaimed current albumTue Oct 25 2022 - 05:00
House of the Dragon finale review: An orgy of screaming dragons, dying princes and a gruesome stillbirthTelevision: Consider our passion for the Seven Kingdoms thoroughly rebooted. This review contains spoilersMon Oct 24 2022 - 22:10
Dry Cleaning’s Florence Shaw: ‘Life’s a mess ... Things that are black and white frighten me a bit’Not-so-overnight post-punk sensations favour the elliptical over the directly political even if one of their new songs is called Conservative HellSat Oct 22 2022 - 05:00
The Peripheral: Chloë Grace Moretz and Jack Reynor star in stay-in-and-binge prestige TV of the highest quality Television: William Gibson’s sci-fi stories haven’t always worked well on screen. This one nails itFri Oct 21 2022 - 16:25
Taylor Swift: Midnights — A tangled, twisting tour de force that will keep you wide awakeA thread of feverishness ripples through the record, perhaps the most angst-infused the singer has yet released since ReputationFri Oct 21 2022 - 05:01
The most violent show on TV returns, with more roaring geezers and geysers of goreTelevision: Gangs of London, with its roaring geezers and geysers of gore, has everything fans will want as it returns for a second seasonThu Oct 20 2022 - 11:11
Dermot Bannon avoids the preachy architect and ‘property porn’ trapsTelevision: In the midst of a housing crisis, Dermot Bannon’s Incredible Homes must walk a careful lineMon Oct 17 2022 - 05:30
‘For whatever reason, I attract the weirdest people and the weirdest scenarios’Ahead of her Dublin gig, US singer-songwriter Angel Olsen talks about coping with the death of her parents and becoming more confident of her own sexualitySat Oct 15 2022 - 05:00
Rings of Power series review: What a muddle Amazon has made of Middle-earthTelevision: The series was too slow, the finale too rushed, the suspense non-existentFri Oct 14 2022 - 11:15
The Elon Musk Show depicts a soul untroubled by doubt — half-man, half–vaporous ambitionHe’s the most influential entrepreneur of his age but you wouldn’t want to work for himThu Oct 13 2022 - 10:14
How dare you place 50g of food waste in your general bin?Television: Hosted by Maia Dunphy, RTÉ's What Planet Are You On? is like an environmental confession boxTue Oct 11 2022 - 20:00
Brendan Gleeson hosts his first Saturday Night Live. It doesn’t go wellTelevision: He’s one of Ireland’s great actors. But, even when he’s joined by Colin Farrell, it’s fair to say a future in light entertainment doesn’t beckonMon Oct 10 2022 - 05:30
Bill Callahan: ‘America is a very fractured country. We’re not one people’The pessimism of Bill Callahan, the American singer-songwriter, has been tempered by parenthoodMon Oct 10 2022 - 05:00
‘When people say you’ve got a Rugby World Cup medal I feel like a phoney. I can’t remember it’Television: Rugby, Dementia and Me is a moving portrait of Steve Thompson, the former England hooker, whose years on the pitch damaged his brainWed Oct 05 2022 - 22:05
Monday Night Live: The misery express is chugging straight for your living roomTelevision: Oh for Claire Byrne Live, the plague shed and a sprinkling of lunacy to help the misery go downTue Oct 04 2022 - 11:15
The Two Johnnies could be part of Irish life for the foreseeable futureTV review: In The Two Johnnies Do America their persona is that of minor hurlers who’ve got lost on their J1 holidayMon Oct 03 2022 - 22:52
Suzanne Ciani: Diode diva surfs crest of synth wavePioneer of electronic music has prospered in 50-year career despite often playing into the voidSat Oct 01 2022 - 05:04
The Old Man: For Jeff Bridges, finally free of The Big Lebowski, this thriller feels like the start of something newTV: Disney+'s spy series is slow and talky. But it’s worth slogging through to see Bridges and John Lithgow throw sparks off one anotherThu Sept 29 2022 - 15:10
This England review: If you can stomach the material, this show is hugely watchableMichael Winterbottom’s dramatisation of UK’s Covid response portrays Boris Johnson as buffoonish and vain yet essentially well intentionedWed Sept 28 2022 - 15:11
Budget 2023 on TV: David McCullagh and Vivienne Traynor look frosty. RTÉ must have turned off the heat already Today’s coverage intersperses apocalyptic dread with light banter. Sounds like life in general at the momentTue Sept 27 2022 - 19:43
The Kardashians: Khloé’s pain is real. And, just for a moment, the family’s true emotions break through TV review: The show focuses so tightly on presenting the clan as the ultimate role models that there’s normally no room for any hint of grit or messinessThu Sept 22 2022 - 13:12
Crossfire: The BBC should stick to nature docs, and leave action thrillers to the pros TV review: Not even Keeley Hawes’s committed performance can stop Crossfire missing the targetWed Sept 21 2022 - 13:38
Garth Brooks, Hannah Montana and prescription-medication dependency: The unusual life of Noah CyrusIn The Hardest Part, Miley’s sister — and Billy Ray’s daughter — has made a searing, unsparing album about her journey through the dark side of popWed Sept 21 2022 - 05:00
Hang on, this woman looks entirely normal. Shouldn’t she be on a drip?TV review: How Long Will You Live?, the RTÉ health series, puts perfectly average people under the microscope to remind us all that we can do a little betterTue Sept 20 2022 - 21:00
