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The Black Death: Ghoulish though it may sound, there were upsides ...

The Black Death: Ghoulish though it may sound, there were upsides ...

Historian does not make light of suffering but approaches the subject with sense of derring-do

Wed Jun 01 2022 - 12:16
Claire Byrne Live final episode: The wigged-out current affairs show plays it straight

Claire Byrne Live final episode: The wigged-out current affairs show plays it straight

Series carries on strange tradition of Irish current affairs programming that lurches towards the surreal and bonkers

Tue May 31 2022 - 10:58
Late Late Show 60th anniversary: Charlie Bird celebrates ‘the show that shaped Ireland’

Late Late Show 60th anniversary: Charlie Bird celebrates ‘the show that shaped Ireland’

TV review: Ed Power reviews the Late Late Show 60th anniversary special

Sat May 28 2022 - 11:25
Sharon Van Etten: ‘I realised I haven’t figured out anything at all’

Sharon Van Etten: ‘I realised I haven’t figured out anything at all’

Her extraordinary new album is informed by lockdown, parenthood and trauma

Sat May 28 2022 - 05:00
Obi-Wan Kenobi walks a tight-rope between enjoyable and underwhelming

Obi-Wan Kenobi walks a tight-rope between enjoyable and underwhelming

TV review: It is absolutely okay. And for many Star Wars fans that now feels like a win

Fri May 27 2022 - 14:16
Brendan Gleeson the American is not nearly as agreeable Brendan Gleeson the Irishman

Brendan Gleeson the American is not nearly as agreeable Brendan Gleeson the Irishman

TV review: State of the Union shows Gleeson’s problems as so much more interesting than those of his fictitious spouse

Wed May 25 2022 - 16:43
The menopause and how it affects ‘your brain, your skin, your heart’

The menopause and how it affects ‘your brain, your skin, your heart’

TV review: The Change – Ireland’s Menopause Story a sobering exploration of still-taboo subject

Tue May 24 2022 - 11:37
Eiko Ishibashi: Finding a new direction after the Drive My Car soundtrack

Eiko Ishibashi: Finding a new direction after the Drive My Car soundtrack

The Japanese composer on how prog rock and TV crime drama inspired her new album

Tue May 24 2022 - 05:00
Stranger Things 4, first look review: At first I was bored, then I was bingeing

Stranger Things 4, first look review: At first I was bored, then I was bingeing

Show’s final season feels like a huge leap forward as Netflix supersizes streaming hit

Mon May 23 2022 - 08:34
Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard: What we know with one week of evidence to go

Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard: What we know with one week of evidence to go

The trial enters its final week on Monday, with Heard’s witnesses in the stand

Fri May 20 2022 - 05:30
Derry Girls is comedy gold, but its last episode was no grand finale

Derry Girls is comedy gold, but its last episode was no grand finale

Derry Girls finale review: Alas, the last episode overdoes it with a one hour special

Wed May 18 2022 - 22:03
Joe Wicks’s heroin-addict father, OCD mother and agonising childhood

Joe Wicks’s heroin-addict father, OCD mother and agonising childhood

TV Review: Facing My Childhood sounded an urgent warning on mental health in families

Wed May 18 2022 - 09:57
Conversations With Friends, episodes 1-2: Awkward snogs, intense dialogue and a future star

Conversations With Friends, episodes 1-2: Awkward snogs, intense dialogue and a future star

TV review: Alison Oliver communicates her character’s hyper-introversion brilliantly

Sun May 15 2022 - 23:00
Eurovision 2022: Ukraine ignore political rules to make ‘help Mariupol’ plea

Eurovision 2022: Ukraine ignore political rules to make ‘help Mariupol’ plea

‘Please help Ukraine ... please help Mariupol ... right now,’ say Ukraine’s Kalush Orchestra

Sun May 15 2022 - 00:33

The Essex Serpent: Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston in gripping, gothic TV

For better or worse, this is serious, thinky telly where the serpents are metaphorical

Fri May 13 2022 - 06:00
15-minute city? For many Irish people, that’s the time by which the bus or train is late

15-minute city? For many Irish people, that’s the time by which the bus or train is late

TV review: Róisín Murphy’s Big City Plan feels like a grab-bag of chattering-class talking points

Thu May 12 2022 - 23:15
Ireland at Eurovision 2022: Brooke Scullion’s firework performance goes up in smoke

Ireland at Eurovision 2022: Brooke Scullion’s firework performance goes up in smoke

That’s Rich receives lots of applause yet fails to go through to Saturday’s final

Thu May 12 2022 - 23:08
Fergal Keane: ‘I found myself having nightmares, flash backs…Trying to cure it with drinking’

Fergal Keane: ‘I found myself having nightmares, flash backs…Trying to cure it with drinking’

TV review: Living With PTSD is a gripping exploration of inter-generational pain

Tue May 10 2022 - 11:12
Conversations With Friends, first look review: If anything it’s superior to Normal People

Conversations With Friends, first look review: If anything it’s superior to Normal People

Joe Alwyn is the only weak link. His lack of charisma is a void at the heart of the drama

Tue May 10 2022 - 00:01
Wagatha Christie: Everything you need to know about this week’s libel trial

Wagatha Christie: Everything you need to know about this week’s libel trial

Rebekah Vardy is suing Coleen Rooney for suggesting Vardy leaked stories about her

Mon May 09 2022 - 05:00
Eurovision 2022: Everything you need to know about Ireland’s entry and broadcast times

Eurovision 2022: Everything you need to know about Ireland’s entry and broadcast times

The second semifinal featuring Ireland is on Thursday, the final on Saturday

Sat May 07 2022 - 06:00
Londongrad: Putin’s Billionaires – ‘They knew where the money was coming from’

Londongrad: Putin’s Billionaires – ‘They knew where the money was coming from’

TV review: This Virgin Media One film tells us little of Russian oligarchs’ Irish interests

Tue May 03 2022 - 12:15
Belle and Sebastian going relatively gently into that good night

Belle and Sebastian going relatively gently into that good night

The band's singer Stuart Murdoch on vulnerability, empathy and their potential last album

Tue May 03 2022 - 00:00
Sigrid on Britney Spears, her latest songs and her love affair with Ireland

Sigrid on Britney Spears, her latest songs and her love affair with Ireland

She is counting down to the release of her fizzbomb second album, How To Let Go

Sat Apr 30 2022 - 00:00
Tan France: ‘I thought if I had whiter skin I wouldn’t be called a p*** every day’

Tan France: ‘I thought if I had whiter skin I wouldn’t be called a p*** every day’

TV review: Beauty and the Bleach explores a bias towards lighter skin

Thu Apr 28 2022 - 15:08
Annie McCarrick: ‘No one considered a serial killer. That only happened in other countries’

Annie McCarrick: ‘No one considered a serial killer. That only happened in other countries’

Scannal: Annie McCarrick TV review – RTÉ’s short film is respectful and understated

Wed Apr 27 2022 - 12:58
Inside Facebook’s Metaverse, where racial, homophobic and sexual abuse are rampant

Inside Facebook’s Metaverse, where racial, homophobic and sexual abuse are rampant

Journalist Yinka Bokinni posed as a 22 year-old-woman and a 13 year-old-child for Channel 4

Tue Apr 26 2022 - 15:03
Ed Sheeran live at Croke Park: ‘Nothing beats Saturday night in Croker does it?’

Ed Sheeran live at Croke Park: ‘Nothing beats Saturday night in Croker does it?’

Review: The first of the singer’s series of large Irish gigs was epic and heartfelt

Sat Apr 23 2022 - 23:00
Inside Number 9: Grasping the grim nettle that is existence itself

Inside Number 9: Grasping the grim nettle that is existence itself

The chill factor is dialled up as the Twilight Zone-esque anthology series returns

Wed Apr 20 2022 - 23:45
Let’s Eat Grandma: ‘Trying to make sense of grief in a song was really difficult’

Let’s Eat Grandma: ‘Trying to make sense of grief in a song was really difficult’

The pop duo on coping with bereavement, growing apart and new album Two Ribbons

Wed Apr 20 2022 - 00:00
Derry Girls: Episode two isn’t as spicy as Ryan Tubridy’s interview with the cast

Derry Girls: Episode two isn’t as spicy as Ryan Tubridy’s interview with the cast

TV review: Nor is it as funny as last week, but even in cruise control this show is a hoot

Tue Apr 19 2022 - 21:45
Better Call Saul review: Self-destruction never felt so wholesome

Better Call Saul review: Self-destruction never felt so wholesome

Bob Odenkirk returns for a final season as Breaking Bad’s doomed huckster

Tue Apr 19 2022 - 14:18
Claire Rousay: ‘Touring as a woman, if you don’t protect yourself no one will’

Claire Rousay: ‘Touring as a woman, if you don’t protect yourself no one will’

The avant-garde musician plays Ireland for the first time at the end of the month

Mon Apr 18 2022 - 00:00
Gazza: It was like One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest with Gazza as Jack Nicholson

Gazza: It was like One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest with Gazza as Jack Nicholson

TV review: The first of this two-part series about Paul Gascoigne reeks of deja vu

Wed Apr 13 2022 - 22:00
Derry Girls season 3: We’re Taken by surprise when a certain Irish actor puts in a cameo

Derry Girls season 3: We’re Taken by surprise when a certain Irish actor puts in a cameo

Contains spoilers: On the evidence of this gags-galore first show, the final season will be a blast

Tue Apr 12 2022 - 21:45
Nation of Language: New York indie boards the Trans-Europe Express

Nation of Language: New York indie boards the Trans-Europe Express

The Brooklyn band blend Kraftwerk, early OMD and Gary Numan into something new

Tue Apr 12 2022 - 00:00
Pink Floyd’s Hey, Hey, Rise Up! is their first new material in 28 years – was it worth waiting for?

Pink Floyd’s Hey, Hey, Rise Up! is their first new material in 28 years – was it worth waiting for?

Hey, Hey, Rise Up! by Pink Floyd with Andriy Khlyvnyuk is definitely long – but is it strong?

Fri Apr 08 2022 - 11:07
Single Drunk Female is one of the year’s most radical new shows

Single Drunk Female is one of the year’s most radical new shows

TV review: The Disney+ show is not just another Fleabag – it’s far more interesting

Thu Apr 07 2022 - 15:49
Lucius sprinkle disco glitter over heartache on divorce album

Lucius sprinkle disco glitter over heartache on divorce album

Co-vocalists wrote Second Nature to inspire fans to dance their way out of lockdown

Thu Apr 07 2022 - 00:00
Banks: I finally feel like I kind of know what’s going on – with my fourth album'

Banks: I finally feel like I kind of know what’s going on – with my fourth album'

You have to be more powerful than your own demons, says the goth-pop singer

Wed Apr 06 2022 - 00:00
‘Miaow, miaow, miaow.’ Inside Robert and Ghislaine Maxwell’s toe-curling relationship

‘Miaow, miaow, miaow.’ Inside Robert and Ghislaine Maxwell’s toe-curling relationship

TV review: The House of Maxwell is about a larger-than-life-father and disgraced daughter

Tue Apr 05 2022 - 13:40
Peaky Blinders final episode: Just when Cillian Murphy seemed free of this absurd show...

Peaky Blinders final episode: Just when Cillian Murphy seemed free of this absurd show...

Contains spoilers: The soggy farewell season has unspooled like a series of baroque pop videos

Mon Apr 04 2022 - 17:00
Baz Ashmawy gives us a property show that makes the lips wobble

Baz Ashmawy gives us a property show that makes the lips wobble

DIY SOS: The Big Build Ireland builds a home for motor neurone disease patient Johnny Aylward

Mon Apr 04 2022 - 11:41
The hidden, avant-garde side of Eighties hit machine Daryl Hall

The hidden, avant-garde side of Eighties hit machine Daryl Hall

Record label ‘thought it interfered with their Hall and Oates cash cow. It was angering’

Sat Apr 02 2022 - 05:00
Grammys 2022: Everything you need to know

Grammys 2022: Everything you need to know

On Sunday night, Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo go head-to-head in seven categories

Fri Apr 01 2022 - 16:25
Moon Knight review: Oscar Isaac has drawn the short straw

Moon Knight review: Oscar Isaac has drawn the short straw

The best thing about it is Ethan Hawke, as Moon Knight’s nemesis Dr Arthur Harrow

Thu Mar 31 2022 - 09:39
Was arch-prude Mary Whitehouse really ahead of her time?

Was arch-prude Mary Whitehouse really ahead of her time?

TV review: A new documentary resists painting the moral crusader as a crank

Tue Mar 29 2022 - 22:24
Dancing with the Stars 2022: Nina Carberry triumphs in a lump-in-throat final

Dancing with the Stars 2022: Nina Carberry triumphs in a lump-in-throat final

Erica Cody and Ellen Keane were the true stars of this three-month feel-good contest

Sun Mar 27 2022 - 22:31
Dancing with the Stars 2022: Everything you need to know

Dancing with the Stars 2022: Everything you need to know

A new season has yet to be green-lit. The judges, though, are keen to return

Sun Mar 27 2022 - 15:19
Taylor Hawkins was Foo Fighters’ heart and soul – a bad boy in an age of dull musicians

Taylor Hawkins was Foo Fighters’ heart and soul – a bad boy in an age of dull musicians

The late drummer with frontman capabilities was a throwback to an older kind of rock star

Sat Mar 26 2022 - 16:03
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