Four Hours at the Capitol: ‘I was not going to die on the f**king floor of Congress’TV: The January 6th riot looked like a closing scene of the Trump freak show. It was much worseWed Oct 20 2021 - 22:30
Impeachment: Another Monica Lewinsky story, another easy smearing of a womanTV: American Crime Story flubs its retelling of Lewinsky’s affair with President Bill ClintonTue Oct 19 2021 - 22:15
Succession series 3 review: TV’s smartest, cruellest, funniest show runs out of storylineThird time out, the novelty, such as it was, is starting to wear slightlyMon Oct 18 2021 - 22:00
Kin episode 6 review: The Michael Corleone of the Kinsellas emergesClare Dunne is the black sheep who rejects a life of crime, then becomes the brains of the outfitMon Oct 18 2021 - 00:26
Adele, the wine-bar Wagner, is back. So is her new single any good?With Easy on Me, after a six-year recording hiatus, Adele is back in the business of being AdeleFri Oct 15 2021 - 09:53
Reservation Dogs: Deliciously bingeable and quietly provocative underdog taleTV: New series set on Native American reservation upends coming-of-age narrativesThu Oct 14 2021 - 09:05
Barney Curley: The life story of a very Irish sort of scoundrelTV: The Man Who Beat the Bookies told the tale of a hustler turned philanthropistTue Oct 12 2021 - 09:41
Kin episode 5 review: Family bonds crack as an explosive finale beckonsCiarán Hinds’s thuggish godfather targets the Kinsella children Anthony and AnnaSun Oct 10 2021 - 22:30
The Altered Hours inject doomed Irish romanticism into psychedelic rockThe band’s gorgeously melodramatic second album, Convertible, is a gripping listenSat Oct 09 2021 - 05:00
Finneas O’Connell: ‘Being as famous as Billie seems like a drag’Billie Eilish’s brother on working with his sister, setting career goals and his new LP, OptimistSat Oct 09 2021 - 05:00
Ian Rankin’s Murder Island: Forget whodunnit. This is more of a whywatchit?The superstar crime writer’s contribution to this reality show won’t enhance his reputationWed Oct 06 2021 - 12:53
The Wolf of Wall Street meets Glenroe: Ireland at the height of the Eircom bubbleSold: The Eircom Shares Saga is riveting as an oral history of another great Irish debacleMon Oct 04 2021 - 22:35
Agnes O’Casey looks like she is going to be a starTelevision: Sean O’Casey’s great-granddaughter is riveting in BBC’s Ridley RoadMon Oct 04 2021 - 10:30
Kin is slowly turning into RTÉ’s best drama in yearsEpisode four review: A tense confrontation shows the crime drama at its bestSun Oct 03 2021 - 22:30
‘Is this some This Is Your Life s***e?’ Bob Geldof looks uncomfortable on his Late Late hagiographyTwo-hour broadcast is brisk and banter-filled while Mary Robinson creates sparkSat Oct 02 2021 - 12:47
What is Squid Game, Netflix’s ultraviolent breakout hit show?Heavily indebted people play games in the hope of winning a cash prize. You lose, you dieThu Sept 30 2021 - 11:45
James Arthur: ‘If X Factor is finished, then I’m part of the history of that’The singer on lockdown anxiety, imposter syndrome and picking fights on TwitterThu Sept 30 2021 - 05:00
Hector Ó hEochagáin meets the people for whom Irish is ‘more than a language’The high-octane travel TV presenter talks to people who have moved to Ireland from abroadWed Sept 29 2021 - 22:30
‘The best course of action was to have my leg amputated’TV: Bernadette Hagans’s cancer surgery spurred her to enter Miss Northern IrelandWed Sept 29 2021 - 20:00
Kin episode 3 review: The slow-burner finally roars to lifeContains spoilers ... Part 3 of the crime drama delivers dark secrets and explosive set-piecesMon Sept 27 2021 - 00:01
Foundation: It stars Jared Harris, was filmed in Ireland and cost $45m to make. So is it any good?Apple TV+’s $45m epic is Game of Thrones in space, made for the bingewatch generationFri Sept 24 2021 - 12:00
Ringo Starr: I had parties in the 1970s, but you’ll never find any photos of themThe 81-year-old former on rock stars, The Beatles and changing the world with his new EPFri Sept 24 2021 - 01:00
Natalie Imbruglia on Torn’s success: ‘I got a bit agoraphobic. There’s a lot of pressure’The singer on megastardom, being ‘difficult’ and overcoming writer’s block in NashvilleThu Sept 23 2021 - 05:00
Sex Actually TV review: ‘I guess I was thinking … is Kayla enjoying it?’‘I was not prepared for the reality of watching people have sex two metres from my face’Wed Sept 22 2021 - 23:05
The Great British Bake Off review: Remember when it was controversial?TV: Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas return with 12 new contestantsTue Sept 21 2021 - 21:30
Kin episode 2 review: It’s the Plodfather, Part IIThe brooding drama so far lacks the cranked-up energy viewers might have expectedSun Sept 19 2021 - 22:46
Patrick Kielty is back to psychoanalyse Northern IrelandTV review: The comedian explores the North’s centenary in One Hundred Years of UnionThu Sept 16 2021 - 23:59
Cheap Irish Homes: ‘There’s great value out there all over the country’TV review: Enthusiastic Maggie Molloy seeks out super-cheap but non-luxurious dwellingsThu Sept 16 2021 - 21:00
Garth Brooks, you are welcome here. But no drama, please – we’ve been through too muchAfter the Covid crisis and Electric Picnic uncertainty, we can’t handle a year of Garth-guessingWed Sept 15 2021 - 13:00
Fr Niall Molloy: Unpacking the financial dealings between the priest and the Flynns‘The Killing Of Father Niall Molloy’ part 2 concludes the community averted its gazeMon Sept 13 2021 - 23:06
Kin starts like a gloomier Love/Hate – then goes off like a powder kegAidan Gillen, Ciarán Hinds and cast excel in this tale of a blood feud between Dublin gangsSun Sept 12 2021 - 22:40
Colin Farrell – boozy, bearded and brawling – is in his elementReview: The Irish actor brings a Ronnie Drew voice and Dumbledore beard to The North WaterFri Sept 10 2021 - 22:30
Only Fans: Ireland’s X-Rated – ‘If there’s money to be made you have to work’TV: Virgin’s documentary is cheap and cheerful, but its chirpiness comes at a priceTue Sept 07 2021 - 15:20
Claire Byrne, a live audience and no bijou shed in sight. Is this the new normal?TV: The returning Claire Byrne Live doubles down on its magazine-show formulaTue Sept 07 2021 - 10:20
The Killing of Fr Niall Molloy feels too extraordinary to have been realTV review: There was a body in an upstairs room. Blood on the carpet. And a culpritMon Sept 06 2021 - 22:35
The Late Late Show is all over the place - that’s what makes it authentically IrishTV review: Ryan Tubridy - the Timothy Dalton of Late Late anchors - revels in the topsy-turvySat Sept 04 2021 - 10:00
Abba are back – but with weary, washed-out, stiff-jointed musicAbba’s new songs never ignite as you want them to, but if you try to like them you probably willFri Sept 03 2021 - 13:00
RTÉ has tried something new and refreshing: hiring Maura HigginsTV review: Glow Up Ireland is emotional, but it doesn’t have mascara running down its faceThu Sept 02 2021 - 22:35
Surviving 9/11: ‘If I hadn’t gone to the lobby, I would have seen the plane coming towards me’‘There always is that question: why did I make it out? It’s a huge part of who I am’Tue Aug 31 2021 - 12:01
Kanye West’s Donda is, among other things, a message to his estranged wife Kim KardashianThe juddering, relentless album features a cameo from the disgraced Marilyn MansonMon Aug 30 2021 - 12:51
Paul McCartney: The Beatles wrote memorable songs ‘because we had to remember them’‘McCartney 3, 2, 1’ explains why the early Beatles tunes were so supernaturally hummableWed Aug 25 2021 - 13:05
Aaron Dessner: ‘Indie or alternative music is kind of a myth now’The musician on Taylor Swift, his ‘good friend’ Lisa Hannigan and latest album with Justin VernonWed Aug 25 2021 - 06:00
Charlie Watts, Croke Park, 2018. ‘He looked like an office worker clocking in for the day’The late drummer was the cool, calm presence who kept the Stones rolling right to the endWed Aug 25 2021 - 00:40
Love Island 2021: If you didn’t like the series, you weren’t watching properlyWinners Millie Court and Liam Reardon provided much-needed drama in a show many found dullMon Aug 23 2021 - 23:50
25 years after interviewing Donald Trump, Ruby Wax is still getting over it‘Trump scared the s*** out of me,’ says Wax of her interview with the then future US presidentMon Aug 23 2021 - 06:00
Love Island 2021: Five questions the final episode must answerWill Kaz or Tyler win? Will the winner split the cash? And other hugely important questionsMon Aug 23 2021 - 05:30
My dad is gone. There will be no last-minute All-Ireland tickets this yearMemories of matches are precious to me, they were how I got to know my dadSat Aug 21 2021 - 06:00
Nicole Kidman’s new series: As addictive as a Tayto party pack in a detox retreatTV: In Nine Perfect Strangers the actor gives her wellness guru the full Goop loop-the-loopFri Aug 20 2021 - 11:23
Changing Rooms 2.0: ‘Can you smell my thighs burning?’ yells Laurence Llewelyn-BowenTV: The home-makeover show is back from the great crushed-velvet boudoir in the sky. Why?Thu Aug 19 2021 - 13:05
Christy’s Life on the Road: It’s a crying shame they didn’t call it The Bodhrán IdentityTV: Much like Christy Moore, this film is rambling, loquacious and brimming with charmWed Aug 18 2021 - 23:10
