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Julie Burchill: Her apology, publisher problems and history of weird ideas about Ireland

Julie Burchill: Her apology, publisher problems and history of weird ideas about Ireland

The British columnist apologised this week for ‘racist comments’. It didn’t end there

Fri Mar 19 2021 - 11:45
Lana Del Rey: Chemtrails Over the Country Club review – A low-key masterpiece

Lana Del Rey: Chemtrails Over the Country Club review – A low-key masterpiece

US singer stands tall as pop’s most singular talent with new ‘country folk’ album

Fri Mar 19 2021 - 10:15
The Late Late Show St Patrick’s Day Special: It was cheesy, misty-eyed – and just right

The Late Late Show St Patrick’s Day Special: It was cheesy, misty-eyed – and just right

The historic broadcast made it a little easier to feel green on a strange March 17th

Thu Mar 18 2021 - 00:45
Caroline Flack was subject to bile as vicious as that directed at Britney Spears

Caroline Flack was subject to bile as vicious as that directed at Britney Spears

TV review: Documentary on death of Love Island host confronts culture of online abuse

Wed Mar 17 2021 - 22:00
My Little Big Day: A beacon amid the dreariness of Covid-19

My Little Big Day: A beacon amid the dreariness of Covid-19

TV: There isn’t much to this film. But there wasn’t much to the daily life we miss so much, either

Mon Mar 15 2021 - 22:35
Bloodlands finale review: Confusion, contrivances and coincidences abound

Bloodlands finale review: Confusion, contrivances and coincidences abound

As a glowering antihero James Nesbitt saves a silly, overbaked series

Sun Mar 14 2021 - 22:25
Oprah with Meghan & Harry: One by one the bombshells drop

Oprah with Meghan & Harry: One by one the bombshells drop

TV review: The couple’s devastating interview is a damning portrait of Britain’s sacred institution

Mon Mar 08 2021 - 08:24
Smother: This is what an Agatha Christie-themed Glenroe looks like

Smother: This is what an Agatha Christie-themed Glenroe looks like

TV review: Restrained Dervla Kirwan steals the show from melodramatic Seána Kerslake

Mon Mar 08 2021 - 00:25
Irish people are too polite to make Eating with the Enemy work

Irish people are too polite to make Eating with the Enemy work

Virgin Media’s new show can’t deliver on its promise to pit clashing egos against one another

Thu Mar 04 2021 - 14:49
Arab Strap: Older, wiser and still miserable

Arab Strap: Older, wiser and still miserable

Aidan Moffat and Malcolm Middleton are back together, with a definite middle-aged tinge

Thu Mar 04 2021 - 05:00
‘I don’t even know when I was born’: Scale of illegal adoption is hard to take in

‘I don’t even know when I was born’: Scale of illegal adoption is hard to take in

TV review: RTÉ Investigates – Ireland’s Illegal Adoptions lets victims speak for themselves

Wed Mar 03 2021 - 23:05
Max Clifford: A grubby predator operating in plain sight

Max Clifford: A grubby predator operating in plain sight

TV review: Max Clifford – The Fall of a Tabloid King refuses to glamorise its wicked subject

Tue Mar 02 2021 - 14:53
Julien Baker: ‘I feel this need to be transparent about what the lyrics are about’

Julien Baker: ‘I feel this need to be transparent about what the lyrics are about’

Singer talks about her latest album and her revelations around sobriety and faith

Sat Feb 27 2021 - 00:00
Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry – A bit eye-rolley, a bit woke, a bit Spinal Tap

Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry – A bit eye-rolley, a bit woke, a bit Spinal Tap

Film review: This isn’t a warts-and-all peek behind the pop-star curtain, but it is absorbing

Fri Feb 26 2021 - 09:37
Gordon Ramsay’s Bank Balance: A few cheese boards short of a four-course meal

Gordon Ramsay’s Bank Balance: A few cheese boards short of a four-course meal

TV: The funniest thing about this quiz show is how invested the chef is in the game itself

Wed Feb 24 2021 - 22:40
Big Sky: About as cutting edge as Magnum, PI or Murder, She Wrote

Big Sky: About as cutting edge as Magnum, PI or Murder, She Wrote

TV: David E Kelley’s golden touch deserts him in Disney+’s stonkingly underwhelming thriller

Tue Feb 23 2021 - 11:30
Behind Her Eyes is crazy – making it the perfect show for these crazy days

Behind Her Eyes is crazy – making it the perfect show for these crazy days

Even writing an article about the unhinged Netflix thriller starring Eve Hewson is confusing

Mon Feb 22 2021 - 06:00
Bloodlands review: So grim – and a seriously bad advertisement for a weekend break in Belfast

Bloodlands review: So grim – and a seriously bad advertisement for a weekend break in Belfast

TV review: James Nesbitt is a PSNI officer dragged into a Peace Process conspiracy

Sun Feb 21 2021 - 22:00
Enya and The Corrs are superstars, loved around the world. Why not in Ireland?

Enya and The Corrs are superstars, loved around the world. Why not in Ireland?

Ed Power: Country has rarely looked kindly on those who stood out, who dared sing differently

Sun Feb 21 2021 - 05:00
Framing Britney Spears takes a mirror and points it straight at the culprits: you and me

Framing Britney Spears takes a mirror and points it straight at the culprits: you and me

Britney’s not the only one we victimised. The club includes Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan

Wed Feb 17 2021 - 13:21
Behind Her Eyes: An over-the-top, oversexed – but wonderful – Netflix thriller

Behind Her Eyes: An over-the-top, oversexed – but wonderful – Netflix thriller

Eve Hewson can lower the temperature of a scene simply by flashing her frosty peepers

Wed Feb 17 2021 - 10:16
Home of the Year: Cork ‘doom barn’ steals the show

Home of the Year: Cork ‘doom barn’ steals the show

TV review: In episode 1, a minimalist farmhouse vies with a a dark-hued wonder

Tue Feb 16 2021 - 21:00
On First Dates Ireland, Covid-19 is merely a background detail

On First Dates Ireland, Covid-19 is merely a background detail

TV review: It’s a surprise how minor a distraction coronavirus is as the series returns

Thu Feb 11 2021 - 22:30
Kenneth Egan: ‘I do get thoughts of drinking sometimes. Not as much as I used to’

Kenneth Egan: ‘I do get thoughts of drinking sometimes. Not as much as I used to’

TV review: After winning an Olympic medal in Beijing, the boxer began drinking himself numb

Wed Feb 10 2021 - 22:30
‘It’s more than a pandemic. It’s a plague that’s taking hold of people’s lives’

‘It’s more than a pandemic. It’s a plague that’s taking hold of people’s lives’

RTÉ Investigates: Covid-19 – The Third Wave is the broadcaster’s most unsettling dispatch yet

Tue Feb 09 2021 - 23:10
The best new TV shows to watch in February and March

The best new TV shows to watch in February and March

First Dates Ireland, Home of the Year, Line of Duty return. Eve Hewson stars in Behind Her Eyes

Mon Feb 08 2021 - 05:00
ZeroZeroZero: Gabriel Byrne stars in a drama so dark you can’t look away

ZeroZeroZero: Gabriel Byrne stars in a drama so dark you can’t look away

TV review: Fast, gruesome and twisting narcowars thriller is a binge-watcher’s paradise

Thu Feb 04 2021 - 22:10
This would be so much better with Dermot Bannon

This would be so much better with Dermot Bannon

TV review: Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr cries out for the marquess of minimalism

Wed Feb 03 2021 - 11:45
Davy Fitzgerald’s life lessons for the lost boys of Ireland

Davy Fitzgerald’s life lessons for the lost boys of Ireland

Davy’s Toughest Team won’t revolutionise reality television. It’s far better than that

Mon Feb 01 2021 - 22:35
Oscar Wilde’s ‘crucial’ role in the gay rights struggle

Oscar Wilde’s ‘crucial’ role in the gay rights struggle

TV review: TG4 celebrates the life and legacy of one of the greatest figures in Irish literature

Wed Jan 27 2021 - 21:00
Emma Dabiri: George Nkencho’s death ‘brought me back to the Ireland I grew up in’

Emma Dabiri: George Nkencho’s death ‘brought me back to the Ireland I grew up in’

‘People were seeking justifications for why George had deserved to die ... It was triggering’

Wed Jan 27 2021 - 20:45
Snowpiercer: Think of it as Mad Max – The All Ireland Final Matchday Special

Snowpiercer: Think of it as Mad Max – The All Ireland Final Matchday Special

TV review: Who can object to a show that gives us Jennifer Connelly as a neurotic anti-hero?

Tue Jan 26 2021 - 17:00
Katie Price: Harvey and Me – Celebrities are real people, too

Katie Price: Harvey and Me – Celebrities are real people, too

TV review: The former glamour model has especially acute worries about her son

Tue Jan 26 2021 - 12:52
Euphoria: The show that makes teenage self-destruction look weightless and beautiful

Euphoria: The show that makes teenage self-destruction look weightless and beautiful

An unnerving but mesmerising journey into dark adolescence, Euphoria returns tonight

Mon Jan 25 2021 - 06:00
Arlo Parks: ‘We’re all individuals in Generation Z’

Arlo Parks: ‘We’re all individuals in Generation Z’

The singer-songwriter on creating her debut album in a B&B rental during lockdown

Sat Jan 23 2021 - 05:00
It’s a Sin: The first great, gut-punch TV drama of 2021 is here

It’s a Sin: The first great, gut-punch TV drama of 2021 is here

TV review: This is a self-consciously sprawling chronicle of the Aids epidemic in London

Fri Jan 22 2021 - 22:00
Behind Her Eyes: Eve Hewson could have found star-making role in Netflix thriller

Behind Her Eyes: Eve Hewson could have found star-making role in Netflix thriller

Bono’s daughter, cursed with obscure or badly written roles until now, plays cheated housewife

Fri Jan 22 2021 - 13:24
Call My Agent! season four: The best thing since buttered croissant

Call My Agent! season four: The best thing since buttered croissant

There are no berets, no Emily in Paris chintz. This is just watchable, witty French television

Fri Jan 22 2021 - 05:40
Fontaines DC are reborn as punk-funk disconauts, and the results are cracking

Fontaines DC are reborn as punk-funk disconauts, and the results are cracking

Belgian DJs Soulwax have released a glittering remix of Fontaines DC’s A Hero’s Death

Wed Jan 20 2021 - 05:30
‘Our history with Ireland, lots of English people just don’t know it’

‘Our history with Ireland, lots of English people just don’t know it’

Goat Girl, the English guitar group, on knocking Churchill, surviving cancer and missing gigs

Tue Jan 19 2021 - 05:00
‘Tonight, like every night, homeless people in hope of a bed will call the freephone number’

‘Tonight, like every night, homeless people in hope of a bed will call the freephone number’

TV review – RTÉ Investigates: Stuck In The Rough tells a tale of institutional dysfunction, Irish-style

Mon Jan 18 2021 - 22:35
We’ve had decades of poverty, stifled dreams and lives unlived. But look on the bright side

We’ve had decades of poverty, stifled dreams and lives unlived. But look on the bright side

RTÉ’s The Way We Were successfully dusted off the Reeling in the Years formula

Sun Jan 17 2021 - 23:05
WandaVision: The most audacious – and entirely bonkers – TV in recent entertainment history

WandaVision: The most audacious – and entirely bonkers – TV in recent entertainment history

Review: WandaVision is a mystery, a satire and a love letter to the great American sitcom

Fri Jan 15 2021 - 12:00
Jessie Buckley: Kerry’s bright star lights up the new season of Fargo

Jessie Buckley: Kerry’s bright star lights up the new season of Fargo

Fargo, season four review: Kerry actor Jessie Buckley is chilling as psychokiller Nurse Mayflower

Tue Jan 12 2021 - 23:40
Inside the world of the Irish men who married one another for tax reasons

Inside the world of the Irish men who married one another for tax reasons

TV review: Matt Murphy and Michael O’Sullivan used marriage-equality laws in a novel way

Mon Jan 11 2021 - 22:35
The Serpent: The BBC’s big new year drama has lost its way

The Serpent: The BBC’s big new year drama has lost its way

TV review: With constant flashbacks and a labyrinthine storyline, it’s a sweltering muddle

Mon Jan 11 2021 - 13:56
Clear History: Yet another not so funny RTÉ comedy show

Clear History: Yet another not so funny RTÉ comedy show

TV review: In fairness, there are sections where it doesn’t feel like an endurance test

Thu Jan 07 2021 - 22:00
Operation Transformation: Tears flow freely as a new series begins

Operation Transformation: Tears flow freely as a new series begins

With our emotions in a swirl, these conversations from the heart feel devastating

Thu Jan 07 2021 - 11:00
Marian Finucane: moving meditation on grief and the impossibility of letting go

Marian Finucane: moving meditation on grief and the impossibility of letting go

TV review: Finucane documentary, grounded in her shellsocked husband’s recollections, makes for riveting viewing

Mon Jan 04 2021 - 23:05
The Great: Blackadder meets Downton romp not as clever as it thinks it is

The Great: Blackadder meets Downton romp not as clever as it thinks it is

TV Review: Elle Fanning is arresting and Nicolas Hoult has fun too in this self-declared ‘occasionally true story’

Sun Jan 03 2021 - 22:05
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