Belsen: Our Story. ‘There must be a purpose in surviving. Mine is to speak about it’TV review: Belsen’s ageing survivors are not phlegmatic or philosophical about what happenedTue Jan 28 2020 - 22:00
‘I’m not trashy,’ says Meghan Markle’s dad in trashy documentaryTV review: A programme about Thomas Markle: is as tawdry as you might imagineMon Jan 27 2020 - 14:02
Dancing with the Stars: Glenda Gilson sinks like TitanicSomehow, against all logic, Fr Ray Kelly stays afloat. He can’t survive much longerSun Jan 26 2020 - 22:51
Poliça's Channy Leaneagh: ‘The fall really woke me up’Time out after breaking her back led the art-pop band's singer to make a very different albumSat Jan 25 2020 - 05:00
The Goop Lab: One episode is about the vulva. I’ll probably watch that with my parentsIn Gwyneth Paltrow’s new Netflix series, Goop HQ could be straight out of Black MirrorFri Jan 24 2020 - 13:12
Avenue 5: Armando Iannucci’s space comedy is terribleTV review: Imagine Veep if the jokes were bunged in an airlock and blasted into the voidThu Jan 23 2020 - 16:28
Star Trek: Picard review – Patrick Stewart has never been betterPicard isn’t perfect. But it’s keen on its mission and reverential towards Trek loreThu Jan 23 2020 - 15:38
Leaders’ debate: For one dramatic moment, the Taoiseach is like a rabbit in headlightsTV review: There are no knockouts, or even punches, in this gentle game of political gotchaThu Jan 23 2020 - 00:10
Dr Eva’s Great Escape is everything Dermot Bannon’s recent show was notWith family drama this riveting, the house restoration story fades into the backgroundMon Jan 20 2020 - 05:45
Dancing with the Stars: public save rhythmless reverend Ray Kelly as Yewande Biala voted offWeek three review: Voting public needs to look itself in the eye after booting out BialaSun Jan 19 2020 - 21:30
Sex Education on Netflix: More antiseptic and untitillating sex scenes. How off-puttingIf you enjoy never-ending references to intimate bodily functions, you’ll love this. If not...Fri Jan 17 2020 - 11:14
Winter Love Island: Laura Whitmore is the hostess with the most… time offThe January show is a bore by the shore, a too-tanned horse being flogged to deathThu Jan 16 2020 - 11:40
Bishop Peter Ball: A very British clerical sex-abuse scandalBritain’s establishment turned a blind eye to the Anglican clergyman’s abuse of young menMon Jan 13 2020 - 21:59
Dancing with the Stars: Sinead O’Carroll gives a b*witching performanceWeek two review: Glenda Gilson does a backflip. Yewande Biala dances through pain. Mary Kennedy is ‘flat’Sun Jan 12 2020 - 21:51
Red Rock: How the bold Garda soap-drama died a slow, painful deathTV review: Red Rock, which has been like a cross between CSI and Fair City, has had a fair inningsTue Jan 07 2020 - 06:00
Room To Improve: Dermot Bannon’s one-man struggle to build a family homeTV review: Dermot Bannon takes on his most important project: his family home. But there’s something missingSun Jan 05 2020 - 22:30
Dancing With The Stars: singing priest Ray Kelly conjures up the spirit of Father TedTV review: The DWTS juggernaut is back, strewn in glitter, slathered in gel and sprinkled in stubble – and that’s just Nicky ByrneSun Jan 05 2020 - 21:05
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker – For fans, there are things to love in this filmIt has a good baddie, spectacular battles and the outstanding Adam DriverSun Dec 22 2019 - 22:34
Late Late Show review: Does anyone really want a slick Shane MacGowan tribute?Singer comes across as deeply humbled in this Late Late Toy Show for grown-upsSat Dec 14 2019 - 14:10
I’m A Celebrity: Nadine Coyle earned €275k, and Andrew Maxwell trousered €60kJacqueline Jossa got the jungle crown as the contestants go home to spend some quality time with their pay packetsMon Dec 09 2019 - 05:48
Rod Stewart: crotch-waggling imp turns misty-eyed troubadour to lead us to singalong heavenReview: It’s cheese with everything as pop’s great bluesman serenades Dublin’s 3ArenaWed Dec 04 2019 - 23:14
I’m a Celebrity: Andrew Maxwell has always seemed overwhelmed by lifeThe Irish comic was miserable on the reality show. Pasty and peeved, he felt like one of usMon Dec 02 2019 - 13:10
I’m a Celebrity 2019: What’s gone wrong for Irish comedian Andrew Maxwell?The Dublin comic might quit after his run-ins with Ian Wright. Nadine Coyle looks far happierFri Nov 29 2019 - 12:57
U2’s new song Ahimsa: the verdict on the first new music since 2017Review: Ahimsa suggests U2 are slotting in as the missing link between the Rolling Stones and ColdplayFri Nov 22 2019 - 11:15
I’m A Celebrity: A curious comment from Andrew Maxwell proves an early talking pointReview: Caitlyn Jenner is the star, though the competition’s hardly mind-blowingMon Nov 18 2019 - 10:25
The Crown season 3 review: Olivia Colman glides snugly into role of queenLatest instalment of Netflix series is expensively put together yet ever so slightly dullSun Nov 17 2019 - 15:28
Anyone got a number for the Simon Cowell of composting?Climate change meets reality TV, as RTÉ asks three Irish families to out-recycle one anotherTue Nov 12 2019 - 19:59
The Young Offenders contains more Cork accents than in past decade on RTÉReview: It’s almost as if metropolitan life exists beyond Dublin. What dark alchemy is this?Mon Nov 11 2019 - 22:05
Why does The Crown have a problem with Ireland?There’s no room for Northern Ireland or the Troubles in The Crown series 3, set in 1964-77Mon Nov 11 2019 - 06:00
Bono on Gaybo: ‘If you didn’t get on the Late Late, you didn’t feel you existed’The Late Late Show Gay Byrne Special: A night of bittersweet memories and classic footageTue Nov 05 2019 - 23:56
Apple TV’s The Morning Show is aggressively okayFlagship series is a shrug of indifference catalysed as €13m per episode blandnessFri Nov 01 2019 - 09:55
Kanye West: Jesus Is King review – A giant, exhausting shout-out to the LordThe follow-up to Ye sees Kanye West trapped in a cage of ego, guilt and insecuritySat Oct 26 2019 - 23:15
‘Enya is up there with the Beatles’Natalie Mering, who performs as Weyes Blood, on climate change, Greta Thunberg and Enya’s influence on her musicSat Oct 19 2019 - 05:00
‘We all know our lives have been f**ked by the internet’Torquil Campbell, the frontman of Canadian indie posters Stars, on free speech, The Smiths and the impact of musicFri Sept 27 2019 - 06:00
Mercury Prize 2019: ‘F**k Boris’ stunt overshadows Dave’s winThe rapper Dave wins for his album Psychodrama in a highly politicised ceremonyThu Sept 19 2019 - 22:50
Electric Picnic aftermath: Campers leave fewer tents, but plenty of chairs and gazebosOrganisers estimate ‘30 per cent more tents’ were taken home from campsites this yearMon Sept 02 2019 - 17:07
Electric Picnic 2019: Best gigs of the weekendReviews: Florence, Billie, Charli and Christine, plus Hozier and Richard AshcroftMon Sept 02 2019 - 10:03
‘Hello, Dublin!’ Electric Picnic 2019’s best and worst momentsFrom Charli XCX and Billie Eilish to a sea of plastic cups and a big geographical failMon Sept 02 2019 - 06:00
Florence + the Machine at Electric Picnic: An incandescent finaleReview: The festival’s closing set leaves the audience stirred and gasping for moreSun Sept 01 2019 - 23:59
Richard Ashcroft at Electric Picnic: 'I’m so happy to be let off my leash in Laois'Review: The singer harks unashamedly back to The Verve’s glory days in a big-hearted setSun Sept 01 2019 - 20:45
Electric Picnic’s perfect moment came late on Saturday afternoonA glittering rainbow signalled the rain’s end, bathing the field in the colours of toleranceSat Aug 31 2019 - 16:29
Electric Picnic 2019: ‘Ferocious’ Scary Éire party like it’s 1991Review: Dublin-Tullamore crew Scary Éire played the Salty Dog stage in the woods at 1amSat Aug 31 2019 - 12:35
Ezra Furman: ‘It’s in my blood to have a fear about encouraging fascism’The cult indie singer on his angry new album, falling out of love with Morrissey, Trump’s treatment of refugees and why being gender non-conforming brings everyday perilSat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00
Hozier at Electric Picnic: Stirring homecoming from an Irish starReview: ‘I can’t put a name on being in front of a home crowd,’ says an emotional HozierFri Aug 30 2019 - 23:49
Dermot Kennedy at Electric Picnic: A hard-punching main-stage performanceReview: Welcome to the evening the festival finally achieves peak Irish troubadourFri Aug 30 2019 - 22:36
Billie Eilish at Electric Picnic: ‘I’m part Irish, dude… This is my home’Review: The 17-year-old force of nature performs a knockout setFri Aug 30 2019 - 21:05
Electric Picnic director tells festivalgoers: ‘Take your tent away’Event grows to record high of 57,500 attendees for 2019, up 2,500 from 2018Tue Aug 27 2019 - 16:45
Let’s Eat Grandma: ‘It’s easy to access young girls in the music industry’The British pop savants on #MeToo, friendship and overcoming stereotypesSat Aug 24 2019 - 05:00
Cillian Murphy: ‘We all have contradictions within us’The Peaky Blinders star on gangsters, the IRA and playing one of the great anti-heroesSat Aug 17 2019 - 05:00
Inside the Secret World of Incels: Misogyny, murder and cowardiceReview: This alarming film vindicates the stereotype of the awkward, seething outcastThu Aug 01 2019 - 09:00
