Versatile Dublin rappers: I'd like to thank all the smack heads on Abbey StreetThey stormed this year’s Longitude festival and they've announced a gig at the 3 Arena, but not all is as it seems in the rap duo’s world. Or is it?Thu Jul 11 2019 - 11:59
Lana Del Rey’s birthday gig in Malahide is playful one minute, riotous the nextReview: She enters under a hazy summer sun – as minor, but beloved, pop royaltySun Jun 23 2019 - 10:46
Taylor Swift has dialled up the sweetness – and the politicsNew single You Need to Calm Down. "Good you’ve made up with Katy Perry.. But don’t lose the grit"Tue Jun 18 2019 - 10:34
Top Gear review: A mash-up of Mad Max and a stag-party videoNew boys Paddy McGuinness and Freddie Flintoff are no Formula One-grade banterersSun Jun 16 2019 - 21:00
Unknown Pleasures: Joy Division’s accidental masterpiece at 40In 1979, four Manchester kids went into a Stockport studio to record a noisy punk record, but came out with something different, darker, utterly astonishing and deathlessWed Jun 12 2019 - 05:00
Netflix: The 9 best new films and shows to watch in JuneBlack Mirror and Jessica Jones return, Tales of the City and The Black Godfather debutMon Jun 03 2019 - 06:00
Game of Thrones series 8 debate: Perfectly pitched or creative flop?Séamas O’Reilly and Ed Power argue the merits and demerits of the drama that has divided fansSun May 19 2019 - 12:26
Game of Thrones has descended into bumbling spectacle and senseless plotsOpinion: Daenerys Targaryen has lost the plot, and so has Game of ThronesTue May 14 2019 - 14:48
Ed Sheeran and Justin Bieber’s new song: Weepiness cranked up to 11I Don’t Care is a pop mind-meld where it’s difficult to say where Bieber ends and Sheeran beginsFri May 10 2019 - 12:20
Game of Thrones: The final contenders for the Iron ThroneWe assess the chances of 12 contenders: Lannisters, Starks, Targaryens and moreTue May 07 2019 - 17:43
Where did Arya jump from? The Game of Thrones battle was riddled with problemsBattle of Winterfell episode contained numerous non-sequiturs and plotting problemsTue Apr 30 2019 - 17:08
Fat White Family: ‘Everyone thinks we’re complete c***s’New release Serfs Up! is the kind of album to slap on if the world is about to endFri Apr 26 2019 - 06:00
Bonding: Sex and life lesson from a dominatrixReview: Netflix’s new micro-dose series sees a dominatrix and a comedian grapple with the wounds of adolescenceWed Apr 24 2019 - 11:30
Lough Derg pilgrimage: Like an Alcatraz for the soulTV review: Turas Cosnochta is a charming, unchallenging portrait of St Patrick’s PurgatoryTue Apr 23 2019 - 11:50
The Two Lukes: Never mind the scandal, feel the nostalgiaReview: The reasons why Dublin ended up with two statues of Dubliners singer Luke Kelly are largely overlookedMon Apr 22 2019 - 19:00
Madonna’s Madame X may be a step too far, even for herThe star’s secret-agent incarnation has prompted scoffing and head-scratchingTue Apr 16 2019 - 11:59
Game of Thrones: 10 questions series 8 needs to answerWill Jon discover his girlfriend is his aunt? Do we trust Tyrion? Has the Night King a weakness?Sun Apr 14 2019 - 06:00
Game of Thrones: The Irish actors, rankedIrish actors play some of the best characters: earthy Ser Davos, tough Catelyn Stark, vile JoffreyFri Apr 12 2019 - 06:00
First Look: Game of Thrones exhibition is every fan’s ultimate fantasyEd Power tries not to combust with giddy joy at the new touring exhibition in BelfastWed Apr 10 2019 - 11:15
Ireland’s Got Talent: Surprise winners BSD look like they might spontaneously combustReview: The hyperbolic judging panel are a work in progress, in dire need of a Mr or Ms NastyMon Apr 08 2019 - 00:01
Dancing With The Stars 2019: Jennifer Zamparelli and Nicky Byrne’s zero chemistry a turn-offIt’s a winning formula and brings in viewers in their thousands but not all is right on the dance floorMon Mar 25 2019 - 06:00
Mairéad Ronan is this year's winner of Dancing with the StarsTV presenter’s sheer likability sees off actor Johnny Ward and country singer Cliona HaganSun Mar 24 2019 - 21:21
Dancing with the Stars: It’s Frexit for Fred Cooke, like ‘a Lada in a shed full of Mercedes’Review: The Cork comedian voted off as Johnny Ward, Cliona Hagan and dark horse Mairéad Ronan through to finalSun Mar 17 2019 - 22:10
Dancing with the Stars: Jennifer Zamparelli stings Nicky Byrne with ‘singing turkey’ jibeIt's Eurovision week but no douze pointe for Clelia Murphy as judges show her the exitSun Mar 10 2019 - 21:36
Game of Thrones season 8 trailer: Final confrontation looks like a jaw-dropperSansa hasn’t looked so shocked since she learned Joffrey wasn’t marrying MargaeryWed Mar 06 2019 - 00:21
Dancing with the Stars: Questions must be asked over judging criteriaDenis Bastick is eliminated, even after his dance-off opponent falls over his shoelacesSun Mar 03 2019 - 22:09
Gig of the Week: Choice Music PrizeWho will win Irish album of the year? We predict victory for one of the two hip-hop actsSat Mar 02 2019 - 05:00
Dancing with the Stars: Peter Stringer voted off after dance ‘you’d see at a wedding at 4am’Review: Rugby ace is ‘out of time, out of sync, out of balance’ and out of the showSun Feb 24 2019 - 21:25
‘Nightflyers’ TV series, which got €850,000 State funds, is scrappedGeorge RR Martin project made at Troy Studios in Limerick cancelled after one seriesThu Feb 21 2019 - 15:13
All Together Now festival line-up revealedThe festival, which was the brainchild of John Reynolds, will take place in Co Waterford over the August bank holiday weekendTue Feb 19 2019 - 08:48
Dancing with the Stars: Judges in the dock as Demi Isaac Oviawe voted off showReview: Comedian Fred Cooke fell during dance off but judges voted to save himSun Feb 17 2019 - 21:30
Post Malone: Will he save hip hop or destroy it?As the chart-topping Dallas rhymer comes to Dublin we look at his rise to stardomWed Feb 13 2019 - 13:00
Grammy Awards: Still tone deaf as female artists ‘step up’ but others stay at homeThe Grammy Awards worked hard to undo their old, white, male and tired image. Did it work?Mon Feb 11 2019 - 08:30
Dancing with the Stars: ‘Your bottom did pretty well’ – country singer Cliona Hagan steals showThe new partner combinations format overestimates how invested viewers are in the celeb-dancer chemistrySun Feb 10 2019 - 21:36
Ariana Grande: Thank U, Next review – Pop superstar at her defiant, brilliant bestThis is the work of an artist rooted in their specific vision and unwilling to compromiseFri Feb 08 2019 - 14:40
Dancing with the Stars: Darren Kennedy exits with a shameless self-promotional speechReview: Emotions were running high with biographical blubbing the unofficial theme of showSun Feb 03 2019 - 21:30
Dancing with the Stars: Holly Carpenter voted off with a chilling lookReview: No Hollywood ending for ‘devastated’ Carpenter on movie nightSun Jan 27 2019 - 21:15
Azealia Banks: Who is she and why does she hate Ireland?Who the hell is this Azealia Banks – and what exactly is her gripe with Ireland?Thu Jan 24 2019 - 17:04
Dancing with the Stars: RTÉ freezes on nervy night as screens go blankReview: ‘I had an absolute ball,’ says ‘Mrs Brown’s Boys’ star Eilish O'Carroll as she leavesSun Jan 20 2019 - 21:30
Sharon Van Etten: ‘I felt alone. I was done with music’The New Jersey songwriter took time out to act, become a comedian – and a motherSat Jan 19 2019 - 06:00
Death Cab for Cutie: ‘We’re an indie band from Seattle, where Republicans basically don’t exist’Death Cab for Cutie have survived a lot. So a Trump backlash was the least of their worriesFri Jan 18 2019 - 06:10
Dancing with the Stars: ‘Nah nah’ from judges leaves 18-year-old Demi Isaac Oviawe in tearsCliona Hagan channels Garth Brooks with a line-dancing cha cha to take top spotSun Jan 13 2019 - 21:45
Murder of the dance floor: The Irish nightclub is dyingIts killers? In part, the property crisis and an outbreak of twentysomething puritanismSat Jan 12 2019 - 06:00
Dancing with the Stars: ‘Bad boy’ actor Johnny Ward kills it on the dance floorReview: Comedian Fred Cooke the audience favourite while new presenter Jennifer Zamparelli is clearly finding her feetSun Jan 06 2019 - 21:25
Dancing with the Stars: Everything you need to knowWho are the celebrity contestants, what time is it on, who is the favourite to win and moreThu Jan 03 2019 - 10:28
‘If we’re going to do a Christmas song it has to move people to tears’Aidan Moffat, formerly of Scottish indie miserablists Arab Strap, insists ‘Ghost Stories for Christmas’ is not depressingTue Dec 11 2018 - 05:00
Spotify: Irish streaming charts for 2018 revealedRap artists Drake, Eminem and Post Malone among the artists Irish Spotify users listen to the mostWed Dec 05 2018 - 16:15
A Brilliant Void: A Selection of Classic Irish Science FictionJack Fennell compiles sci-fi yarns from an Ireland that rejected that imaginative flightSat Dec 01 2018 - 06:00
Charlie Steen of Shame: ‘Touring eventually broke my mind’Wiry frontman of the angry young London punks on Brexit, mental health and sexismMon Nov 19 2018 - 05:00
Bono, Cathy Davey and Conor O’Brien cover ‘Homeward Bound’ for homelessU2 singer records Simon & Garfunkel track with Saint Sister and others for McVerry TrustFri Nov 16 2018 - 13:06
