Nadine Shah: ‘As a woman you get referred to as a ticking time bomb’The indie pop powerhouse on double standards, Brexit racism and Keir StarmerSat May 23 2020 - 05:00
There will be floods, zombies and, yes, viruses. Plus this infernal train rideIt’s a rough moment for Netflix to release Snowpiecer, its new future-shock franchiseFri May 22 2020 - 05:00
Normal People: Connell still can’t speak in complete sentencesTV review: Director Lenny Abrahamson has passed the glum baton to Hettie MacdonaldTue May 19 2020 - 06:00
Johnny Logan, grand daddy of Eurovision, leads an Irish-flavoured showEurovision: Europe Shine A Light TV review. It feels held together with duct-tape, but its heart is in the right placeSun May 17 2020 - 11:01
Perfume Genius: ‘It does feel like a strange time to be promoting or releasing anything’Mike Hadreas’s Set My Heart on Fire Immediately isn’t out yet but it’s already gathering heatSat May 09 2020 - 05:00
Normal People: Who are the Irish musicians on the soundtrack?The TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel is a shop window for the best of Irish musicMon May 04 2020 - 12:59
Late Late Show: The moment Leo Varadkar forgot his homeworkThe episode shows either that the Taoiseach didn’t know his brief or that he cares about detailSat May 02 2020 - 11:00
One World: Together At Home review - Lots of glamour but where was the anger?It is an evening to suit every taste - musically and also in terms of home furnishingsSun Apr 19 2020 - 22:01
Graham Norton, live from his lean-to, is jittery without his adoring audienceThe Graham Norton Show returns to BBC, demonstrating that ‘banter’ is impossible over SkypeSat Apr 11 2020 - 11:00
Britain’s Got Talent: Everything you need to knowWhen is it on TV, who are the judges, are there any Irish acts and moreFri Apr 10 2020 - 13:30
What is Houseparty, the app everyone’s talking about – and not in a good way?In February it was barely known. In March, massive. Now, users want to delete itFri Apr 03 2020 - 05:30
What we need now: A primer in an all-consuming and fast-moving crisisTV review: Miriam O’Callaghan’s Prime Time is far more effective than her Late Late ShowWed Apr 01 2020 - 10:15
Ah, 2008. At least back then you didn’t have to sit inside your negative equity propertyTV review: RTÉ recounts nightmares of Irish people who bought ‘dream homes’ overseasTue Mar 31 2020 - 10:16
Anne Doyle reveals her dry humour, bird statues and celebrity-kissing historyTV review: In Keys to My Life the former newsreader visited her former homesMon Mar 30 2020 - 14:41
Late Late Show with Miriam O’Callaghan: The most surreal primetime TV I’ve ever watchedScraggly Hozier gave a preview of what everyone’s hair will look like post-shutdownSat Mar 28 2020 - 10:43
Murder Most Foul: Bob Dylan’s strange, meandering, comforting 17-minute new songHere, as Martin Scorsese does with The Irishman, a great visionary takes stockFri Mar 27 2020 - 14:56
Operation Covid Nation: ‘What the actual f**k?’RTÉ is right to make a show about coping with coronavirus. But scrap the trivialising nameThu Mar 26 2020 - 15:09
Cloch le Carn: Big Tom – Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll don’t get a look inTV review: The Irish singer was like a Johnny Cash who knew his way around a Massey FergusonWed Mar 25 2020 - 13:21
The Mandalorian does an excellent job of living up to expectationsThe new Disney+ show combines tight action with the dinginess of the original Star WarsTue Mar 24 2020 - 18:40
Candid, cool-headed Claire Byrne talks about her Covid-19 guiltTV review: The broadcaster describes her eerily normal temperature and simmering achesTue Mar 24 2020 - 09:38
Dominic Cummings, the power behind BoJo’s inflatable throneTV review: Taking Control, on the BBC last night, was both absorbing and unnervingThu Mar 19 2020 - 08:37
Claire Byrne Live from her shed was low-key terrifying – or maybe just terrifying terrifyingReview: The TV presenter is self-isolating after developing coronavirus symptomsTue Mar 17 2020 - 13:10
‘Things got weird’: How Dancing with the Stars coped with coronavirusLet’s hope in 12 months all we have to fret about are dancing priests and Nicky Byrne’s quiffMon Mar 16 2020 - 13:20
Belgravia review: Like Downton Abbey with knobs onJulian Fellowes’s gloriously convoluted story is everything fans loved about Downton, only with more of itSun Mar 15 2020 - 22:00
Dancing with the Stars: Lottie Ryan wins a very surreal finalReview: ‘I have no words . . . this has been the best thing I have ever said ‘yes’ to,’ says 2FM presenterSun Mar 15 2020 - 21:30
Dancing with the Stars 2020: Final to take place tonight – Everything you need to knowCoronavirus fears see semi-final abandoned and final brought forward by one weekSun Mar 15 2020 - 15:09
I Am Patrick on Netflix isn’t even slightly tacky. How disappointingThe acting is good, the academics informative, the narration measured. What a letdownSat Mar 14 2020 - 12:19
Breeders: This is a portrayal of parenthood warts – or screams – and allTV review: Martin Freeman has an authentic take on the undignified reality of child-rearingThu Mar 12 2020 - 22:35
Child of Our Time: Turning 20 – Watching people grow up is hypnoticTV review: The real lesson of the show is that children aren’t projects to be mouldedThu Mar 12 2020 - 12:00
Why Radiohead’s The Bends is the worst great album of all timeMarch 13th is the 25th anniversary of what many regard as Radiohead’s best albumThu Mar 12 2020 - 06:00
Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten: ‘I’m in an emotional flux’Sold For Parts documentary about the Dublin band addresses the downsides of even modest successTue Mar 10 2020 - 14:30
The Boys In Green: ‘I was kind of wired’ – Eamon Dunphy on his epic meltdownTV review: Ross Whitaker captures the excitement as Jack Charlton’s team united the country in joyMon Mar 09 2020 - 22:35
Dancing with the Stars: Teary-eyed Ray Kelly voted off after surreal Fr Ted nightWithout Fr Ray the standard of dancing will go up, the human interest factor way, way downSun Mar 08 2020 - 21:35
Citizens of Boomtown: ‘Bob Geldof drove me out of my f***ing mind’Review: Billy McGrath’s Boomtown Rats rockumentary rattles along furiously and with a dangerous gleam in its eyesThu Mar 05 2020 - 23:15
The Guards: Inside the K – Policing in Ireland, but not as we know itTV review: An unflinching depiction of what gardaí are up against on our meanest streetsWed Mar 04 2020 - 22:00
What is it in the Irish character that compels us to secrecy?RTÉ’s Redress: Breaking the Silence was a brave and often unwatchable documentaryWed Mar 04 2020 - 12:01
Dancing with the Stars: Mary Kennedy eliminated in knuckle-whitening conclusionAs quarter-finals loom, this is turning into the Hunger Games with bonus face glitterSun Mar 01 2020 - 22:35
Soccer Mommy: no longer on the sidelinesPoised for stardom, Sophie Allison talks songwriting, politics and the music industrySat Feb 29 2020 - 05:00
Gawping at other Irish people’s houses. It’s who we areIn Home of the Year, three experts pass judgment on architecturally ambitious housesWed Feb 26 2020 - 12:24
Better Call Saul: The best drama on television is backIn season five, episode one, the Breaking Bad prequel immediately rediscovers its grooveTue Feb 25 2020 - 18:00
Blood: A disappointing journey into the Irish psychosphereSecond season struggles to set heart pumping despite ever-watchable Adrian DunbarTue Feb 25 2020 - 17:00
Doctor Who landed in 1950s rural Ireland last night. The fiddles never stoppedThe Doctor’s Irish foray is the sci-fi equivalent of a postcard of a donkey at a stone wallMon Feb 24 2020 - 12:00
Dancing with the Stars: Shock exit for teary-eyed Sinéad O’CarrollB*Witched singer’s magic spell breaks as judges send Lottie Ryan throughSun Feb 23 2020 - 21:50
EastEnders reaches peak absurdity with a 35th anniversary shipwreckThe special episode is a cut-price version of the Titanic movie, with added melodramaFri Feb 21 2020 - 22:46
Hunters: There’s not enough Al Pacino in this absurd, overheated Nazi hunter dramaTV review: Hunters founders under a dead weight of recycled Quentin Tarantino-ismsFri Feb 21 2020 - 06:00
Love Island: Since Caroline Flack’s death it has become utterly unwatchableThe contestants don’t know of Flack’s suicide. The reality show is now utterly unrealThu Feb 20 2020 - 10:18
David Baddiel comes to Ennis to meet a Holocaust denierFor the BBC’s Confronting Holocaust Denial, David Baddiel meets Dermot Mulqueen in Co ClareTue Feb 18 2020 - 10:57
Dancing with the Stars has hit Father Ted levels of farceFr Ray Kelly’s protective halo means frontrunner Sinéad O’Carroll is put through the wringerSun Feb 16 2020 - 22:34
Billie Eilish’s No Time to Die Bond theme: a slow stomper that flubs the 007 testGoth popster should be perfect for Daniel Craig’s 007, but her song doesn’t quite earn its licence to thrillFri Feb 14 2020 - 09:01
A Very British History: ‘I heard chants supporting the IRA. My blood boiled’BBC Four’s account of the Birmingham Irish lives in the shadow of violent republicanismWed Feb 12 2020 - 22:00
