The Murder Capital: ‘Nick Cave listened to our whole album and was sitting there telling us his favourite tunes’The Irish indie band on toxic nationalism, rebel songs and how Dublin’s Bimm Music Institute helped shape their outlookSun Feb 23 2025 - 05:00
Zero Day review: Robert De Niro in his element as grouchy US president in fun Netflix technothrillerTelevision: The idea of a cyberattack reducing civilisation to ruins is outlandish. Or is it?Thu Feb 20 2025 - 05:30
Sam Fender: People Watching review – Emotional resistance is futileDevastating observations about the trials of everyday life are part of what the English singer-songwriter is all aboutThu Feb 20 2025 - 05:03
American Murder: Gabby Petito review - A chilling look at the darker reality behind the smiles on social mediaTelevision: The Netflix story is told from the perspective of Petito, who is given a voice through the participation of her familyTue Feb 18 2025 - 12:10
The White Lotus review: Season three has its finger on the pulse to an almost excruciating degreeTelevision: This Eat-the-rich franchise has settled into a groove. Viewers looking for more privileged American idiots wreaking havoc abroad will be thrilledMon Feb 17 2025 - 21:00
EastEnders at 40: How the BBC wants to keep its infamous ‘Oirish’ episodes hiddenWho can forget the depiction of a grim, resentful, booze-fuelled hellscape peppered with donkeysMon Feb 17 2025 - 06:00
Dancing with the Stars: Audience boos judge Arthur Gourounlian after his comments about Rhys McClenaghan Judge Arthur Gourounlian looks stunned when his critique of Olympic champion Rhys McClenaghan and Laura Nolan earns a prominent boo from the audienceSun Feb 16 2025 - 21:58
Yellowjackets review: Melanie Lynskey and Christina Ricci give strong performances in show packed with 1990s nostalgiaTelevision: Yellowjackets’ debt to Twin Peaks is cheerfully blatant. This is a gripping portrait of how the past shapes usFri Feb 14 2025 - 05:00
Documentary on GAA referee abuse lets players, coaches and fans off the hookTelevision review: GAA referee David Gough provides fascinating insights but overall this film needs to dig deeperThu Feb 13 2025 - 23:15
Manic Street Preachers: Critical Thinking review – Consistency in a world gone mad, drab and sadThe former angry young men satisfyingly take flight as grumpy older gentlemen aghast at the worldThu Feb 13 2025 - 06:00
The Great House Revival: Hugh Wallace keeps up the cheery vibes against a backdrop of general misery Television: The chummy Hugh Wallace brings what positivity he can to a stalled project as meitheal helps overcome miseryMon Feb 10 2025 - 10:00
Dancing with the Stars: dark and stormy end for Joanna Donnelly as meteorologist loses dance-off‘I’ve had the time of my life,’ says Joanna Donnelly after judges save former Miss Universe Ireland Aishah AkoredeSun Feb 09 2025 - 21:24
Emmy’s song about a dead Soviet space dog gets the Eurovision nod in entertaining Late Late special Television review: Six acts stretched over two hours threaten a slog but RTÉ almost gets douze points for Friday night entertainmentSat Feb 08 2025 - 08:42
Fiachna Ó Braonáin of Hothouse Flowers: ‘I was quite disappointed by Bono. I don’t think Sinéad O’Connor would have done it’The U2 frontman was an early cheerleader for his fellow Irish band, who are back on tour to mark 40 years together. But his acceptance of a medal from Joe Biden sent the wrong signal, they saySat Feb 08 2025 - 05:15
Amandaland review: Sharon Horgan comedy spin-off stands firmly on its own two feetTelevision: Series sees Motherland’s obviously posh mum Amanda return as she juggles parenting with a career as an influencerWed Feb 05 2025 - 21:30
Celebrity Bear Hunt review: This is the funniest thing Netflix has put on for ages, with the token Irish person to keep us watchingBlending deft touches of sadism and unintentional laughs, it’s hard to imagine this show with Bear Grylls and Una Healy being anything other than a massive hitWed Feb 05 2025 - 06:15
The Weeknd: Hurry Up Tomorrow review – Summer melodies meet bummer vibesAbel Tesfaye’s ever-ratcheting anxiety becomes overwhelming, then numbing over 22 tracks and 80 minutesWed Feb 05 2025 - 05:00
Dancing with the Stars judges and Kellie Harrington in tears after Jack Woolley’s emotional dance Television:Taekwondo Olympian Jack Woolley recalls how Kellie Harrington was there for him after he was viciously attacked in Dublin: ‘I needed plastic surgery ... she was the first person that turned out’Sun Feb 02 2025 - 22:03
Boyzone: No Matter What review - It’s gripping, gruelling stuff that you can’t look away fromTelevision: A bruisingly bingeable documentary on the 1990s boy band Boyzone – Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Stephen Gately, Shane Lynch and Mikey Graham – and how it all endedSun Feb 02 2025 - 06:00
Eli Hewson of Inhaler: ‘There’s so much nepotism in every facet of life’The Dublin band are well aware of their gilded backgrounds. But, they say, as they prepare to release their glossy third album, ‘We’re, like, kind of dorks’Sat Feb 01 2025 - 05:20
The Apprentice: Irish contestants feature in new season but how long can the show keep going?Television: Aoibheann Walsh, who is from Donegal, and Jordan Dargan, a Dubliner, are among the 18 candidates on Alan Sugar’s The ApprenticeFri Jan 31 2025 - 09:13
For Marianne Faithfull, Ireland was where one of the most misunderstood women in music could make sense of her lifeIreland also gave the singer a first hit for nearly a decade, after ‘a deejay by the name of Patrick Kenny started to play it’Thu Jan 30 2025 - 22:05
FKA Twigs: Eusexua review – Mysterious, playful, witty, sensual and catchyThe mercurial Cheltenham talent is on a mission to make pop weird againThu Jan 30 2025 - 05:15
Brian and Maggie review: Why does no Irish broadcaster bring our history to light in such a riveting way? Television: why does no Irish broadcaster have the ambition to bring our history to light in so riveting a fashion?Wed Jan 29 2025 - 22:00
Skinner: ‘A lot of bands are afraid of speaking out about the way they’ve been treated. Some of the carry-on is atrocious’The postpunk songwriter has been careful to make his debut album, New Wave Vaudeville, as independently as he canWed Jan 29 2025 - 05:15
‘I’m appalled we’re going through senseless anti-Semitism again,’ says survivor of Auschwitz women’s orchestraTelevision: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, powerful BBC documentary The Last Musician of Auschwitz tells the remarkable story of 99-year-old cellist Anita Lasker-WallfischMon Jan 27 2025 - 12:19
Dancing with the Stars: Celebrity chef Kevin Dundon serves up another dance floor messDancing with the Stars: Ireland AM’s Elaine Crowley is second contestant to go from showSun Jan 26 2025 - 21:25
Ireland’s 2025 Eurovision entry: The six Eurosong acts vying to represent Ireland The pressure is very much on with Bambie Thug putting Ireland back on the Eurovision radar with a commendable sixth-place finish in 2024Fri Jan 24 2025 - 17:16
Mogwai: The Bad Fire review – Plenty of gruff authenticity, plus a moment that spears your heartThe Glasgow indie stalwarts found a new lease of life during the pandemic; for their first album since, the quiet of lockdown had been replaced by the roiling storm clouds of everyday lifeThu Jan 23 2025 - 05:00
Clumsy de Valera documentary dooms leading revolutionary women to walk-on partsTelevision review: The story of how leading women of 1916 were later marginalised is chunkily incorporated into the grand sweep of de Valera’s fall and rise in TG4′s De Valera san FhásachWed Jan 22 2025 - 22:30
Prime Target review: Saltburn meets The Da Vinci Code in tremendously silly technothrillerTelevision: Leo Woodall of One Day fame joins Stephen Rea in this riotous romp that has the courage to take itself seriously and never once winks at the cameraWed Jan 22 2025 - 08:52
‘You sound sexy’ – Caitríona Perry brushes off Kid Rock’s flirtation on live TVFormer RTÉ anchor was interviewing musician on BBC as part of Donald Trump inauguration coverageTue Jan 21 2025 - 12:22
Video Nasty review: cheeky all-too-rare drama that shows 1980s Ireland like it really wasTelevision: Series follows Dublin teenagers seeking to complete their collection of banned VHS moviesMon Jan 20 2025 - 21:35
Dancing with the Stars review: Mickey Joe Harte first to be voted off this year’s showTelevision review: ‘It’s been great craic,’ says the Donegal Eurovision singer Mikey Joe Harte. ‘I made so many friends’Sun Jan 19 2025 - 21:28
‘Who actually has the power? Is it Taylor Swift – or have men just found a way to profit off the idea of a powerful woman?’Blistering punk-pop duo Lambrini Girls recorded debut album last year, when the world seemed to be at peak insanity. But the spiral continues, they saySat Jan 18 2025 - 05:15
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks was a masterpiece. He forced us to look at the world in horrifying new waysTwin Peaks was one of the first dramas to demonstrate that TV could be an art form. Shows such as The Sopranos and Mad Men owe it everythingFri Jan 17 2025 - 09:29
Severance review: four heroes who twigged their work-life balance was dangerously out of whack discover something worseTelevision review: Ben Stiller’s directing of season two of Severance has the wonderfully chilly qualities of a 1970s sci-fi movie, but the purgatorial workplace drama is in danger of receiving its P45Fri Jan 17 2025 - 07:30
David Gray: Dear Life review – Lean into this raw, bumpy album. It’s well worth the effortNever mind that he’s British. David Gray might be the most consequential Irish songwriter of his generationThu Jan 16 2025 - 05:00
Marilyn Manson: Unmasked – ‘I felt so violated. I didn’t call it rape for many, many years,’ says ex-partnerTelevision review: actor Evan Rachel Wood tells Channel 4′s grim exposé rock singer Marilyn Manson raped her during filming of music videoWed Jan 15 2025 - 06:00
Peggy Seeger: ‘I met Bob Dylan before he was Bob Dylan. He came for my autograph’The artist born Robert Zimmerman may not have acknowledged his debt to her, but Seeger is widely regarded as a foundational voice of modern folkWed Jan 15 2025 - 05:15
Silent Witness review: Cosy crime drama delivers plenty of killer blowsTelevision: Back for a murderously enthusiastic 28th season, Silent Witness brings a jot of bloody consistency to an unpredictable worldTue Jan 14 2025 - 22:00
Dancing with the Stars review: Waltz by meteorologist Joanna Donnelly in memory of her mother leaves everyone in tearsTelevision: week two of DWTS 2025 sees goosebumps abound and emotions flowSun Jan 12 2025 - 21:31
Alex Kapranos: ‘I saw a guy in a band being extremely predatory with underage girls. He was exploiting his position’Franz Ferdinand are back with The Human Fear, perhaps their best album yet. The band’s frontman talks about two decades in the music businessSat Jan 11 2025 - 05:30
American Primeval review: Seldom has the stench of American conquest risen so raw and hotTelevision: Grippingly gory new western does the seemingly impossible by making us see the old west in a bloody new lightThu Jan 09 2025 - 06:00
Timothée Chalamet: A Complete Unknown soundtrack review – In what world does this Dylanless Bob Dylan album make sense?Star of new biopic deserves gold medal for effort, but you can only wonder about the target audienceThu Jan 09 2025 - 05:00
Jerry Springer: Fights, Camera, Action review - gripping film does not flinch from horror unleashed by obnoxious showTelevision review: The tasteless sleaze Jerry Springer paraded across the screen has long since been eclipsed by the great dumbing down of culture off cameraTue Jan 07 2025 - 06:00
Prosthetics, a body suit and a standout performance: Why Colin Farrell deserves his Golden Globe for The PenguinTelevision: Star buried his natural charm and affability under layers of latex to become the most un-Farrell-like creature imaginableMon Jan 06 2025 - 13:03
Room to Improve review: Dermot Bannon’s fancy pants design runs into a client’s wish for a lovable and liveable homeTelevision: Room To Improve turns an everyday makeover project into an engaging story and tells it with passion and empathySun Jan 05 2025 - 22:30
Dancing with the Stars review: Twists, turns and all kinds of grimaces as new judge Karen Byrne goes up against sourpuss Brian RedmondTelevision: Olympians Jack Woolley and Rhys McClenaghan are clear front-runners as RTÉ’s dance competition returns for its 2025 seasonSun Jan 05 2025 - 21:44
Irish music acts to watch in 2025: 22 to follow, from Cardinals to Yunè PinkuWho are Ireland’s rising stars? Here’s who to keep an eye on this yearSat Jan 04 2025 - 05:15
