Back in bloody businessTVReview: 'Finally, you're here! I was starting to grow mushrooms out my assSat Apr 15 2006 - 01:00
Lives less ordinaryTVReview: Arts Lives , surely, is one of the sharpest knives in the State broadcaster's drawer, consistently delivering quality…Sat Apr 08 2006 - 01:00
Misty, mewling melodramaTVReview: Let's face it, when a drama opens with mewling gulls, turbulent watery eddies and sea- splattered camera lenses, you…Sat Apr 01 2006 - 01:00
Revelations of the soulTV Review: According to Nuala O'Faolain, she set about writing her life story thinking that nobody would ever read it and, in…Sat Mar 25 2006 - 00:00
Hands across the divideTVReview: As political stasis continues in Northern Ireland with the ongoing suspension of the Assembly, a landmark BBC series…Sat Mar 11 2006 - 00:00
Love in less than two hoursTVReview: Writer-director Stephen Poliakoff, who recently brought us the unendearingly obtuse Friends and Crocodiles, an examination…Sat Mar 04 2006 - 00:00
Relishing Sugar and spiteTVReview: 'Shut it... From anchor to w**ker... You're a lightweight... You're firedSat Feb 25 2006 - 00:00
Behind closed doorsTVReview: 'Roses are red, violets are blue, throw off your khaks and give us a goo," giggled a bunch of kids dashing home from…Sat Feb 18 2006 - 00:00
Desert island risksTV Review: As most television viewers know, last year Oceanic Air flight 815 belly-flopped out of the sky, scattering parts …Sat Feb 11 2006 - 00:00
Old-fashioned geeksTV Review: 'Are you from the past?" This was the question asked by the geek-infested Reynholm Industries IT department of a …Sat Feb 04 2006 - 00:00
House of horrorsTVReview: It had been nearly four weeks since Dennis Rodman (all 6ft 8in of him) had had sex, four weeks since George Galloway…Sat Jan 28 2006 - 00:00
A fistful of shoulder padsTVReview: Friends and Crocodiles BBC1, Sunday. Elizabeth David: A Life in Recipes BBC2, TuesdaySat Jan 21 2006 - 00:00
Agony of an agony auntTV Review : From 1963 until 1985 lunchtime radio was home to the familiar husky voice of Frankie Byrne, the radio agony aunt…Sat Jan 14 2006 - 00:00
Singing in the New YearTV Review: 'The road to Luxembourg starts here!" Back in the days of yore, before crucifixes were a fashion accessory studded…Sat Jan 07 2006 - 00:00
Cooking up a chuckleTVReview: Weirdly compelling and refreshingly unfestive, Stew has boiled up a concoction of absurdist and melancholy comedy …Sat Dec 17 2005 - 00:00
Natural born fillerTVReview: It was just sad. It wasn't revelatory, it wasn't shocking, it wasn't controversialSat Dec 10 2005 - 00:00
A busy anti-social lifeTV Review: Dispiriting, rain-splattered housing estates were the setting for another powerful programme from the award-winning…Sat Dec 03 2005 - 00:00
Rise and fall of celebrityTV Review : 'They came, they sang and they cowered." Oh no, You're A Star is backSat Nov 26 2005 - 00:00
Falling at the first furlongTV Review: 'We are trying to make good television," said Mags emphaticallySat Nov 19 2005 - 00:00
The filth and the fairiesTV Review: 'What a dreadful noise plebs make when they're happy," observed a Roman aristocrat on his way to the forum, perhaps…Sat Nov 05 2005 - 00:00
Catching up with the pastTVReview: Lissom and lovely Avril Murphy Allen has a mission: to dejunk our covertly messy livesSat Oct 29 2005 - 01:00
The more things alter . . .TVReview: Archbishop Alibrandi and Cardinal Casaroli were among a confluence of religious gastronomy that peppered the archive…Sat Oct 08 2005 - 01:00
Contrarian biopic bluesTVReview: "God didn't just touch him on the shoulder, he kicked him in the ass," said record producer Bob JohnstonSat Oct 01 2005 - 01:00
Following the money . . .TV Review: The patter of tiny tiger paws are clearly audible in The Mentor, an eight-part series which attempts to resolve the…Sat Sept 24 2005 - 01:00
Kicking like a muleTV Review: It's "pure mule" - it's the brothers in the red saloon roaring down main street of a Friday night; it's the hair …Sat Sept 10 2005 - 01:00
Infernal affairsTVReview: You can tell by the scheduling that summer's lease is almost up.Sat Sept 03 2005 - 01:00
Raybo comes up RosesTV Review: That pale old moon keeps rising, bobbing up and down now for 47 long yearsSat Aug 27 2005 - 01:00
Disappearing mannersTV Review: George Bernard Shaw once said (apparently) that "a lady is one who never inflicts pain"; his wife's very substantial…Sat Aug 20 2005 - 01:00
The way to conduct debateTV Review: The boffin-like Eddie Hobbs this week began peeling back the skin of modern Ireland and gorging on the stinking innards…Sat Aug 13 2005 - 01:00
Cleaning up our livesTV Review: Corporeal virgins don't emanate from the TV woodwork very often, so Ann Widdecombe is a rare and anachronistic breed…Sat Jul 16 2005 - 01:00
Travels with the desert RatTV Review: Bob Geldof's new series, Geldof in Africa, is a personal journey, an attempt to go behind the familiar images of …Sat Jun 25 2005 - 01:00
Charismatic charactersTV Review: 'The man from God knows where," as narrator Miriam Kelly called him, quoting the ballad, was the subject of RTÉ's…Sat Jun 18 2005 - 01:00
Uncovering secretsTV Review: One in every two marriages in the US ends in divorceSat Jun 04 2005 - 01:00
Desert island risksTV Review: 'There's a certain gargantuan quality about this thing," said ex-hobbit Dominic Monaghan, who plays Charlie, the …Sat May 28 2005 - 01:00
Losing a generationTV Review: 'This is the wrong moment in history to sit on the fence," said Dr Mike Meegan, founder of ICROSS (International…Sat May 21 2005 - 01:00
Blood, sweat and tearsTV Review: Perhaps it's safe to laugh now, more than 800 years later, though with "recent scientific evidence" suggesting that…Sat Apr 30 2005 - 01:00
Meet the parentsTVReview: 'DNA defines and empowers life on earth" - this was the winning argument proposed by a real-life barrister to a real…Sat Apr 23 2005 - 01:00
Hangin' with the BedouinTVreview: Hector Ó hEochagáin, like a strawberry blonde Tintin on speed, is back and kicking up dust in his new playpen, the…Sat Apr 16 2005 - 01:00
City and the sexTV Review: It's interesting to see Dublin on the box - you get a little frisson of excitement when actors with Irish accents…Sat Apr 09 2005 - 01:00
Dramatising the dossierTV Review: "Does anyone actually know who David Kelly is? No, I didn't think so."Sat Mar 19 2005 - 00:00
His ardent HighnessTV Review: What does one do with a tap-dancing Prince Charming with a pancake stick? A personage as tiresome and defunct as …Sat Mar 12 2005 - 00:00
In the psychiatrist's chairTV Review: Some comedians can be a bit like senior flight attendants - they like to be taken seriously.Sat Mar 05 2005 - 00:00
Shocks to the systemTV Review: Two real-life dramas dealing with wrongful arrest and miscarriages of justice were aired this week.Sat Feb 26 2005 - 00:00
Attack of the odd couplesTVReview: Emma and Nicola don't like their new dad and they don't want to wear scarlet bridesmaid's dresses to their mother'…Sat Feb 19 2005 - 00:00
Children in the frontlineKeelin Shanley's new series, Faraway Up Cl ose, sets out to investigate the countries where Irish taxpayers' money is being spent…Sat Feb 12 2005 - 00:00
School ties that bindTV Review: 'Buy hyacinths to feed the soul," Lady Marie Stubbs advised a staffroom of demoralised and exhausted teachers.Sat Feb 05 2005 - 00:00
The right of SpringerTV Review: Jerry Springer: the Opera, the controversial televised version of the stage musical currently running in London (…Sat Jan 15 2005 - 00:00
