Brendan Galileo for Europe review: A frenetically enjoyable one-man showDublin Fringe Festival: Fionn Foley is irresistible as an anti-establishment politicianWed Sept 12 2018 - 10:37
Agony uncle Ray D'Arcy gives relatively good adviceD’Arcy doles out the advice while admirably brisk Mary Wilson is baffled by midlife crisesSat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00
Miriam O’Callaghan’s unrelenting grilling of ‘posh’ Eoghan MurphyO’Callaghan shows a different kind of class in her inteview with Jastine Valdez’s parentsSat Sept 01 2018 - 05:00
Could happen to a bishop: Excruciating seconds of dead airRadio review: Presenter Gavin Jennings asserts his authority on ‘Morning Ireland’Sat Aug 25 2018 - 05:00
Katie Hopkins’s only talent: being tiresome and repellentRadio: 4FM’s Niall Boylan invites Hopkins on to discuss race relations. It’s shock-jock overkillSun Aug 19 2018 - 16:21
Aretha Franklin: When she sang, nothing else matteredMick Heaney: Her impact went far beyond music – she changed the world around herThu Aug 16 2018 - 15:44
No contest as majestic Miriam O’Callaghan wears her crown lightlyPresenter brings overlooked strengths to ‘Today’ show, while Liveline has unlikely glowSat Jul 28 2018 - 05:00
Pat Kenny pushes cocaine line to surreal limitsRadio review:Pat Kenny proves stimulating company while Jordan Peterson interview breathes life into Marian Finucane’s showSat Jul 21 2018 - 05:00
Come On Home: A tale of sexual repression and provincial suffocationReview: Phillip McMahon's story of a returning emigrant offers few innovations but vivid performances and resonant dialogueWed Jul 18 2018 - 11:20
Mario Rosenstock finds that being himself is a tricky actRadio Review: Rosenstock’s wit, invention and observation are absent from his radio showSat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00
Tinnitus: ‘Like stormtroopers marching on gravel’Radio Review: A compelling documentary about the hearing condition; Lyric uses sound to re-create visionsSat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
Ivan Yates complains about people who complain all the timeRadio review: “Do people ever stop bitching?” asks Yates. Has he met Mr Pot and Mr Kettle?Sat Jun 30 2018 - 05:00
Alcoholidays: Drunken tales from planes, trains and automobilesRadio review: Joe Duffy listeners share stomach-churning stories of abusive passengersSat Jun 23 2018 - 05:00
Radio review: Listening to Pat Kenny talking about LSD is a tripKenny describes attending a festival in the 1970s with “a dopehead” who had taken acidSat Jun 16 2018 - 05:00
Red nose, White House: when Ryan Tubridy met Bill ClintonMeanwhile, Muireann O’Connell is unembarrassed on Today FMSat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
No Joe as Philip Boucher-Hayes puts positive stamp on ‘Liveline’Stand-in host brings distinctive spin to adoption and referendum issues, but Gay Byrne remains the old masterSat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00
A jolting glimpse into the whirrings of Pat Kenny’s mindRadio Review: Pat Kenny – being Pat Kenny – goes off on a bizarre tangent on Jastine Valdez’ migration statusSat May 26 2018 - 05:00
Ronan Farrow interview shows Sean O’Rourke at his bestRadio review: Sean O’Rourke discusses Trump’s America with Maureen Dowd and Ronan FarrowSat May 19 2018 - 05:00
A livid John McGuirk has all the nuance of a grenade attackRadio review: Presenter Matt Cooper has fractious exchanges with anti-abortion campaignerSat May 12 2018 - 05:00
RTÉ presenters keep cervical screening on the air as authorities fail the testJoe Duffy, Ray D’Arcy and Mary Wilson highlight different aspects of the controversySat May 05 2018 - 05:00
The best-groomed male in Newstalk? There’s no competitionRadio review: Paul Williams and Shane Coleman blend news and jocular slaggingSat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
City slicker Ryan Tubridy walks the country roads with easeRadio review: Suprisingly, the RTÉ presenter is the ideal person to pay tribute to Big Tom McBrideSat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
Men are from Mars, women are from Venus. But what planet is David Quinn from?Radio: The columnist find it strange he is ‘not allowed to say something good about men’Sat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00
A quietly forceful rebuke to Danny Healy-Rae’s outburstRadio: No papal bull as radio presenters give muted welcome to pontiff’s visitSat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
Ivan Yates: liberal-baiting shock jock or rebel without applause?Radio review: Newstalk host’s insurgent style masks a complex personaSat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
Ryan Tubridy’s Cheltenham quiz should have been a non-runnerIt’s an uneasy experience to hear a big online betting company given so much promotionSat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
Pest from the west puts Taoiseach under pressure as airwaves gets snowed underRadio review: Varadkar favours snow talk over 2040 publicity campaign while Cormac Ó hEadhra enjoys a Brexit scrapSat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
A bit ‘icky’: Dermot and Dave’s cheery critique of a porn videoGiving the irreverent duo this high-profile slot underlines a shift in direction at Today FMSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
Does RTÉ think it takes three women to do one man’s job?‘Late Debate’ takes a new direction; Joe Duffy hears painful stories of callous bureaucracySat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
Sebastian Barry: ‘Part of me when I was young would have poisoned the soup of every other writer’The new Laureate for Irish Fiction on his predecessor, Anne Enright; his neuroses as a young writer; and the book that drove him to drinkSat Feb 10 2018 - 06:00
Irexit event brings Pat Kenny down with dyspepsiaKenny decries the “hypocrisy” of Nigel Farage taking a European Parliament salarySat Feb 10 2018 - 05:00
It’s time for Ray D’Arcy to wake up from his Montrose torporRadio Review: The former Today FM host sounds jaded on RTÉ Radio 1Sat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Ryan Tabloidy? Tubridy veers close to scaremongeringRadio: The presenter’s discussion on internet safety stokes deep parental fearsSat Jan 27 2018 - 00:00
Dolores O’Riordan and Joanne Hayes coverage shows women's voices are still stifledRadio Review: Today FM deftly covers both events, but reminds us that old attitudes lingerSat Jan 20 2018 - 00:00
Joe Duffy left stunned by ‘Home Alone’ booby trap taleLiveline host alarmed by crime experiences, while Kingsmill exercises Sean O’RourkeSat Jan 13 2018 - 06:30
Snooze talk: George Hook’s Saturday morning show falls flatControversial broadcaster’s underwhelming Newstalk comeback takes aim at familiar targetsSat Jan 06 2018 - 13:43
Brenda Donohue gives a masterclass in inconsequential fluffRadio review: Seán Moncrieff’s choice of subjects is as esoteric as everSat Jan 06 2018 - 05:00
Kenny puts the boot in on misery, as Tubridy gets an early Christmas presentGleeson reminds book lovers what they’ll be missing when she departs the airwavesSat Dec 23 2017 - 05:00
Miriam O’Callaghan has her work cut out with Shane MacGowanHis reticence is revealing in O’Callaghan’s most entertaining interview in a long timeSat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
Ivan Yates dislikes all ‘Nordies’ equallyThey are ‘caught in a time warp between the Tricolour and Union Jack’, says the Newstalk hostSat Dec 09 2017 - 05:00
Gabriel Byrne: ‘Sex pests’ and ‘abject sexism’ rife in RTÉ in 1970sThe actor also alleged production was halted on ‘The Usual Suspects’ over Kevin Spacey’s behaviourWed Dec 06 2017 - 12:20
Angry, indignant, honest Sean O’RourkeRadio Review: Both O’Rourke and Cormac Ó hEadhra find politics difficult to stomachSat Dec 02 2017 - 05:00
Curmudgeon Vincent Browne Vs Ray D'Arcy - it's radio goldVincent grumbles to Ray, while Muireann O’Connell is the new safe pair of hands in Al Porter's former Today FM slotSat Nov 25 2017 - 05:00
Pat Kenny’s coddled millennials comments miss the pointRadio review: The Newstalk presenter reveals a novel view on property problemsSat Nov 18 2017 - 05:00
Back in the USSR: Fionn Davenport’s arts show has a red scareRadio Review: After a slow start, the RTÉ presenter offers a vivid portrait of the Soviet UnionSat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
Trump is a “kind, compassionate man” Irish-American tells Marian FinucaneRADIO REVIEW: RTÉ host hears a folksy defence of the US president, while a once-controversial guest sounds conciliatory with MiriamSat Nov 04 2017 - 05:00
Ciara Kelly’s prescription for a new show: rational discussion and bracing furyThe GP turned broadcaster makes George Hook’s Newstalk slot her ownSat Oct 28 2017 - 05:00
Airwaves give as good as they get in the eye of Storm OpheliaStorm Ophelia brings out the best from radio’s presenters, as each show gives us their own take on Monday’s hurricaneSat Oct 21 2017 - 05:00
Paschal Donohoe: another self-satisfied Varadkar ministerDonohoe gives off the smug air that has marked many a ministerial radio appearance since Leo Varadkar became TaoiseachSat Oct 14 2017 - 05:00
King of the Castle review: An overlooked work steps into the canonDruid’s production picks away at the tensions of rural life with a savage eyeThu Oct 12 2017 - 13:15