Pillow Queens: ‘When we’re seeing trans friends’ rights being taken we absolutely let the music take a back seat’
Irish band reflects on what makes them different, feeling a ‘new energy’ and how their work has resonated with people
Songs and jokes for Catherine Connolly at presidential fundraiser
The Connolly Céilí in Temple Bar is a multi-generational affair attended by people with tattoos, keffiyehs and anoraks
The Celebrity Traitors is clearly ripped off from Traitors Ireland: A Nation Once Again
Perfidious Albion has, in fairness, assembled quite a crop of celebrities - though Claudia Winkleman is no Siobhán McSweeney
Beyond Charlie Kirk: The political US influencers you may not have heard of
We live in siloed information ecosystems where an ideological figure who has the ear of the US president can be unknown to huge chunks of the population
Today I will discuss House of Beamish. I think I remember the plot from history class, but we were all quite drunk
Much like Downton Abbey, House of Guinness is best treated as a delightful hallucinatory cheese dream
The Morning Show is just like real life. Who hasn’t slept with a tech billionaire?
Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon’s show is an enjoyable but chaotic mess that makes a compelling argument for tearing the Fourth Estate to the ground
Brenda Fricker: ‘It was real violence, and I needed protection. Where was my father? There was blood all over me’
Parental abuse, sexual violence and mental health struggles: the Oscar-winner has endured more than most. She explains why she decided to write a memoir
Davina McCall is firing a flare. I think she wants a divorce
Stranded on Honeymoon Island isn’t a survival show so much as TV producers’ latest attempt to destroy the institution of marriage
Leo Varadkar on resignation, regret and repressing his identity: ‘Coming out was like emigrating’
The 46-year-old is enjoying retirement, even if becoming taoiseach was the pinnacle of an obsession he’d had with politics since he was seven
The jock, the nerd, the rebel, the princess and the freak: What kind of teenager were you?
From Ferris Bueller to Beverly Hills 90210 and The OC, teen dramas have helped turn us all back into adolescents
Michael D Higgins’s poetry album Against All Certainty: To hell with policy wonks for president, get a few bards
The President takes us back to an era of scarcity, warmth and unspoken love
The Traitors: My favourite character is Eamon, who is being radicalised before our eyes
My favourite character is Eamon the garda, who is being radicalised before our eyes
‘It was all about hurling... Being gay, ultimately, you were not masculine enough’
Cofounder of the LGBTQ+ youth organisation Belong To discusses the rise of anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric across the world
The challenges of creating the new Irish dictionary: ‘There was no word for avocado’
Patrick Freyne speaks to the chief editor of the new monolingual Irish dictionary, due to launch in October
Patrick Freyne: Real Housewives of London shows what happens when you try to abolish shame
The real star of the show is a sanity-troubled canine companion to the owner of the longest legs in Belgravia