‘It’s a medieval siege’: Massive Attack-designed Bohs strip highlights Ireland-Cuba links
British band continues tradition of musicians collaborating with Dublin football club to draw attention to social or political issues
Martin and Roman Kemp explore what Ireland does best: Sarcasm, breakfast, wondering what’s in the will
Martin and Roman’s Irish Road Trip is often good fun but does not overburden British viewers with knowledge, while a new Netflix show asks: ‘What if Ricky Gervais was a cat?’
‘These are her people’: Friends and neighbours remember ‘Queen of the Liberties’ Brenda Fricker
The street-lined crowd claps as the funeral cortege passes. Inside the church the service is simple but beautiful
Patrick Freyne: Cagney, Lacey, Velma, Daphne – here are my favourite female TV detectives
FBI agent Alice Black in new Disney crime drama Furious is following in the footsteps of these crime-solving heroines
David Sedaris: ‘I don’t know how to buy a plane ticket. I don’t open any mail that doesn’t look like fan mail’
The US writer and humorist talks about the serious business of being funny on the page and at his live readings
Patrick Freyne: A jaded and horny vampire with nice hair? Count me in
Lestat just isn’t as sexy as some of the other sexy vampires I’ve encountered in my time
Glen Hansard was Ireland’s band leader, something Bono or Geldof couldn’t be
The Frames’ frontman was the still-yet-chaotic centre of an indie-folk storm, whose job was to hold it all together
How much am I like Anya Taylor-Joy? Put us in a casino and watch what happens
Apple TV’s Lucky is different from other action dramas in that the main character has a dog’s name
Fr Mike Schmitz show in Dublin: ‘It’s like going to see a celebrity and the celebrity we’re talking about is God’
Fr Schmitz, the social media star, digital evangelist and Catholic chaplain, attracts youth groups, culture warriors and apolitical people seeking some form of healing at the National Stadium
Scramblers scourge: ‘People are dying because of it’
Using scramblers in public places has been illegal since April. The Garda Commissioner supports an outright ban on e-scooters
Patrick Freyne: Today’s rich weirdos have nothing on the billionaires of my youth
Willy Wonka, like all billionaires, goes into space in the end. Perhaps Elon Musk should purchase a cane
Little House on the Prairie’s ethnic-cleansing message really hasn’t dated well
Netflix’s Little House on the Prairie feeds into the fantasy that settlers have a great moral message (‘finders keepers’)
Patrick Freyne: Guilty pleasures are for cowards and Bonnie Tyler deserves better fans than that
Tyler, who died this week, once described herself as a ‘guilty pleasure’ singer. She deserves better fans than that. She is a guiltless pleasure for me
The Million Dollar Nannies love to party. They’re more Mary Poppers than Mary Poppins
Looking after oligarchs’ children in their New Zealand bunkers is, at least, a way to survive the apocalypse
Laurie Anderson on Lou Reed: ‘He said, I’ll get on a plane right now. We got married the next day’
Being back in the city where her husband gave his final concert was a reminder for the artist that there’s no demarcation between life, art, politics and love