Ryan Tubridy’s 10th ‘Late Late’ season starts with an awfully judged interviewReview: The ‘Late Late Show’ machine miscalculated on Carlow Rose Shauna Ray LaceySat Sept 08 2018 - 00:00
‘Ready?’ he asks, before penetration. ‘As I’ll ever be,’ she repliesReview: Sex is awkward in ‘Wanderlust’, a BBC TV comedy about passion and honestyWed Sept 05 2018 - 12:08
A whole Stoneybatter street on open viewing, for one night only‘Our Lives in Property: Oxmantown Road’ is a fascinating social history of a Dublin streetMon Sept 03 2018 - 22:35
‘The camera settles on the face of young boy. Then an explosion blots out the screen’‘Mother’s Day’ focuses on two mothers’ responses to the 1993 Warrington bombingMon Sept 03 2018 - 14:00
To see or not to see: ‘Hamnet’ is this week’s must-see theatre highlightDead Centre’s brilliant one-boy show in Dublin, and all the drama of Electric PicnicSat Sept 01 2018 - 05:00
‘I'm Adrian Chiles and I’m not an alcoholic’TV Review: presenter’s frank and personal BBC documentary, ‘Drinkers Like Me’Tue Aug 28 2018 - 11:00
Sexual tension and heavy security in terror-threatened LondonTV Review: BBC’s ‘Bodyguard’ brings psychological complexity to the thriller genreMon Aug 27 2018 - 15:56
Mary McAleese: ‘As a family, we were just devastated’TV Review: Ex-president reveals what World Meeting of Families means to her ‘modern family’Thu Aug 23 2018 - 10:40
Frnkstn review: A mutation of man and monsterMichael West’s new version of Frankenstein wonders if the scientist and monster are now one and the sameWed Aug 22 2018 - 11:00
Rose of Tralee: Pickup-style questions, job-interview answersTV Review: The one radical moment in Monday night’s broadcast turns out to be a glitchMon Aug 20 2018 - 23:45
Brendan O’Connor show: Majella O’Donnell could interview herselfTV Review: Presenter Brendan O’Connor is outmanoeuvred by his chat show guestSat Aug 18 2018 - 06:00
High Theatre: the critic’s choice of worksMichael West’s Frankenstein adaption and a Wexford man without promise of a futureSat Aug 18 2018 - 05:00
Celebrity Big Brother: Give or take a porn star, it’s the perfect stormThe fame-hungry are desperate enough to take part, and we’re desperate enough watch themFri Aug 17 2018 - 11:43
What Northern Ireland’s civil rights movement means to Miriam O’CallaghanRTÉ’s documentary about the 1968 protests is part history show, part personal journeyTue Aug 14 2018 - 22:35
A Midsummer Night’s Dream laced with glee, invention and a shiver of anxietyReview: Lynne Parker directs an Irish take on Shakespeare at Kilkenny Arts FestivalMon Aug 13 2018 - 11:00
Skull two pints in Connemara: this week’s theatre highlightsPat Shortt stars in the second of Martin McDonagh’s Leenane Trilogy; Roddy Doyle’s barfly banter gets a human face with Liam Carney and Phillip JudgeSat Aug 11 2018 - 05:00
New comedy: ‘Cup your genitals and just hold them’In Channel 4’s ‘Hang-Ups’, Stephen Mangan plays a therapist who takes his practice onlineWed Aug 08 2018 - 22:35
‘He didn’t take criticism well’: The human side of John Hume‘In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America’ documents his tireless, transatlantic effortsWed Aug 08 2018 - 09:58
Shakespeare’s summer sensation: This week’s theatre highlightsRough Magic’s high-voltage staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream addresses climate change, while Jim Cartwright’s ‘Two’ is more than the sum of its partsSat Aug 04 2018 - 05:00
It's a kind of magic: electric midsummer night's dreams in Kilkenny CastleRough Magic is recharging itself with a new young company and an electrifying take on ShakespeareSat Aug 04 2018 - 05:00
Family business is nasty business when it comes to ‘Succession’The new show from ‘The Thick of It’ writer Jesse Armstrong focuses on vicious in-fighting of a media mogul's familyFri Aug 03 2018 - 22:45
The Game – The Story of Hurling: epic clash of history and hype at the speed of a sliotarReview: With so much ground to cover, an epic three-part documentary on hurling moves at breakneck paceMon Jul 30 2018 - 22:40
Two theatre shows to catch in Dublin this weekThe Abbey brings the insurgent story of Jimmy Gralton back to the stage for another knees-upMon Jul 30 2018 - 17:00
Robin Williams: ‘He was always looking for another connection’Review: Robin Williams: the death of the comic overshadows this poignant documentary like a stoneMon Jul 30 2018 - 14:00
Boy George: ‘My Irish family’s story is like a great Irish song, a lament’‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ review: Tragedy for singer’s ancestors in early 20th-century IrelandThu Jul 26 2018 - 06:00
How to Get Rich Quick: ‘Can you hear it?’... ‘Ka-ching!’Review: Self-made millionaire Dave Fishwick offers trite advice in new Channel4 seriesTue Jul 24 2018 - 10:50
Francis Brennan goes native – it’s fun, but from another eraReview: ‘Grand Tour of South Africa’ is bewilderingly fond of jokey cheesy tourism gesturesSun Jul 22 2018 - 21:00
Two must-see theatre shows this week at Galway International Arts FestivalFlight witnesses an epic struggle staged in miniature, while an immersive performance invites us to share the scorched earth of Patrick White’s AustraliaSat Jul 21 2018 - 05:00
Gordon Ramsay: as rancid as last year's calamari24 Hours to Hell and Back review : The restaurant needed a saviour. Instead it got Ramsay in a fake moustacheThu Jul 19 2018 - 23:00
When grief and art become a gruelling, physical processIncantata review: the staging of Paul Muldoon’s elegy for a lover and a fellow artist is grief as an artformThu Jul 19 2018 - 12:30
An unsentimental look at a Dublin that will not accommodate its ownShelter review: History repeats itself in Cristin Kehoe’s admirably understated drama set in modern DublinWed Jul 18 2018 - 14:43
My Broken Brain review: A portrait of people coping with the unimaginableRTÉ’s documentary is as much about coping with neurological disorders as treating themWed Jul 18 2018 - 11:59
‘Inside Facebook’: Dublin’s disturbing role in turning blind eye to hate speechReview: ‘Secrets of the Social Network’ undercover investigation exposes Facebook’s Dublin content review unitTue Jul 17 2018 - 22:00
Furniture review: wickedly insightful comedy from Sonya KellyThe performers in Kelly’s new comedy about people and things, say their lines with wit and only occasionally bump into the furnitureTue Jul 17 2018 - 13:45
The legacies of the Donegal boatbuilders find a new port‘Foyle Punt’ review: Allow The Local Group to introduce you to a boat, the Foyle Punt, everything it stands for and what it may becomeMon Jul 16 2018 - 16:18
‘Everyone had girls’ names in the seminary’Writer Phillip McMahon and director Rachel O’Riordan on making a play inspired by a hidden community of gay priestsSat Jul 14 2018 - 06:00
Three theatre shows to catch in Ireland this weekDruid premieres two original works while a new company take their maiden voyage with Foyle’s PuntSat Jul 14 2018 - 05:00
If anyone accidentally deletes Ireland, ‘Nationwide’ is our back-upFor 25 years it has broadcast competent, ephemeral TV – whether we’re watching or notFri Jul 13 2018 - 13:19
Picnic at Hanging Rock gets a gutsy 21st-century makeover‘I don’t want to be elegant,’ complains one of the girls. Nor, admirably, does the showWed Jul 11 2018 - 22:15
Coppers the Musical: A show with two acts and just as many jokesReview: The gags that sustain the show are the racial differences between jackeens and culchiesWed Jul 11 2018 - 14:22
Sharp Objects: A numbed Amy Adams leads a double lifeReview: This adaptation of ‘Gone Girl’ author Gillian Flynn’s novel is pure American GothicTue Jul 10 2018 - 12:50
Two theatre shows to catch in Dublin this weekJoxer Daly gets a solo show and promenade plays in the Botanic GardensSat Jul 07 2018 - 05:00
‘Anne With an E’: Feisty Anne of Green Gables grows grimmerTV Review: Donegal’s Amybeth McNulty plays the lead in series 2 of the Netflix dramaFri Jul 06 2018 - 08:21
Denis O’Brien documentary: I considered taking legal advice before watching the thingReview: O’Brien owns a big chunk of the media, and often seems to be suing the restThu Jul 05 2018 - 09:30
Good Girls review: They’re not girls, and it’s not goodThe Netflix drama starring Christina Hendricks ‘has all the gravity of Barney the Dinosaur’Tue Jul 03 2018 - 12:16
The psychodramas unfurling everyday day in Ikea‘Furniture’, Sonya Kelly’s new play for Druid, is a wickedly smart relationship comedyTue Jul 03 2018 - 06:00
Two theatre shows to see this weekUlysses in the Abbey; Fred and Alice in the Viking Theatre, ClontarfSat Jun 30 2018 - 05:00
Sharon: a midlife coming of age storyReview: A new multiple-role-play comedy features so many characters it’s a wonder it didn’t think to give one to its protagonistFri Jun 29 2018 - 09:30
The marriage seems okay. But ‘The Affair’ needs spicing upWe thought it was over between us, but Sky Atlantic has rekindled its infidelity dramaTue Jun 26 2018 - 22:10
Lords and Ladles: An appetising idea, an indigestible TV showThe culinary history programme has great ingredients, but they are rarely well servedMon Jun 25 2018 - 15:21
