Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Ahmed, With Love marshals the kind of collective energy you hope to find in underground shows but rarely do

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: The writer and director on their new production, a retelling of Sophocles’ Theban plays

Emotional and moral depth makes this so refreshing, like meeting the only adult in the room

The Followills may not seem to be having much fun, but they deliver the hits the audience have come for

It was festival’s biggest year so far, with 80,000 people in Stradbally for the weekend. Here’s what we loved and hated

Noel and Mike Hogan welcome the star to perform with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra in a tribute to their late bandmate

No dead air for two hours of hits and surprises as Williams asks the audience for adoration

Phillips writes with the help of her husband, whose presence in the narrative grows as her illness progresses

The novel’s power lies in its atmosphere, its pacing and the completeness of the author’s narrative control

Welsh’s deeper ambition is sincerity in a novel about growing up and searching

Raymond Keane directs Caoimhe O’Malley, Fionn Foley and Emma Dargan-Reid in Caitríona Daly’s new play

At Common Knowledge, you might end up wondering if you’ve bought tickets to the wrong show

We’ve inherited a strange cultural hangover from better times: the idea that the thing you do to survive should also double as your identity and source of pride

Memoir, cultural criticism and feminist theory are threaded together in this serious but ultimately tame narrative

This novel’s achievement lies in making the sweep of history profoundly personal