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Beyond the Pale 2026: ‘We’ve been manifesting this weather,’ fans say as sun shines on festival
Boutique music festival welcomes 12,000-plus people to the Glendalough Estate, in Co Wicklow, for the weekend
Olivia Rodrigo’s new album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, is brilliantly catchy and beautifully bittersweet
Olivia Rodrigo’s third LP vindicates her willingness to take inspiration from alternative pop’s most woebegone weirdos and wunderkinds
David Hockney: Single-minded star of contemporary art defied establishment derision
Hockney is considered one of the most influential British artists of the 20th and 21st centuries
Trinity graduate wins Women’s Prize for Fiction
Books newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pages
Anna Llewellyn wins Caterpillar Poetry Prize
A man teaching the birds to sing captivated this year’s judge
Shakira in yellow wows crowds at World Cup opening ceremony
Singers’ performance was among the celebrations to mark the start of the eagerly anticipated World Cup in Mexico
With Elvis Costello, Elizabeth Strout and surging audiences, Brendan O’Connor is riding high
Radio: RTÉ Radio 1 host shows his interview skills, while Pirate Predator recounts the horrific crimes of paedophile Eamon Cooke
The Movie Quiz: Which Toy Story do we reach next week?
Plus: What is, at time of quizzing, the highest grossing film of 2026?
Latest sci-fi: Future lifeforms, ‘Indiana Jones’ in space and a woman’s reluctance to save mankind
New Novels from Portia Elan, Brandon Sanderson, Susan Ertz, Mahmud El Sayed and a collection edited by Ronald A Geobey
David Harbour on Lily Allen’s West End Girl album: ‘It wasn’t my experience’
Stranger Things actor makes first public comments about his ex’s revealing hit album which tracks the dissolution of a relationship
World Cup 2026: Don’t fancy a middle-of-the-night match? Try these eye-opening TV shows instead
There is a host of football-themed programming airing at sensible times, just to get you in the mood
Time and Water review: An arresting documentary about Iceland’s disappearing glaciers
Sara Dosa resists catastrophising, allowing cracking ice to shoulder the film’s emotional heft
The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford review: Peter Mullan tremendous in ambitious if uneven satire
Sean Dunn’s debut feature brings to mind Game of Thrones after-effects in North
Event guide: Metallica, Dalkey Book Festival and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
June 13th-19th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Guns N’ Roses blast through the old tunes brilliantly at 3Arena, but where are the new songs?
The world doesn’t need another Guns N’ Roses world tour. It needs a new Guns N’ Roses album
