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U2’s new album Carnaval De Luz features Dolly Parton and Bono duet
Carnaval De Luz is U2’s first album in nine years. It’s nice to have them back
Macklemore to bring Free Palestine tour to Dublin after removal from Ed Sheeran’s tour
Tour proceeds will go to organisations supporting Palestine, rapper says
Redwood by Ben Macintyre: World-altering conversations across the toilet cubicle partition
Account of impotent KGB double-agent lives up to its claim to be the untold story of the cold war’s most extraordinary spy
Irish teenagers are to get culture vouchers. Have they worked elsewhere?
Italy pioneered such an initiative a decade ago; data suggests book sales and visits to cinemas and concerts rose
Patrick Freyne’s top TV shows of 2026: Lola Petticrew, a bearded grump and Siobhán McSweeney’s sneaky Irish
Brilliant Irish actor Lola Petticrew (just a normal Irish name) stars in Elizabeth Meriwether’s Disney crime drama, Furious.
Sense and Sensibility review: Perfectly respectable Austen adaptation offers a pleasant afternoon out
Decent young actors ponder (among other things) the eternal tension between duty and desire
Stupid August review: Irish film marries Charlie Chaplin with an analysis of nefarious alliances
Pádraig Trehy’s latest feature marries silent cinema, expressionism and surrealism to create a historical fantasy
Youth: This might be the best art-imitates-life show Sharon Horgan has attempted
Television: Now, in her 50s and divorced, she is once again wrenching chuckles from her life via looking‑for‑love‑in‑middle‑age dramedy
Event guide: Dublin Festival of History, Tommy Tiernan and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
September 26th-October 2nd, 2026: Our pick of music, art, theatre and more coming your way this week
Aperitíf on TG4: This First Dates as Gaeilge show is cheap, cheerful and quietly disarming
Television: Must-see viewing this isn’t, but as a no-frills Irish language nightcap, it just about hits the spot
Netherlands to abandon its boycott of Eurovision, but Ireland will continue to stay away
Ireland, Netherlands, Spain, Iceland and Slovenia did not take part in last year’s song contest due to Israel’s participation
Taylor Swift to release expanded version of The Life of a Showgirl with four new songs
The Life of a Showgirl, released in October 2025, became the fastest-selling album in US history
The Great British Bake Off review: Nigella Lawson is charm on a swizzle stick
Television: Lawson understands her job is to sprinkle upper-class fairy dust on an oikish reality show consumed by people who eat microwave food
Scottish singer Eddi Reader finds Irish tour ‘healing’ weeks after death of husband
Fairground Attraction frontwoman visits Connemara ancestral home of late partner and songwriter John Douglas to scatter his ashes
The Traitors Ireland: What makes this intoxicating show so utterly gripping?
The Traitors Ireland plays shamelessly into our deepest fantasy about human nature: that we can work out what other people really think
