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Is Olivia Rodrigo covering Fontaines DC and CMAT the pop artist’s bid to garner grown-up cred?
With her album You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, the singer wants a place as a grown-up artist. She tested the water with her Fontaines DC and CMAT songs
Face it, the casual mob cares not if phones impinge on the audience experience of others
Future generations will find the notion of texting at the cinema or theatre as unacceptable as we now regard smoking in such places
Behind the scenes at Oklahoma! rehearsals: ‘It’s a much grittier, hard-earned kind of world’
Claire Tighe and David Bolger on their new production of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical for the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
June 14th-19 highlights: including Bad: The Song That Saved My Life, Funboys, and series two of Sugar
Four new films to see this week: Disclosure Day, Pink Narcissus, Time and Water, The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford
Emily Blunt, Eve Hewson, Bobby Kendall, Andri Snær Magnason and Peter Mullan feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of June 12th, 2026
Beyond the Pale day two sees music fans relax in ‘blessed’ weather
More than 12,000 gather at Glendalough estate in Co Wicklow for first Irish camping festival of the summer
Kingfishr at Malahide Castle: Stage times, set list, ticket information, how to get there and more
Everything you need to know about the band’s concert at the north Co Dublin venue on Saturday, June 13th
HouseWork review: A love letter and an elegy for the 1990s and a future Ireland that never quite arrived
Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Áine Ní Laoghaire’s one-woman show portrays the shifting role of women through their rise in house music
What is Yesteryear and why is everyone talking about it?
This ‘tradwife’ novel by debut novelist Caro Claire Burke is jaw-droppingly good
Dorothy Cross: ‘The beautiful is always bizarre ... It is never about trying to shock’
The artist’s best-known work had a lasting impact. The cabinet of curiosities that is her studio offers an insight into the master behind it
Dancer Michael Keegan-Dolan: ‘I do everything slightly backwards’
Michael Keegan-Dolan has created 1975/Naoi Déag Seachtó Cúig around The Bothy Band’s astonishing first album, which has stuck in his mind since he was six
Author Keith Ridgway: ‘Dooneen is the most beautiful place on Earth, as far as I’m concerned’
The celebrated Irish author writes about the ‘wonky Dublin’ he has written about in Dooneen, his latest novel
I told Copilot to f**k off the other day. ‘F**k off, Copilot,’ I typed, without asterisks
Rewrite this column with Microsoft’s ‘AI companion’? No, thank you, but I’m a good human, I swear
Michael Collins’s Pope Leo XIV biography traces rise of first American pontiff
Dublin priest’s study examines how Robert Prevost emerged from Chicago, Peru and Rome to the papacy
Reviews in brief: The Pilgrimage, Stalin’s Apostles and The Asset Class
New books from John Broderick, Antonia Senior and Hettie O’Brien
