Watching the US president is like ‘watching a car crash over and over and over’, says director James Cameron. And yet much of the current security crisis had, until Friday, been weirdly ignorable for other reasons
Plus: Marc MacSharry will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree; Sammy Wilson’s silence; and Henry Kelly’s political allegiance
March 2nd-7th, including Towards Zero, The Academy Awards, The Skinny Jab Revolution and Réaltaí na Gaeltachta
Chef Beth O’Brien draws from the best of recipes to create this take on a kitchen favourite
One of Ireland’s best known actors, Jamie Dornan is hatching plans for a more varied future in the film world
Trump administration splits with allies on holding Moscow responsible for war
Forsyth's career of more than 30 years has included presenting shows on BBC Radio Scotland, Radio Three and Radio Four
Who can forget the depiction of a grim, resentful, booze-fuelled hellscape peppered with donkeys
The musician, who is deaf/hard of hearing, talks about her latest work, The Land Grows Weary of its Own, which has its Irish premiere this month
Thirty years ago, one event made Austen more popular than almost any other contemporary or close successor
Radio: Newstalk host Seán Moncrieff is at his best when discussing niche subjects that allow stimulating digressions
Television: Series sees Motherland’s obviously posh mum Amanda return as she juggles parenting with a career as an influencer
The Last of Us television series is driving amazing interest in the story, says cave explorer
The BBC World Service is viewed as a critical British asset in the global information war
Television: Aoibheann Walsh, who is from Donegal, and Jordan Dargan, a Dubliner, are among the 18 candidates on Alan Sugar’s The Apprentice
Four women accused actor and comedian of sexual assaults between 2006 and 2013, which he denies
Television: On Holocaust Remembrance Day, powerful BBC documentary The Last Musician of Auschwitz tells the remarkable story of 99-year-old cellist Anita Lasker-Wallfisch
Fans of Horgan’s Motherland can look forward to the spin-off which follows Lucy Punch’s character
There is no rhyme or reason to success or failure on Prime Video’s gameshow. MrBeast’s message for our children seems to be that life is arbitrary chaos
Former RTÉ anchor was interviewing musician on BBC as part of Donald Trump inauguration coverage
Television: Series follows Dublin teenagers seeking to complete their collection of banned VHS movies
British environmentalist and BBC presenter Chris Packham on battling to save the planet, standing up to his enemies, and how his autism made him hate himself
Claudia Winkleman’s smash reality show is an effective analogy for the Sisyphean pointlessness of existence. But the contestants can’t say that, obviously
Trio to share presenting duties on football highlights show, which celebrated its 60th anniversary last year
Television: Back for a murderously enthusiastic 28th season, Silent Witness brings a jot of bloody consistency to an unpredictable world
Hard Truths is as moving and acute a film as the 82-year-old has ever made. The director talks about rejection, vindication and never changing his approach to movie-making
News outlets may have a structural bias towards the rational over the mind-bendingly nonsensical. In 2025, that’s not ideal
January 5th-10th – including Dancing with the Stars, Michael Lynn: The Fugitive and Neven’s Portuguese Food Trails
Earlier this week Young backed out of the festival claiming it was ‘under corporate control’ of the BBC
Capacity at the famous music festival, which turns over much of its profit to charities, has increased to 210,000 people
Young says BBC wanted him and his band to ‘do a lot of things in a way we were not interested’
Including The Traitors, The White Lotus, Zero Day, Your Friends & Neighbors, The Walsh Sisters and The Bear
Television: Brendan O’Carroll’s slapstick purgatory remains a Bacchanalia of single entendres and fnarr-fnarr gags
December 24th-27th: including new Christmas specials of Doctor Who, Outnumbered, Gavin & Stacey, and Wallace & Gromit
Tribunal found PSNI and Metropolitan Police carried out covert surveillance on Belfast reporters Trevor Birney and Barry McCaffrey
Chris Walley’s charismatic tearaway is still in prison on drug charges, leaving his best pal, the Knocknaheeny scamp Conor, flying solo
Gregg Wallace is stepping away from role as a review is conducted into historical allegations of misconduct
Ghost of Christmas Past does overtime as broadcasters make viewers nostalgic for a time when nostalgia was a little less creaky
Television: BBC’s sixth adaptation of author’s Robert Galbraith crime books is full of rumpled charm
MasterChef presenter has stepped back from the television show amid allegations of misconduct
TV presenter denies fresh claims of incidents that Shannon Kyle alleges occurred when she was working on his 2012 autobiography
All it took was for someone to finally decide that it was time to care
Television: Handed a hit comedy by the BBC, RTÉ has once again fumbled its big punchline
The TV presenter faces allegations from 13 people across a range of shows over a 17-year period
The Walsh Sisters, which is set to begin filming in 2025, has been billed as a ‘comedy about serious things’
Prime minister’s office has criticised Wallace, presenter of popular cookery show Masterchef
Wallace, who stepped back from the BBC show last week, claims accusers are ‘middle-class women of a certain age’
TV presenter rejects allegations of harassment, including claim he made ‘lesbian jokes constantly’ and discussed spanking
The 60-year-old presenter faces allegations of inappropriate sexual comments from 13 people across a range of shows over 17 years
Television review: West plays a school student struggling with a sound only he and teacher Rebecca Hall can hear
Television: It’s all a bit ho-hum so far as Coleen Rooney stands out as most recognised ‘celebrity’
British media can hardly contain its joy as veteran presenter finally quits iconic soccer highlights show
Television: It takes a while to get going and is not without flaws, but this show is good enough to almost convince us our native tongue is in everyday use
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
