Oscars 2025: Who will win and who should win? Ireland has just one chance
Will Anora nab the Academy Award for best picture? Can Demi Moore edge out Mikey Madison for best actress? And how many awards might the troubled Emilia Pérez pick up?
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The 25 greatest upsets in Oscar history
It’s almost Academy Award weekend. From an inappropriate smooch to Envelopegate, here are the biggest limelight-stealing Academy Award moments
Festivals in Ireland 2025: From Longitude to All Together Now - a guide to 80 of the best
From Brigit and Dublin Lunar New Year to Culture Night, Space Week and Cork Jazz Festival, here’s our round-up of cultural showcases to catch this year
10 great films to watch if you’re stuck indoors
What to watch when it’s too cold and icy to go out? Try It Follows, The Thing, The Fly, Roman Holiday, Up, Uncle Buck and more
Read this and weep: Books that made writers cry
John Boyne, Edel Coffey, Ferdia Lennon, Sarah Gilmartin and a dozen other authors and critics on books that had a profound emotional effect on them
Culture Night 2024: Wondering where to begin? These 20 events around Ireland caught our eye
From Seamus Heaney to hipster Dublin, and salon jazz to retro synthesisers, thousands of events will be going on across Ireland on Friday, September 20th
Electric Picnic 2024: 12 must-sees at this year’s festival, from music to comedy and podcasts to food
Whether it’s Kylie Minogue on the main stage or Fangclub in Fishtown, this year’s event is crammed with people and places to grab your attention
All of Taylor Swift’s albums ranked, from worst to best – plus which tracks to expect at her Eras tour Dublin concerts
From her debut LP, in 2006, to the epic, 31-track Tortured Poets Department, this is how we rate each of the star’s studio releases
New Irish music: The 10 best albums of 2024 so far
Galway’s NewDad, family affair Driven Snow, and Pillow Queens all feature
Lí Ban the mermaid to Charles the healer: The strange lives of some less famous Irish saints
For St Patrick’s weekend, the back stories of some homegrown heroes of Christianity, from modern healers to mystical mermaids
Kathy Bates in Misery, Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men and 17 more of the best movie villains
From long-forgotten maniacs to ice-cold femme fatales, here are 19 of the most despicable, irredeemable film baddies of all time
10 great books and their 10 best chapters: The perfect way to while away an afternoon
From The Lord of the Rings to The Green Road via To Kill a Mockingbird, The Secret History and more, you can read each incredible chapter in a single sitting
The 10 best video games of 2023, from big-budget releases to unexpected indie gems
This year gamers were terrified by Alan Wake 2, dazzled by Sea of Stars and tickled by Super Mario Bros Wonder
Heart-stopping Halloween terror: 13 of cinema’s greatest jump scares
Halloween horrors including The Conjuring, The Descent, Scream and The Exorcist III
Cork Jazz Festival 2023: 10 classic albums that should be in any self-respecting finger-clicker’s collection
From Louis Armstrong and Miles Davis to Herbie Hancock and Brad Mehldau, here’s a quick fandango through jazz’s hall of fame
Rock of ages: The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Debbie Harry and 12 other classic acts still going strong
As Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood release their new album, we pick our favourite over-75s in music
Open House Dublin 2023: More than 150 buildings star in this year’s festival. Here are our favourites
The annual architecture celebration offers free peeks inside everything from follies to football stadiums
The Lion King, plus 11 other great stage musicals, from Show Boat and Oklahoma! to Hamilton
The Lion King, with its iconic original staging by Julie Taymor, is about to open in Dublin. It’s one of our dozen favourites
Great restaurants to try along the north side of Dublin bay
Fish, chips, ice-cream and fine dining around Clontarf and Howth
Twelve of my favourite Irish books for children
Sara Keating recommends titles by Irish authors that offer home-grown alternatives to international works
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: 21 shows to catch, from comedy to cabaret, clubbing and wrestling
There’s something for everyone this year, even children will have acts to choose from as part of this year’s event
Electric Picnic: 15 of the most memorable moments, from a blistering Fontaines DC’s set to Lana Del Rey’s tears
Stradbally has welcomed thousands of acts since 2004. As this year’s festival approaches, here are 15 moments that stick in our minds
Nineteen great family-friendly video games, from Mario Kart 8 to Untitled Goose Game
Whether you’re in the mood for a quiet puzzle or an evening of multiplayer chaos, these games are suitable for the whole household
Tommy Tiernan, Joanne McNally, Michael Barbaro, Esther Perel and more: 17 of the best podcasts to listen to right now
Featuring Three Castles Burning, The Daily, The Rest Is History, If Books Could Kill and more
Burt Reynolds as 007, Sandra Bullock in The Matrix, Emilia Clarke in Fifty Shades: 12 starring roles that never were
A dozen juicy parts that, for one reason or another, actors pushed to the side of their plate, beginning nearly a century ago
The Fab Four’s finest: 20 Beatles tracks for George Harrison’s birthday
The Beatles guitarist and songwriter would have turned 80 tomorrow. Which is reason enough to nominate the band’s best songs, both together and solo
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