How Senator Aubrey McCarthy befriended notorious murderer the Black Widow
Plus: Still waiting for Shane Ross to dish the dirt on RTÉ; ex-Ireland player’s country house plans hit a brick wall and team Trump take aim at an Irish ‘DEI musical’
Louis Walsh
The Late Late Show Eurosong special 2025: When is it on, who are the acts, who picks the winner and more
Everything you need to know The Late Late Show’s annual Eurosong special to choose Ireland’s Eurovision Song Contest entry
Boyzone: No Matter What review - It’s gripping, gruelling stuff that you can’t look away from
Television: A bruisingly bingeable documentary on the 1990s boy band Boyzone – Ronan Keating, Keith Duffy, Stephen Gately, Shane Lynch and Mikey Graham – and how it all ended
Boyzone documentary: ‘Some of the things Louis Walsh did were wrong,’ says Ronan Keating
Ronan Keating on Boyzone manager Louis Walsh: ‘Some of the things he did were wrong’
Next in line for success? Louis Walsh’s new boy band will have to conquer the primary school market first
Plus: The Ditch doing fine in a post-Paddy world; Fianna Fáil borrows from the DUP; and Brendan O’Carroll’s soft backing of Kamala Harris
Legal firm kindly volunteers its services to Irish Government department ahead of Covid inquiry
Plus: Mayor of Limerick’s ‘erroneous’ planning arguments; Nigel Farage’s Irish teacher; and Neil Jordan’s strange Garret FitzGerald anecdote
Patrick Freyne: I suspect some of the Celebrity Big Brother participants booked beds on Airbnb - the producers thought, good enough
Louis Walsh and Sharon Osborne both seem grumpy. They have either been conscripted against their will under new legislation or they’re each here so they can pay an unexpected bill
Priest says he ‘got a bit of a thrill’ when lorry reversed through gates of Russian embassy
Reverend John Walsh said he ‘would not have minded’ being in the cab of the lorry
Sarah Harding, untameable to the end, left a vital last message
Girls Aloud was a manufactured entity. ‘Hardcore Harding’ was anything but
Jedward: ‘We’re going to be 30 so we’re not these teen popstars’
The popstars reflect on their career in show business, social justice and parenthood
So long, The X Factor. These top Irish contestants will always remind us of you
Simon Cowell’s talent show changed the world of pop music. Any maybe Ireland too
Clear History: Yet another not so funny RTÉ comedy show
TV review: In fairness, there are sections where it doesn’t feel like an endurance test
Louis Walsh in line for €550,000 windfall
Entrepreneur who managed Boyzone and Westlife voluntarily liquidated his company
Sil Fox: ‘My phone went silent. Nobody rang’
The comedian wants his life back after a recent sex assault case against him was dismissed
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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