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Journalist’s debut novel is being pitched as Baby Reindeer from the stalker’s perspective

The Irish stout brand has been a success story amid a challenging trading environment for the global drinks giant

Last year, I used my phone as respite - doomscrolling, listening to podcasts in the shower and audiobooks while going to sleep

For many of us, the 1980s in Ireland were painted in 40 shades of drab

From Shark School to SexyTadhg and Dove Ellis to Hotgirl, here’s who’s tipped to take over in the year ahead

Sleek costumes and seasoned comedy are wasted in this sunny but saccharine film from Brett Haley

Despite mass-market appeal, the No 1 New York Times bestseller’s adaptations are widely regarded as some of the worst telly around

Television: The real destructive force at the end of this fifth and final season was the pain of growing up

Think of the movies Atlas or the deafeningly forgettable Red Notice

Including Bridgerton, Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, Harlan Coben’s Run Away, Tehran and Hijack

Timothée Chalamet, Seymour Hersh, Stellan Skarsgard and Renate Reinsve in a quartet of movies released in the week of December 26th, 2025

There is a sense of being caught between outdated structures and increasingly unstable new realities

Including Industry, A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, Tip Toe, Lord of the Flies and Grown Ups

The latest chapter in the Ballymena man’s hugely successful career is perhaps his starriest yet – all thanks to the murderously moreish whodunits of Harlan Coben

The biggest show of the year, Adolescence, became so huge that it fuelled a moral panic, but the best stuff was on the little-watched Apple TV

Talk around Netflix’s potential takeover of Warner Bros has accelerated fretting over cinema’s lifespan

I’m taking a break from the ‘gradual erosion of self-worth’ and staying firmly in outie mode

Irish actors to appear alongside new series cast members Rebecca Ferguson and Tim Roth

Without journalists of Hersh’s calibre, we would be none the wiser about incidents including the 1968 massacre of a Vietnamese village by US soldiers

Traders are navigating lighter volumes at the start of a holiday-shortened week

The top 10 best Christmas TV specials for worth watching again (and again)

The YouTuber has become one of the faces of boxing - and that’s ominous

Plus: Ozzy Osbourne’s Irish friend, Guinness arrives to chain pub, and Greta Thunberg’s view of Ballinahinch

Television: Since its debut in 2020, Emily in Paris has been variously celebrated as a guilty pleasure and lamented as a sure sign of civilisation’s downfall

Emily and colleagues have moved to Rome, where they’re doing what they do best: having sexual relationships with their clients

Hollywood studio and streaming company open to new bid but there are doubts over Ellison family funding

Morgan Neville unlocks the solipsism at the centre of the decade in a sharp analysis of a body politic apparently unaware of its own psychological instability

Rian Johnson, director of Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, on Agatha Christie, religion and Columbo

Kate Winslet’s directorial debut Goodbye June stars Helen Mirren, Toni Collette, Timothy Spall and more. Here, some of the cast discuss death, grief and film-making

Middle-aged women are killing it, sometimes literally, on the streamers

A strong day for the Irish banks was not enough to keep the Iseq green

Every generation someone murders the studio system – this time it was always going to be the streamer

Chief executive David Ellison criticises Netflix’s ‘inferior proposal’

We gave you the best films of the year, now here are the worst

There were hopeful signs that Hollywood could make money out of good films that did not spring from established franchises

Our critics have selected the standout movies released in Ireland this year

The story of the American 20th century is easily traceable through the films of Hollywood studios, and Warners was the leading light

S&P 500 rises to a hair below October’s record

Deal will transform US tech company into the dominant player in Hollywood

We continue our countdown of our favourite movies released in Ireland this year