Breastfeeding My Boyfriend: Queasy viewing of a weird pastimeTV review: Channel 4 gawps without analysis at some people with an unusual hobbyTue Oct 26 2021 - 16:44
Without Gunther, Friends would have been very differentJames Michael Tyler – more barista than actor – was recruited from a Hollywood coffee shopMon Oct 25 2021 - 15:30
Joe Lycett vs The Oil Giant: Goliath walks away unhurtTV review: Celebrity-led documentaries can be powerful, but this one fails to hit its targetMon Oct 25 2021 - 13:30
Kin review: Let’s hope the finale is better than the uneventful penultimate episodeIt’s hard not to feel that episode 7 could have been efficiently compacted into episode 8Mon Oct 25 2021 - 00:15
Tori Amos: ‘We all carry around our damage’Ocean to Ocean is the artist's latest album, written shortly after the death of her motherSat Oct 23 2021 - 05:00
Four Hours at the Capitol: ‘I was not going to die on the f**king floor of Congress’TV: The January 6th riot looked like a closing scene of the Trump freak show. It was much worseWed Oct 20 2021 - 22:30
Impeachment: Another Monica Lewinsky story, another easy smearing of a womanTV: American Crime Story flubs its retelling of Lewinsky’s affair with President Bill ClintonTue Oct 19 2021 - 22:15
Succession series 3 review: TV’s smartest, cruellest, funniest show runs out of storylineThird time out, the novelty, such as it was, is starting to wear slightlyMon Oct 18 2021 - 22:00
Kin episode 6 review: The Michael Corleone of the Kinsellas emergesClare Dunne is the black sheep who rejects a life of crime, then becomes the brains of the outfitMon Oct 18 2021 - 00:26
Adele, the wine-bar Wagner, is back. So is her new single any good?With Easy on Me, after a six-year recording hiatus, Adele is back in the business of being AdeleFri Oct 15 2021 - 09:53
Reservation Dogs: Deliciously bingeable and quietly provocative underdog taleTV: New series set on Native American reservation upends coming-of-age narrativesThu Oct 14 2021 - 09:05
Barney Curley: The life story of a very Irish sort of scoundrelTV: The Man Who Beat the Bookies told the tale of a hustler turned philanthropistTue Oct 12 2021 - 09:41
Kin episode 5 review: Family bonds crack as an explosive finale beckonsCiarán Hinds’s thuggish godfather targets the Kinsella children Anthony and AnnaSun Oct 10 2021 - 22:30
The Altered Hours inject doomed Irish romanticism into psychedelic rockThe band’s gorgeously melodramatic second album, Convertible, is a gripping listenSat Oct 9 2021 - 05:00
Finneas O’Connell: ‘Being as famous as Billie seems like a drag’Billie Eilish’s brother on working with his sister, setting career goals and his new LP, OptimistSat Oct 9 2021 - 05:00
Ian Rankin’s Murder Island: Forget whodunnit. This is more of a whywatchit?The superstar crime writer’s contribution to this reality show won’t enhance his reputationWed Oct 6 2021 - 12:53
The Wolf of Wall Street meets Glenroe: Ireland at the height of the Eircom bubbleSold: The Eircom Shares Saga is riveting as an oral history of another great Irish debacleMon Oct 4 2021 - 22:35
Agnes O’Casey looks like she is going to be a starTelevision: Sean O’Casey’s great-granddaughter is riveting in BBC’s Ridley RoadMon Oct 4 2021 - 10:30
Kin is slowly turning into RTÉ’s best drama in yearsEpisode four review: A tense confrontation shows the crime drama at its bestSun Oct 3 2021 - 22:30
‘Is this some This Is Your Life s***e?’ Bob Geldof looks uncomfortable on his Late Late hagiographyTwo-hour broadcast is brisk and banter-filled while Mary Robinson creates sparkSat Oct 2 2021 - 12:47
What is Squid Game, Netflix’s ultraviolent breakout hit show?Heavily indebted people play games in the hope of winning a cash prize. You lose, you dieThu Sep 30 2021 - 11:45
James Arthur: ‘If X Factor is finished, then I’m part of the history of that’The singer on lockdown anxiety, imposter syndrome and picking fights on TwitterThu Sep 30 2021 - 05:00
Hector Ó hEochagáin meets the people for whom Irish is ‘more than a language’The high-octane travel TV presenter talks to people who have moved to Ireland from abroadWed Sep 29 2021 - 22:30
‘The best course of action was to have my leg amputated’TV: Bernadette Hagans’s cancer surgery spurred her to enter Miss Northern IrelandWed Sep 29 2021 - 20:00
Kin episode 3 review: The slow-burner finally roars to lifeContains spoilers ... Part 3 of the crime drama delivers dark secrets and explosive set-piecesMon Sep 27 2021 - 00:01
Foundation: It stars Jared Harris, was filmed in Ireland and cost $45m to make. So is it any good?Apple TV+’s $45m epic is Game of Thrones in space, made for the bingewatch generationFri Sep 24 2021 - 12:00
Ringo Starr: I had parties in the 1970s, but you’ll never find any photos of themThe 81-year-old former on rock stars, The Beatles and changing the world with his new EPFri Sep 24 2021 - 01:00
Natalie Imbruglia on Torn’s success: ‘I got a bit agoraphobic. There’s a lot of pressure’The singer on megastardom, being ‘difficult’ and overcoming writer’s block in NashvilleThu Sep 23 2021 - 05:00
Sex Actually TV review: ‘I guess I was thinking … is Kayla enjoying it?’‘I was not prepared for the reality of watching people have sex two metres from my face’Wed Sep 22 2021 - 23:05
The Great British Bake Off review: Remember when it was controversial?TV: Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas return with 12 new contestantsTue Sep 21 2021 - 21:30
Kin episode 2 review: It’s the Plodfather, Part IIThe brooding drama so far lacks the cranked-up energy viewers might have expectedSun Sep 19 2021 - 22:46
Patrick Kielty is back to psychoanalyse Northern IrelandTV review: The comedian explores the North’s centenary in One Hundred Years of UnionThu Sep 16 2021 - 23:59
Cheap Irish Homes: ‘There’s great value out there all over the country’TV review: Enthusiastic Maggie Molloy seeks out super-cheap but non-luxurious dwellingsThu Sep 16 2021 - 21:00
Garth Brooks, you are welcome here. But no drama, please – we’ve been through too muchAfter the Covid crisis and Electric Picnic uncertainty, we can’t handle a year of Garth-guessingWed Sep 15 2021 - 13:00
Fr Niall Molloy: Unpacking the financial dealings between the priest and the Flynns‘The Killing Of Father Niall Molloy’ part 2 concludes the community averted its gazeMon Sep 13 2021 - 23:06
Kin starts like a gloomier Love/Hate – then goes off like a powder kegAidan Gillen, Ciarán Hinds and cast excel in this tale of a blood feud between Dublin gangsSun Sep 12 2021 - 22:40
Colin Farrell – boozy, bearded and brawling – is in his elementReview: The Irish actor brings a Ronnie Drew voice and Dumbledore beard to The North WaterFri Sep 10 2021 - 22:30
Only Fans: Ireland’s X-Rated – ‘If there’s money to be made you have to work’TV: Virgin’s documentary is cheap and cheerful, but its chirpiness comes at a priceTue Sep 7 2021 - 15:20
Claire Byrne, a live audience and no bijou shed in sight. Is this the new normal?TV: The returning Claire Byrne Live doubles down on its magazine-show formulaTue Sep 7 2021 - 10:20
The Killing of Fr Niall Molloy feels too extraordinary to have been realTV review: There was a body in an upstairs room. Blood on the carpet. And a culpritMon Sep 6 2021 - 22:35
The Late Late Show is all over the place - that’s what makes it authentically IrishTV review: Ryan Tubridy - the Timothy Dalton of Late Late anchors - revels in the topsy-turvySat Sep 4 2021 - 10:00
Abba are back – but with weary, washed-out, stiff-jointed musicAbba’s new songs never ignite as you want them to, but if you try to like them you probably willFri Sep 3 2021 - 13:00
RTÉ has tried something new and refreshing: hiring Maura HigginsTV review: Glow Up Ireland is emotional, but it doesn’t have mascara running down its faceThu Sep 2 2021 - 22:35
Surviving 9/11: ‘If I hadn’t gone to the lobby, I would have seen the plane coming towards me’‘There always is that question: why did I make it out? It’s a huge part of who I am’Tue Aug 31 2021 - 12:01
Kanye West’s Donda is, among other things, a message to his estranged wife Kim KardashianThe juddering, relentless album features a cameo from the disgraced Marilyn MansonMon Aug 30 2021 - 12:51
Paul McCartney: The Beatles wrote memorable songs ‘because we had to remember them’‘McCartney 3, 2, 1’ explains why the early Beatles tunes were so supernaturally hummableWed Aug 25 2021 - 13:05
Aaron Dessner: ‘Indie or alternative music is kind of a myth now’The musician on Taylor Swift, his ‘good friend’ Lisa Hannigan and latest album with Justin VernonWed Aug 25 2021 - 06:00
Charlie Watts, Croke Park, 2018. ‘He looked like an office worker clocking in for the day’The late drummer was the cool, calm presence who kept the Stones rolling right to the endWed Aug 25 2021 - 00:40
Love Island 2021: If you didn’t like the series, you weren’t watching properlyWinners Millie Court and Liam Reardon provided much-needed drama in a show many found dullMon Aug 23 2021 - 23:50
25 years after interviewing Donald Trump, Ruby Wax is still getting over it‘Trump scared the s*** out of me,’ says Wax of her interview with the then future US presidentMon Aug 23 2021 - 06:00