Doctor Odyssey’s core message: just imagine Pacey from Dawson’s Creek holding you tight and saying, ‘Shhh, it’s okay’
Patrick Freyne: Cruising takes on an alternative meaning in this medical melodrama, with Joshua Jackson visiting multiple ports of call
John Creedon: ‘I was always being sent away, not because they didn’t love me, but because they couldn’t cope’
Broadcaster and author reflects on an unusual childhood in Cork, constant low-level anxiety and presenting Winning Streak without understanding the rules
Rivals: The thrusting bum is intercut with spurting soap and overflowing champagne. We are in safe, if filthy, hands
Patrick Freyne: If I was in Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, someone would surely compliment my ‘magnificent column’
Changing career midlife: ‘At 45 I thought I was finished... But it didn’t even occur to me that I could do anything else’
More and more people are opting to switch professions in midlife. We talk to three people who have taken the plunge
Long-lost story by Dracula author Bram Stoker unearthed at National Library of Ireland
Gibbet Hill, the Irish writer’s macabre tale of a man set upon by strange children at the site of a real murder, was discovered by Dublin researcher Brian Cleary
The 2 Johnnies – what you get if you feed Ant and Dec a Tayto sandwich after midnight – are taunting us now
As I get sucked into this regional boosterism, I feel something change in me. Do I ... actually like it?
Patrick Freyne: Where does Love in the Country find its taciturn Irishmen? I thought they had gone from this isle, like elk and shame
Anna Geary is such a good host that she’d probably want to help rural romantics find the partner of their dreams even if RTÉ wasn’t filming it
Michael Harding: ‘Solitude sounds beautiful, but what you get is isolation’
The Irish Times columnist on ageing, the double-edged nature of solitude, and his new memoir’s focus on his distant relationship with his father
Instagram star Garron Noone: ‘I’ve been broke most of my life. I’ve cleaned up people’s puke for money. Success is a transient thing’
The TikTok and Instagram star, who is hosting a new podcast, has grown used to attention from strangers. Not all of it is welcome
A Romani survivor of Nazi terror: ‘Young people, babies, infants, were beaten to death’
Holocaust survivor Christian Pfeil says ‘it’s important to remind society again and again that this actually happened’, especially at a time when right-wing extremism is growing across Europe
Watch as these bellowing beasts – the three kinds of ageing Englishman – roam the plains one last time
On The Grand Tour: One for the Road, Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond and James May bow out of their Prime Video car show
Outlast feels like another trial run for the collapse of civilisation
The reality for the survivalists on this terribly named Netflix show is a bit mundane and not even particularly wolf filled
Dylan Moran: ‘Everybody now is in a boiling froth of panic the whole time... we’ve completely regressed’
Navan native talks about stealing records, being a ‘rainbow goth’ and how a trio featuring Ardal O’Hanlon led him to his comedic calling
‘It’s a beauty pageant that’s not about beauty’: New Zealand Rose celebrates victory and her Irish heritage
Keely O’Grady says Ireland and New Zealand have similar experiences of colonialism
Patrick Freyne: I ooh as one Rose plays the spoons, aah as another risks ripping a hole in the space-time continuum
The second night of the Rose of Tralee International Festival is always when my cynicism retreats and I drink the red lemonade