MusicMercury Music Prize 2024: CMAT and Charli XCX among nomineesOther nominees include Barry Can’t Swim, Last Dinner Party and Corinne Bailey RaeBy Laura SnapesThu Jul 25 2024 - 13:34
BooksDonald Trump told nephew to let his disabled son die, book saysIn this new memoir Fred C Trump claims his uncle, the former US president, made cruel and racist commentsBy Martin PengellyThu Jul 25 2024 - 12:03
Subscriber OnlyReview: Delicious Italian food in a wonderful south Dublin neighbourhood restaurantGreat food, service, conviviality and grappa: I would be happy to have this fine neighbourhood restaurant in my own backyard
TV & RadioThe Decameron review: Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson battles ridiculous hipster haircut in unfunny rompTelevision review: This newly decanted Decameron succeeds only in laying bare the chasm between good and bad television
Subscriber OnlyAnthony Hopkins’s new prestige drama has given me a great idea. It involves buttocksThose About to Die: Anyone can achieve their dreams if their father is an emperor
For the sake of your mental health, stop trying to have an opinion on everything all the timeUnthinkable: People are panicking, theorising and condemning on social media in every imaginable direction. But it’s all right not to have a view on everything all the time. In fact, it’s healthyBy Laura Kennedy
Mercury Music Prize 2024: CMAT and Charli XCX among nomineesOther nominees include Barry Can’t Swim, Last Dinner Party and Corinne Bailey RaeBy Laura Snapes
The Script frontman Danny O’Donoghue reveals struggles with alcohol: ‘By the time I’d got off the plane, I was smashed’Singer says he has a lot in common with many Dubliners ‘and that’s the mad part’
Chrystabell & David Lynch: Cellophane Memories review – A vague, languorous soundtrack of morose, samey ballads By Lauren Murphy
Heaven Sent: The Rise of New Pop 1979-1983 review: Inventiveness and experimentation from start to finish By Tony Clayton-Lea
Eminem: The Death of Slim Shady review – Lyrical dexterity live and kicking on this uneasy funeral for his world-beating alter ego By Siobhán Kane
Venice film festival 2024: Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga among stellar line-upTodd Phillips’s Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands as the flashiest film in competitionBy Donald Clarke
Artist and shepherd Orla Barry: ‘Breeding animals is like making an artwork. You’re putting certain animals together’Orla Barry took up farming as a more financially secure sideline to her art. As the new film Notes from Sheepland shows, it has proved equally precariousBy Tara Brady
Notes from Sheepland review: Please flock to see this delightful and funny study of artist and shepherd Orla Barry By Donald Clarke
I Saw the TV Glow: Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting cult sensation will leave you reeling By Tara Brady
Donald Trump told nephew to let his disabled son die, book saysIn this new memoir Fred C Trump claims his uncle, the former US president, made cruel and racist commentsBy Martin Pengelly
Mother Naked: Dazzling work of speculative fiction set in 15th century Glen James Brown uses his mastery of medieval idiom to weave a tale of fear, violence and class tensionsBy Neil Hegarty
The Decameron review: Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson battles ridiculous hipster haircut in unfunny rompTelevision review: This newly decanted Decameron succeeds only in laying bare the chasm between good and bad televisionBy Ed Power
Anthony Hopkins’s new prestige drama has given me a great idea. It involves buttocksThose About to Die: Anyone can achieve their dreams if their father is an emperorBy Patrick Freyne
TV licence fee to stay unchanged but viewers may see impact on RTÉ servicesExisting licence fee payers will be affected by this deal if RTÉ is obliged to make further programme cuts as a resultBy Laura Slattery
The Body Detectives review: stark reminders of the wounds left when a loved one disappears without a traceTelevision review: Search for a man who went missing on holiday in 1984 makes for heartbreaking viewingBy Ed Power
Wicked review: The brilliant Laura Pick and Sarah O’Connor shine in this top-quality productionTheatre: Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s musical features evenly matched leads who reach impossible notes with vigour and expressionBy Sara Keating
Dublin Theatre Festival unveils 2024 programme, with new shows from Druid, Teac Damsa, Anu, Thisispopbaby and more Autumn event features more than 30 productions, with stories about family, identity, migration, climate, colonial legacies, and conflict and its resolutionBy Deirdre Falvey
Mark Francis: Acoustic Oceans review – A fascinating development in the Irish artist’s decades-spanning careerThis new series of works plays with contemporary anxieties relating to deceptive data and informational noiseBy Tom Lordan
The Outlaws Are Back review: Irresistibly diverse group exhibition from Cork’s undergroundArt collective’s wide range of influences and styles forcefully captured in latest showBy Tom Lordan