TV & RadioGenius Game review: David Tennant deserves to be sent to dunce’s corner Television review: Doctor Who star’s baffling new show is a shameless Traitors rip-off By Ed PowerWed Apr 30 2025 - 21:30
Music‘Please know I am okay,’ says Katy Perry after backlash over Blue Origin flight and latest tourKaty Perry says internet is ‘a dumping ground for unhinged and unhealed’ people in message to fansBy Ben Beaumont-ThomasWed Apr 30 2025 - 14:00
Subscriber OnlyFun and Games by John Patrick McHugh: highly promising debut by a big talentAlthough this unapologetic portrait of a heterosexual teenage boy isn’t perfect, there is much to savour
TV & RadioSuspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes review - Horribly riveting retelling of police killing an innocent manTelevision: If only Irish drama displayed the same willingness to unpack our own scandals and dark secrets
TV & RadioNetflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in MayIncluding Murderbot, Welcome to Wrexham, The Better Sister, Dept Q and Bono: Stories of Surrender
Was Bono morally wrong to accept a US medal of freedom? It’s not that simpleUnthinkable: There may be lessons from Northern Ireland in responding to the horrors of the Middle EastBy Joe Humphreys
MusicThe Music Quiz: Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson star in a movie about a husband-and-wife tribute act to which music institution?
‘Please know I am okay,’ says Katy Perry after backlash over Blue Origin flight and latest tourKaty Perry says internet is ‘a dumping ground for unhinged and unhealed’ people in message to fansBy Ben Beaumont-Thomas
Mike Peters, frontman of Welsh band The Alarm, dies aged 66 from blood cancer Musician who first rose to prominence in the early 1980s with The Alarm, penning hits including 68 Guns and Strength, cofounded cancer charity that helped sign up 250,000 people as stem cell donorsBy Jane Kirby, PA Health Editor
Cormac Begley at Vicar Street review: Milestone performance from concertina master Fluid, freewheeling and unerring tunes blurred the boundaries between musician and concertinaBy Siobhán Long
New Irish albums reviewed and rated: Paddy Hanna, Lullahush, Cushla, Maria Somerville and Danny Groenland April 2025 releases include Oylegate, Ithaca, Tech Duinn, Luster and Burning RomeBy Tony Clayton-Lea
Sugababes in Dublin review: A steamroller of peerless pop and sisterhoodFounding band members Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhán Donaghy replace old tensions with collective joyBy Ed Power
Magic movies: The 25 best comedies of the past 25 years – in reverse orderFrom Borat to Banshees of Inisherin, here’s the best comedies from the last 25 yearsBy Donald Clarke
John Murry on being abused: ‘Those experiences as a teenager made me angry and they made me write. They gave me a lot of rage’Singular US musician and former resident of Ireland is the subject of a fine documentary, The Graceless Age: The Ballad of John MurryBy Donald Clarke
Screamboat: Mickey Mouse as a violent psychopath is no classic, but gory twist on Disney knows its audience By Tara Brady
Amongst the Wolves review: This Irish drug dealer is in debt to a villain played by Aidan Gillen. That never bodes well By Donald Clarke
Fun and Games by John Patrick McHugh: highly promising debut by a big talentAlthough this unapologetic portrait of a heterosexual teenage boy isn’t perfect, there is much to savourBy Kevin Power
Open, Heaven by Seán Hewitt: a portrait of the sensualist as a young manThe poet’s first novel documents the totalising force of youthful infatuation with fidelity and tendernessBy Paraic O’Donnell
Genius Game review: David Tennant deserves to be sent to dunce’s corner Television review: Doctor Who star’s baffling new show is a shameless Traitors rip-off By Ed Power
Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes review - Horribly riveting retelling of police killing an innocent manTelevision: If only Irish drama displayed the same willingness to unpack our own scandals and dark secretsBy Ed Power
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in MayIncluding Murderbot, Welcome to Wrexham, The Better Sister, Dept Q and Bono: Stories of SurrenderBy Kevin Courtney
TV guide: the best new shows to watch on RTÉ, BBC, UTV, E4, Disney+ and Apple TV+TV Highlights April 26-May 2By Kevin Courtney
From a Low and Quiet Sea review: Excellent performances, but this Donal Ryan adaptation has taken a big riskThe novelist has an ability to connect Ireland’s historical roots with its modern realities, but the multiple monologues of his story can struggle on a bare stageBy Tom Lordan
Paul Mescal to return to Irish stage in ‘taut, explosive, pressure cooker of a play’Star will appear in Abbey and UK National Theatre coproduction of A Whistle in the Dark, by Tom Murphy
Julianknxx on the roots of his art: ‘You go through war, seeing death – that trauma never leaves you’Julian Knox fled Sierra Leone with his family when he was nine. His astonishing Chorus in Rememory of Flight, at the Model in Sligo, grew out of all he experiencedBy Gemma Tipton
From a garda at prayer to Ireland’s first McDonald’s drive-through: Martin Parr’s revealing photographs of Irish lifeDublin Street Photography Festival 2025: The Magnum photographer has spent his career documenting everyday Ireland and BritainBy Tom Lordan
