MusicChoice Music Prize: Kneecap and Fontaines DC among shortlisted nominees for Irish album of the yearThe RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2024 is set to be announced in MarchBy Ella SloaneMon Jan 06 2025 - 15:48
TV & RadioProsthetics, a body suit and a standout performance: Why Colin Farrell deserves his Golden Globe for The PenguinTelevision: Star buried his natural charm and affability under layers of latex to become the most un-Farrell-like creature imaginableBy Ed PowerMon Jan 06 2025 - 13:03
Subscriber OnlyPower to the People: The Hot Press Years by Michael D Higgins. Minority reports from Ireland of the 1980s and 1990sThis selection of the President’s magazine columns is a diverse collection of journalism from the left of the Irish political spectrum
TV & RadioRuPaul’s Drag Race winner The Vivienne dies aged 32James Lee Williams won first UK series of show in 2019 after lip-syncing in final to I’m Your Man, a song by Wham
FilmGolden Globes 2025: Colin Farrell wins award for The Penguin as Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist triumphAdrien Brody and Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres win main acting awards at a lively Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles that delivered a few surprises
Smartphones are an easy scapegoat for a more profound unhappinessChildren are led to believe ‘that their worth is tied to proving that they are exceptional’By Joe Humphreys
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Choice Music Prize: Kneecap and Fontaines DC among shortlisted nominees for Irish album of the yearThe RTÉ Choice Music Prize Irish Album of the Year 2024 is set to be announced in MarchBy Ella Sloane
What U2 knew about the United States that some quintessentially English stars didn’tBetter Man, the new Robbie Williams biopic, has been baffling Americans. Hitting a wall in the US really can be to do with being just a little too foreignBy Donald Clarke
Skinner: New Wave Vaudeville – Spasmodic shot of art rock walks the tightrope between high culture and backstreet scuzz By Ed Power
One Leg One Eye review: Forget Fairytale of New York. This is a soundtrack of the real Irish ChristmasIan Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noiseBy Ed Power
The Pogues at 3Arena: Applause rang out into the night, the crowd singing their way out on to the quaysA stacked line-up including members of Fontaines DC, Lankum and The Mary Wallopers delivers a brilliantly infectious performanceBy Una Mullally
Golden Globes 2025: Colin Farrell wins award for The Penguin as Emilia Pérez and The Brutalist triumphAdrien Brody and Brazilian actor Fernanda Torres win main acting awards at a lively Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles that delivered a few surprisesBy Donald Clarke
Babygirl star Harris Dickinson: ‘There’s a really dangerous thing going on with lonely, angry young men’Ambivalence is part of the allure when it comes to Dickinson, who stars opposite Nicole Kidman in Babygirl as an intern caught up in a risky affairBy Kyle Buchanan
Beezel review: This queasy horror set in an impressively creepy Massachusetts house is pulp as pulp should be By Donald Clarke
Nickel Boys review: You’ll never have seen anything like this daring, heartbreaking chronicle of abuse and inequality By Tara Brady
Power to the People: The Hot Press Years by Michael D Higgins. Minority reports from Ireland of the 1980s and 1990sThis selection of the President’s magazine columns is a diverse collection of journalism from the left of the Irish political spectrumBy John Gibney
I loved Alice Munro but recent revelations have tainted her legacy foreverEverything written about Alice Munroe after revelations about her daughter’s sexual abuse will record the Nobel Prize-winning author’s failure as a parent and human beingBy Rosita Boland
Prosthetics, a body suit and a standout performance: Why Colin Farrell deserves his Golden Globe for The PenguinTelevision: Star buried his natural charm and affability under layers of latex to become the most un-Farrell-like creature imaginableBy Ed Power
RuPaul’s Drag Race winner The Vivienne dies aged 32James Lee Williams won first UK series of show in 2019 after lip-syncing in final to I’m Your Man, a song by WhamBy Nadeem Badshah
Room to Improve review: Dermot Bannon’s fancy pants design runs into a client’s wish for a lovable and liveable homeTelevision: Room To Improve turns an everyday makeover project into an engaging story and tells it with passion and empathyBy Ed Power
Dancing with the Stars review: Twists, turns and all kinds of grimaces as new judge Karen Byrne goes up against sourpuss Brian RedmondTelevision: Olympians Jack Woolley and Rhys McClenaghan are clear front-runners as RTÉ’s dance competition returns for its 2025 seasonBy Ed Power
Musicals for grown ups: Stephen Sondheim presents ‘life deconstructed and laid bare, in all its confusion and disarray’Queen’s University Belfast academic Richard Schoch says the American composer’s works are high art that explore the human condition with precision, and remain fresh for each new generationBy Derek Scally
Brian Friel’s plays to be brought home to cross-Border communities that inspired themFive-year project will stage each play in a setting relevant to its theme and in the season it was setBy Caroline Davies
Killarney then and now: Aspects recognisable from when Harry Kernoff painted them in 1943Some of the views Irish artist Harry Aaron Kernoff painted of Killarney while on a cycling trip with Patrick Kavanagh haven’t changed much in more than 70 yearsBy Bryan O'Brien
2025 in art: 10 shows to look out for over the next 12 monthsCollective action and activism are themes in the year ahead, as artists also explore what gets lost and found in translationBy Gemma Tipton
