Irish-language Bluey actor had never heard of hit show before its turn as Gaeilge
Global smash Australian kids show to begin airing in Irish next week
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Race across the World: Irish dad and daughter enter derring-do spirit of amiable travel show
In tense times, geopolitically speaking, there is an undeniable pleasure in watching people embrace the stress and excitement of travel
Scott Mills says he has been subject to ‘rumour and speculation’ since sacking by BBC
Former radio presenter removed from role after broadcaster received ‘new information’ relating to alleged historical sex offence
What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes bad
The creation and dissemination of reliable news is at an economic disadvantage
Babies on BBC One: Siobhán Cullen is quietly searing in beautifully made show suffused with dread
Television: Series is to be applauded for sensitively addressing the anguish of being unable to have a child and the related pain of miscarriage
Siobhán Cullen on Babies: ‘It’s crazy to me that I had come this far without knowing so much’
Stefan Golaszewski’s BBC series starring Cullen and Paapa Essiedu gives screen time to some of the most soul-wrenching experiences imaginable
DJ Scott Mills sacked by BBC over ‘personal conduct’ allegations
Scott Mills took over the Radio 2 Breakfast Show from Zoe Ball last year
TV guide: The best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 28th-April 3rd highlights, including Grace, Race Across the World, and Your Friends & Neighbors
How The Kinks’ musical spat with Moby blew up
Lola, which the New York musician took issue with, came out 56 years ago. That’s a long time in pop music and a geologic aeon in gender politics
Clive Myrie: ‘The best journalists are the ones who behave like human beings’
The BBC news anchor and Mastermind host films the quiz show in Belfast and is a regular visitor to Ireland
Barnum star Lee Mead: ‘I was hoping I’d be singing on a cruise ship, but no. It was a car ferry’
Manifesting what he wanted in life worked for the TV and theatre actor when it came to landing the lead role in Barnum
Irish MasterChef finalist Mark O’Brien: ‘The biggest challenge is the feeling of exposure’
Dubliner Mark O’Brien was one of three chefs who made it to the final of the flagship BBC programme
BBC names former Google executive as new director general
Matt Brittin to take on role in May, facing advance of Trump lawsuit and challenges to broadcaster’s funding model
Martin Clunes on playing Huw Edwards in controversial new drama: ‘Wow, this is what he really said’
Clunes plays the former BBC News presenter in Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards
Bafta TV awards 2026: Graham Norton and Philippa Dunne lead Irish nominees
Belfast-set dramas Blue Lights and Channel 4's Trespasses are also nominated
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 21st-27th highlights, including Crookhaven, Cheap European Homes, and Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen
This week’s events brought us no closer to understanding the enigma that is Gerry Adams
‘You must pick your battles when dealing with Gerry,’ noted one senior Belfast lawyer, not at all surprised by the outcome of the case
The Other Bennet Sister on BBC One: A love letter to outsiders, introverts and people who don’t fit in
Television: Hooray for weirdos who live inside their heads – and for this sly, pointed deconstruction of the costume drama industrial complex
Trump takes aim at Nato, Keir Starmer and Europe in meeting with Taoiseach
Micheál Martin intervened repeatedly to defend Starmer and insisted that Europe was ‘a good place to live’
Jessie Buckley, a generational talent with acting superpowers
From her quiet emotion in War & Peace to her compelling physicality in Hamnet, the Irish actor has shown her talent runs deep
Ronnie Delany: Ireland’s Olympic hero remembered
Personal anecdotes from readers highlight the lasting cultural impact of Ireland’s track legend
London’s Burning actor John Alford dies in prison
Alford was serving an eight-and-a-half-year sentence for sexual offences against two teenage girls
TV guide: the 10 best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 14th-20th highlights: including Turbulence: The Story of Ryanair, The Other Bennet Sister and the Oscars
The White House ‘slopaganda’ machine is a direct hit on American soft power
Hollywood is used to being in the international persuasion business. Donald Trump’s triumphalist warmonger videos change that
Louis Theroux on masculinity, marriage and more: ‘Would you like me to cry now?’
The daring documentary-maker, who tackles the manosphere in his new Netflix project, has the tables turned as faces questions on some prickly subjects
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 7th-13th highlights, including: All That Remains with Niall Breslin; A Woman of Substance; a new Claudia Winkleman show; and more
Jessie Buckley: love of music, theatre helped me cope with eating disorder and depression
Actor from Killarney makes the comments to Lauren Laverne during an episode of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs
Claudia Winkleman’s chatshow is ‘obviously going to be awful’. Or is it?
The host has a flair for spontaneous hilarity and an expert team behind her, but this is still a plunge into new territory
TV guide: the best new shows to watch, starting tonight
March 1st-6th highlights: including Goodman: Too Big to Fail; Home of the Year; Vladimir; and more
Mark Robson on his abuser: ‘When he died, I went through a terrible time because I wanted to kill him’
Rugby commentator has spent his life putting himself back together after being abused by paedophile Lindsay Brown when he was 11
Getting our oar in: Frank McNally on the perils of linguistic imperialism
Their eccentricity might be charming if it wasn’t for the assumption that everyone else speaks that way
‘Tourette syndrome is like blinking: the urge is too strong to control’
The man at the centre of the Bafta racial slur controversy said he was ‘deeply mortified’ if anyone considered his tics intentional
Bafta N-word Tourette fallout has done nobody any good and there is no easy fix
On one thing everyone agreed: broadcast of the involuntary tics two hours after the live event defied all reason
PSNI and MI5 unlawfully obtained phone data of prominent Northern Ireland journalist, tribunal hears
Vincent Kearney was wrongly referred to as a ‘suspect’ in a criminal investigation, and the PSNI compiled a detailed profile of intelligence material on him
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