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North Circular review: ‘You’d have robbed cars flying around... It used to be chaos, but good fun’

Television: Luke McManus’s love letter reveals the down-at-heel glamour of Dublin’s grittier postcodes

‘The nation loved you’: Mourners gather for funeral of Seán Rocks in Monaghan

Actor and presenter of RTÉ’s Arena programme died on Wednesday after a brief illness

TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week

August 3nd-8th: including North Circular, Cooking with the Stars, Fleadh25, MasterChef and Platonic

Mrs Brown’s Boys review: It’s surely time for this dreary and unfunny series to fade from our screens

Television: After 14 years of this iffy humour, is it time for Brendan O’Carroll to pull the plug on his famous Finglas mammy?

Seán Rocks to be laid to rest following Mass in his native Monaghan town

RTÉ broadcaster died at St Vincent’s hospital on Wednesday following short illness

‘They ruined me’: Natalie Ennis, tortured in Dublin flat, still awaits psychiatric support

Natalie Ennis was beaten with metal poles, burned with makeshift blowtorch and cut with knife

Football Families review: Affecting behind-the-scenes tale of what it takes to get to the top

Television: Insight into Dublin club’s underage academies doubles as a picture of its imperial phase under erstwhile manager Damien Duff

‘I loved every day I worked with Seán and will miss him’: tributes paid to beloved RTÉ presenter Seán Rocks

Donal Ryan, Elaine Feeney, Sinéad Gleeson and more pay tribute to the Arena broadcaster and presenter

Challenges for young Irish players trying to make it explored in RTÉ documentary

Shelbourne’s academy features on Football Families, which continually comes back to lack of funding

Seán Rocks, presenter of RTÉ radio’s culture show Arena, dies aged 64

Tributes are paid to the Monaghan man who was a celebrated actor before moving into broadcasting

Seán Rocks: Ireland has lost one of its great cultural champions

Late broadcaster’s easy wit and big-hearted spirit belied a lifelong devotion to our rich culture

How a controlling cult and a strangling Catholicism ruined lives in Britain and in Navan

Inside the Cult of the Jesus Army, on the BBC, and Pray for Our Sinners, on RTÉ, document the grip of religions

Sisters of rapist Richard Brennan want witnesses in trials to get paid leave from work

One said she was told she would have to take holiday or unpaid time off work to give evidence in court

RTÉ investigating potential cyber security incident

National Cyber Security Centre made contact with broadcaster in recent days

The show mustn’t go on for RTÉ underperformers, say RTÉ news staff

Plus: Fungus inspired by octopus; and what hens behind bars tell us about Mountjoy Prison

TV guide: the best new shows to watch in the coming week

Shows to watch this week including Impact: The Anatomy of a Crash; Inside the Cult of the Jesus Army; and Jason Mamoa’s Chief of War

Pat Kenny gets curious, angry and finally jaundiced; an explosively argumentative Drivetime

Radio: If Kenny’s attitude to splashy Government spending plans is jaded, he sounds sickened by the horrors in Gaza

Landmark ruling against RTÉ as tribunal finds Fair City photographer was not a freelancer

Alleged misclassification of media workers by RTÉ is a major legacy issue

Mrs Robinson review: Ireland’s first woman president deserves better than this often plodding film

Story of Mary Robinson is flattened out into a functional feel-good watch

‘Upset, frustrated, angry’: Woman criticises sentence given to late father’s wife over his unlawful killing

Judge noted that Olesja Hertova (49) ‘lost her temper’ and pushed James ‘Shey’ Ryan (69) who banged his head and later died

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