MusicBruce Springsteen concert in Croke Park: Tell us your verdictSpringsteen in Ireland: We want to hear about your experience of seeing The Boss perform on his Irish tourSun May 19 2024 - 15:00
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TV & RadioRoddy Doyle: The hate mail and death threats started in the spring of 1994Some 30 years after Family aired on RTÉ, Ireland has changed in many ways but domestic violence is still an ugly truth
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Are we over-using terms like ‘far-right’, ‘racist’ and ‘fascist’?Concerns are being raised about ‘conceptual inflation’ whereby ‘use of a term expands too much relative to its meaning’By Joe Humphreys
Bruce Springsteen concert in Croke Park: Tell us your verdictSpringsteen in Ireland: We want to hear about your experience of seeing The Boss perform on his Irish tour
‘Dancing in the Páirc’: Bruce Springsteen brings fans ‘tears of joy and nostalgia’ on rainy night in CorkA rousing rendition of Santa Claus is Coming to Town was among the highlights of The Boss’s Páirc Uí Chaoimh gigBy Ellen O’Donoghue
Girls Aloud review: The last great manufactured pop band make a triumphant return that is tinged with sadnessGirls Aloud was last – and best – of a particular breed of pop group from early naughtiesBy Una Mullally
Eric Clapton in Dublin review: guitar hero rocks the grey-haired faithful with a night of classicsEric Clapton, at 79, made light of his advancing years in delivering a stirring 80-minute setBy Joe Breen
Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft review – Her third album is not quite a genre bender, but this star is growing in sophistication By Lauren Murphy
Charlie Bird’s wife Claire on his last story: ‘I will try to live my life without this great man beside me’Journalist’s wife says former RTÉ correspondent was a ‘brave man’ who ‘didn’t let his terminal illness stop him from getting to the heart of a great story’By Noel Baker
Ten minutes with Jennifer Lopez: ‘How do I go where my heart is leading me without fear? I say tread forward’JLo’s new film is the $100m sci-fi thriller Atlas. It’s the latest chapter in a career that has spawned academic studies alongside global headlinesBy Tara Brady
Tiger Stripes review: Female puberty horror is a world away from Pixar’s Turning Red By Tara Brady
Eat/Sleep/Cheer/Repeat review: Competitive cheerleading in Ireland? It’s like coming across yak racing in Carlow By Donald Clarke
Best new crime fiction: John Connolly’s The Instruments of Darkness is a moving addition to the Charlie Parker seriesAlso reviewed: Abir Mukherjee’s Hunted; Kellye Garrett’s Missing White Woman; Fiona McPhillips’s When We Were Silent; and Daniel Weizmann’s Cinnamon GirlBy Brian Cliff & Elizabeth Mannion
David Nicholls: ‘I’m lucky enough to have lots of Irish friends and hope that I got away with writing an Irish character’The author of One Day on his new novel, You Are Here; the Irish writers he admires; and father-son relationshipsBy Martin Doyle
Roddy Doyle: The hate mail and death threats started in the spring of 1994Some 30 years after Family aired on RTÉ, Ireland has changed in many ways but domestic violence is still an ugly truthBy Roddy Doyle
TV guide: 12 of the best shows to watch, beginning tonightIncluding PJ Gallagher: Changing My Mind, Fleishman is in Trouble, The Young Offenders and moreBy Kevin Courtney
‘I never had dreams of making lots of money ... I knew what made me happy, and that was nature’The ornithologist and wildlife sound recordist is the subject of a remarkable new feature-length documentary, BirdsongBy Una Mullally
Grumpy boomer bingo: Cliches abound as Pat Kenny plays to stereotypeRadio review: Unfortunately, the Newstalk host stops short of mentioning ‘snowflakes’, so denying listeners a full houseBy Mick Heaney
Adrian Dunbar on Beckett: ‘I seemed to be getting knocked around emotionally but didn’t know how he was doing it’ For Beckett: Unbound 2024, the actor has teamed up with the composer Nick Roth to stage a festival of the writer’s work in Paris and LiverpoolBy Jane Coyle
Impasse choreographer Mufutau Yusuf: ‘I can’t have fixed ideas. Difference often opens up into something completely better than I imagined’Dublin Dance Festival 2024: The dancer and choreographer has always valued collaboration, but it has been key to the creation of his new workBy Michael Seaver
Behind the smile: mystery of Mona Lisa background decrypted by geologistAnn Pizzorusso, a geologist and renaissance art historian, claims she has found evidence that the Mona Lisa is set in Lecco, Italy. Video: David DunneBy David Dunne
Inside Ireland’s government nuclear fallout shelter: ‘It’s more a basement than a bunker’A ‘secret’ facility in Athlone was designated the national control centre during the cold war. We visit with a group of artistsBy Gemma Tipton