The Beatles: It’s great Mescal and Keoghan landed roles in biopics, but are we entering Fab Four overload?
The entertainment industry reckons Beatles content is as close as you can get to a sure thing in a world beset by uncertainty
Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds review: How paradoxical that Victorian England’s destruction should be relayed by an Irishman
What HG Wells would think of his masterpiece as a rock opera is anyone’s guess, but audiences love it
MobLand review: Pierce Brosnan’s Irish accent is a horror for the ages. Forget licence to kill, this is more Darby O’Gill
Television: Helen Mirren’s Irish accent is another phonetic fumble, but Brosnan seems determined to scupper his national treasure status
Elton John: ‘All I want on my tombstone is to say he was a great dad’
The veteran star is a long way from burning out. As he and Brandi Carlile launch their new album, they talk about music, family and fame
Miki Berenyi: ‘The internet has sent people I know completely crazy. That is not restricted to young people’
Fans of the the singer’s early work with Lush will probably adore the new album from Miki Berenyi Trio, which is steeped in her haunting vocals, gorgeously shimmering riffs and deeply personal lyrics
Hitchhiker’s Guide offered glimpse of a future where technology would mediate almost every interaction
Sci-fi author Douglas Adams didn’t live long enough to see the technological future he foretold become reality, or how his vision influenced his most famous fan
Steve Wall: ‘When Bono was offered the medal, I tweeted: Surely he won’t accept that. I didn’t know he already had’
The Stunning and The Walls musician and actor on honesty, activism and a life in the arts
Mumford & Sons: Rushmere review – Old-school nu-folk might just give the band a new beginning
The nu-folk figureheads, now a three-piece, remain cheerfully bombastic on this spirited if uneven album
The Studio: Outrageously funny and cameo-packed Seth Rogen love letter to cinema
Television: Clever satire on Hollywood features Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron, Bryan Cranston and more
Punt: The Irish and the NFL – Fascinating insight into tough grind faced by Irish sportsmen lured by lucre of American football
Television: We follow Monaghan’s Rory Beggan and Down’s Charlie Smyth as they try their luck with NFL place-kicking
Heilung singer Maria Franz: ‘We have a weird sense of time when we perform. It feels like five minutes and an eternity at the same time’
The experimental folk group’s gigs are astonishing spectacles – think Viking funeral mixed with a battle from The Lord of the Rings – and their ultimate goal is to whisk the listener off to an ancient time and place
Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) review – Melody and vulnerability in beautiful equilibrium
A wonderfully fragile collection takes off with Honey Water – not to mention an unexpected appearance from the actor Jeff Bridges
Gangs of London review: An Irish villain is dispatched with a boink to the head from a big mallet. The show is that absurd
Television: Amid all the gunplay, season three of Sky’s ultra-violent, hyper-cartoonish crime romp is missing a plot
Áine Ní Bhreisleáin brings us on a wellness journey featuring Joe Wicks, yurt saunas and flinging beer bottles with vengeful abandon
Television: TG4′s Sonas is feel-good factual filmmaking where hard questions are left to one side, and everyone has a grand time
The Residence review: Delicious White House dramedy from masterful Bridgerton creator
Television: Don’t expect authenticity from Shonda Rhimes, just eminently snackable entertainment