Mogwai: The Bad Fire review – Plenty of gruff authenticity, plus a moment that spears your heart
The Glasgow indie stalwarts found a new lease of life during the pandemic; for their first album since, the quiet of lockdown had been replaced by the roiling storm clouds of everyday life
Clumsy de Valera documentary dooms leading revolutionary women to walk-on parts
Television review: The story of how leading women of 1916 were later marginalised is chunkily incorporated into the grand sweep of de Valera’s fall and rise in TG4′s De Valera san Fhásach
Prime Target review: Saltburn meets The Da Vinci Code in tremendously silly technothriller
Television: Leo Woodall of One Day fame joins Stephen Rea in this riotous romp that has the courage to take itself seriously and never once winks at the camera
‘You sound sexy’ – Caitríona Perry brushes off Kid Rock’s flirtation on live TV
Former RTÉ anchor was interviewing musician on BBC as part of Donald Trump inauguration coverage
Video Nasty review: cheeky all-too-rare drama that shows 1980s Ireland like it really was
Television: Series follows Dublin teenagers seeking to complete their collection of banned VHS movies
Dancing with the Stars review: Mickey Joe Harte first to be voted off this year’s show
Television review: ‘It’s been great craic,’ says the Donegal Eurovision singer Mikey Joe Harte. ‘I made so many friends’
‘Who actually has the power? Is it Taylor Swift – or have men just found a way to profit off the idea of a powerful woman?’
Blistering punk-pop duo Lambrini Girls recorded debut album last year, when the world seemed to be at peak insanity. But the spiral continues, they say
David Lynch’s Twin Peaks was a masterpiece. He forced us to look at the world in horrifying new ways
Twin Peaks was one of the first dramas to demonstrate that TV could be an art form. Shows such as The Sopranos and Mad Men owe it everything
Severance review: four heroes who twigged their work-life balance was dangerously out of whack discover something worse
Television review: Ben Stiller’s directing of season two of Severance has the wonderfully chilly qualities of a 1970s sci-fi movie, but the purgatorial workplace drama is in danger of receiving its P45
David Gray: Dear Life review – Lean into this raw, bumpy album. It’s well worth the effort
Never mind that he’s British. David Gray might be the most consequential Irish songwriter of his generation
Marilyn Manson: Unmasked – ‘I felt so violated. I didn’t call it rape for many, many years,’ says ex-partner
Television review: actor Evan Rachel Wood tells Channel 4′s grim exposé rock singer Marilyn Manson raped her during filming of music video
Peggy Seeger: ‘I met Bob Dylan before he was Bob Dylan. He came for my autograph’
The artist born Robert Zimmerman may not have acknowledged his debt to her, but Seeger is widely regarded as a foundational voice of modern folk
Silent Witness review: Cosy crime drama delivers plenty of killer blows
Television: Back for a murderously enthusiastic 28th season, Silent Witness brings a jot of bloody consistency to an unpredictable world
Dancing with the Stars review: Waltz by meteorologist Joanna Donnelly in memory of her mother leaves everyone in tears
Television: week two of DWTS 2025 sees goosebumps abound and emotions flow
Alex Kapranos: ‘I saw a guy in a band being extremely predatory with underage girls. He was exploiting his position’
Franz Ferdinand are back with The Human Fear, perhaps their best album yet. The band’s frontman talks about two decades in the music business