In Dublin on Saturday night Charlyn Marshall performs The Greatest, from 2006, an album that requires her to confront some demons

Television: The storyline, even with its cliches, is eclipsed by Kate Mulgrew and John Connors’s compelling double act

Life has been helter-skelter for the Swedish musician ever since the release of her album Iconoclasts last year

Bono, Edge, Larry Mullen jnr and Adam Clayton haven’t sounded so invigorated and unburdened for decades

Television: Black Doves is certainly no classic but it moves at pace and makes for a good midwinter binge

The English indie band were smart enough always to keep pushing forward. Now they’re going backwards – to underwhelming effect

Television: The presenter explores plunging global birth rates with a gregarious, slightly anarchic presenting style

Television: As the mystery unfolds, the Irish language component of Crá fades into the background, and a gripping thriller plays out

Nerina Pallot had to negotiate blokey media and music worlds early in her career. Now, with a lot more creative control, the singer-songwriter sets her own course

Television: Patrick Stewart brought dignity to science fiction as Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Us geeks owe him an enormous debt

Traitors Maya Jama and King Kenny are finally exposed in tense, close-run ending, while James Blunt becomes collateral damage

The actor’s Star Trek role made her globally famous. Now she brings her no-nonsense attitude to The Galway Bay Murders, a new RTÉ crime drama

Television: The former State Pathologist presents in a sober style and uses her expertise well to convey the severe punishment suffered by the accused

Julian Casablancas and co serve up the sort of nostalgia that their overwhelmingly Gen Z audience craves

Television: Despite being hopeless on Celebrity Traitors, scientist Hannah Fry is on much firmer ground with a deep dive into the subject of machine learning