Sharon Horgan and Lily Allen’s Dreamland promised lots of laughs. We barely got oneTelevision: Horgan and Allen’s new dramedy has a big problem: it’s just not funnyThu Apr 06 2023 - 21:30
Beef on Netflix review: A black comedy where people have nothing left to enjoy but hateTelevision: Road rage is the starting point for a feud that quickly spins out of control where the ‘beef’ is a source of comfort and excitementThu Apr 06 2023 - 02:00
The Agreement part 2: When U2 showmanship helped conquer the foundering Yes campaignPacy and detailed film examines complicated factors at play in run-up to Belfast Agreement referendumTue Apr 04 2023 - 23:20
The Agreement part 1: An unsettling trip back to the era of bullets, Bertie, Blair and Baby SpiceRTÉ’s Belfast Agreement documentary sweeps you back to the days when Irish terrorism was routinely in the headlinesMon Apr 03 2023 - 22:35
Claire Byrne kicks off her TV quizshow. First question: What was RTÉ thinking?On Ireland’s Smartest, it seems a waste to have such a good current-affairs presenter posing stumpers about Scooby-DooSun Apr 02 2023 - 20:00
Feist on cancelling her tour with Arcade Fire: ‘I couldn’t continue’Leslie Feist on the aftermath of learning about allegations against Win Butler, her post-baby album, and ‘singing poorly’ at the GrammysSat Apr 01 2023 - 05:30
‘I love coming in to work’: Meet the big players in Ireland’s growing tabletop gaming industry Slaying monsters, casting spells... business is booming for the creators of RPGs such as Dungeon & Dragons, Warhammer and Broken WeaveFri Mar 31 2023 - 05:30
Sisters review: They said it was the Irish Fleabag, then the sweary drunks and low-key anti-Semites showed upTelevision: The show has some of Fleabag’s cruelty but it lacks its screwball energy and its jokesThu Mar 30 2023 - 22:15
Dylan McGrath’s Secret Service: One time villain chef’s kindness matters more than the cateringTV Review: Dylan McGrath and the show come from a place of enormous kindness and that, more than the catering, is what ultimately mattersWed Mar 29 2023 - 22:00
Bear Grylls Meets President Zelenskyy review: TV action man eager to set the world to rightsIn this Channel 4 documentary, Grylls is very good at being earnest and is genuinely moved by the fortitude of UkraineWed Mar 29 2023 - 13:56
Tori Amos at the Olympia: ‘It’s great to be in Dublin. You love people who understand guilt and shame’The American singer is in snarling, stomping form and delivers a set dripping with emotional goreWed Mar 29 2023 - 11:28
If a script called for ‘befuddled Irishman’ who else would you hire but Chris O’Dowd?Dusty is an Irish schoolteacher who has somehow ended up in small-town Louisiana – one of those amiably bedraggled types at which Chris O’Dowd excelsWed Mar 29 2023 - 05:00
‘You’re a brave wee peeler, aren’t you?’ In Blue Lights, an uneasy peace grips BelfastTelevision: In BBC’s gritty new cop drama, an idealistic PSNI recruit is quickly set straight on limits of what police could or should try to doTue Mar 28 2023 - 09:38
Succession is back for its final season. It’s firing on every cylinder – and the joke is on usTV Review: Jesse Armstrong’s dramedy is playing the hits. But what smashes they are. And what zinging dialogueMon Mar 27 2023 - 09:52
Great Expectations review: Sweary, scary Dickens sounds interesting until you’re forced to sit through itTelevision: Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight lays the melodrama on with a trowel in this take on Dickens, starring Olivia Colman as Miss HavishamSun Mar 26 2023 - 22:00
Baz Ashmawy, after his run-in with protesters, returns with a wonderfully feelgood DIY SOSTelevision: The Big Build Ireland kicks off its new season by making Adam Drummond’s home wheelchair accessibleSun Mar 26 2023 - 19:30
In the Name of the Son: How a Cork woman who lost three children turned unimaginable grief into saving livesThe tragedies that have scarred Mags Riordan led her to setting up a clinic in Malawi where her third child lost his lifeThu Mar 23 2023 - 23:15
‘Cathal Coughlan was an inspiration’: Robert Forster on The Go-Betweens’ Irish spiritAustralian songwriter on his friendship with Microdisney, overcoming Grant McLennan’s death, and why superstardom doesn’t appealThu Mar 23 2023 - 06:00
Waco: American Apocalypse review: Portrait of institutional dysfunction makes for gripping viewingDocumentary chronicles catastrophic confrontation between FBI, ATF and David Koresh’s Branch Davidian cultWed Mar 22 2023 - 16:33
Gina Birch of The Raincoats: ‘We tried to make something a bit feisty, a bit courageous’The punk icon, who has just made a fantastic solo album, on feminisim, Kurt Cobain and John LydonTue Mar 21 2023 - 05:30
Sebastian Barry on his mother Joan O’Hara’s Sligo upbringing: ‘It was like tar on her shoes’Television: The actor was ‘fettered’ by self-absorption, according to Barry, whose father apparently regarded philandering as his mission in lifeMon Mar 20 2023 - 22:35
Kin review: Dublin city is just a moody backdrop as gangsters bumble in the gloomIt looks great but style only goes so far and, two seasons in, Kin’s lack of substance is impossible to ignoreSun Mar 19 2023 - 22:35
Dancing with the Stars 2023: 2FM’s Carl Mullan wins in one of the biggest shocks in show’s historyThe 2FM personality comes out on top ahead of bookies’ favourite Brooke Scullion and early frontrunners Suzanne Jackson and Damian McGintySun Mar 19 2023 - 21:15
Dancing with the Stars final 2023: Everything you need to knowThe time, the participants, the routines and some tips - here’s your handy guide to what could be the last episode of one of RTÉ's biggest franchisesFri Mar 17 2023 - 10:58
A Sort of Homecoming: Bono and the Edge are a revelation as they go back to their roots with cantankerous David LettermanDocumentary is perfectly conventional and thumpingly agreeable and heart-warmingFri Mar 17 2023 - 00:01
Ryan Tubridy’s top Late, Late moments: F-Bomb, Hozier’s Parting Glass, Francis Brennan’s duvet difficultiesLove him or loathe him, Tubs has his share of headline-grabbing momentsThu Mar 16 2023 - 15:15
Shadow and Bone: Sumptuous saga will appeal to fantasy fans who like a steam-punk twistBinge-friendly show spins traditional tropes into intriguing new directions that could be called “Romanov-chic”Thu Mar 16 2023 - 14:53
Ultimate U2: The Irish rock giants’ 20 best tracks, in orderThe band release Songs of Surrender, featuring rerecordings of 40 songs from their catalogue, tomorrow. Here’s our choice of U2′s best songsThu Mar 16 2023 - 06:01
Ted Lasso: You’ll only enjoy this show if you’ve never been near a real soccer match beforeThis feel-good comedy has recast the Premier League as a snuggly sporting DisneylandWed Mar 15 2023 - 15:42
Paula Yates documentary is a horribly riveting study in late 20th-century celebrity Television: A fascinating reminder of anarchy and misogyny of British media in 1980s and 1990sTue Mar 14 2023 - 10:34
Brian and Arthur: A Very Modern Family – hiding in plain sight is a film exploring a uniquely Irish dysfunctionWhen it comes to surrogacy, Ireland’s legislation is a never-never land with few certainties and much guessworkMon Mar 13 2023 - 22:35
Dancing with the Stars week 10: semi-final with a tense dance-off and bloody headbuttTelevision: comedian Kevin McGahern loses out to Suzanne Jackson, as she joins Brooke Scullion, Damian McGinty and dark horse Carl Mullan in the finalSun Mar 12 2023 - 21:30
Wild Isles: Quibbles about ‘our British Isles’ melt away in the face of David Attenborough’s passionAttenborough’s narration – at once stern and cosy – draws you in, as all worries evaporateSun Mar 12 2023 - 20:00
Match of the Day review: After a day of thunderous controversy, a deafening silence swallows BBC OneTelevision: With no Gary Lineker, pundits or commentators, the embattled broadcaster replaces its Premier League show with an eerie highlights packageSat Mar 11 2023 - 23:32
Cheap European Homes: Maggie Molloy’s solution to soaring Irish property prices – move to the Longford of EuropeA couple’s gung-ho move to Portugal says a lot about their adventurous spirit and tells us a great deal about the state of the Irish property marketThu Mar 09 2023 - 19:30
Spencer Matthews’s Everest journey is a reminder that grief can take you to unexpected places ‘The timing isn’t great’: The reality star risks everything to try find his brother’s body in Finding Michael, leaving behind his wife, Dublin podcaster Vogue Williams, and their three childrenThu Mar 09 2023 - 11:39
RTÉ Investigates: Ireland’s Unregulated Psychologists – Devastating public service broadcastingTelevision: One quibble aside, this is a shocking and important exposé of the exploitation of vulnerable families by charlatansTue Mar 07 2023 - 10:27
‘You can’t do what Bill Cosby did unless you have other people supporting what you’re doing’Watching The Cosby Show was a Sunday-evening ritual. The documentary We Need to Talk About Cosby chronicles his unmasking as a serial predatorMon Mar 06 2023 - 10:23
Dancing with the Stars week 9: Twirl too far for Panti Bliss as history-making drag queen voted offIt’s a long walk into the twilight for drag queen Panti Bliss who, with Samson, created history as the first same-sex couple on the showSun Mar 05 2023 - 21:21
Dublin Narcos: How heroin and the drug lords got a death grip on the cityA new look at the 1980s Dublin heroin epidemic and the covert Garda squad that tried to keep pace with the criminals flooding the city with drugsSun Mar 05 2023 - 13:37
Daisy Jones & the Six: Everyone looks perpetually glamorous, but it’s a soulless jingleThe TV drama starring Elvis’s grandchild Riley Keough is at its best when laying bare the misogyny of the music industryFri Mar 03 2023 - 09:14
The Dry: A comedy about addiction that’s all too easy to give upAs alcoholics go, the star of this Dublin-set dramedy seems suspiciously well put togetherWed Mar 01 2023 - 22:10
The Mandalorian season three is drifting in deep space - something is clearly missingTelevision: The first episode is perfectly adequate but a five-star property has become a three-star oneWed Mar 01 2023 - 15:20
Réaltaí na Gaeltachta: A pleasant, Peig-free way to learn Irish Television: This unassuming travelogue will charm even those who wouldn’t recognise a fada in a police line-upWed Mar 01 2023 - 09:10
Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We? The Cranberries’ debut album turns 30 todayThey were outsiders but, in one of the great self-fulfilling prophecies in Irish music, they quickly conquered the worldWed Mar 01 2023 - 06:00
Stories from the Street: This isn’t misery porn. It’s the grim reality of life without a homeTelevision: Luke McManus’s film, on Virgin Media One, lands its punches yet never strays into voyeurismTue Feb 28 2023 - 12:31
Unforgotten: Sinéad Keenan’s fantastic as the new Nicola Walker. What’s with the accents, though?Television: The Irish actor takes over as the cold-case drama’s outwardly tough, inwardly vulnerable lead detectiveMon Feb 27 2023 - 22:00
Bono, Edge and Letterman mooch about a Dublin so old and gloomy even the crow’s feet have crow’s feetA Sort of Homecoming: U2’s new album prompts the chatshow host’s first visit to Ireland. He lands looking ready for St Patrick: The Grunge YearsMon Feb 27 2023 - 06:00
Dancing with the Stars week 8: Shane Byrne’s luck runs out as Brooke Scullion edges closer to victoryTV: It’s a bittersweet sign-off from the rugby player – comic relief through most of the series – after his American smooth scores a not-at-all shabby 22Sun Feb 26 2023 - 20:55
Meghan Remy: ‘Sinéad O’Connor was a marked woman. People wanted to take her down’U.S. Girls singer is still stung by the hypocrisies of her Catholic upbringing as she releases her new album Bless This MessSat Feb 25 2023 - 00:01
