The Mysterious Mr Lagerfeld: It’s a shock when a normal person walks through the doorTelevision: Director Michael Waldman crafts the film in the image of his subject – it is wry, a bit elusive and ultimately fascinatingThu Apr 27 2023 - 11:16
The Silent Civil War review: A gripping story of ordinary people who felt they had to do terrible thingsTelevision: Part one of this two-part documentary explores the bloody Irish conflict over which a collective memory fog descended the moment it endedWed Apr 26 2023 - 22:35
Paul Mescal has released his first song. We don’t expect it to trouble the chartsSlip Away is a fine showcase for the star’s plangent, expressive voice. He’s squeaky, but it’s a heartfelt squeak layered with painMon Apr 24 2023 - 19:59
Malpractice: Another Irish thesp may be about to go full Ted HastingsTelevision: Niamh Algar is riveting in UTV’s hospital thriller, a kind of Line of Duty with stethoscopesMon Apr 24 2023 - 11:17
‘These aren’t wild places. They’re peopleless places. That’s what gives it that strange wild magic’Television: On Ireland’s Wild Islands, Eoin Warner is on a soulful quest to discover the spirit of Ireland itselfSun Apr 23 2023 - 19:30
Waxahatchee: ‘Our last stop on this tour is Ireland. It’s very nice to go out with a bang’In the first of three Dublin shows, the singer treats the sell-out audience to an evening of tidal emotions strummed simply on an acoustic guitarSun Apr 23 2023 - 11:01
Dead Ringers review: Rachel Weisz is electrifying and full-on maniacal from the first sceneTelevision: If you’ve ever flinched watching the Channel 4 maternity ward series One Born Every Minute, Dead Ringers will have you diving behind the couchFri Apr 21 2023 - 09:25
Davy’s Toughest Team: The cameras stop rolling – a sign of genuine crisis on reality TVTelevision: ‘Things have got too dangerous,’ Davy Fitzgerald says as the group prepare to scale an Icelandic volcano. ‘We have to get to the jeep’Thu Apr 20 2023 - 12:42
The Diplomat: Think Emily in Paris crossed with Hogwarts and a Boris Johnson after-partyTelevision: Netflix’s new series, starring Keri Russell, is an overcooked example of the streamer’s ‘American goes abroad and is confused’ genreThu Apr 20 2023 - 01:00
The Mandalorian: Wacky casting, imploding ratings, tumbling appeal. What’s gone wrong with the Star Wars spin-off?Television: Jon Favreau’s ‘well-made pulp’ became a phenomenon. But season three has been a letdown. Can its finale arrest the decline?Tue Apr 18 2023 - 21:00
Sometimes a simple act of kindness can make all the difference in the worldTelevision: Am I Here? is a challenge to anyone who has ever stepped over, brushed past or otherwise ignored a homeless person. To all of us, in other wordsMon Apr 17 2023 - 22:35
999 Faoi Oiliúint: Would a bit more ow factor be too much to ask for? Television: RTÉ’s new series about emergency-service recruits training for the front line has plenty of training but little front lineMon Apr 17 2023 - 20:30
Angela Scanlon’s Ask Me Anything: The anti-Late Late with an eclectic bunch of headersTelevision: Meath native is one of those rare Irish presenters who comes across as entirely comfortable in their skin, and that makes her hugely watchableSat Apr 15 2023 - 22:30
Mark Sheehan: Humble driving force who guided The Script to worldwide successGuitarist conjured vast, empathic soundscapes, his virtuosity charged by a desire to connect with the listenerSat Apr 15 2023 - 12:09
The National: ‘The Irish are such great singers and musicians – it’s almost daunting in a way’The music almost deserted the Cincinnati band when they began to write their latest albumSat Apr 15 2023 - 05:00
Metallica, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin and more: 20 of the best hard rock albums of all timeMetal giants Metallica have just released their long awaited new album. Where do the US band sit in the pantheon of rock gods?Fri Apr 14 2023 - 05:30
Home Rescue: The Big Fix – banishing the ‘floor-drobe’ is the new frontier in home makeoversDesigner Dee Coleman is off to a flying start in her first venture into DIY tellyThu Apr 13 2023 - 22:30
For an erotic thriller, Obsession’s sex scenes are as titillating as doing the weekend choresTelevision: Enniscorthy actor Charlie Murphy and Richard Armitage star as doomed lovers sucked into a whirlpool of mutual desire and destructionThu Apr 13 2023 - 03:30
Fenne Lily: ‘I find it so frustrating to be angry about stuff. I’m trying to be more chill’Everything isn’t amazing. Not for Lily, an indie songwriter whose melancholic new album, Big Picture, was forged amid upheavalWed Apr 12 2023 - 05:45
‘What are you crying about? You’ll get another wife’: John McAreavey speaks about Michaela’s murder investigation in new documentary Television: BBC NI documentary follows reporters Darragh MacIntyre and Allison Morris as they track down one of the accusedTue Apr 11 2023 - 11:29
Michaela McAreavey murder: ‘We had no sense of what was to come... it is probably a good job we didn’t’In the first episode of Murder in Paradise documentary, the sense is that the bombshells, if there are any, are to followTue Apr 11 2023 - 10:37
Succession: Bombshell for the ages drops in latest episodeThe outstanding prestige show of its era has at once stunned viewers while introducing a twist hidden in plain sight all alongMon Apr 10 2023 - 12:14
‘We needed him and he was there’: how Fr Alec Reid got the IRA to talk peaceTelevision: RTÉ's The Secret Peacemaker is an excellent portrait of Fr Alec Reid and his pivotal role in persuading the IRA that talking was in the end more productive than slaughterMon Apr 10 2023 - 00:15
Boom! Boom! The World vs Boris Becker: A long, gripping ride from teen prodigy to financial basket-caseTelevision: Becker remains an enigma throughout this exhaustive – occasionally exhausting – filmFri Apr 07 2023 - 13:02
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
