What do you think of Bloody Sunday, the Derry Girl asks the loyalist marching band. The air crackles with hostilityTV review: In The Real Derry, Jamie-Lee O’Donnell’s love letter to her home town, it’s 10 seconds of silence that feels like the real moment of truthThu Jun 16 2022 - 23:05
The Lazarus Project: This time-travel caper has stolen an hour of my life I’ll never get backTV review: The Lazurus Project’s old-hat formula makes it feel like a remix of Groundhog Day and Killing EveThu Jun 16 2022 - 22:00
Charlie Bird: IRA contact, ‘Orange sympathiser’—and still a bit of a mysteryTV review: RTÉ's Loud and Clear documentary struggles to paint a full portrait of the indefatigable journalist, but it’s impossible not to admire himMon Jun 13 2022 - 23:05
Ireland’s teen bands: ‘We never expected to go anywhere beyond the shed’During the pandemic, music became a ‘lifeline’ for these young people. After years of Zoom rehearsals, they’re preparing to play live gigs again, some for the first timeFri Jun 10 2022 - 09:01
Johnny Depp has released a tribute song to a strong woman. And, no, it’s not Amber HeardAfter the actor’s libel trial it’s impossible to listen without prejudice to This Is a Song for Miss Hedy LamarrThu Jun 09 2022 - 22:11
Skint, hungover and happy: The never-ending karaoke evening of 20-something life TV review: Dolly Alderton’s memoir is compellingly conjured in this adaptationWed Jun 08 2022 - 15:45
‘Sinéad O’Connor was hugely important. Mandinka made me think maybe I have a place in this world’Hercules & Love Affair: Andy Butler’s past substance abuse informs the more brooding 1980s goth vibes on his group’s fifth albumWed Jun 08 2022 - 05:00
Love Island 2022: It takes off on hormonal autopilot, then drops a minor bombshell TV review: A new eight-week summer run began on Monday nightMon Jun 06 2022 - 23:50
Love Island 2022: Everything you need to know about its new rules, Irish contestant and moreEd Power on the 2022 show's new rules, changed location and Irish contestantMon Jun 06 2022 - 05:00
George Ezra: ‘I was anxious success would affect my personal life. It doesn’t at all’Singer has struggled with fame but is better-equipped now to face pressureSat Jun 04 2022 - 05:00
The Black Death: Ghoulish though it may sound, there were upsides ...Historian does not make light of suffering but approaches the subject with sense of derring-doWed Jun 01 2022 - 12:16
Claire Byrne Live final episode: The wigged-out current affairs show plays it straightSeries carries on strange tradition of Irish current affairs programming that lurches towards the surreal and bonkersTue May 31 2022 - 10:58
Late Late Show 60th anniversary: Charlie Bird celebrates ‘the show that shaped Ireland’TV review: Ed Power reviews the Late Late Show 60th anniversary specialSat May 28 2022 - 11:25
Sharon Van Etten: ‘I realised I haven’t figured out anything at all’Her extraordinary new album is informed by lockdown, parenthood and traumaSat May 28 2022 - 05:00
Obi-Wan Kenobi walks a tight-rope between enjoyable and underwhelmingTV review: It is absolutely okay. And for many Star Wars fans that now feels like a winFri May 27 2022 - 14:16
Brendan Gleeson the American is not nearly as agreeable Brendan Gleeson the IrishmanTV review: State of the Union shows Gleeson’s problems as so much more interesting than those of his fictitious spouseWed May 25 2022 - 16:43
The menopause and how it affects ‘your brain, your skin, your heart’TV review: The Change – Ireland’s Menopause Story a sobering exploration of still-taboo subjectTue May 24 2022 - 11:37
Eiko Ishibashi: Finding a new direction after the Drive My Car soundtrackThe Japanese composer on how prog rock and TV crime drama inspired her new albumTue May 24 2022 - 05:00
Stranger Things 4, first look review: At first I was bored, then I was bingeingShow’s final season feels like a huge leap forward as Netflix supersizes streaming hitMon May 23 2022 - 08:34
Johnny Depp vs Amber Heard: What we know with one week of evidence to goThe trial enters its final week on Monday, with Heard’s witnesses in the standFri May 20 2022 - 05:30
Derry Girls is comedy gold, but its last episode was no grand finaleDerry Girls finale review: Alas, the last episode overdoes it with a one hour specialWed May 18 2022 - 22:03
Joe Wicks’s heroin-addict father, OCD mother and agonising childhoodTV Review: Facing My Childhood sounded an urgent warning on mental health in familiesWed May 18 2022 - 09:57
Conversations With Friends, episodes 1-2: Awkward snogs, intense dialogue and a future starTV review: Alison Oliver communicates her character’s hyper-introversion brilliantlySun May 15 2022 - 23:00
Eurovision 2022: Ukraine ignore political rules to make ‘help Mariupol’ plea‘Please help Ukraine ... please help Mariupol ... right now,’ say Ukraine’s Kalush OrchestraSun May 15 2022 - 00:33
The Essex Serpent: Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston in gripping, gothic TVFor better or worse, this is serious, thinky telly where the serpents are metaphoricalFri May 13 2022 - 06:00
15-minute city? For many Irish people, that’s the time by which the bus or train is lateTV review: Róisín Murphy’s Big City Plan feels like a grab-bag of chattering-class talking pointsThu May 12 2022 - 23:15
Ireland at Eurovision 2022: Brooke Scullion’s firework performance goes up in smokeThat’s Rich receives lots of applause yet fails to go through to Saturday’s finalThu May 12 2022 - 23:08
Fergal Keane: ‘I found myself having nightmares, flash backs…Trying to cure it with drinking’TV review: Living With PTSD is a gripping exploration of inter-generational painTue May 10 2022 - 11:12
Conversations With Friends, first look review: If anything it’s superior to Normal PeopleJoe Alwyn is the only weak link. His lack of charisma is a void at the heart of the dramaTue May 10 2022 - 00:01
Wagatha Christie: Everything you need to know about this week’s libel trialRebekah Vardy is suing Coleen Rooney for suggesting Vardy leaked stories about herMon May 09 2022 - 05:00
Eurovision 2022: Everything you need to know about Ireland’s entry and broadcast timesThe second semifinal featuring Ireland is on Thursday, the final on SaturdaySat May 07 2022 - 06:00
Londongrad: Putin’s Billionaires – ‘They knew where the money was coming from’TV review: This Virgin Media One film tells us little of Russian oligarchs’ Irish interestsTue May 03 2022 - 12:15
Belle and Sebastian going relatively gently into that good nightThe band's singer Stuart Murdoch on vulnerability, empathy and their potential last albumTue May 03 2022 - 00:00
Sigrid on Britney Spears, her latest songs and her love affair with IrelandShe is counting down to the release of her fizzbomb second album, How To Let GoSat Apr 30 2022 - 00:00
Tan France: ‘I thought if I had whiter skin I wouldn’t be called a p*** every day’TV review: Beauty and the Bleach explores a bias towards lighter skinThu Apr 28 2022 - 15:08
Annie McCarrick: ‘No one considered a serial killer. That only happened in other countries’Scannal: Annie McCarrick TV review – RTÉ’s short film is respectful and understatedWed Apr 27 2022 - 12:58
Inside Facebook’s Metaverse, where racial, homophobic and sexual abuse are rampantJournalist Yinka Bokinni posed as a 22 year-old-woman and a 13 year-old-child for Channel 4Tue Apr 26 2022 - 15:03
Ed Sheeran live at Croke Park: ‘Nothing beats Saturday night in Croker does it?’Review: The first of the singer’s series of large Irish gigs was epic and heartfeltSat Apr 23 2022 - 23:00
Inside Number 9: Grasping the grim nettle that is existence itselfThe chill factor is dialled up as the Twilight Zone-esque anthology series returnsWed Apr 20 2022 - 23:45
Let’s Eat Grandma: ‘Trying to make sense of grief in a song was really difficult’The pop duo on coping with bereavement, growing apart and new album Two RibbonsWed Apr 20 2022 - 00:00
Derry Girls: Episode two isn’t as spicy as Ryan Tubridy’s interview with the castTV review: Nor is it as funny as last week, but even in cruise control this show is a hootTue Apr 19 2022 - 21:45
Better Call Saul review: Self-destruction never felt so wholesomeBob Odenkirk returns for a final season as Breaking Bad’s doomed hucksterTue Apr 19 2022 - 14:18
Claire Rousay: ‘Touring as a woman, if you don’t protect yourself no one will’The avant-garde musician plays Ireland for the first time at the end of the monthMon Apr 18 2022 - 00:00
Gazza: It was like One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest with Gazza as Jack NicholsonTV review: The first of this two-part series about Paul Gascoigne reeks of deja vuWed Apr 13 2022 - 22:00
Derry Girls season 3: We’re Taken by surprise when a certain Irish actor puts in a cameoContains spoilers: On the evidence of this gags-galore first show, the final season will be a blastTue Apr 12 2022 - 21:45
Nation of Language: New York indie boards the Trans-Europe ExpressThe Brooklyn band blend Kraftwerk, early OMD and Gary Numan into something newTue Apr 12 2022 - 00:00
Pink Floyd’s Hey, Hey, Rise Up! is their first new material in 28 years – was it worth waiting for?Hey, Hey, Rise Up! by Pink Floyd with Andriy Khlyvnyuk is definitely long – but is it strong?Fri Apr 08 2022 - 11:07
Single Drunk Female is one of the year’s most radical new showsTV review: The Disney+ show is not just another Fleabag – it’s far more interestingThu Apr 07 2022 - 15:49
Lucius sprinkle disco glitter over heartache on divorce albumCo-vocalists wrote Second Nature to inspire fans to dance their way out of lockdownThu Apr 07 2022 - 00:00
Banks: I finally feel like I kind of know what’s going on – with my fourth album'You have to be more powerful than your own demons, says the goth-pop singerWed Apr 06 2022 - 00:00
