Tamara Lindeman: ‘People have this weird moralising when it comes to climate’Weather Station singer on acting, authenticity and crisis concept behind her new lpSat Nov 06 2021 - 05:00
U2: Your Song Saved My Life – The pipe and slippers phase of the megastars’ careerThe band’s new track is like a slowed-down Beautiful Day bobbing in a huge mug of OvaltineWed Nov 03 2021 - 20:51
The emotional texture of an Irish wedding: Nerves, giddiness, joy, banalityTV review: RTÉ’s The Irish Wedding is about the event itself, and says little about marriageTue Nov 02 2021 - 00:01
For Doctor Who fans, the next five weeks could be a trial by TardisIn Doctor Who: Flux, John Bishop undergoes a body transformation worthy of Christian BaleMon Nov 01 2021 - 15:25
Kin ends with a shameless rip-off of The GodfatherClare Dunne is utterly convincing as a grieving mother turned avenging angelSun Oct 31 2021 - 22:35
Kin finale: Eight questions the last episode must resolveAfter seven sometimes thrilling, sometimes plodding weeks, season one concludes tonightSun Oct 31 2021 - 12:15
There’s no drama at John Connors’ Acting AcademyHis show about actors from marginalised backgrounds is humanity TV, not reality TVWed Oct 27 2021 - 22:11
Breastfeeding My Boyfriend: Queasy viewing of a weird pastimeTV review: Channel 4 gawps without analysis at some people with an unusual hobbyTue Oct 26 2021 - 16:44
Without Gunther, Friends would have been very differentJames Michael Tyler – more barista than actor – was recruited from a Hollywood coffee shopMon Oct 25 2021 - 15:30
Joe Lycett vs The Oil Giant: Goliath walks away unhurtTV review: Celebrity-led documentaries can be powerful, but this one fails to hit its targetMon Oct 25 2021 - 13:30
Kin review: Let’s hope the finale is better than the uneventful penultimate episodeIt’s hard not to feel that episode 7 could have been efficiently compacted into episode 8Mon Oct 25 2021 - 00:15
Tori Amos: ‘We all carry around our damage’Ocean to Ocean is the artist's latest album, written shortly after the death of her motherSat Oct 23 2021 - 05:00
Four Hours at the Capitol: ‘I was not going to die on the f**king floor of Congress’TV: The January 6th riot looked like a closing scene of the Trump freak show. It was much worseWed Oct 20 2021 - 22:30
Impeachment: Another Monica Lewinsky story, another easy smearing of a womanTV: American Crime Story flubs its retelling of Lewinsky’s affair with President Bill ClintonTue Oct 19 2021 - 22:15
Succession series 3 review: TV’s smartest, cruellest, funniest show runs out of storylineThird time out, the novelty, such as it was, is starting to wear slightlyMon Oct 18 2021 - 22:00
Kin episode 6 review: The Michael Corleone of the Kinsellas emergesClare Dunne is the black sheep who rejects a life of crime, then becomes the brains of the outfitMon Oct 18 2021 - 00:26
Adele, the wine-bar Wagner, is back. So is her new single any good?With Easy on Me, after a six-year recording hiatus, Adele is back in the business of being AdeleFri Oct 15 2021 - 09:53
Reservation Dogs: Deliciously bingeable and quietly provocative underdog taleTV: New series set on Native American reservation upends coming-of-age narrativesThu Oct 14 2021 - 09:05
Barney Curley: The life story of a very Irish sort of scoundrelTV: The Man Who Beat the Bookies told the tale of a hustler turned philanthropistTue Oct 12 2021 - 09:41
Kin episode 5 review: Family bonds crack as an explosive finale beckonsCiarán Hinds’s thuggish godfather targets the Kinsella children Anthony and AnnaSun Oct 10 2021 - 22:30
The Altered Hours inject doomed Irish romanticism into psychedelic rockThe band’s gorgeously melodramatic second album, Convertible, is a gripping listenSat Oct 09 2021 - 05:00
Finneas O’Connell: ‘Being as famous as Billie seems like a drag’Billie Eilish’s brother on working with his sister, setting career goals and his new LP, OptimistSat Oct 09 2021 - 05:00
Ian Rankin’s Murder Island: Forget whodunnit. This is more of a whywatchit?The superstar crime writer’s contribution to this reality show won’t enhance his reputationWed Oct 06 2021 - 12:53
The Wolf of Wall Street meets Glenroe: Ireland at the height of the Eircom bubbleSold: The Eircom Shares Saga is riveting as an oral history of another great Irish debacleMon Oct 04 2021 - 22:35
Agnes O’Casey looks like she is going to be a starTelevision: Sean O’Casey’s great-granddaughter is riveting in BBC’s Ridley RoadMon Oct 04 2021 - 10:30
Kin is slowly turning into RTÉ’s best drama in yearsEpisode four review: A tense confrontation shows the crime drama at its bestSun Oct 03 2021 - 22:30
‘Is this some This Is Your Life s***e?’ Bob Geldof looks uncomfortable on his Late Late hagiographyTwo-hour broadcast is brisk and banter-filled while Mary Robinson creates sparkSat Oct 02 2021 - 12:47
What is Squid Game, Netflix’s ultraviolent breakout hit show?Heavily indebted people play games in the hope of winning a cash prize. You lose, you dieThu Sept 30 2021 - 11:45
James Arthur: ‘If X Factor is finished, then I’m part of the history of that’The singer on lockdown anxiety, imposter syndrome and picking fights on TwitterThu Sept 30 2021 - 05:00
Hector Ó hEochagáin meets the people for whom Irish is ‘more than a language’The high-octane travel TV presenter talks to people who have moved to Ireland from abroadWed Sept 29 2021 - 22:30
‘The best course of action was to have my leg amputated’TV: Bernadette Hagans’s cancer surgery spurred her to enter Miss Northern IrelandWed Sept 29 2021 - 20:00
Kin episode 3 review: The slow-burner finally roars to lifeContains spoilers ... Part 3 of the crime drama delivers dark secrets and explosive set-piecesMon Sept 27 2021 - 00:01
Foundation: It stars Jared Harris, was filmed in Ireland and cost $45m to make. So is it any good?Apple TV+’s $45m epic is Game of Thrones in space, made for the bingewatch generationFri Sept 24 2021 - 12:00
Ringo Starr: I had parties in the 1970s, but you’ll never find any photos of themThe 81-year-old former on rock stars, The Beatles and changing the world with his new EPFri Sept 24 2021 - 01:00
Natalie Imbruglia on Torn’s success: ‘I got a bit agoraphobic. There’s a lot of pressure’The singer on megastardom, being ‘difficult’ and overcoming writer’s block in NashvilleThu Sept 23 2021 - 05:00
Sex Actually TV review: ‘I guess I was thinking … is Kayla enjoying it?’‘I was not prepared for the reality of watching people have sex two metres from my face’Wed Sept 22 2021 - 23:05
The Great British Bake Off review: Remember when it was controversial?TV: Paul Hollywood, Prue Leith, Noel Fielding and Matt Lucas return with 12 new contestantsTue Sept 21 2021 - 21:30
Kin episode 2 review: It’s the Plodfather, Part IIThe brooding drama so far lacks the cranked-up energy viewers might have expectedSun Sept 19 2021 - 22:46
Patrick Kielty is back to psychoanalyse Northern IrelandTV review: The comedian explores the North’s centenary in One Hundred Years of UnionThu Sept 16 2021 - 23:59
Cheap Irish Homes: ‘There’s great value out there all over the country’TV review: Enthusiastic Maggie Molloy seeks out super-cheap but non-luxurious dwellingsThu Sept 16 2021 - 21:00
Garth Brooks, you are welcome here. But no drama, please – we’ve been through too muchAfter the Covid crisis and Electric Picnic uncertainty, we can’t handle a year of Garth-guessingWed Sept 15 2021 - 13:00
Fr Niall Molloy: Unpacking the financial dealings between the priest and the Flynns‘The Killing Of Father Niall Molloy’ part 2 concludes the community averted its gazeMon Sept 13 2021 - 23:06
Kin starts like a gloomier Love/Hate – then goes off like a powder kegAidan Gillen, Ciarán Hinds and cast excel in this tale of a blood feud between Dublin gangsSun Sept 12 2021 - 22:40
Colin Farrell – boozy, bearded and brawling – is in his elementReview: The Irish actor brings a Ronnie Drew voice and Dumbledore beard to The North WaterFri Sept 10 2021 - 22:30
Only Fans: Ireland’s X-Rated – ‘If there’s money to be made you have to work’TV: Virgin’s documentary is cheap and cheerful, but its chirpiness comes at a priceTue Sept 07 2021 - 15:20
Claire Byrne, a live audience and no bijou shed in sight. Is this the new normal?TV: The returning Claire Byrne Live doubles down on its magazine-show formulaTue Sept 07 2021 - 10:20
The Killing of Fr Niall Molloy feels too extraordinary to have been realTV review: There was a body in an upstairs room. Blood on the carpet. And a culpritMon Sept 06 2021 - 22:35
The Late Late Show is all over the place - that’s what makes it authentically IrishTV review: Ryan Tubridy - the Timothy Dalton of Late Late anchors - revels in the topsy-turvySat Sept 04 2021 - 10:00
Abba are back – but with weary, washed-out, stiff-jointed musicAbba’s new songs never ignite as you want them to, but if you try to like them you probably willFri Sept 03 2021 - 13:00
RTÉ has tried something new and refreshing: hiring Maura HigginsTV review: Glow Up Ireland is emotional, but it doesn’t have mascara running down its faceThu Sept 02 2021 - 22:35
