Gordon Ramsay’s Bank Balance: A few cheese boards short of a four-course mealTV: The funniest thing about this quiz show is how invested the chef is in the game itselfWed Feb 24 2021 - 22:40
Big Sky: About as cutting edge as Magnum, PI or Murder, She WroteTV: David E Kelley’s golden touch deserts him in Disney+’s stonkingly underwhelming thrillerTue Feb 23 2021 - 11:30
Behind Her Eyes is crazy – making it the perfect show for these crazy daysEven writing an article about the unhinged Netflix thriller starring Eve Hewson is confusingMon Feb 22 2021 - 06:00
Bloodlands review: So grim – and a seriously bad advertisement for a weekend break in BelfastTV review: James Nesbitt is a PSNI officer dragged into a Peace Process conspiracySun Feb 21 2021 - 22:00
Enya and The Corrs are superstars, loved around the world. Why not in Ireland?Ed Power: Country has rarely looked kindly on those who stood out, who dared sing differentlySun Feb 21 2021 - 05:00
Framing Britney Spears takes a mirror and points it straight at the culprits: you and meBritney’s not the only one we victimised. The club includes Paris Hilton and Lindsay LohanWed Feb 17 2021 - 13:21
Behind Her Eyes: An over-the-top, oversexed – but wonderful – Netflix thrillerEve Hewson can lower the temperature of a scene simply by flashing her frosty peepersWed Feb 17 2021 - 10:16
Home of the Year: Cork ‘doom barn’ steals the showTV review: In episode 1, a minimalist farmhouse vies with a a dark-hued wonderTue Feb 16 2021 - 21:00
On First Dates Ireland, Covid-19 is merely a background detailTV review: It’s a surprise how minor a distraction coronavirus is as the series returnsThu Feb 11 2021 - 22:30
Kenneth Egan: ‘I do get thoughts of drinking sometimes. Not as much as I used to’TV review: After winning an Olympic medal in Beijing, the boxer began drinking himself numbWed Feb 10 2021 - 22:30
‘It’s more than a pandemic. It’s a plague that’s taking hold of people’s lives’RTÉ Investigates: Covid-19 – The Third Wave is the broadcaster’s most unsettling dispatch yetTue Feb 09 2021 - 23:10
The best new TV shows to watch in February and MarchFirst Dates Ireland, Home of the Year, Line of Duty return. Eve Hewson stars in Behind Her EyesMon Feb 08 2021 - 05:00
ZeroZeroZero: Gabriel Byrne stars in a drama so dark you can’t look awayTV review: Fast, gruesome and twisting narcowars thriller is a binge-watcher’s paradiseThu Feb 04 2021 - 22:10
This would be so much better with Dermot BannonTV review: Interior Design Masters with Alan Carr cries out for the marquess of minimalismWed Feb 03 2021 - 11:45
Davy Fitzgerald’s life lessons for the lost boys of IrelandDavy’s Toughest Team won’t revolutionise reality television. It’s far better than thatMon Feb 01 2021 - 22:35
Oscar Wilde’s ‘crucial’ role in the gay rights struggleTV review: TG4 celebrates the life and legacy of one of the greatest figures in Irish literatureWed Jan 27 2021 - 21:00
Emma Dabiri: George Nkencho’s death ‘brought me back to the Ireland I grew up in’‘People were seeking justifications for why George had deserved to die ... It was triggering’Wed Jan 27 2021 - 20:45
Snowpiercer: Think of it as Mad Max – The All Ireland Final Matchday SpecialTV review: Who can object to a show that gives us Jennifer Connelly as a neurotic anti-hero?Tue Jan 26 2021 - 17:00
Katie Price: Harvey and Me – Celebrities are real people, tooTV review: The former glamour model has especially acute worries about her sonTue Jan 26 2021 - 12:52
Euphoria: The show that makes teenage self-destruction look weightless and beautifulAn unnerving but mesmerising journey into dark adolescence, Euphoria returns tonightMon Jan 25 2021 - 06:00
Arlo Parks: ‘We’re all individuals in Generation Z’The singer-songwriter on creating her debut album in a B&B rental during lockdownSat Jan 23 2021 - 05:00
It’s a Sin: The first great, gut-punch TV drama of 2021 is hereTV review: This is a self-consciously sprawling chronicle of the Aids epidemic in LondonFri Jan 22 2021 - 22:00
Behind Her Eyes: Eve Hewson could have found star-making role in Netflix thrillerBono’s daughter, cursed with obscure or badly written roles until now, plays cheated housewifeFri Jan 22 2021 - 13:24
Call My Agent! season four: The best thing since buttered croissantThere are no berets, no Emily in Paris chintz. This is just watchable, witty French televisionFri Jan 22 2021 - 05:40
Fontaines DC are reborn as punk-funk disconauts, and the results are crackingBelgian DJs Soulwax have released a glittering remix of Fontaines DC’s A Hero’s DeathWed Jan 20 2021 - 05:30
‘Our history with Ireland, lots of English people just don’t know it’Goat Girl, the English guitar group, on knocking Churchill, surviving cancer and missing gigsTue Jan 19 2021 - 05:00
‘Tonight, like every night, homeless people in hope of a bed will call the freephone number’TV review – RTÉ Investigates: Stuck In The Rough tells a tale of institutional dysfunction, Irish-styleMon Jan 18 2021 - 22:35
We’ve had decades of poverty, stifled dreams and lives unlived. But look on the bright sideRTÉ’s The Way We Were successfully dusted off the Reeling in the Years formulaSun Jan 17 2021 - 23:05
WandaVision: The most audacious – and entirely bonkers – TV in recent entertainment historyReview: WandaVision is a mystery, a satire and a love letter to the great American sitcomFri Jan 15 2021 - 12:00
Jessie Buckley: Kerry’s bright star lights up the new season of FargoFargo, season four review: Kerry actor Jessie Buckley is chilling as psychokiller Nurse MayflowerTue Jan 12 2021 - 23:40
Inside the world of the Irish men who married one another for tax reasonsTV review: Matt Murphy and Michael O’Sullivan used marriage-equality laws in a novel wayMon Jan 11 2021 - 22:35
The Serpent: The BBC’s big new year drama has lost its wayTV review: With constant flashbacks and a labyrinthine storyline, it’s a sweltering muddleMon Jan 11 2021 - 13:56
Clear History: Yet another not so funny RTÉ comedy showTV review: In fairness, there are sections where it doesn’t feel like an endurance testThu Jan 07 2021 - 22:00
Operation Transformation: Tears flow freely as a new series beginsWith our emotions in a swirl, these conversations from the heart feel devastatingThu Jan 07 2021 - 11:00
Marian Finucane: moving meditation on grief and the impossibility of letting goTV review: Finucane documentary, grounded in her shellsocked husband’s recollections, makes for riveting viewingMon Jan 04 2021 - 23:05
The Great: Blackadder meets Downton romp not as clever as it thinks it isTV Review: Elle Fanning is arresting and Nicolas Hoult has fun too in this self-declared ‘occasionally true story’Sun Jan 03 2021 - 22:05
TV to the rescue again: A sneak peek at 2021’s big showsFrom Avengers spin-off WandaVision to Sally Rooney’s Conversations with FriendsSat Jan 02 2021 - 05:00
Why’s Ronan Keating trying to sound like Tom Waits trying to sound like Shane MacGowan?Fairytale of New York: The five most memorable covers. And not always in a good wayMon Dec 21 2020 - 12:00
Late Late Show busking special: Bono and the Edge top the bill, but they’re not the starsGlen Hansard’s duet with Philip Powell, who was homeless for 20 years, gives us all FaithSat Dec 19 2020 - 11:59
Best TV of 2020: What we watched in the weirdest of weird yearsOur escapist viewing included The Crown, Normal People, Industry and The UndoingSat Dec 19 2020 - 06:00
Christy Ring: Man and Ball: gripping portrait of a folk heroTV Review: This part documentary, part hagiography, part social history illuminates Ring’s almost mythological auraThu Dec 17 2020 - 23:15
The Belturbet bombing: The story of two young lives destroyedTV review: A wrenching account of the largely forgotten killing of two teenagers in FermanaghTue Dec 15 2020 - 14:23
John Gilligan: From feared gangland figure, to failed, jailed criminalArrested in October, Gilligan is now one of 800 inmates in a Spanish prison build for 400Mon Dec 14 2020 - 22:00
John Banville: It ‘makes me physically ill’ to read my own workReview. On The Works Presents, the writer says he prefers his crime writing to his ‘Banville books’Fri Dec 11 2020 - 11:12
Taylor Swift: Evermore review – This ‘secret wedding album’ sweetly sweeps you awayAfter the walk in the woods of Folklore, Swift is back in the log cabin, gazing into the fireFri Dec 11 2020 - 05:00
Like CSI: Galway, only with a real-life calamity breaking a family’s heartsReview: The Case I Can’t Forget is a fascinating look at the day-to-day grind of policingWed Dec 09 2020 - 22:35
‘Was that going through his mind – that he was never going to have a funeral?’Review: Ireland Under Lockdown – Covid Stories is at its best telling personal storiesWed Dec 09 2020 - 11:00
The TV equivalent of Larry Gogan’s own Golden HourReview: Low-key but brimming with warmth, this is a fitting homage to the pioneering DJTue Dec 01 2020 - 19:30
Spotify reveals Ireland’s most-streamed artists in 2020Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny is most streamed artist globally, with 8.3bn playsTue Dec 01 2020 - 05:01
‘Bodies left for weeks. People eaten by dogs’: What the Famine did to IrelandReview: The Hunger is all the better for being a thoroughly conventional documentaryMon Nov 30 2020 - 22:35
