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
Yungblud: ‘My generation is over being divided’The singer-songwriter on BLM protests, his latest record and swift rise to fameMon Nov 30 2020 - 05:30
John Boyega’s ‘Jedi’ copper makes a lone stand against racismReview: Small Axe: Red White And Blue is gritty interrogation of a problem encoded into British policingSun Nov 29 2020 - 22:20
Late Late Toy Show: Music, tears, Tubridy’s F-bomb and €5m for charity. What a night!TV review: As with every Toy Show, the sense of occasion is as big as the event itselfFri Nov 27 2020 - 22:30
The Late Late Toy Show: Everything you need to knowWhat time is it on? Will there be surprise guests? What will Ryan Tubridy’s jumper be like?Fri Nov 27 2020 - 06:00
‘He’s Jekyll and Hyde’: The inside story of an Irish barrister and conmanTV review: This is no Netflix true-crime exposé, but an exercise in journalistic diligenceThu Nov 26 2020 - 10:00
How much damage might your money be doing on Black Friday?Review: The Truth About Amazon paints the online giant as an insatiable profit machineTue Nov 24 2020 - 22:15
I’m a Celebrity 2020 isn’t working. Get an Irish contestant – quickReview: Shane Richie, Mo Farah, Victoria Derbyshire et al aren’t exactly riveting companyMon Nov 23 2020 - 12:00
Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H Kirk: ‘I don’t want to go down the road of nostalgia’Frontman breaks 26-year silence with electronica albumSat Nov 21 2020 - 05:00
The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special is a hoot – for children and adultsDisney+ tempts back fans with precision-tooled chuckles. Could this be a New Hope?Tue Nov 17 2020 - 19:20
Bloody Sunday, 1920: Too many historians spoil the docReview: They offer multiple perspectives, but the volume of testimony is overpoweringMon Nov 16 2020 - 22:35
The Crown offers a ‘Now That’s What I Call The Troubles!’ version of Irish historyThe Crown season four review: The ‘angry Nordie’ stereotype is long past its sell-by dateMon Nov 16 2020 - 05:00
The Crown: The queen’s nasty side looms into viewQueen Elizabeth comes across as petty and boorish and the Windsors as a ghastly bunchSun Nov 15 2020 - 06:10
Industry is frantic, cruel and addictive televisionBBC’s gripping new high-finance drama portrays a world of utter immoralityTue Nov 10 2020 - 23:59
His Dark Materials, season two: Frankly it’s a bit of a dragIt has a strong cast, but ultimately Phillip Pullman’s source material is too preachyMon Nov 09 2020 - 14:30
The Den: A brilliantly rowdy return. It’s perfectReview: As Ray D’Arcy reunites with Zig and Zag and Dustin, it’s clear everyone is winging itSun Nov 08 2020 - 20:45
Niall Horan plays a sort-of gig for a kind-of audience. It’s a bit of a triumphIt’s not like being in the Royal Albert Hall. But, for now, it’s as close as any of us can getSat Nov 07 2020 - 23:00
Deirdre O’Kane Talks Funny: RTÉ has another uninteresting – and unfunny – chat with itselfReview: O’Kane is convivial, quick and professional. She deserves a better showSat Nov 07 2020 - 22:00
‘I wish Simon had survived’: BBC reporter on the attack that killed Irish cameramanTV review: Frank Gardner on the trauma of the life-changing injury he suffered in the shooting that killed Simon CumbersThu Nov 05 2020 - 22:00
The return Zig and Zag on The Den: ‘People need a bit of mayhem, madness and boldness’Zig and Zag’s surrealist anarchy might be the Christmas treat that arrives a month earlyWed Nov 04 2020 - 06:00
Marika Hackman: ‘There’s the classic thing where men get called geniuses and women called crazy’The singer gives her take on Radiohead and Beyoncé on her wonderful new albumTue Nov 03 2020 - 05:00
Deliveroo: Secrets Of Your Takeaway – I want my money backReview: The title suggests lifting the lid on the company that has stormed the food industryMon Nov 02 2020 - 23:00
Dead Still: the most ‘un-RTÉ’ thing RTÉ has done in yearsReview: Thriller set in Victorian Ireland is unapologetically pulpy, yet dares to be differentSun Nov 01 2020 - 22:25
Chris de Burgh: ‘To this day, people love Patricia the Stripper’Spanish Train, released 45 years ago, still stands the test of time – except for one songSat Oct 31 2020 - 06:00
Bickering architect and builder take the shine off a feel-good storyTV review: Home Rescue’s Róisín Murphy and Peter Finn are an odd pairingThu Oct 29 2020 - 19:30
