The Late Late Show rediscovers its original purposeSeason finale review: There was steel in the Late Late’s sinews in this final show of the seasonSat May 30 2020 - 11:15
Jehnny Beth: ‘There is something very cool about Irish people’The Savages singer talks about being bisexual, leaving the UK and Cillian Murphy, who features on her new solo album To Love Is To LiveSat May 30 2020 - 05:00
Nadine Shah: ‘As a woman you get referred to as a ticking time bomb’The indie pop powerhouse on double standards, Brexit racism and Keir StarmerSat May 23 2020 - 05:00
There will be floods, zombies and, yes, viruses. Plus this infernal train rideIt’s a rough moment for Netflix to release Snowpiecer, its new future-shock franchiseFri May 22 2020 - 05:00
Normal People: Connell still can’t speak in complete sentencesTV review: Director Lenny Abrahamson has passed the glum baton to Hettie MacdonaldTue May 19 2020 - 06:00
Johnny Logan, grand daddy of Eurovision, leads an Irish-flavoured showEurovision: Europe Shine A Light TV review. It feels held together with duct-tape, but its heart is in the right placeSun May 17 2020 - 11:01
Perfume Genius: ‘It does feel like a strange time to be promoting or releasing anything’Mike Hadreas’s Set My Heart on Fire Immediately isn’t out yet but it’s already gathering heatSat May 09 2020 - 05:00
Normal People: Who are the Irish musicians on the soundtrack?The TV adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel is a shop window for the best of Irish musicMon May 04 2020 - 12:59
Late Late Show: The moment Leo Varadkar forgot his homeworkThe episode shows either that the Taoiseach didn’t know his brief or that he cares about detailSat May 02 2020 - 11:00
One World: Together At Home review - Lots of glamour but where was the anger?It is an evening to suit every taste - musically and also in terms of home furnishingsSun Apr 19 2020 - 22:01
Graham Norton, live from his lean-to, is jittery without his adoring audienceThe Graham Norton Show returns to BBC, demonstrating that ‘banter’ is impossible over SkypeSat Apr 11 2020 - 11:00
Britain’s Got Talent: Everything you need to knowWhen is it on TV, who are the judges, are there any Irish acts and moreFri Apr 10 2020 - 13:30
What is Houseparty, the app everyone’s talking about – and not in a good way?In February it was barely known. In March, massive. Now, users want to delete itFri Apr 03 2020 - 05:30
What we need now: A primer in an all-consuming and fast-moving crisisTV review: Miriam O’Callaghan’s Prime Time is far more effective than her Late Late ShowWed Apr 01 2020 - 10:15
Ah, 2008. At least back then you didn’t have to sit inside your negative equity propertyTV review: RTÉ recounts nightmares of Irish people who bought ‘dream homes’ overseasTue Mar 31 2020 - 10:16
Anne Doyle reveals her dry humour, bird statues and celebrity-kissing historyTV review: In Keys to My Life the former newsreader visited her former homesMon Mar 30 2020 - 14:41
Late Late Show with Miriam O’Callaghan: The most surreal primetime TV I’ve ever watchedScraggly Hozier gave a preview of what everyone’s hair will look like post-shutdownSat Mar 28 2020 - 10:43
Murder Most Foul: Bob Dylan’s strange, meandering, comforting 17-minute new songHere, as Martin Scorsese does with The Irishman, a great visionary takes stockFri Mar 27 2020 - 14:56
Operation Covid Nation: ‘What the actual f**k?’RTÉ is right to make a show about coping with coronavirus. But scrap the trivialising nameThu Mar 26 2020 - 15:09
Cloch le Carn: Big Tom – Sex, drugs and rock’n’roll don’t get a look inTV review: The Irish singer was like a Johnny Cash who knew his way around a Massey FergusonWed Mar 25 2020 - 13:21
The Mandalorian does an excellent job of living up to expectationsThe new Disney+ show combines tight action with the dinginess of the original Star WarsTue Mar 24 2020 - 18:40
Candid, cool-headed Claire Byrne talks about her Covid-19 guiltTV review: The broadcaster describes her eerily normal temperature and simmering achesTue Mar 24 2020 - 09:38
Dominic Cummings, the power behind BoJo’s inflatable throneTV review: Taking Control, on the BBC last night, was both absorbing and unnervingThu Mar 19 2020 - 08:37
Claire Byrne Live from her shed was low-key terrifying – or maybe just terrifying terrifyingReview: The TV presenter is self-isolating after developing coronavirus symptomsTue Mar 17 2020 - 13:10
‘Things got weird’: How Dancing with the Stars coped with coronavirusLet’s hope in 12 months all we have to fret about are dancing priests and Nicky Byrne’s quiffMon Mar 16 2020 - 13:20
Belgravia review: Like Downton Abbey with knobs onJulian Fellowes’s gloriously convoluted story is everything fans loved about Downton, only with more of itSun Mar 15 2020 - 22:00
Dancing with the Stars: Lottie Ryan wins a very surreal finalReview: ‘I have no words . . . this has been the best thing I have ever said ‘yes’ to,’ says 2FM presenterSun Mar 15 2020 - 21:30
Dancing with the Stars 2020: Final to take place tonight – Everything you need to knowCoronavirus fears see semi-final abandoned and final brought forward by one weekSun Mar 15 2020 - 15:09
I Am Patrick on Netflix isn’t even slightly tacky. How disappointingThe acting is good, the academics informative, the narration measured. What a letdownSat Mar 14 2020 - 12:19
Breeders: This is a portrayal of parenthood warts – or screams – and allTV review: Martin Freeman has an authentic take on the undignified reality of child-rearingThu Mar 12 2020 - 22:35
Child of Our Time: Turning 20 – Watching people grow up is hypnoticTV review: The real lesson of the show is that children aren’t projects to be mouldedThu Mar 12 2020 - 12:00
Why Radiohead’s The Bends is the worst great album of all timeMarch 13th is the 25th anniversary of what many regard as Radiohead’s best albumThu Mar 12 2020 - 06:00
Fontaines DC’s Grian Chatten: ‘I’m in an emotional flux’Sold For Parts documentary about the Dublin band addresses the downsides of even modest successTue Mar 10 2020 - 14:30
The Boys In Green: ‘I was kind of wired’ – Eamon Dunphy on his epic meltdownTV review: Ross Whitaker captures the excitement as Jack Charlton’s team united the country in joyMon Mar 09 2020 - 22:35
Dancing with the Stars: Teary-eyed Ray Kelly voted off after surreal Fr Ted nightWithout Fr Ray the standard of dancing will go up, the human interest factor way, way downSun Mar 08 2020 - 21:35
Citizens of Boomtown: ‘Bob Geldof drove me out of my f***ing mind’Review: Billy McGrath’s Boomtown Rats rockumentary rattles along furiously and with a dangerous gleam in its eyesThu Mar 05 2020 - 23:15
The Guards: Inside the K – Policing in Ireland, but not as we know itTV review: An unflinching depiction of what gardaí are up against on our meanest streetsWed Mar 04 2020 - 22:00
What is it in the Irish character that compels us to secrecy?RTÉ’s Redress: Breaking the Silence was a brave and often unwatchable documentaryWed Mar 04 2020 - 12:01
Dancing with the Stars: Mary Kennedy eliminated in knuckle-whitening conclusionAs quarter-finals loom, this is turning into the Hunger Games with bonus face glitterSun Mar 01 2020 - 22:35
Soccer Mommy: no longer on the sidelinesPoised for stardom, Sophie Allison talks songwriting, politics and the music industrySat Feb 29 2020 - 05:00
Gawping at other Irish people’s houses. It’s who we areIn Home of the Year, three experts pass judgment on architecturally ambitious housesWed Feb 26 2020 - 12:24
Better Call Saul: The best drama on television is backIn season five, episode one, the Breaking Bad prequel immediately rediscovers its grooveTue Feb 25 2020 - 18:00
Blood: A disappointing journey into the Irish psychosphereSecond season struggles to set heart pumping despite ever-watchable Adrian DunbarTue Feb 25 2020 - 17:00
Doctor Who landed in 1950s rural Ireland last night. The fiddles never stoppedThe Doctor’s Irish foray is the sci-fi equivalent of a postcard of a donkey at a stone wallMon Feb 24 2020 - 12:00
Dancing with the Stars: Shock exit for teary-eyed Sinéad O’CarrollB*Witched singer’s magic spell breaks as judges send Lottie Ryan throughSun Feb 23 2020 - 21:50
EastEnders reaches peak absurdity with a 35th anniversary shipwreckThe special episode is a cut-price version of the Titanic movie, with added melodramaFri Feb 21 2020 - 22:46
Hunters: There’s not enough Al Pacino in this absurd, overheated Nazi hunter dramaTV review: Hunters founders under a dead weight of recycled Quentin Tarantino-ismsFri Feb 21 2020 - 06:00
Love Island: Since Caroline Flack’s death it has become utterly unwatchableThe contestants don’t know of Flack’s suicide. The reality show is now utterly unrealThu Feb 20 2020 - 10:18
David Baddiel comes to Ennis to meet a Holocaust denierFor the BBC’s Confronting Holocaust Denial, David Baddiel meets Dermot Mulqueen in Co ClareTue Feb 18 2020 - 10:57
Dancing with the Stars has hit Father Ted levels of farceFr Ray Kelly’s protective halo means frontrunner Sinéad O’Carroll is put through the wringerSun Feb 16 2020 - 22:34
