Redemption and remorseTV Review: 'So f***ing delicate, people. They die so easySat Dec 01 2007 - 00:00
Bubbling under bonnetsTV Review: 'Gird your loins, it's all go in Cranford!" As the genteel orchestral arrangement tinkled, and the cast list for…Sat Nov 24 2007 - 00:00
Wearing the trousersTV Review: Skinny and Gymkhana ride again! The fabulously fatuous fashionistas, Trinny and Susannah, like a conjoined "tell-…Sat Nov 17 2007 - 00:00
Flirty food for thoughtTV Review: It's been a chocolate-chip-and-chlamydia kind of week, with a silk-sheathed Nigella Lawson providing the corseted…Sat Oct 20 2007 - 01:00
Where history is skin deepTV Review: Remember late autumnal afternoons in the schoolroom? Low sun through sticky windowpanes, a triangle of heat shimmering…Sat Oct 13 2007 - 01:00
Notes from a catastropheTV Review: David McWilliams, having assembled the cast for his sequel to The Pope's Children (possibly from a bag of cliche …Sat Sept 22 2007 - 01:00
Eyelifts, attitude and some real 'Turkish delight'TV Review: 'There is no such thing as love, Eileen" said Ulas, chilled glass to his lips, the Aegean sparkling behind his uncompromising…Sat Sept 15 2007 - 01:00
Cut from a different clothTV Review: 'Hidden in plain sight" was how Ross Hamilton, the wryly articulate son of the late Fr Michael Cleary, described …Sat Sept 08 2007 - 01:00
Ehh . . . what is the stars?TVReview 'Day 89. 11.46am. Ziggy has been in the bathroom for the last 17 minutesSat Sept 01 2007 - 01:00
Endangered speciesTVReview: Oh do come on, Tim! I'm not watching any more Wimbledon this yearSat Jun 30 2007 - 01:00
The greasy reality gameTVReview: The springs in the old television casting couch were well and truly tested last weekend with the finals of two elongated…Sat Jun 16 2007 - 01:00
The over-exposure of DianaTV Review: On the day the coffin of Diana, Princess of Wales, was drawn through the streets of London, garlanded by a sea of…Sat Jun 09 2007 - 01:00
Gest mounts his challengeTVReview: 'Holy focaccia!" Guess who's outstaying his welcome? David Gest, the diminutive, mesomorphic bling-holder with the…Sat Apr 28 2007 - 01:00
A new wife for the wizardTV Review : Would you volunteer to wake up next to Paul Daniels? Would you, honestly?Sat Apr 07 2007 - 01:00
The Irish inductionTV Review: In a week when traditionally we polish our shamrocks, brush off our brollies and get in line, six deep, to observe…Sat Mar 17 2007 - 00:00
Miscarriage of justiceTV Review: 'God save the queen and my lords, the chief justicesSat Feb 17 2007 - 00:00
Variety has no right to lifeTV Review: 'Variety is back!" Oh no, please, please no, it has taken me three decades to overcome the mental trauma of Sunday…Sat Feb 10 2007 - 00:00
Variety has no right to lifeTV Review: 'Variety is back!" Oh no, please, please no, it has taken me three decades to overcome the mental trauma of Sunday…Sat Feb 10 2007 - 00:00
A palatable bag of oatsTV Review: Since Ballykissangel bit the dust, the verdant hills of Co Wicklow have been biding their time, filing their firs…Sat Jan 27 2007 - 00:00
Ugliness tied up in a bowTVReview: 'Do you know how many curly-haired, effete sycophants there are waiting to replace you?" Welcome to Mode magazine…Sat Jan 20 2007 - 00:00
The property rottersTVReview: 'Tis the season to be jolly - oh yeah? Not if your thigh-high Christmas boots are tripping over open manhole covers…Sat Dec 16 2006 - 00:00
A chorus of disapprovalTVReview: 'Some people like having long waiting lists - it makes them feel powerful," said the Minister of State at the Department…Sat Dec 09 2006 - 00:00
Decimation of a generationTV Review: 'Genocide by apathy, death by diplomacy?" World Aids Day 2005: 6,000 Africans died on a single day, a striking death…Sat Dec 02 2006 - 00:00
The drip, drip of addictionTVReview: The so-called "godfather of reality TV", film-maker Paul Watson, was apparently turned down by more than 80 hospitals…Sat Nov 25 2006 - 00:00
I'm a bride, get me hitchedTVReview: Not long ago, when our interest rates were lower, our bottoms were higher and some of the nation's well-manicured …Sat Nov 18 2006 - 00:00
End of the Royle lineTVReview: 'Spell funeral, Denise." "F-U-N..." "Stop there."Sat Nov 04 2006 - 00:00
Looking at an ugly futureTVReview: Oh whoops, it's the end of the world as we know itSat Oct 28 2006 - 01:00
The kiss of life and deathTVReview: Question: "Which Australian city is named after the father of evolution?" Answer: "Ehhh..Sat Oct 14 2006 - 01:00
Fitz full of troubleTV Review: When the highly respected writer, Jimmy McGovern, recently bemoaned the scarcity of quality TV drama, asserting that…Sat Oct 07 2006 - 01:00
An appetite for griefTV Review: Only "a dirty lowlife pox bottle with an appetite for grief" could fail to warm to Legend , playwright Ken Harmon…Sat Sept 16 2006 - 01:00
New York states of mindTVReview: As determinedly bright children in shiny shoes lined up to embark on their education this week, RTÉ pulled up its …Sat Sept 09 2006 - 01:00
Hard-boiled and hauntedTVReview: James Nesbitt is a versatile actor - advertising a phone book in a rumpled shirt, he's all cuddly bemusement, but…Sat Sept 02 2006 - 01:00
A week of guns and rosesTV Review: Thirty lovely girls in 30 lovely frocks, 60 tinselled eyelids sporting alarmingly fecund lashes, barefoot jigs, Arabic…Sat Aug 26 2006 - 01:00
Down to business in AfricaTV Review: John O'Shea of Goal may be "bombastic" and "almost visually illiterate" (according to fellow Kerryman Jerry Kennelly…Sat Aug 19 2006 - 01:00
Keeping the past aliveTVReview: In a television week that vociferously heralded the reconstruction of Robert Scott's epic and fatal attempt on the…Sat Aug 12 2006 - 01:00
Musings on a painting lifeTV Review: Lunch with Chagall and Miro, coffee and sympathetic conversation with Beckett, beautiful young sons lolling on the…Sat Jul 29 2006 - 01:00
Real pain in the artsTV Review: 'Art is what you can get away with," Andy Warhol once saidSat Jul 29 2006 - 01:00
Playing doctors and nunsTV Review: 'A medieval monarch in Charvet shirts"; "an Irish nationalist who lived like an English squire"; "a populist, a pragmatist…Sat Jun 17 2006 - 01:00
What a swell party this isTVReview: The national broadcaster has decided, in its wisdom, that the Celtic Tiger was born in 1986, eyes tightly shut and…Sat Jun 03 2006 - 01:00
Greenhouse to madhouseTVReview: In 2003 a heatwave across Europe killed more than 35,000 people, and in Paris alone 15,000 people, mostly the elderly…Sat May 27 2006 - 01:00
Grim past, grim presentTVReview: The Rocky Road to Dublin, RTÉ1, Tuesday; Prime Time Investigates RTÉ1, Monday; See No Evil: The Moors Murders UTV, …Sat May 20 2006 - 01:00
Hiring on all cylindersTV Review: Sir Alan "I-promise-you-this-as-sure-as-I've-got-a-hole-in-my-arse" Sugar has got himself a new apprentice to blow…Sat May 13 2006 - 01:00
The politics of poisonTVReview: 'A treadmill to death, a never-ending funeral" was how Bernadette McAliskey described the 1981 hunger strike in the…Sat May 06 2006 - 01:00
Sinning and skinningTVReview: 'I doubt there is a more heartless crew than poets, painters and composers - art is so sacred, the love of it covers…Sat Apr 22 2006 - 01:00
