Black Mirror makes a bold and surprising return to formReview: The first of three new episodes in Charlie Brooker’s series is by far the strongestThu Jun 06 2019 - 18:04
Love Island: We devour it. We despise it. That’s the pointI now have a favourite couple: biomedical scientists Yewande, from Dublin, and MikeTue Jun 04 2019 - 10:45
You’re wha? The Snapper heads up this week’s theatre highlightsRoddy Doyle’s stage version of his Barrytown novel gets a few minor millennial tweaksSat Jun 01 2019 - 05:00
Citysong review: An Irish family’s entrancing journey across generationsDylan Coburn Gray’s play for voices builds up a huge picture through small detailsFri May 31 2019 - 09:50
We have learned little from the 2014 Garth Brooks fiascoOutdoor licences are as precarious as ever, and we still pay for a promise that can be brokenTue May 28 2019 - 19:49
Fracking and family feuds: This week’s theatre highlightsEnvironmental activism and musicals are featured in the best productions of the weekSat May 25 2019 - 05:00
Ireland United: The dream of an all-island soccer teamIs there any healing the century-long fracture in Irish soccer? asks an RTÉ documentaryThu May 23 2019 - 00:19
Election debate: ‘Peter Casey seems like a millionaire in dire need of a new hobby’Prime Time Election Debate: Too little discussion of Europe, too much of Peter CaseyWed May 22 2019 - 14:00
The problem with Game of Thrones is it almost became bigger than lifeAs with The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars or the King James Bible, you could lose yourself in itWed May 22 2019 - 09:33
Citysong: Epic drama that gets deep into the Dublin grooveThe past is always present in the award-winning new play by Dylan Coburn Gray. Told in verse, it’s like a record of the modern city in which the needle jumps aroundWed May 22 2019 - 05:00
Baoite review: Boring deep into the bedrock of a bitterly divided familyA fracking vessel that threatens a fishing community becomes a potent metaphorTue May 21 2019 - 16:00
Game of Thrones series 8, episode 6 review: Well, what did you expect, a neat ending?If you thought it would be a universally satisfying final episode you haven’t been paying attentionMon May 20 2019 - 13:15
The past is always present: This week’s theatre highlightsDylan Coburn Gray’s Citysong, and Ann Blake’s Morning After the Life BeforeSat May 18 2019 - 05:00
The Virtues takes us back in time, to dark happenings in 1980s LouthReview: A startling drama from the director of This is England has a shadowy Irish storylineWed May 15 2019 - 22:00
Life’s too short to watch Dr Eva Orsmond telling us how to lengthen itHow to Live Better for Longer review: This public health message is hard to take seriouslyTue May 14 2019 - 01:10
Game of Thrones, season 8, episode 5: Finding a final ruler just got a lot harderReview: Some of the show’s subtlest characters – and biggest overactors – spoke their last linesMon May 13 2019 - 14:22
‘Part of me wants to say, shut the f**k up, Louis Theroux’The documentary maker’s mansplaining on postnatal depression is clumsy and unethicalSun May 12 2019 - 22:00
Faded Southern belles and pumped-up kicks: this week’s theatre highlightsThe revival of Tennessee Williams’s 1944 family drama The Glass Menagerie seems smaller than life, but Abbie Spallen’s 2006 monologue play Pumpgirl has a full tank of witSat May 11 2019 - 05:00
Netflix’s The Society is the best teen drama out thereReview: It addresses hot topics – rape culture, gun violence – without being heavy-handedFri May 10 2019 - 06:00
Chernobyl: A nuclear disaster is unsettlingly lovely to look atReview: Under Johan Renck’s direction, these scenes are as grim as the architecture, brutal and unforgivingTue May 07 2019 - 22:47
Game of Thrones, season eight, episode 4: Impulsive, paranoid Daenerys is now drunk on destinyReview: The mood in Winterfell after the victory over the dead is sombre and suspiciousMon May 06 2019 - 14:30
‘I close the curtains, sit there and just drink,’ Paul McGrath tells Tommy TiernanReview: It’s a gentle but insightful interview with McGrath – a vulnerable, wounded figureSun May 05 2019 - 21:27
The Glass Menagerie review: A handsome but muted new productionThe Gate’s staging tones down the wilder curlicues of Tennessee Williams’s playThu May 02 2019 - 13:41
Trad review: Father and 100-year-old son, locked in a torturous relationshipLivin’ Dred seems dutiful to rather than inspired by Mark Doherty’s comic look at stifling traditionWed May 01 2019 - 16:05
It Was Easy (in the End) review: Capitalism is the root of all evil in TheatreClub’s new showSlavoj Zizek said it is easier to imagine the end of the world than of capitalism. It’s often easier to imagine the end of capitalism than of this playTue Apr 30 2019 - 15:20
Game of Thrones season eight, episode three: ‘I pumped my fists. I yelled at the screen’Review: The extraordinary extended battle between living and dead was a masterpieceMon Apr 29 2019 - 17:55
With Baz Ashmawy on your side, what can go wrong? EverythingIn the first episode of Wingman, his new series, Baz stages a play with a lonely farmerMon Apr 29 2019 - 12:30
Ireland’s Favourite Folk Song isn’t a competition. It’s far better than thatWe learn more than whether The Green Fields of France is better than On Raglan RoadSun Apr 28 2019 - 20:00
Trad and Tintown: the best of this week’s theatreEmmet Kirwan stars in the revival of Mark Doherty’s 2004 play; Tintown explores how idealism can be corrupted by thirst for blood and illiberalismSat Apr 27 2019 - 05:00
Game of Thrones season eight, episode two review – Everyone has death in mindReview: Forgiving and flirting in Winterfell – and ready to fight to the end, which may be imminentMon Apr 22 2019 - 10:30
Filthy minds: The best theatre shows this weekDublin plays host to Ulster American in the Abbey and Spotless in Smock AlleySat Apr 20 2019 - 05:00
Chimerica: Picture-perfect gripping drama of fake newsReview: Lucy Kirkwood’s miniseries is an artful exploration of the difference between image and meaningThu Apr 18 2019 - 14:00
Spotless review: characters in suburban thriller are defined by what divides themIn Gary Duggan’s play everyone has a partner in this world, whether known or notThu Apr 18 2019 - 10:05
In Our Veins review: Story of good people in hard situation is pleasantly sentimentalLee Coffey brings a century of working-class Dublin to life through one dock workerWed Apr 17 2019 - 13:52
The Borrowers: ‘The Healy-Raes are keeping this country going’In RTÉ’s new programme about credit unions, we get a rare thing: a series of loans with very little interestTue Apr 16 2019 - 21:00
Game of Thrones season eight, episode one review: Questions of shelter, sustenance and sexThe first episode of the final series of Game of Thrones concentrates on matters of survivalMon Apr 15 2019 - 14:30
Hitting the start button: This week’s theatre highlightsDublin Will Show You How is a grim portrait of despair; Beginning is a tale of connectingSat Apr 13 2019 - 05:00
Missing Fleabag? Consider its ultra-violent cousin, Killing EveThe multi-Bafta-nominated show brings creeping moral unease to its bad romanceThu Apr 11 2019 - 18:46
Ulster American review: Exasperations, ultimatums and wearying repetitionThe trouble with polemicists, in David Ireland’s satire, is that they might mean what they sayWed Apr 10 2019 - 16:30
Derry Girls review: A moving and significant piece of nostalgiaIn the season finale, Lisa McGee’s girls once again turn their backs on historyTue Apr 09 2019 - 21:30
Fleabag: Three final minutes at a bus stop will go down as classicFleabag series 2 review: Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s masterly series caught us in a warped relationshipTue Apr 09 2019 - 11:34
From dying in the mud of Game of Thrones to the whatness of existenceBarry McGovern’s solo-show adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Watt is returning to the stageTue Apr 09 2019 - 05:00
John and Francis Brennan can’t save Leitrim’s ‘disaster relief’ campsiteTV review: The fastidious hoteliers do their best amid glum huts, concrete slabs and scrap metalMon Apr 08 2019 - 16:59
Big horseshoes to fill: War Horse leads this week’s theatre highlightsThe acclaimed production is back in Dublin; plus: Stones in His Pockets is revived againSat Apr 06 2019 - 05:00
Dublin Will Show You How review: A portrait of isolation, division and despairTracy Martin’s play, based on real women’s experiences, can arouse pity, resistance, anger or a numb sense of helplessnessFri Apr 05 2019 - 16:37
Beginning review: Beautifully measured tale of love in a time of social mediaEileen Walsh and Marty Rea give exquisite performances in David Eldridge’s playThu Apr 04 2019 - 14:31
Alan Partridge is England’s man of the momentSeries review: Alan Partridge, the new Emperor of England, knows he’s nakedTue Apr 02 2019 - 13:22
After a two-year process, Fishamble selects its 'big, ambitious' Play for IrelandThe Alternative wins Fishamble’s project, which seeks to buck trend for shorter productionsTue Apr 02 2019 - 05:00
Vitamin Sea: ‘You go for a swim, and you’re free’Review: The swimmers in this drifting RTÉ documentary find peace while all at seaMon Apr 01 2019 - 22:35
Line of Duty: Gloriously overheated. Terrifically entertaining. So why does it feel staid?Is its maker Jed Mercurio spending too much time on his other show, Bodyguard?Mon Apr 01 2019 - 13:23
