Monica Lewinsky: ‘I was on the precipice of the rabbit hole’The Clinton Affair: Two decades later, we are reminded of the extraordinary power imbalanceMon Jan 21 2019 - 13:59
The Ridleys review: a double bill of urban horror storiesPhilip Ridley’s Tonight with Donny Stixx and Dark Vanilla Jungle feature media monstersMon Jan 21 2019 - 13:55
Deliveroo and Just Eat: Inside the dinner delivery businessAn investigation of the UK’s low-accountability, multibillion-pound food-delivery industryTue Jan 15 2019 - 16:45
It’s a dirty job, cleaning up after the filthy Irish‘How Ireland Cleans Up’ shows us the grey mountains of junk we don’t like to think aboutMon Jan 14 2019 - 22:35
True Detective series 3 is a macho teenager trying hard to grow upReview: The knotty-noir series is back, and so is the philoso-waffle of season oneMon Jan 14 2019 - 22:18
Theatre this week: Young woman fights to be herself and Philip Ridley’s new work at the AbbeyKate Stanley Brennan revives her solo show while Theatre Upstairs brings its pitch-dark sensibilities to the stageSat Jan 12 2019 - 05:00
Catastrophe review: Sharon London Sex and a criminal in a neck braceSharon Horgan and Rob Delaney’s comedy, back for its last series, is still a manual for lifeWed Jan 09 2019 - 11:03
‘Brexit: The Uncivil War’ drips with great British humourBenedict Cumberbatch stars in a political tragicomedy with the verve of a tech thrillerTue Jan 08 2019 - 09:00
‘Resistance’: Baddasses of the Irish War of IndependenceReview: The sequel to RTÉ’s ambitious ‘Rebellion’ take liberties – but it’s a drama, not a history lessonSun Jan 06 2019 - 22:35
Rufus Norris: ‘I think we’re heading into a s**t storm’The National Theatre’s outward-looking director has had to contend with an increasingly inward-looking BritainSat Jan 05 2019 - 05:00
The Scourge and Hue and Cry: The best in theatre this weekOne woman reflects on caring for her mother; two long estranged friends deal with griefSat Jan 05 2019 - 05:00
Island of Dreams review: Harry Enfield’s limp excuse for celebrity impressionsDespite an easy target like Richard Branson, the impressions capture little and send up less – and the jokes are hopelessly weakFri Jan 04 2019 - 11:47
Celebrity Home of the Year: John Boyne’s ‘ego room’ floors judgesThere’s no accounting for taste on ‘Celebrity Home of the Year’ – and no easy way to defend the judgingWed Jan 02 2019 - 22:35
Luther: The renegade cop returns in search of a clown-faced killerReview: Idris Elba’s brooding bobbie is back with gross-out horror and comic-book perilWed Jan 02 2019 - 11:45
Pantomime: Two snowy leading ladies to kick off the new yearThe Tivoli’s Snow White, and Gaeity’s Snow Queen are fabulously reworked classicsSat Dec 29 2018 - 05:00
Theatre: a new generation takes on the words of Flann O’Brien‘Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann)’ draws from ‘The Dalkey Archive’ and other storiesSat Dec 22 2018 - 05:00
Springsteen on Broadway: The idolatry is close to suffocatingReview: Some will find his rhapsodies to the power of rock’n’roll a little hard to swallowThu Dec 20 2018 - 15:40
Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann) review: Nostalgia, booze and tale talesThis directorless sampling of Flann O’Brien ends up looking like an actors’ lock-inThu Dec 20 2018 - 12:50
The Long Song: A touching tale of British colonial crueltyTV Review: BBC’s adaptation of Andrea Levy’s historical novel has some riveting tanglesWed Dec 19 2018 - 15:46
Ireland’s Fittest Family: A mind-numbing series draws to a closeTV review: Watching four people shove a log up a ramp is even less exciting than it soundsMon Dec 17 2018 - 10:00
Steroid abuse: ‘I hated my body. I had to do something about it’‘RTÉ Investigates – Steroid Ireland’ leaves no stone unturned, no kilo unburnedThu Dec 13 2018 - 13:58
Come from Away review: Set in a bleak time, a simple tale to inspireMuch to admire in the musical about travellers stranded in Newfoundland on 9/11Wed Dec 12 2018 - 15:30
The best (and worst) TV of 2018The Year in Review: Young Offenders and Red Rock among our television favouritesTue Dec 11 2018 - 05:00
Taken Down: Everybody here had blood on their handsSeries finale review: RTÉ’s drama opened our eyes to an ugly Ireland we ordinarily never seeMon Dec 10 2018 - 13:01
Leo Varadkar on the Late Late Show: Taoiseach has become ‘CEO’, Ireland ‘the organisation’If you imagine Varadkar as too corporate, Ryan Tubridy’s interview won’t change your mindSat Dec 08 2018 - 10:59
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessonsYear in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatreSat Dec 08 2018 - 06:00
Theatre highlights: ‘Come From Away’ comes to the AbbeyThe stirring musical inspired by events in Newfoundland after 9/11 is a feelgood successSat Dec 08 2018 - 05:00
The housing crisis is ‘even beginning to piss off rich people’RTÉ’s ‘Land of Hope and Homeless’ depicted a housing crisis even worse than we imaginedThu Dec 06 2018 - 13:33
Fr Tony Coote: ‘I am the guest of honour at my own funeral’TV Review: The motor neurone disease patient is that rare thing: a widely respected priestThu Dec 06 2018 - 11:15
Review: I am Tonie Walsh. What is a club DJ if not a keeper of records?Walsh chronicles several turbulent decades of progress and setbacks in his solo showThu Nov 29 2018 - 11:48
Ruth Wilson plays the wife of her grandpa, a lying, bigamist MI6 agentTV review: Mrs Wilson delves into story of pretence and betrayalThu Nov 29 2018 - 10:00
Jamie Dornan and ungodly thoughts in 1885 FermanaghDripping with breathless desire, ‘Death and Nightingales’ offers a tense vision of IrelandTue Nov 27 2018 - 10:13
‘The story of what British justice has done to an entire family’The shameful story of the Maguire family doesn’t need the hard sell the BBC gives itMon Nov 26 2018 - 11:00
Theatre: Legendary ‘Godfather of Gay’ DJ Tonie Walsh takes to the stageTheatre highlights: DJ turned activist Tonie Walsh introduces himself to the theatre; while Ken Rogan’s inspired debut play tells the oldest story in the freshest waySat Nov 24 2018 - 04:00
Before: Heaven can be found in the most unlikely placesReview: The latest solo show from Pat Kinevane takes inspiration from both the bible and the musical. Which does it believe in more?Fri Nov 23 2018 - 12:56
‘Daddy flies aeroplanes. Mummy makes the food’ – portrait of an Ireland steeped in biasJudging by the studio discussion in RTÉ’s ‘A Woman’s World’, change can’t come soon enoughFri Nov 23 2018 - 09:50
On the second night of their honeymoon, he brutally assaulted herReview: TG4’s ‘Tabú’ estimates that 300,000 Irish people have suffered abuse from a partnerThu Nov 22 2018 - 11:30
Hero review: One of the oldest tales gets the freshest possible expressionThe hero of Ken Rogan’s excellent debut is a warrior on the pitch but lost at sea in matters of the heartTue Nov 20 2018 - 12:34
Woman Undone review: Mary Coughlan’s acts of creation and destructionThe singer’s unconventional collaboration with Brokentalkers makes an unsettling art of sufferingMon Nov 19 2018 - 15:25
Muted drama ventures inside the mind of homeowner who killed an Irish TravellerTV review: ‘The Interrogation of Tony Martin’ explores a shooting in NorfolkMon Nov 19 2018 - 14:26
Aim of ‘I’m a Celebrity’ 2018: Convince Dec he is still hilarious without AntHolly Willoughby – Ant McPartlin’s replacement for series 18 – is not allowed to be funnyMon Nov 19 2018 - 10:55
Gig of the Week: The Great Gatsby is one marvellous partyThe Gate becomes Gatsby Mansion again in this fluid F Scott Fitzgerald adaptationSat Nov 17 2018 - 05:00
Growing Up, Live: RTÉ’s own mad experiment in gene-splicingReview: The Science Week show crosses earnest education with magazine-show ebullienceWed Nov 14 2018 - 14:54
Maurice McCabe: He fought the law – and he wonWhistleblower review: This darkly enthralling story really is one of good versus badWed Nov 14 2018 - 12:00
Maurice McCabe: The sorriest part is how isolated he still seemsWhistleblower review: Airing garda’s clean laundry in public makes his goodness hard to relate toTue Nov 13 2018 - 12:25
This week’s theatre highlightsLooking out for one another: Stage highlights take dispiriting look at blame, victimhood and apathy in society, and wonder about how to rebuild trustSat Nov 10 2018 - 05:00
A Woman’s Place review: Too few women in politics? Must be their own faultIn RTÉ’s documentary, a male artist and a male journalist peer at women politiciansThu Nov 08 2018 - 11:39
Brendan Courtney needs to talk about Mam – and himselfReview: He was supposed to be discussing his ageing mother’s life, but ended up dealing with hisMon Nov 05 2018 - 14:10
The School Days of Thaddeus K review: An elegant depiction of a dismal timeBlue Raincoat use puppetry to evoke the fragility of a young boy’s hellish educationMon Nov 05 2018 - 12:45
Double Cross review: Thomas Kilroy’s chillingly resonant take on nationalismIan Toner plays both William Joyce and Brendan Bracken under Jimmy Fay’s directionMon Nov 05 2018 - 10:26
