The Snapper review: Fuzzy memories with intriguing adjustmentsThe Snapper has been brought to the stage. But, with the benefit of hindsight, what can the stage bring to The Snapper?Thu Jun 21 2018 - 11:48
The Fourth Estate: The New York Times’s love/hate of Donald TrumpReview: This riveting All-the-Presidents-Men-style documentary ultimately plays Trump’s gameWed Jun 20 2018 - 17:47
No Country For Women: dire consequences of silenced voicesLavinia Kerwick and Catherine Corless among presenters of RTÉ’s sprawling documentaryWed Jun 20 2018 - 12:04
‘Ireland’s Wild Waste’ shows us just how filthy lucre can beReview: Our waste management companies are cleaning up, but not in the way they should beTue Jun 19 2018 - 07:36
‘Asking For It’ stage review: An unsettling anatomy of rape cultureThis gruelling adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel is alarming for good reasonMon Jun 18 2018 - 13:17
‘We both will be received in Graceland’: Dad rock and fatherhoodPaul Simon makes sense to me now and so does my father’s nostalgia. It is something we shareSat Jun 16 2018 - 06:00
The Trouble with Women: Anne Robinson is the weakest linkReview: Robinson’s tabloid-style arguments are shallow, contradictory and self-orientedThu Jun 14 2018 - 22:00
Tommy Bowe: ‘What did I do? Well I used to play rugby’‘The End Game’, is Tommy Bowe’s candid attempt to come to terms with a rugby life that is overMon Jun 11 2018 - 22:51
Germaine Greer: not everyone agrees with her – least of all Germaine GreerThe feminist academic and writer has been influential and infuriating in equal measure. And so she remainsSat Jun 09 2018 - 22:00
Mending the Gate: ‘Michael Colgan’s style was very different to mine’The Gate Theatre turned 90 this year. Nobody noticed. Selina Cartmell on a challenging first year in chargeSat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
Asking For It and The Kite Runner: This week’s theatre highlightsAn Irish rape case exposes a culture of victim-blaming in the stage adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel; repressed desires drive a boy’s own story from Kabul to San FranciscoSat Jun 09 2018 - 05:00
Searching for Shergar: Accidental BBC comedy about the kidnapping of a horseReview: Documentary with a thriller soundtrack, a hushed voiceover, but no new leadsThu Jun 07 2018 - 23:08
Get Shorty: Chris O’Dowd as a chewed-up, charming chancerTV Review: In Chilli Palmer’s place we have Miles Daly, Irish enforcer for a Vegas loan sharkWed Jun 06 2018 - 23:22
The Kite Runner at Gaiety review: Becomingly naive stage version lays much of subtext bareKhaled Hosseini’s novel inspired by Taliban’s ban on kite flying is given the stage treatmentTue Jun 05 2018 - 14:00
Got a problem Dublin teenager? Give them the ‘culchie’ cure‘Raised by the Village’ stages an agricultural intervention into the lives of two unruly teensTue Jun 05 2018 - 11:16
No Smoke Without Fire: This week’s theatre highlightsMary Murray fleshes out several characters, ‘Buridan’s Ass’ battles with a philosophical paradoxSat Jun 02 2018 - 05:00
Emma Murphy: ‘He punched me ... It wasn’t the first time’‘Emma Murphy Fights Back’ is emotional TV by a survivor of domestic violenceThu May 31 2018 - 22:30
We believe in one Gaybo, the father, the almighty, maker of TV heaven on EarthRTÉ marks Gay Byrne’s 60 years in broadcasting with highlights from ‘The Meaning of Life’Wed May 30 2018 - 22:40
‘Can’t Cope Won’t Cope’ finale: What an incomplete AislingReview: In series 2, the plot grew ever-less-plausible and even Coppers began to feel oldTue May 29 2018 - 12:30
Gig of the Week: Kilkenny Cat Laughs – new routes to the punchlineZany or dark? Smart or dumb? Gently reassuring or wickedly disturbing? The festival has it allSat May 26 2018 - 05:00
‘The only message I’ve peddled is that we’re headed for the apocalypse’Don’t laugh at Edward Aczel’s awkward attempts at comedy – he’s trying not to be funny. But, as his new stand-up show, ‘Is Ed Aczel Infinite?’ proves, anti-comedy can be timelessSat May 26 2018 - 05:00
Theatre highlights of the weekTough choices: audiences get to elect their own prince in Pan Pan’s brilliant alternative take on ‘Hamlet’ at the Abbey; while Veronica Dyas, Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky share a Mother in Dyas’s new production ‘My Son My Son’Sat May 26 2018 - 05:00
‘Stressed’: This TV programme gave me high blood pressureWatching this nervy RTÉ documentary, my blood pressure spiked before the ad breakWed May 23 2018 - 23:02
An abortion debate between ‘two men who will never experience a crisis pregnancy’Prime Time review: A relatively calm affair that worked hard to maintain balanceWed May 23 2018 - 10:50
Manchester: The Night of the Bomb – ‘The brave girls who refuse to be victims’This documentary doesn’t need its thriller-movie structure. The human stories amazeTue May 22 2018 - 22:00
Derren Brown Underground: A wizard who will get inside your headReview: The greatest illusion in this masterful show is the appearance of free willMon May 21 2018 - 12:07
My Trans Life: ‘Punished for who I was, basically, by adults’Transgendered people may be legally recognised but they’re not necessarily understoodThu May 17 2018 - 23:51
Tom Murphy: ‘How do you write a play? I don’t know’Murphy gave the Irish canon a series of masterpieces. Peter Crawley assesses his dramaWed May 16 2018 - 16:59
‘I noticed Daniel O’Donnell’s bum go up and down a few times’‘People have no idea what I put up with,’ seethes Majella, in a new ‘B&B Road Trip’ seriesTue May 15 2018 - 21:08
Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, he now uses it for heroinBenedict Cumberbatch plays privileged but miserable uppercrust addict Patrick MelroseMon May 14 2018 - 12:12
Eurovision 2018: Ireland’s tender tune never stood a chanceThe maddest song won Eurovision 2018, restoring some sanity to the crazy contestSun May 13 2018 - 00:40
‘The Good Father’ and ‘Minding Frankie’: this week’s best theatreAn unlikely couple face up to parenthood, and Maeve Binchy’s evergreen storySat May 12 2018 - 05:00
The Secret Life of Five Year Olds: ‘Look how bendy I am! I’m Donald Trump!’A Channel 4 documentary that watches children at play makes for shuddering viewingWed May 09 2018 - 11:28
Who Wants to be a Millionaire? Jeremy Clarkson feels the hateTV Review: The new host – self-aware, regretful, helpful – doesn’t seem quite himselfTue May 08 2018 - 12:50
The Hardest Harvest review: Farming in Cork vs farming in KenyaCork farmer Paula Hynes encounters drought, hyenas and death among the MaasaiThu May 03 2018 - 13:30
‘On Raftery’s Hill’ review: a striking and pummelling productionMarina Carr’s bleak topical tragedy is like the fresh jolt of a recurring nightmareWed May 02 2018 - 20:16
How to Cook Well: Lessons in food from an ‘appetisingly posh’ Ballymaloe chefThe ever-polite Rory O’Connell presents honest recipes with donnish enthusiasmWed May 02 2018 - 10:08
Cyprus Avenue and The Plough and the Stars: the best theatre of the weekStephen Rea stars in David Ireland’s scabrous comedy; the Abbey’s O’Casey returnsSat Apr 28 2018 - 05:00
The Handmaid’s Tale series 2: The show has run out of storyReview: Free of the book that inspired season one, the makers seem paralysed by libertyThu Apr 26 2018 - 23:45
Westworld: Latest twist in a show that knows us too wellReview: Series two of the sinful – but cerebral – entertainment keeps us guessingTue Apr 24 2018 - 15:57
All Bets Are Off: Hooked on Baz Ashmawy’s empathetic styleThe goodtime guy’s anti-gambling crusade is more valuable than a current affairs exposeTue Apr 24 2018 - 00:16
Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope: Aisling is a habit we can’t shakeOne of the freshest, funniest shows on TV absorbs everything jittery about modern IrelandMon Apr 23 2018 - 22:00
‘Not a Funny Word’ and ‘Assassins’: this week’s best theatreTara Flynn’s splendid one-woman show and Stephen Sondheim’s roll-call of political killersSat Apr 21 2018 - 05:00
Assassins review: Enjoyable dark production that occasionally struggles to keep its aimMusical seems too haunted by JFK’s assassination to be able to properly hold its nerveThu Apr 19 2018 - 15:39
Pamela Flood and friends take the fun out of eating‘Healthy Appetite’ asks chefs to cook healthily. They should have called it ‘Dinner is Ruined’Wed Apr 18 2018 - 21:00
Stephen Lawrence: The murdered boy who became a symbolThe programme is called ‘Stephen: The Murder that Changed a Nation’. But did it?Wed Apr 18 2018 - 12:29
North Korea’s Secret Slave Gangs: ‘You’re treated like a dog and you have to eat trash’Building sites in Europe, Russia and China are mass-exploiting workers from North KoreaTue Apr 17 2018 - 12:43
Gare St Lazare’s Here All Night: sparing, cerebral and sensuousBeckettian word is fused with music, installation art and performanceTue Apr 17 2018 - 05:00
TVs, gang threats and ‘no smell’: A much changed MountjoyBack to the Joy: Donald Taylor Black revisits the prison 21 years after his original documentaryMon Apr 16 2018 - 22:39
Matilda to Beckett: the best in this week’s theatreLike its protagonist, Matilda the Musical is not afraid to be clever, while Beckett’s words are put to music in Gare Saint Lazare’s Here All Night at the Abbey and beyondSat Apr 14 2018 - 05:00
