TV in 2025: 25 of the best new and returning shows to watch out for in the 12 months ahead
Including The Traitors, The White Lotus, Zero Day, Your Friends & Neighbors, The Walsh Sisters and The Bear
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RTÉ to adapt Marian Keyes bestsellers into new series
The Walsh Sisters, which is set to begin filming in 2025, has been billed as a ‘comedy about serious things’
Dish: With Aisling Bea, Florence Pugh and Marian Keyes, this dinner-party podcast has the perfect guests
Podcast review: Hosted by Angela Hartnett and Nick Grimshaw, Dish is more than a good idea
We asked ChatGPT to write like Marian Keyes, John Boyne and Paul Howard. Now they rate the results
The chatbot takes mere seconds to come up with its versions of these bestselling authors’ work. How convincing are they?
David Nicholls: ‘I’m lucky enough to have lots of Irish friends and hope that I got away with writing an Irish character’
The author of One Day on his new novel, You Are Here; the Irish writers he admires; and father-son relationships
The events to see, the shows to book, and the ones to catch before they end
May 18th-24th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Marian Keyes: ‘Transition is extremely uncomfortable…but everything eventually settles’
The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle
No news is bad news: Morning Ireland proves daunting but necessary
Radio: Radio 1 flagship dutifully covers the RTÉ crisis as Colm Ó Mongáin and Oliver Callan give cause for optimism
Edel Coffey on My Favourite Mistake by Marian Keyes: Rich, and multilayered storytelling
Author’s humanity as much as her humour keeps readers coming back
Louise Nealon: ‘There is a reason why the vast majority of readers are women. We tell ourselves stories to survive’
Nealon’s debut novel, Snowflake, is this year’s One Dublin One Book choice
Marian Keyes portrait unveiled as latest addition to National Gallery
‘I love it; the colours, the textures, the mood,’ says Keyes of painting by artist Margaret Corcoran
Now You’re Asking: Tara Flynn and Marian Keyes may be sweet Irish agony aunts, but they’re not afraid to shank you
Podcast review: The pair are clearly close friends with a strong chemistry that works a charm
Fiction to look out for in 2024: Returning favourites, a fearsome degenerate, and Ireland’s trailblazing all-woman rock band
New novels by Roddy Doyle, Colm Tóibín and Marian Keyes are among the works in the pipeline, along with eagerly anticipated debuts by Ferdia Lennon and Scott McKendry
Friends, bad singing and Love Actually: Miriam O’Callaghan, James Kavanagh, Marian Keyes and more on their Christmas traditions
We asked a range of people – including refuseniks – to tell us about the moments that make their season bright
AI and Irish writers: ‘I fear my life, in a strange way, is also being appropriated’
Irish authors whose works are in a data set used to train AI share their views
‘The people we fall in love with are as incomplete as we are’: Marian Keyes shares six life lessons on turning 60
Words of wisdom: bad boys are really just bad men, happy moments are as good as it gets, and stay in your comfort zone
‘We want to read about people falling in love’: Marian Keyes and Curtis Sittenfeld on the romcom revival
Irish and US authors on the joy of writing romance and the potential for menopause novels
Louise O’Neill: ‘My career took off. My life changed. And I fell apart’
‘It felt like a lot of people really hated me. I suppose I felt really scared a lot of the time’
The happiest time of my life… by Sarah McInerney, John Boyne, Marian Keyes and more
It’s world happiness day on Sunday. We asked some people when they have been happiest
Aisling Marron: A memorable moment with ‘my two best girls’
After listening to a podcast, I decided I would call my baby ‘my little baby’ at all times
‘I was just in the shower thinking about Marian Keyes’
Emer McLysaght: Liking things by women and for women was considered lowbrow. Marian called this out as bullshit
Back to basics: How to keep your foundation looking fresh all day
‘The best way to make your make-up last is to spend more time prepping your skin’
Caroline O’Donoghue: ‘My luck has turned so quickly I have whiplash’
After Cork writer’s double job loss, a big publishing deal was on cards for tarot-focused novel
95 things to look forward to: Matches, movies, plays, pints, pals
By Aisling Bea, Mary McAleese, Richard Ford, Marian Keyes, Tolü Makay, Blindboy and more
Dua Lipa, Stephen Rea and Emma Dabiri: This week’s unmissable online events
Plus Marian Keyes, Frank McGuinness, Mick Fleetwood and the National Symphony Orchestra
An Irish playwright in New York: Lines remain unlearned, curtains unraised, seats unfilled
I’ll write to make the actors cry again – laugh, too. We’ll need a laugh after this
Daisy Buchanan: Putting the sexy back in literary sex scenes
'Women have appetites and as they sometimes rage out of control, the worst thing we can do is repress them'
How nuns schooled today’s torch-bearers of feminism
A generation of female superheroes in tartan skirts and gabardines
Olive: Olive branches for women in their 30s
Book review: Emma Gannon’s smart debut novel looks at the decision to be childfree
Marian Keyes: ‘What doesn’t kill us makes us funnier’
The writer on Irishness, feminism, mental health and happy endings
The good old days are back: opium, fancy hats, colonialism and well-lit sex
Patrick Freyne: The Luminaries looks great and has spirited acting, but what is it trying to be?
The Nacullians: Families as another brick in the wall
Craig Jordan-Baker explores a migrant Irish bricklayer and his clan with metafictional flair
Finding the fabulous: How to be glamorous in lockdown
From kitchen dance parties to bright clothing and getting ready for cocktail hour
Why is Michael Flatley’s spy movie getting so much flak?
Let the Riverdancer release his ‘vanity project’ Blackbird and silence the Twitter haters
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