Debbie Harry turns 80: what next for Blondie?
The band have a new album on the way – although, following drummer Clem Burke’s death, it is unclear if they will tour again
Talos: Ólafur Arnalds on finishing Eoin French’s final album – ‘A lot of the time I could feel him next to me ’
For the Icelandic musician A Dawning is not a project about death so much as an outpouring of joy and an acknowledgment of the preciousness of life
Ólafur Arnalds & Talos: A Dawning review – Five stars for this emotion-filled celebration of Eoin French’s life
The musicians were so dialled into each other that it’s hard to say where one’s contribution ends and the other’s begins
Squid Game review: A rewarding third season filled with thrills, spills and a gripping final twist
Television: Impactful the end of Squid Game certainly is, and a marked improvement on underwhelming second series
The Phone Box Babies review: Hugely moving account from Ireland’s Handmaid’s Tale era
Television: The RTÉ documentary on three siblings abandoned as babies in the 1960s is grim and fascinating
1923 review: Yellowstone prequel is a well-put-together drama apart from Helen Mirren’s Irish accent
Television: More about mood than plot, this violent melodrama is filled with hard-bitten tales of inexpressive men bending the world to their will
Lana Del Rey in Dublin review: By far the strangest performance the Aviva has hosted
This gig raises the question of where artistic expression ends and doing right by your fanbase begins
The days of families huddling around the Late Late Show or Glenroe are gone - and that’s no bad thing
TV standouts such as Adolescence or Squid Game only underline a sense that the era of truly popular culture is slipping away
Lorde: Virgin review – Glittery, gritty and fabulously absorbing
Ella Yelich-O’Connor’s fourth album is a brooding blockbuster as visceral and emotionally gory as Solar Power was darkly becalmed
The Bear review: The restaurant needs a recipe for success if it is to survive, both on screen and in reality
Television: The restaurant needs a recipe for success if it is to survive, both on screen and in reality
Natasha review: Moving insight into brutal personal experience that became a national lightning rod
Television: Documentary about assault of Natasha O’Brien and her subsequent fight for justice makes for sober viewing
Olivia Rodrigo at Marlay Park: Pop star surprises fans with Fontaines DC cover during a brilliantly energetic show
Rodrigo is not just another Disney-approved star but a Gen Zer with a deep headbanging spirit
The Gilded Age review: Pretty but dour show about snobbish New Yorkers
Television: Julian Fellowes’s spiritual successor to Downton Abbey is lacking in both fun and a true understanding of blue blood upper-crust America
Lorde on weight loss and body image: ‘It’s this evil little rite of passage for a lot of women’
When Ella Yelich-O’Connor was last in Ireland she was working through a break-up and the aftershock of an eating disorder. Her new album has helped make her whole again, she says
Haim: I Quit review – Ferociously catchy, satisfyingly grudge-bearing
Danielle Haim’s had her heart broken, and you’re going to hear all about in the sisters’ wonderfully vituperative songs