Eurovision 2025: When is Ireland’s semi-final on, what are Emmy’s chances and how does voting work?All eyes are on the Swiss city of Basle for the second semi-final of this year’s Eurovision. Can Ireland win glory with Norwegian singer Emmy Kristiansen?Thu May 15 2025 - 08:24
Uncharted with Ray Goggins review: Leo Varadkar has to get halfway up a mountain with Lyra before he lets his guard downTelevision: A former taoiseach and a Cork popstar make for a curious couple on this South African survival challengeWed May 14 2025 - 22:35
Fred and Rose West: A British Horror Story review – A chilling gaze into a monstrous, soulless voidNetflix series review: It’s hard to see how we needed another documentary about this murderous couple, yet here we areWed May 14 2025 - 05:30
Bad Nanny review: Incredible story of fraudster Samantha Cookes skilfully told in excellent documentaryTelevision: Chirpy Englishwoman was exposed as a serial fraudster, but only after taking in a long list of victimsMon May 12 2025 - 22:35
‘RTÉ said we don’t have any problem with Emmy. We have an Irish writer on the team’: Ireland’s Eurovision singer from NorwayNorwegiam singer Emmy on representing Ireland in Basle for the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest and how she and song cowriter Larissa Tormey have engineered Laika Party to grab the attention. But can they triumph? Sat May 10 2025 - 06:23
Alicia Witt: ‘It was a scene that got cut from the movie. I did kiss Madonna in rehearsals’Ahead of a musical performance in Dublin, the actor and songwriter talks about grief, her formative friendship with David Lynch and her encounter with Harvey WeinsteinSat May 10 2025 - 05:15
Arcade Fire: Pink Elephant review – Win Butler and co release the biggest damp squib of their careerIt’s hard to escape the sense that this is Butler’s ‘shame walk’ album after the allegations that engulfed him in 2022Fri May 09 2025 - 10:07
A Deadly American Marriage review: Excruciating documentary gives Jason Corbett’s killers Molly Martens and her father a platform and megaphoneTelevision: Molly and Thomas Martens reassert their own allegations and bizarre fabrications as Corbett’s children also feature in filmFri May 09 2025 - 08:01
Tarrac na Farraige review: RTÉ documentary about fishing livelihoods is both stunning and heartbreaking Television: Engaging portrait of a way of life that may soon be gone forever is like a love letter to the gorgeous Irish coastlineThu May 08 2025 - 19:30
Good American Family review: An eye-poppingly bizarre true story that fails to come to lifeTelevision: Series starring Ellen Pompeo commits the egregious sin of attempting to send the viewer to sleep at every turnWed May 07 2025 - 15:03
Eric Church: Evangeline vs the Machine review – Student of the heart’s crookedness plays it straightAlbum showcases Nashville veteran’s expressive baritone and flair for beautifully arranged songs that revisit classic country themesFri May 02 2025 - 05:04
The Four Seasons review: Tina Fey and Steve Carell’s drama has stumbled upon an intriguing new premise - the midlife crisisTelevision review: Mean-spirited and pessimistic portrait of three couples going through midlife malaise is devoid of laughsThu May 01 2025 - 05:30
Genius Game review: David Tennant’s new show deserves to be sent to dunce’s corner Television review: Doctor Who star’s baffling new show is a shameless Traitors rip-off Wed Apr 30 2025 - 21:30
Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes review - Horribly riveting retelling of police killing an innocent manTelevision: If only Irish drama displayed the same willingness to unpack our own scandals and dark secretsWed Apr 30 2025 - 14:00
TV coverage of Pope’s funeral: Ceremony filmed with splendid cinematic minimalism by Italian TVTelevision: Viewers treated to abundance of drone shots of Francis’ simple wooden coffin from high aboveSat Apr 26 2025 - 15:46
Ghost: Skeletá review – Hair-metal tribute pop minus the killer tunesThe rare moment of magic can’t compensate for the carnival of cringe on the Swedish band’s sixth albumFri Apr 25 2025 - 05:05
You’s final season review: Penn Badgley does his best but there is no saving this honking disappointmentTelevision: This Netflix show is so deliriously cheesy that nobody could take it seriously. The series ending feels like a mercy killingThu Apr 24 2025 - 15:48
Andor season 2 review: Irish actors shine in taut Star Wars prestige TV Television: Disney was slightly off kilter with season 1 but is back on course with latest additionWed Apr 23 2025 - 12:40
Dragon Hearts: Moving insight into a world where mortality meets dragon boat racingTelevision: Documentary follows people with experience of cancer who have embraced the ancient sportMon Apr 21 2025 - 19:30
Sugababes in Dublin review: A steamroller of peerless pop and sisterhoodFounding band members Mutya Buena, Keisha Buchanan and Siobhán Donaghy replace old tensions with collective joyMon Apr 21 2025 - 12:05
The Last of Us drops a bombshell for the TV ages. Did that really just happen?Television: This is like Logan Roy’s death in Succession, or perhaps even the Red Wedding in Game of ThronesMon Apr 21 2025 - 06:00
Self Esteem on the music business: ‘It’s things like dressing rooms with only a urinal which make women give up’For Rebecca Lucy Taylor, performing as Self Esteem has been a way of unpicking years of anger at the way the industry operates Sun Apr 20 2025 - 05:16
Julien Baker & Torres: Send a Prayer My Way review – Understated campfire-country album crackles with songwriting chemistryDarkness and light combine impressively on a beautiful LP on which two talented musicians coexist in harmonyFri Apr 18 2025 - 05:06
Netflix applying its binge-watch formula to Jason Corbett’s killing is not a surpriseStreamer has been building its true crime franchise for a decade. But is it always a good thing?Fri Apr 18 2025 - 05:00
The Stolen Girl: Bingeable, fun and instantly forgettable child kidnap potboiler with Denise GoughTelevision: Irish actress plays mother of child who disappears during a sleepover in a friend’s house Wed Apr 16 2025 - 12:21
The Last of Us review: Prepare to be shocked by this compelling new seasonTelevision: Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsay are back as adoptive father and daughter with the show’s zombie game stronger than everMon Apr 14 2025 - 21:00
Your Friends & Neighbors: Jon Hamm is hilarious in this riotous, satirical rompTelevision: Story about a rich white American manages to transcend social commentary Fri Apr 11 2025 - 13:06
Bon Iver: Sable, Fable review – From carefree Supermac’s fan to angsty melancholy and, now, romantic yearningAdvance press described Sable, Fable as Bon Iver’s “sexiest” album yet, which is misleading. There’s a lot of romantic yearning, however, as Justin Vernon traces the arc of a relationship from infatuation to connection to contentment, a journey that he explores via blissed-out yacht rock (Everything Is Peaceful Love) and fuzzy Radiohead-style dirge rock (If Only Could Wait, a duet with Danielle Haim)Fri Apr 11 2025 - 05:21
Black Mirror review: Two standout episodes in a largely dreary and predictable new seasonTelevision: Charlie Brooker’s future-shock science fiction may be surplus to requirements. Could any future be any more shocking than our present reality?Thu Apr 10 2025 - 06:00
The White Lotus finale review: Viewers may be relieved to finally check outTelevision: Is showrunner Mike White sliding towards sentimentality in season 3? It’s been a wild ride – but viewers may be relieved to finally check outMon Apr 07 2025 - 22:30
Safe Harbour review: Jack Gleeson and his moustache steal gangland drama from a menacing Colm MeaneyTelevision review: with Colm Meaney, Jack Gleeson and Charlie Murphy, Safe Harbour's top-notch cast almost covcer the cracks of laboured tale of drug dealers that isn’t Irish enough to feel genuinely homegrownSun Apr 06 2025 - 22:10
Thurston Moore live in Dublin review: Beautifully overcast set is brooding one moment, bucolic and balmy the nextThe iconic indie-rock guitarist debuts his Guitar Explorations of Cloud Formations suite as part of the New Music Dublin festivalSun Apr 06 2025 - 11:34
The Waterboys: Life, Death and Dennis Hopper review – Sprawling, unpredictable and wholly delightfulMike Scott isn’t telling us the story of the Hollywood bad boy’s life so much as allowing us to experience it for ourselvesFri Apr 04 2025 - 05:12
Pulse review: Plot is far from a priority in this Greys Anatomy-inspired soapy distraction Television: It may be honkingly derivative but it sure goes down easilyThu Apr 03 2025 - 05:15
Hooked: How Addiction Hijacks Your Brain review – Compelling documentary never resorts to finger-wagging Television: It would have been tempting for Dr Brian Pennie to make this film all about his own addiction story but he never labours the pointWed Apr 02 2025 - 22:30
The Beatles: It’s great Mescal and Keoghan landed roles in biopics, but are we entering Fab Four overload?The entertainment industry reckons Beatles content is as close as you can get to a sure thing in a world beset by uncertaintyWed Apr 02 2025 - 12:56
Jeff Wayne’s The War of the Worlds review: How paradoxical that Victorian England’s destruction should be relayed by an IrishmanWhat HG Wells would think of his masterpiece as a rock opera is anyone’s guess, but audiences love itMon Mar 31 2025 - 12:22
MobLand review: Pierce Brosnan’s Irish accent is a horror for the ages. Forget licence to kill, this is more Darby O’GillTelevision: Helen Mirren’s Irish accent is another phonetic fumble, but Brosnan seems determined to scupper his national treasure statusMon Mar 31 2025 - 10:29
Elton John: ‘All I want on my tombstone is to say he was a great dad’ The veteran star is a long way from burning out. As he and Brandi Carlile launch their new album, they talk about music, family and fameSun Mar 30 2025 - 06:00
Miki Berenyi: ‘The internet has sent people I know completely crazy. That is not restricted to young people’Fans of the the singer’s early work with Lush will probably adore the new album from Miki Berenyi Trio, which is steeped in her haunting vocals, gorgeously shimmering riffs and deeply personal lyricsSat Mar 29 2025 - 05:18
Steve Wall: ‘When Bono was offered the medal, I tweeted: Surely he won’t accept that. I didn’t know he already had’ The Stunning and The Walls musician and actor on honesty, activism and a life in the arts Sat Mar 29 2025 - 05:00
Hitchhiker’s Guide offered glimpse of a future where technology would mediate almost every interactionSci-fi author Douglas Adams didn’t live long enough to see the technological future he foretold become reality, or how his vision influenced his most famous fanSat Mar 29 2025 - 05:00
Mumford & Sons: Rushmere review – Old-school nu-folk might just give the band a new beginningThe nu-folk figureheads, now a three-piece, remain cheerfully bombastic on this spirited if uneven albumFri Mar 28 2025 - 05:01
The Studio: Outrageously funny and cameo-packed Seth Rogen love letter to cinema Television: Clever satire on Hollywood features Martin Scorsese, Charlize Theron, Bryan Cranston and moreWed Mar 26 2025 - 06:00
Punt: The Irish and the NFL – Fascinating insight into tough grind faced by Irish sportsmen lured by lucre of American footballTelevision: We follow Monaghan’s Rory Beggan and Down’s Charlie Smyth as they try their luck with NFL place-kickingMon Mar 24 2025 - 22:35
Heilung singer Maria Franz: ‘We have a weird sense of time when we perform. It feels like five minutes and an eternity at the same time’ The experimental folk group’s gigs are astonishing spectacles – think Viking funeral mixed with a battle from The Lord of the Rings – and their ultimate goal is to whisk the listener off to an ancient time and placeSat Mar 22 2025 - 05:33
Japanese Breakfast: For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) review – Melody and vulnerability in beautiful equilibriumA wonderfully fragile collection takes off with Honey Water – not to mention an unexpected appearance from the actor Jeff BridgesFri Mar 21 2025 - 05:13
Gangs of London review: An Irish villain is dispatched with a boink to the head from a big mallet. The show is that absurdTelevision: Amid all the gunplay, season three of Sky’s ultra-violent, hyper-cartoonish crime romp is missing a plotThu Mar 20 2025 - 21:00
Áine Ní Bhreisleáin brings us on a wellness journey featuring Joe Wicks, yurt saunas and flinging beer bottles with vengeful abandonTelevision: TG4′s Sonas is feel-good factual filmmaking where hard questions are left to one side, and everyone has a grand timeThu Mar 20 2025 - 10:54
The Residence review: Delicious White House dramedy from masterful Bridgerton creator Television: Don’t expect authenticity from Shonda Rhimes, just eminently snackable entertainmentThu Mar 20 2025 - 05:00
