St Vincent: ‘I recently did an ancestry.com thing, and it was all Irish Catholics. That’s my rascal side’Annie Clark’s ever-morphing, visionary pop has won her consistent acclaim. She’s now inspiring young artists from The Last Dinner Party to Olivia RodrigoMon Apr 22 2024 - 05:15
Mammoth review: wistfully hilarious trip back to the boorish and misogynistic 1970sTelevision review: Mike Bubbins’s creation is a giggle-fest that pokes fun at the decade that political correctness forgotWed Apr 17 2024 - 22:25
Starburster: Fontaines DC’s thrillingly sinister new single is a dystopian belterGrian Chatten and his bandmates also announce a new album, Romance, due for release in AugustWed Apr 17 2024 - 19:31
Feud: Capote vs The Swans review - Glittering cast with Tom Hollander and Naomi Watts cannot save this tragedyTelevision: Ryan Murphy’s portrayal of Truman Capote with swoon-worthy ensemble is not the capricious romp he may have originally had in mindWed Apr 17 2024 - 10:00
Blue Lights review: This compelling show is a rare spark in the moribund world of Irish crime televisionTelevision: In its guts, this BCC show is just really good telly – the acting is compelling, and the show’s evocation of Belfast rivetingTue Apr 16 2024 - 10:00
Man Up? review: A muddled exploration of what it really means to be a manTelevision: Jordan Conroy presents show exploring toxic masculinity, but what is RTÉ trying to say?Mon Apr 15 2024 - 18:00
Taylor Swift favourite Girl in Red: ‘People have tried to cancel me for the craziest things that have no root in reality’Taylor Swift hand-picked Girl in Red Ulven Marie – a lifelong fan – to open for her in Chicago, Detroit and Pittsburgh during the North American leg of the Eras TourMon Apr 15 2024 - 05:15
Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam: ‘Music has helped me in survival, in mental health, in dealing with aggression’Grunge stalwarts, whose rollicking new album is imminent, get along better than ever - until they enter the studioSat Apr 13 2024 - 05:30
Franklin review: Michael Douglas is in his element but the rest of this sumptuous period show falls flatTelevision: Like a musical without a song, the story of Benjamin Franklin in Paris fails to lean into its potentialFri Apr 12 2024 - 06:00
Home Rescue: The Big Fix review: A emotional series return that proves a house is never just a houseTelevision: Now in its seventh season, this show and its hard-working presenters continue to engage and entertainThu Apr 11 2024 - 22:35
Pearl Jam: Dark Matter – Eddie Vedder and co return with a tempestuous back-to-basics albumProducer Andrew Watt helps grunge stalwarts with what he did for The Rolling Stones last year: roll years back while avoiding parodyThu Apr 11 2024 - 05:45
Home of the Year winner revealed: restored 1920s redbrick ‘full of style and bold design’ lands the big prizeTelevision review Aside from a lack of friction, the other big problem with that finale is that it removes the crucial snoop factor that makes Home of the Year so addictiveTue Apr 09 2024 - 21:00
Bobby Vylan: ‘That’s how I think the English government views the Irish: they’re all right so long as they stay in their place’The grime-punk duo are a project only post-Brexit Britain could produce. Their sucker-punch lyrics tackle food poverty, empire’s toxic legacy and moreTue Apr 09 2024 - 05:00
Mark Knopfler on the end of Dire Straits: ‘Maybe I should have kept playing, let it get as big as Brazil’Reluctant to coast on old glories, the guitarist is about to release One Deep River, the 10th in a series of soulful and virtuosic stand-alone albumsSat Apr 06 2024 - 05:15
Sugar review: Colin Farrell was born to play this LA PI with great hair, a handy right hook and a past strewn with demonsTelevision: A twist towards the end of the eight-part season will deepen your appreciation of the series or have you reaching for the off button in derisionFri Apr 05 2024 - 06:00
Ripley review: Andrew Scott shines as the inscrutable anti-hero in this gripping psychological dramaTelevision: Netflix’s eight-part adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s 1955 novel is an excellent platform for the Irish actorThu Apr 04 2024 - 10:00
This Town review: Ignore the toe-curling Irish stuff, Steven Knight’s new series is worth sticking withTelevision: Peaky Blinders creator always had strange ideas about Irish people, and the Irish characters in This Town are no differentMon Apr 01 2024 - 11:11
‘Am I marked by it? Yes’: Joan Burton recalls her life in a mother and baby homeTelevision: the Temple Hill apartment block was very different in the early 1950s – when Burton crosses the threshold, a shadow passes over her faceSun Mar 31 2024 - 06:30
Sean O’Hagan: ‘That lovely, beautiful humanity I had with Cathal Coughlan in those later years was amazing’The former Microdisney bandmates had cancer at the same time. Two years later O’Hagan is on the mend and has returned with a new High Llamas albumSun Mar 31 2024 - 05:00
Beyoncé: Cowboy Carter review track by track – when it breaks loose, it’s like rain after a thunderstormOn her new album the star shows she still excels at big gestures and still brings the bounce, the groove, the everythingFri Mar 29 2024 - 13:04
Big Mood review: Nicola Coughlan is fantastic but the same can’t be said for the rest of this unfunny, jarring showTelevision: Switcheroo between sitcom humour and serious drama when lead’s bipolar diagnosis emerges lands as cheap stuntThu Mar 28 2024 - 23:00
The Secret Army review: Extraordinary story of lost IRA documentary told in gripping styleTelevision: US academic gained unprecedented access to leadership of Provisionals in 1972Thu Mar 28 2024 - 10:24
SUNN O))) live in Dublin review: drone kings deliver part pummelling rollercoaster ride, part spiritual awakeningSunn O))) compositions come at you like glaciers on fast forward, their Godzilla-like quality accentuated by menacing song titles such as CandleGoat and RxanlordTue Mar 26 2024 - 11:09
The Vanishing Triangle review: Tasteless thriller based on missing Irish women is a bad misstep by Virgin MediaTelevision: Disappearances of young women around Leinster in the 1990s are shamelessly upcycled into a gaudy whodunnitMon Mar 25 2024 - 22:00
Keys To My Life review: Eilish O’Carroll on finding love – ‘We were both straight women living a straight life ... My biggest problem was my Catholic guilt’Television: Mrs Brown’s Boys star was married twice before falling in love with a womanSun Mar 24 2024 - 20:00
3 Body Problem review: Liam Cunningham plays ruthless spook in slow burner from Game of Thrones creatorsTelevision: Some other familiar faces pop up - John Bradley is a nerdy scientist and Benedict Wong plays a cop who stumbles upon a vast conspiracyThu Mar 21 2024 - 11:00
Emmet Bergin: the dashing actor who brought some sizzle to Sunday nights in 1980s IrelandBergin blazed a trail as Dick Moran in Glenroe, a character who left an impression on Irish drama in the 1980s like no otherWed Mar 20 2024 - 12:00
Palm Royale review: This 1960s Florida beauty may be visually stunning but it’s no Mad MenTelevision: There’s a top cast and a mammoth production budget but it ends up feeling hollowWed Mar 20 2024 - 11:00
‘Not many people around here support the English football team. Everyone’s got a grandfather who wouldn’t allow it’Bill Ryder-Jones’s music is like his home, standing on the threshold between the Anglo-Saxon and Celtic worldsWed Mar 20 2024 - 05:00
The Dropout review: Rise and fall of Silicon Valley darling Elizabeth Holmes told with riveting verveTelevision: Amanda Seyfried is gripping as ill-fated Theranos founder, steering well clear of caricatureTue Mar 19 2024 - 23:40
Liam Cunningham: ‘I tell people I’m a migrant. It messes with them. You can see them getting a twitch’The Game of Thrones star on reuniting with the show’s creators for 3 Body Problem, working with Cillian Murphy and challenging the far rightTue Mar 19 2024 - 05:15
Five bonus songs and a running time to match Oppenheimer: what’s the big deal about Taylor Swift on Disney+?The many fans who have no hope of seeing Swift at the Aviva Stadium will now be able to host her in their living rooms insteadFri Mar 15 2024 - 12:02
Manhunt review: All beard and no fun - this beautifully shot series is ultimately a missed opportunityTelevision: Manhunt chronicles, in occasionally tedious detail, the 12-day race to track down Abraham Lincoln’s killerFri Mar 15 2024 - 11:00
Ireland’s holy wells: Manchán Magan reminds us why traditions should be cherishedTelevision: Irish landscape whisperer Magan addresses a singularly Irish subject – nobody does saintly relics like we do – with impressive gustoThu Mar 14 2024 - 19:30
Cathal Coughlan and Microdisney: ‘Outsiders in the UK because they were Irish, outsiders in Ireland because they weren’t from Dublin’Television: Passionate chronicling of Cork band’s ups and downs as they were adored in Ireland but never achieved a mainstream careerThu Mar 14 2024 - 06:00
The End of the World with Beanz review: Charisma aside, this sustainability hodgepodge doesn’t workTelevision: Martin Beanz Warde deserves his own series but this is not itTue Mar 12 2024 - 19:30
Sultans of Ping at Vicar Street review: ‘It’s good to be in your little f**king town’Cork band roll back the years as young and old dance bumper-to-bumper, transforming the venue into a huge, celebratory mosh-pitSun Mar 10 2024 - 10:51
Taylor Swift producer Jack Antonoff: ‘I thought Shane MacGowan would last forever... He’s the ultimate artist’Jack Antonoff is a top-flight producer of the likes of Lorde, Lana Del Rey and St Vincent. He’s also very keen to talk about the recently departed Pogues singerSat Mar 09 2024 - 05:15
The Gentlemen review: Guy Ritchie’s cocktail of ultra-violence and geezer gags is preposterously entertainingTelevision: Director Guy Ritchie plays all the hits in his first foray into TV and a remake of a largely forgotten 2019 filmThu Mar 07 2024 - 08:00
Extraordinary review: Cork actor Máiréad Tyers excels as an Irish transplant in London navigating the trials of 20-something lifeTelevision: Disney’s superhero hero comedy just about works. The question the series poses is: does Tyers deserve better?Wed Mar 06 2024 - 10:00
Zachary Cole Smith of Diiv: ‘It wasn’t like we said, Oh, I’ve got addiction issues, check it out. I got arrested’A decade ago the singer was lost in substance abuse and his band were imploding. Now they’re about to play in Ireland – and it’ll be a kind of pilgrimageWed Mar 06 2024 - 05:00
Mary & George review: Starry cast can’t save this debauched tale of bonking and back-stabbing royalsTelevision review: Julianne Moore has great fun but the grim comedy style weighs down this story of scheming courtiers like mud on the hem of a dressTue Mar 05 2024 - 22:00
Celebrity Big Brother: Does Louis Walsh have any idea what he’s signed up for?Television: Reported to be the highest paid member of the latest Big Brother household, the former X Factor judge could be facing a challenging stayTue Mar 05 2024 - 11:44
TV review: Riveting portrait of anarchist Irishman who was killed in UkraineTelevision review: TG4’s documentary rigorously tracks Finbar Cafferkey Cafferkey’s journey from Mayo to Bakhmut but fails to deliver any real sense of him as a personWed Feb 28 2024 - 22:30
Shōgun review: Disney riff on historical Japanese power struggles just takes too long to get goingTelevision: Adaptation of James Clavell’s best-seller is sumptuous but too slowTue Feb 27 2024 - 09:00
Faithless review: Baz Ashmawy’s irreverent new comedy isn’t subtle but it is brutally funnyTelevision review: Packing in gritty family drama, puerile humour and astute commentary on Irish racism, Faithless is a winMon Feb 26 2024 - 22:05
‘It reminded us of partying with drunk British people’: Time to Pretend stars MGMT on watching SaltburnThe song and its album were twin juggernauts whose success ‘hipster geeks’ Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser never tried to followSat Feb 24 2024 - 05:15
Avatar: The Last Airbender review – It will be adored by its enormous fanbase, and baffling to everyone elseTelevision review: The live-action retelling of the tale of a follicly challenged magic teenager is a breath of fresh airThu Feb 22 2024 - 15:45
Home of the Year review: The judges are the rarest of things – Irish TV personalities who don't get on your nervesTelevision review: Leave your brain in the hall and soak up this low-key eleganceTue Feb 20 2024 - 21:00
The true-crime dilemma: ‘Family of people who have been harmed could hear these stories’Phoebe Judge and Lauren Spohrer, who are bringing their Criminal podcast to Ireland this week, set out to go beyond sensationalism in their reportingTue Feb 20 2024 - 05:15
