Five Wicklow women in their 30s are seeing Westlife together for the umpteenth time this month. They talk about friendship, fandom and how life has changed in the past 25 years

None of these people is remotely frightened at the thought of flaunting their grotesquely boring wealth before a troubled, impoverished nation

The Castle was inspired by Ronson’s son finding himself in the home of an heir ‘trying to be Hugh Hefner at the worst moment in human history to be Hugh Hefner’

The writer and podcaster on adapting his short stories for the Abbey stage, how his podcast is used as a kind of advanced Duolingo, and how the fairies will rise against AI

Why do children get the likes of RTÉ’s Bellie and Whizz at Big School to help them self-regulate, when adults just get the news?

As a child in Dublin the the Ross O’Carroll-Kelly author was ‘heavily incentivised’ to lose his English accent

Alan Ritchson moves down streets like an annoyed wall of beef in the new Prime Video series

Dancer and choreographer Edwina Guckian on The Devil’s in the Dancehall, how angry her research into the show made her, and the liberation of dance

British band continues tradition of musicians collaborating with Dublin football club to draw attention to social or political issues

Martin and Roman’s Irish Road Trip is often good fun but does not overburden British viewers with knowledge, while a new Netflix show asks: ‘What if Ricky Gervais was a cat?’

The street-lined crowd claps as the funeral cortege passes. Inside the church the service is simple but beautiful

FBI agent Alice Black in new Disney crime drama Furious is following in the footsteps of these crime-solving heroines

The US writer and humorist talks about the serious business of being funny on the page and at his live readings

Lestat just isn’t as sexy as some of the other sexy vampires I’ve encountered in my time

The Frames’ frontman was the still-yet-chaotic centre of an indie-folk storm, whose job was to hold it all together