The Apprentice review: Which is worse, Donald Trump or 15 series of Alan Sugar?The US show made a hero of Donald Trump. The UK one gave us Katie Hopkins and Alan SugarThu Oct 03 2019 - 13:30
A Love Like That review: Wistful drama teeming with myth and legendDublin Theatre Festival: Billy Roche’s new play turns modest characters into legends in their own lifetimesWed Oct 02 2019 - 09:52
Brendan Grace: Thanks for the Memories – ‘There won’t be a dry eye in the house . . . now f**k off’Review: Poignant moments act as reminders to appreciate what you have when you can. Grace, ever the professional rascal, seems aware of it tooMon Sept 30 2019 - 22:35
Piece for Person and Ghetto Blaster review: Poirot, Maeterlinck and a stoned duckDublin Theatre Festival: Nicola Gunn brings ceaseless motion to a restless meditationMon Sept 30 2019 - 16:21
Faultline review: Immersive journey through a societal upheavalDublin Theatre Festival: This absorbing new work remembers a faultline in the early days of Irish gay rightsMon Sept 30 2019 - 15:35
Hecuba review: Perspective and psychology brought to an ancient taleDublin Theatre Festival: In Marina Carr’s version of Hecuba, the scale of tragedy is made rivetingly intimateMon Sept 30 2019 - 12:39
Jonathan Swift’s satire works as key to modern-day illsConall Morrison’s new play blends 18th-century wit’s biography with his bibliographySat Sept 28 2019 - 05:00
The Alternative review: Sly thought experiment which unpicks threads of historyDublin Theatre Festival: In Fishamble’s new production, all of Ireland remains in the UK and now faces a referendum on whether to stayFri Sept 27 2019 - 12:35
The Playboy of the Western World review: A freshly unsettling journeyDublin Theatre Festival: It seems like a game that has spun out of control, where murder can be applauded if it is told well enoughThu Sept 26 2019 - 13:57
Inside Ireland’s gangland: the next generation of criminals‘Now we have all these young people fighting over turf,’ a Virgin Media documentary hearsThu Sept 26 2019 - 10:16
The Beacon review: Absorbing, intelligent and grimly funnyFascinated with ideas of art and ambiguity, Nancy Harris’s play sees long hidden secrets dredged upWed Sept 25 2019 - 13:25
Downsizing: Fine in theory, but here’s how it can go in realityReview: Anne Lynch’s downsizing project was stalled by the realities of the property marketTue Sept 24 2019 - 21:00
The $50m Art Swindle: Even the name’s a bit of a fraudReview: A fascinating documentary about art dealer Michel Cohen gets its sums wrongTue Sept 24 2019 - 13:21
Beckett’s Room review: A play with no performers and plenty of magicDublin Theatre Festival: Dead Centre’s ambitious new work depicts Beckett’s formative years in Nazi-occupied ParisTue Sept 24 2019 - 12:45
Dublin Theatre Festival gets its history onWhether it’s looking back or casting forward, this year’s event is rooted firmly in the nowSat Sept 21 2019 - 05:00
Nancy Harris: ‘Plays are kind of cool now’With two new plays opening simultaneously in Dublin and London, the playwright lays bare both a family and a political drama, full of art and ambiguitySat Sept 21 2019 - 05:00
We Are Lightning review: Raucous collaboration that celebrates creative spacesDublin Fringe Festival: The merged talents of community bands make a defiant and galvanising last standFri Sept 20 2019 - 13:31
David Cameron: ‘I’d hate people to think I don’t worry desperately’‘I thought we had a winning hand,’ the former British prime minister tells the BBCThu Sept 19 2019 - 22:00
Ben Kingsley in a knowing, enjoyable neo-noir series on TG4Perpetual Grace Ltd belongs to an era of black and white film, voice-overs and artificial dialogueThu Sept 19 2019 - 21:00
Collapsible review: Monologue on a precarious existenceDublin Fringe Festival: A young woman pursues some sense of self in a troublingly unstable world. Can she hold it together?Thu Sept 19 2019 - 16:39
It’s Not About Love review: Shakespeare meets pop in a mixtape of memoriesDublin Fringe Festival: Inspired by the greatest tragic love story, Megan Riordan creates a considered cabaret showThu Sept 19 2019 - 15:53
Nate review: An achingly funny gender-parodyDublin Fringe Festival: This roaring figure of bruised machismo isn’t the obvious choice to lead a workshop on sexual consentWed Sept 18 2019 - 12:37
Minefield review: Dark media satire for the Instagram ageDublin Fringe Festival: Clare Monnelly’s stealthy new play is a story of online shaming and incel revenge attacksWed Sept 18 2019 - 10:50
The prisoners whose sentences could last foreverCrime and Punishment looked unflinchingly at prisoners incarcerated with no end dateTue Sept 17 2019 - 13:20
Irish Food review: Nostalgia is servedDublin Fringe Festival: A palatable tasting menu but the scattered folk memories of Irish cuisine leave you hungry for substanceMon Sept 16 2019 - 13:16
Looking for Paradise review: The fringiest thing on the FringeDublin Fringe Festival: This treasure hunt through the heart of the city dares to alter your perception of realityMon Sept 16 2019 - 12:11
The Justice Syndicate review: Jury duty becomes a gameDublin Fringe Festival: Fanshen’s absorbing piece of interactive theatre takes the shape of an emotive court caseMon Sept 16 2019 - 11:23
Nine Weeks review: Extraordinary performance which gives voice to the inexpressibleDublin Fringe Festival: If human limitations are painfully real in Seán Kennedy’s moving performance, human expression can still be transcendentThu Sept 12 2019 - 15:11
Sink review: A play that asks us to dig deepDublin Fringe Festival: Inspecting an uncannily familiar site, an archeologist finds herself assailed by uncertain memories and inherited traumasThu Sept 12 2019 - 14:56
Powerpoint review: Witty stand-up lecture exposes the void of gamingDublin Fringe Festival: Comedian, gamer and podcast fan Stephen Colfer tries to solve a modest mysteryWed Sept 11 2019 - 11:51
Beyond the Menu: Ireland’s new food royalty, served up on a plateReview: RTÉ’s new show sends a young chef around the island. Is he eyeing a few crowns?Tue Sept 10 2019 - 13:20
State of the Union: Chris O'Dowd and Rosamund Pike in a male fantasy of hurtReview: O’Dowd and Pike are entertaining despite some stagy material from writer Nick HornbyMon Sept 09 2019 - 12:45
Bodies of Water review: Sly meditation on life, art and what’s left behindDublin Fringe Festival: The former assistant and lover of a video artist tries to make sense of a life and careerMon Sept 09 2019 - 11:28
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings review: A children’s story for a sceptical ageDublin Fringe Festival: The charmingly offbeat adaptation of Gabriel García Márquez brings magic realism to all agesMon Sept 09 2019 - 11:20
Admin review: Vivid and wry account of precarious London livingDublin Fringe Festival: Adrift in a lonely London, Oisín McKenna tells a story of love and money with irony and insightMon Sept 09 2019 - 11:15
Room to Improve: ‘I always thought there was a lack of imagination here’Review: Even special guest gardener Diarmuid Gavin teased Bannon over his lack of imaginationSun Sept 08 2019 - 22:30
Late Late Show: Ryan Tubridy returns with another dose of national panicReview: The show doesn’t segue but jackknifes from one thing to anotherSat Sept 07 2019 - 11:45
Journalism and blindness: This week’s theatre highlightsTwo stand out productions from last year’s Dublin Fringe Festival go on tourSat Sept 07 2019 - 10:21
The play with no performers: Beckett’s Room is something between a conjuring act and a weird dreamAs the world that made Samuel Beckett who he was becomes magically apparent, the point of Dead Centre’s unusual approach begins to makes senseSat Sept 07 2019 - 05:00
This Beautiful Village: One-note characters addressing a symphony of concernsTheatre review: Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s middle-class satire is somewhere between Yasmina Reza and Bernard FarrellFri Sept 06 2019 - 13:46
Keith Barry tries to conjure up a sense of atmosphereTV review: There’s one magic trick the Keith Barry Experience finds a challengeThu Sept 05 2019 - 12:07
The Capture: A BBC thriller of surveillance, distortion and duplicityReview: The Capture presents a troubling take on anxiety, distrust and ‘deep fake’ videosThu Sept 05 2019 - 10:06
Writing Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘I think in the voice of a f**king idiot 12 hours a day’In RTÉ’s We Need to Talk about Ross, writer Paul Howard tells how he almost killed RO’CK in 2007Mon Sept 02 2019 - 22:35
Crime and punishment and gorilla suits: this week’s theatre highlightBrokentalkers’ sharp and stealthy new production asks us to examine our prejudices about the roots of crime, and the inhumanities of the prison system, offering no easy escapesSat Aug 31 2019 - 07:00
No place left to show: How Dublin is turning into a cultural ghost townDevelopers are demolishing venues to build hotels, apartments and temples of financeSat Aug 31 2019 - 05:00
The Great British Bake Off: Judge stabs baker with hot skewer – verballyReview: Self-referencing contestants add charming colour to show’s reliable formatWed Aug 28 2019 - 11:30
Rose of Tralee: Daithí Ó Sé is as sturdy as an oak as host, and as quick as one on his feetTV review: On day two of the festival the host seemed to be closest to wilting. That was before he got his kinky boots onWed Aug 28 2019 - 06:15
Rose of Tralee: Dáithí Ó Sé looked like a man briefly encased in a giant condomTV review: It’s the 60th anniversary of the pageant, but it seems older, eternal even. At least watching the first show felt that wayTue Aug 27 2019 - 06:00
Peaky Blinders: can Cillian Murphy and the gang still cut it? Here's our verdictReview: The Irish actor is both compelling and unsettling as the fifth season beginsMon Aug 26 2019 - 11:22
Cumann feel the noise: This week’s best theatreThe Roaring Banshees is a counter-factual history of feminist discontents with the Free StateSat Aug 24 2019 - 05:00
