Subscriber OnlySinéad O’Connor’s waxwork looks nothing like the fiery young woman from 1990 it representsOpinion: I don’t know what that is, but it sure as hell is not Sinéad O’ConnorBy Hugh LinehanFri Jul 26 2024 - 06:10
Subscriber OnlyRadio review: Flustered Eamon Ryan and harried Pearse Doherty grilled by Drivetime’s forbidding interrogatorsRadio: RTÉ Drivetime hosts Sarah McInerney and Cormac Ó hEadhra give their current-affairs magazine zip and snapBy Mick HeaneyFri Jul 26 2024 - 05:00
Subscriber OnlyThe High Seas by Olive Heffernan: An expert’s enthralling view of the oceans is short on hopeHeffernan documents many of the threats to the mysterious area covering two-thirds of our planet
Subscriber OnlyRadio review: Flustered Eamon Ryan and harried Pearse Doherty grilled by Drivetime’s forbidding interrogatorsRadio: RTÉ Drivetime hosts Sarah McInerney and Cormac Ó hEadhra give their current-affairs magazine zip and snap
TV & RadioTV licence fee ‘extremely difficult’ to collect if evaders not prosecuted, says RTÉ boss Kevin BakhurstDeal with Government not a reward for bad practice, as claimed by Virgin, but a ‘reward for dealing with bad practices’, says RTÉ director general
For the sake of your mental health, stop trying to have an opinion on everything all the timeUnthinkable: People are panicking, theorising and condemning on social media in every imaginable direction. But it’s all right not to have a view on everything all the time. In fact, it’s healthyBy Laura Kennedy
Subscriber OnlyThe Movie Quiz: Deadpool & Wolverine is the first MCU flick to receive what in the US?
Mercury Music Prize 2024: CMAT and Charli XCX among nomineesOther nominees include Barry Can’t Swim, Last Dinner Party and Corinne Bailey RaeBy Laura Snapes
The Script frontman Danny O’Donoghue reveals struggles with alcohol: ‘By the time I’d got off the plane, I was smashed’Singer says he has a lot in common with many Dubliners ‘and that’s the mad part’
Chrystabell & David Lynch: Cellophane Memories review – A vague, languorous soundtrack of morose, samey ballads By Lauren Murphy
Heaven Sent: The Rise of New Pop 1979-1983 review: Inventiveness and experimentation from start to finish By Tony Clayton-Lea
Eminem: The Death of Slim Shady review – Lyrical dexterity live and kicking on this uneasy funeral for his world-beating alter ego By Siobhán Kane
Venice film festival 2024: Angelina Jolie, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Nicole Kidman and Lady Gaga among stellar line-upTodd Phillips’s Joker: Folie à Deux, starring Joaquin Phoenix, lands as the flashiest film in competitionBy Donald Clarke
Artist and shepherd Orla Barry: ‘Breeding animals is like making an artwork. You’re putting certain animals together’Orla Barry took up farming as a more financially secure sideline to her art. As the new film Notes from Sheepland shows, it has proved equally precariousBy Tara Brady
Notes from Sheepland review: Please flock to see this delightful and funny study of artist and shepherd Orla Barry By Donald Clarke
I Saw the TV Glow: Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting cult sensation will leave you reeling By Tara Brady
The High Seas by Olive Heffernan: An expert’s enthralling view of the oceans is short on hopeHeffernan documents many of the threats to the mysterious area covering two-thirds of our planetBy Lorna Siggins
The Boundless River. Stories from the Realm of the Rhine: Exploring a living entity‘The Rhine, like all rivers, consists not only of the water flowing between its banks but of every part of its vast drainage basin’By Neil Hegarty
Radio review: Flustered Eamon Ryan and harried Pearse Doherty grilled by Drivetime’s forbidding interrogatorsRadio: RTÉ Drivetime hosts Sarah McInerney and Cormac Ó hEadhra give their current-affairs magazine zip and snapBy Mick Heaney
TV licence fee ‘extremely difficult’ to collect if evaders not prosecuted, says RTÉ boss Kevin BakhurstDeal with Government not a reward for bad practice, as claimed by Virgin, but a ‘reward for dealing with bad practices’, says RTÉ director generalBy Laura Slattery
Cast revealed for House of Guinness drama by creator of Peaky BlindersBelfast actor Anthony Boyle to play Arthur Guinness in new Netflix series from Steven Knight
The Decameron review: Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson battles ridiculous hipster haircut in unfunny rompTelevision review: This newly decanted Decameron succeeds only in laying bare the chasm between good and bad televisionBy Ed Power
Wicked review: The brilliant Laura Pick and Sarah O’Connor shine in this top-quality productionTheatre: Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s musical features evenly matched leads who reach impossible notes with vigour and expressionBy Sara Keating
Dublin Theatre Festival unveils 2024 programme, with new shows from Druid, Teac Damsa, Anu, Thisispopbaby and more Autumn event features more than 30 productions, with stories about family, identity, migration, climate, colonial legacies, and conflict and its resolutionBy Deirdre Falvey
Mark Francis: Acoustic Oceans review – A fascinating development in the Irish artist’s decades-spanning careerThis new series of works plays with contemporary anxieties relating to deceptive data and informational noiseBy Tom Lordan
The Outlaws Are Back review: Irresistibly diverse group exhibition from Cork’s undergroundArt collective’s wide range of influences and styles forcefully captured in latest showBy Tom Lordan