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Social media’s bad influencers looking for shortcuts at marathons
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‘Pablo doesn’t patronise’: The Irish animated show with an autistic star
Eleven-year-old Alexander Myles, from Co Antrim, takes over the main role for Pablo: Next Level, as the protagonist wrestles with the move to secondary school
Russell T Davies: ‘I keep a kitchen knife by the front door’
Queer as Folk writer and Doctor Who showrunner has written a memoir about his career. It’s ‘a nice moment to take stock’, he says
Small Prophets on Apple TV: A new genre that is funny, fantastical and heartbreakingly tender
Television: The magical realism is unexpected - it’s like turning on Alan Partridge only for someone to ride in on a dragon
Pilita Clark: Dear all ... how bosses should talk to the troops
What matters most is understanding priorities and conveying them as thoughtfully as possible
Author Niall Williams: ‘I will always be an outsider, even here after 41 years’
Author describes how he arrived ‘fictionally home’ in the imaginary village of Faha and how he celebrates the generosity, dignity and humour of his community
Autumn reflection: Frank McNally finds poetic cheer in the October gloom
Rereading Patrick Kavanagh’s poem has brought the sobering thought that it may be October in my life now too
Celebrity Traitors on BBC One: An ego-filled riot of characters come roaring out of the traps
Comedian Joanne McNally - the inevitable Irish contestant - is keeping her head down and could be a potential dark horse as the action picks up
Esther Rantzen: The best bits from a brilliant TV career
Pioneering BBC personality championed a blend of light and serious material on That’s Life which had not previously occupied adjacent airtime
Blue Lights on BBC One: An unfortunate and cartoonish portrayal of racism in Ireland
There are echoes of British television’s historical tendency to portray Irish people as uncouth bruisers always up for a bit of fisticuffs
RTÉ’s new Listen app tells us some things about its future direction but keeps others hidden
Should the national broadcaster be offering its listeners’ data as part of its sales pitch to advertisers?
The writers behind Blue Lights: ‘I think I fell in love. I thought, I have to work with this guy’
Writers Declan Lawn and Adam Patterson say that despite the ‘love’ in the North for their hit PSNI-centred drama, they were petrified to take on such a ‘hot potato’ topic
The eyes have it: Rory Stewart’s ‘magnificently strange’ Newsnight moment goes viral
Clip of former Tory MP staring intently at fellow panellist is shared widely online
Gurriers singer Dan Hoff: ‘I try to talk about my mental-health issues the same as a common cold’
Postpunk band are upfront about having accumulated hard-won wisdom since they formed in 2020 before lockdown
Bonnie Greer: Writer and cultural commentator dies aged 77
Greer’s work often focused on minorities and spanned novels, nonfiction, plays and broadcasting
When pirates ruled the waves: recalling the golden era of radio in Cork
You could hear anything from punk rockers to right-wing moralisers campaigning against the availability of condoms
This City Is Ours on RTÉ One: Love letter to Liverpool is a crime drama with an identity crisis
Television: Biggest misstep is waste of Derry Girls actor Saoirse-Monica Jackson as a gangster Wag. Her performance is a scream into the void
Dara Ó Briain: ‘I don’t think anyone put an argument in favour of Brexit on Mock the Week’
Irish comedian reflects on Mock the Week’s past iterations ahead of revival and the material inspiring his next tour, Re:Creation
Former BBC Northern Ireland political correspondent Stephen Walker dies aged 61
Award-winning journalist wrote biographies of John Hume and David Trimble
Mr Moonlight: RTÉ announces new drama based on Patrick Quirke murder trial
Producers say series ‘intends to give a voice back’ to victim DJ Bobby Ryan and family
RTÉ veers off track while heavens open, as TG4 goes big for weed-watching at the Aviva
Soccer pundits trade insults as they wade into a spat of the day
Ludwig season 2 on BBC One: Peep Show with added murder and fantastic fed-up chemistry
Television: David Mitchell is sublimely awkward as John ‘Ludwig’ Taylor, a nerdish genius with dreadful people skills and a talent for unpicking arcane crimes
Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas TV specials cancelled as Brendan O’Carroll ‘breaks jaw’
Comedian also postpones his Mrs Brown’s Boys D’Panto shows in Dublin and Killarney
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this week
August 16th-21st highlights: including Ludwig, The Healy-Raes: Blood Sweat & Tears, and The Rose of Tralee
Who is Daniel Kinahan? The BBC doesn’t seem too clear
Plus: divine intervention in the Lidl turf wars, and the Naval Service turns to landlubbers for help
Broadcaster Sarah Mulkerrins: ‘When I left Ireland, I didn’t think I’d ever get to work on GAA, so it’s a bonus’
From Athenry to the BBC, sports broadcaster Mulkerrins talks ambition, freelance life and capturing the emotion of sport’s biggest moments
The Office actor Lucy Davis diagnosed with ‘incurable’ breast cancer
53-year-old actor, who is daughter of comedian Jasper Carrott, best known for playing Dawn Tinsley in BBC sitcom
TV guide: The return of Ted Lasso, and the other best new shows to watch this week
Ted Lasso returns, while Celebrity Hunted, The Salisbury Poisonings and Possession among other highlights
Comedian Alan Davies: ‘I talk about what my father did, and how I had him arrested’
In Think Ahead, the comic talks about being sexually abused as a child. ‘People laugh their heads off, then they go totally silent and listen’
Patrick Freyne: A jaded and horny vampire with nice hair? Count me in
Lestat just isn’t as sexy as some of the other sexy vampires I’ve encountered in my time
Ann Droid: Charming sitcom bobs along on a cloud of gentle whimsy
Diane Morgan and Sue Johnston star in show about how society is happy to write off older people as superfluous irritants
‘The voice of sanity during insane times’: Hundreds attend funeral of broadcaster Gerry Kelly
Father Brian D’Arcy said his friend was ‘loved by thousands and thousands of people, north and south of the border’
Jared Leto accused of sexual misconduct by four women in BBC documentary
Incidents involving actor and musician (54) alleged to have taken place between 2002 and 2016 when women were teenagers
Bill Oddie obituary: Comic actor who starred in The Goodies and renowned ornithologist
Multitalented performer, writer and broadcaster credited with encouraging new generations to become enthusiasts of nature
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