Communion by Jon Doyle: A genuinely idiosyncratic way of describing the everyday
Novel has a meandering quality and a subtlety in terms of what’s actually happening that proves a bit too subtle
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Patrick Freyne: Love Triangle UK’s contestants are earnest and well meaning – not, as so often on dating shows, monstrous, sexually prolific sociopaths
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March 9th-14th: including Catherine Fulvio’s St Patrick’s Way, Michael Sheen’s Secret Million Pound Giveaway, and Dope Thief
Formula 1 drivers are the dullest stars that have ever bothered reality-television
Patrick Freyne: Why do Formula 1 drivers bother with expensive, uncomfortable cars? I have a cost-effective Nissan Micra that smells of Haribo Supermix
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From Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough in new romantic drama Alice & Jack to Michael Sheen creation The Way
Good Omens: Neil Gaiman’s bromance is as silly as a vicar in a tutu – and perfect escapism
Television: Michael Sheen and David Tennant return in a second season that benefits from plenty of fun, and surprisingly gory, plot padding
Best Interests: Sharon Horgan moves between dread, fear and anger in this heartbreaking drama
Television: Horgan plays Nicci, mother of Marnie, who has fallen into a coma. Should Nicci and her husband agree to turn off her life support?
‘We spent a lot of time in terrible pain’: Sharon Horgan on making new drama Best Interests
BBC series, which also stars Dublin actor Niamh Moriarty, dances between comedy and tragedy in a remarkable way
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Best Interests, family history with Tony Connolly and Roy Keane’s trip to Cork with Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher
‘I felt seen and understood’: Irish teenage actor with cerebral palsy Niamh Moriarty on starring in new BBC drama
The Dublin actor stars alongside Sharon Horgan and Michael Sheen in Best Interests
The Wagatha Christie trial was jaw-dropping. This Irish-directed dramatisation? Not so much
Television: Vardy v Rooney – A Courtroom Drama features lots of grim grilling of the footballers’ wives by their respective megabucks barristers
Wales is on the verge of its Italia ’90 moment. This rousing song is Cymru’s proud World Cup anthem
Keith Duggan: With Yma o Hyd, a far cry from the usual tournament pop song, Dafydd Iwan joins Michael Sheen in stirring their country’s nationalist spirit
Football’s Mr Authentic Marcelo Bielsa continues to gain admirers
Pep Guardiola calls the Leeds boss ‘the person I admire the most in football’
Old Chompy gnaws through the scenery in Prodigal Son
TV review: Yet more serial killers are on the loose in this daft, gruesomely fun Sky drama
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