The Smiths

Television: Passionate chronicling of Cork band’s ups and downs as they were adored in Ireland but never achieved a mainstream career

Trump plays Please Please Please, Let Me Get What I Want as part of his 2024 presidential bid

The former Smiths guitarist’s light has never gone out, as this compilation of solo work highlights

Radio: On The Nine O’Clock Show, the stand-in host has a jag at the self-exculpatory impulses that scuppered his predecessor’s planned return

Plus: Which now defunct Irish band covered The Smiths’ Last Night I Dreamt That Someone Loved Me in 2009?

At the first of two sold-out Vicar Street gigs, flashes of the controversial singer’s old drollness emerge between moments of trolling ire

Review: Travis Knight has made one of the most pleasant surprises of the movie year

I’ve cried at the end of In the Name of the Father . . . when Spain beat Ireland in Euro 2012 . . . when my children were born . . .

The Spinal Tap app is mandatory viewing for all serious rock’n’rollers