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Sally Rooney, Graham Norton, Johnny Sexton, Jane Casey and Paul Howard also among winners at this year’s An Post Irish Book Awards

TV review: U2 bassist Adam Clayton is a decent presenter and great fun to hang with, but the documentary leans too hard on nostalgia for nostalgia’s sake

Aoibhe Devereux (16) was also awarded the gallery’s young portrait prize for a painting of her brother

In homage to Lou Reed, Anohni gives late musician’s work the creative approach she feels it deserves

The American singer-songwriter is set to play at the Aviva next June, and demand for tickets will be high

Television: Miriam O’Callaghan did her best to add pep to this tedious chinwag but we ended up with pure lethargy

Actor plays lead in new version of 1980s legal drama Matlock, which sees lawyer avenging her daughter, who has died of opioid overdose

The legendary storyteller – who has two new books out – says the act of creation is the purest essence of magic itself

Plus: What topped the list of Rolling Stone magazine’s 74 Best Albums of ’74?

As children start to count down the days until Santa’s arrival, these books will help to both distract and inspire

Theatre: Marty Rea and Maeve Fitzgerald star as Gabriel and Gretta Conroy in Louise Lowe’s promenade staging of the beloved Dubliners story

The film’s best scenes lean into the chemistry between Auliʻi Cravalho’s Moana and Dwayne Johnson’s Maui

Ho ho ho, it’s a dull-witted, soundstage-bound romance with festive trimmings and a clockwork plot

All tell, little show, this memoir is strong on what happened but less so on why - and it gets worse as it continues.

It may be album aimed at club or in-car entertainment than listening at home but that doesn’t stop it having a rich and eclectic sound

Scottish singer Rod Stweart will become one of the oldest artists to perform a major set at the Glastonbury festival

The world’s first orchestra of musicians with and without disabilities will perform in the National Concert Hall on November 30th

Writer is one of a group of novelists taking residence in apartment overlooking acclaimed museum

Which forgotten releases do Irish musicians treasure most, and why?

The Daily Telegraph reviewer certainly has fun with his catastrophes, but the book has a more serious purpose

Television: The big message of this show is that we should not feel guilty about our eating habits, just angry about how we got here

Theatre: There are no special effects, no grand coup-du-theatre, but there are oodles of old-fashioned charm

Lyra has become an ambassador for Safe Ireland’s new campaign to highlight gender-based violence and the need for better services

Author of A Woman Of Substance wrote 40 novels over her career, including The Wonder of It All which was published last year

Band Aid 40 remix of Do They Know It’s Christmas? blends voices of Bono, Harry Styles and George Michael