TV & RadioBig Mood review: Nicola Coughlan is fantastic but the same can’t be said for the rest of this unfunny, jarring showTelevision: Switcheroo between sitcom humour and serious drama when lead’s bipolar diagnosis emerges lands as cheap stuntBy Ed Power●Thu Mar 28 2024 - 23:00
MusicSinéad O’Connor: Pantsless queer horrorcore act evokes seance and celebration in New York tribute to late singerQueer horrorcore act features dancers in papal hats, cones of aluminium foil and one-shouldered unitardsBy Melena Ryzik●Thu Mar 28 2024 - 13:30
Subscriber OnlyUnwords by Andrew Gallix and No Judgement by Lauren Oyler: What do you want, encouragement or confrontation?Gallix is a gentle melancholy guide, more analogue, older, European; Oyler is nervily digital, younger, very American in sensibility. They are equally clever
TV & RadioThe Secret Army review: Extraordinary story of lost IRA documentary told in gripping styleTelevision: US academic gained unprecedented access to leadership of Provisionals in 1972
Subscriber OnlyIrish cinema’s green wave: There are many stories about Ireland better than Irish Wish that need to be toldAoife Barry: How do we make sure that the stories Ireland tells about itself on screen are not reductive?
A question for Willie O’Dea and Sharon Keogan: What exactly do you mean by ‘woke’?Unthinkable: It’s worth learning to spot linguistic devices to avoid plain speech, which can have real impacts on Irish societyBy Joe Humphreys
Sinéad O’Connor: Pantsless queer horrorcore act evokes seance and celebration in New York tribute to late singerQueer horrorcore act features dancers in papal hats, cones of aluminium foil and one-shouldered unitardsBy Melena Ryzik
‘I am proud of my roots’: Musician Gilbert O’Sullivan conferred with Freedom of WaterfordSongwriter and three-time Ivor Novello winner honoured in hometown for leaving ‘indelible mark’ on music worldBy Olivia Kelleher
High Llamas: Hey Panda – Proof that it’s never too late to stop taking creative risks By Lauren Murphy
The Staves: All Now – Life-affirming songs from Jessica and Camilla Staveley-Taylor By Tony Clayton-Lea
SUNN O))) live in Dublin review: drone kings deliver part pummelling rollercoaster ride, part spiritual awakeningSunn O))) compositions come at you like glaciers on fast forward, their Godzilla-like quality accentuated by menacing song titles such as CandleGoat and RxanlordBy Ed Power
‘Independent movies are a strange combination of people with money and people with big egos’In The Sweet East, cinematographer Sean Price Williams has teamed up with critic Nick Pinkerton for a firecracker debutBy Tara Brady
Four new films to see this week: Conor McGregor in Road House, Sydney Sweeney in Immaculate, Late Night with the Devil and The DelinquentsGyllenhaal and McGregor brawl on Amazon in Road House, plus class horror films Immaculate and Late Night with the Devil, and epic Argentine crime drama The DelinquentsBy Donald Clarke and Tara Brady
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire review – One star for the worst film of the year so far By Donald Clarke
The Delinquents review: Two boring jobsworths. A bank robbery plot. And a manic pixie dream girl By Tara Brady
Immaculate review: Sydney Sweeney is charismatic in disgustingly good scoop-their-eyeballs-out horror By Donald Clarke
Noel O’Regan on James Tait Black shortlistBooks newsletter: a round-up of the latest news and a preview of Saturday’s pagesBy Martin Doyle
Unwords by Andrew Gallix and No Judgement by Lauren Oyler: What do you want, encouragement or confrontation?Gallix is a gentle melancholy guide, more analogue, older, European; Oyler is nervily digital, younger, very American in sensibility. They are equally cleverBy Rowena Macdonald
Big Mood review: Nicola Coughlan is fantastic but the same can’t be said for the rest of this unfunny, jarring showTelevision: Switcheroo between sitcom humour and serious drama when lead’s bipolar diagnosis emerges lands as cheap stuntBy Ed Power
The Secret Army review: Extraordinary story of lost IRA documentary told in gripping styleTelevision: US academic gained unprecedented access to leadership of Provisionals in 1972By Ed Power
Irish cinema’s green wave: There are many stories about Ireland better than Irish Wish that need to be toldAoife Barry: How do we make sure that the stories Ireland tells about itself on screen are not reductive?By Aoife Barry
Rising Tides: Ireland’s Future in a Warmer World - Kills off myth we are among small states with minor emissionsTelevision: Rising Tides, one of RTÉ's biggest budget nature films, does not sugar coat the rate of climate breakdown and what is in prospectBy Kevin O'Sullivan
Mother and Child review: A family reunion staged as a psychological dramaTheatre: This production has none of that oppressive intimacy; even as mother and child both discover they are sad products of their upbringingsBy Chris McCormack
Aladdin review: A show-stopping Genie finally brings Disney’s stage musical fully to lifeTheatre: Yeukayi Ushe’s commanding turn earns a fourth star for what is otherwise a merely serviceable adaptation of the animated filmBy Sara Keating
Lavit Gallery’s Annual Members Exhibition review: Flooded with intense, playful colourPainted abstracts and landscapes are the most common genres among collection of members’ worksBy Tom Lordan
‘Samia is in Rafah. She says there’s thousands of kids living in tents. They’re all starving and freezing’What’s Next For?: Street artist Emmalene Blake has been highlighting the suffering and hope of Palestinian peopleBy Una Mullally