TV & RadioBlue Lights review: This compelling show is a rare spark in the moribund world of Irish crime televisionTelevision: In its guts, this BCC show is just really good telly – the acting is compelling, and the show’s evocation of Belfast rivetingBy Ed Power●Tue Apr 16 2024 - 10:00
FilmRust armorer sentenced to 18 months in fatal shooting by Alec BaldwinHannah Gutierrez was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for mistakenly loading live round into revolver on movie setTue Apr 16 2024 - 07:43
Subscriber OnlyThe Bookshelf: Ryan Tubridy’s new podcast may be the best vehicle to date for this one-time Jack of all RTÉPodcast review: The former RTÉ broadcaster’s new show plays to his strengths – but it’ll need to push him out of his comfort zone
Subscriber Only‘When my life was more stable, my music was more active, more gritty. When my life has been chaotic my music has calmed down’New Music Dublin 2024: The composers Bekah Simms, Raymond Deane, Linda Buckley and Rhona Clarke on their creative processes
TV & RadioMan Up? review: A muddled exploration of what it really means to be a manTelevision: Jordan Conroy presents show exploring toxic masculinity, but what is RTÉ trying to say?
How to end the culture wars: Stop looking for people to blame‘Because structural injustices are beyond our control it is wrong to blame ordinary people for them,’ argues political philosopher Maeve McKeownBy Joe Humphreys
Subscriber OnlyThe Movie Quiz: Film legend Orson Welles made his professional stage debut at which Irish theatre?
‘When my life was more stable, my music was more active, more gritty. When my life has been chaotic my music has calmed down’New Music Dublin 2024: The composers Bekah Simms, Raymond Deane, Linda Buckley and Rhona Clarke on their creative processesBy Michael Dervan
Michael Palin on the loss of his wife of 57 years: ‘you feel you’ll never have a friend as close as that’‘I’d love Helen to still be here, telling me off,’ says 80-year-old former Python and veteran television travellerBy Simon Hattenstone
Pearl Jam: Dark Matter – Eddie Vedder and co return with a tempestuous back-to-basics album By Ed Power
Pillow Queens: Name Your Sorrow – Vigorous riffs, fluid guitar solos, irresistible earworms By Tony Clayton-Lea
Matthew Devereux: House Devil – The Pale frontman’s solo album feels like a missed opportunity By Lauren Murphy
Vampire Weekend: Only God Was Above Us review – Utterly wild and terrific By Tony Clayton-Lea
Rust armorer sentenced to 18 months in fatal shooting by Alec BaldwinHannah Gutierrez was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for mistakenly loading live round into revolver on movie set
Four new films to see this weekBack to Black, Civil War, The Teachers’ Lounge, Close Your EyesBy Donald Clarke and Tara Brady
The Teachers’ Lounge review: Leonie Benesch is sensational in this unlikely white-knuckle thriller By Tara Brady
Civil War review: Kirsten Dunst has never been better than in Alex Garland’s action stormer By Donald Clarke
A Body Made of Glass: Unflinching interrogation of hypochondriaThe author’s unflinching interrogation of the condition and its evolution leads to fascinating cultural observationsBy Niamh Jiménez
United Kingdoms: Multinational Union States in Europe and Beyond, 1800-1925 - Home rule revisitedAuthor’s careful, precise narrative describes, for example, the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian EmpireBy Paul Bew
Blue Lights review: This compelling show is a rare spark in the moribund world of Irish crime televisionTelevision: In its guts, this BCC show is just really good telly – the acting is compelling, and the show’s evocation of Belfast rivetingBy Ed Power
The Bookshelf: Ryan Tubridy’s new podcast may be the best vehicle to date for this one-time Jack of all RTÉPodcast review: The former RTÉ broadcaster’s new show plays to his strengths – but it’ll need to push him out of his comfort zoneBy Fiona McCann
Man Up? review: A muddled exploration of what it really means to be a manTelevision: Jordan Conroy presents show exploring toxic masculinity, but what is RTÉ trying to say?By Ed Power
The Magadalenes and I: Compelling voices illuminate unspeakable institutional truths from Ireland’s recent pastPodcast review: Steven O’Riordan’s follow-up to 2009 documentary lacks narrative shape but makes up for it in the sheer force of his storiesBy Fiona McCann
Pete Waterman: ‘Rick Astley walked away with a cheque for £5m, which is pretty good for an apprentice’Musical I Should Be So Lucky celebrates the 1980s hits that Waterman and his colleagues Mike Stock and Matt Aitken made with Kylie Minogue, Bananarama, Mel & Kim and moreBy Tara Brady
Hilary Fannin: ‘You’re faced with something so mad – maybe you’re going to die’Last year the former Irish Times columnist’s work on her new play, for Rough Magic and the Abbey, was interrupted by a double cancer diagnosisBy Patrick Freyne
Smut Press’s goal? To ‘champion work that might not get published elsewhere – maybe a bit risqué or provocative’What’s Next For?: Jack Scollard and Jordan Hearns on their publications that showcase queer artistsBy Una Mullally
Paul Nugent: Figures in Yellow Ochre Light and Other Paintings review – Time is the key ingredientWorks require the audience to stand and wait, in gradual absorption, as details of paintings are revealedBy Tom Lordan