MusicElectric Picnic 2024 lineup revealed: Kylie Minogue, Noah Kahan and Calvin Harris to headline festivalMusic and arts festival takes over Stradbally estate, in Co Laois, from Friday, August 16th, to Sunday, August 18thBy Ellen O’Donoghue●Fri Apr 26 2024 - 13:02
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Politics is all about managing the present. What people need is a story of the futureUnthinkable: Individuals and society at large need a coherent storyline to give us hope for the futureBy Joe Humphreys
Electric Picnic 2024 lineup revealed: Kylie Minogue, Noah Kahan and Calvin Harris to headline festivalMusic and arts festival takes over Stradbally estate, in Co Laois, from Friday, August 16th, to Sunday, August 18thBy Ellen O’Donoghue
Hozier’s Too Sweet tops US charts: ‘Fans started making videos with it on TikTok ... it snowballed’Leaving it to fans turned out to be incredibly smart decision as singer becomes fourth Irish artist to achieve US number oneBy Una Mullally
Picture This: Parked Car Conversations – Solid pop songs with a saccharine heartbeat By Lauren Murphy
Take That in Dublin review: ‘Whose idea was it to have stairs?’ puffs Gary Barlow as the band roll back the years with dazzling show Elaborate stage set-ups are par for course with Take That but bells and whistles would mean nothing if songs were not up to scratchBy Lauren Murphy
Taylor Swift: The Tortured Poets Department track by track review – A manifesto for all the believers who will try at love one more time By Finn McRedmond
Kidnapped: The extraordinary story of the six-year-old abducted by the Catholic ChurchFilm director Marco Bellocchio on Edgardo Mortara, a ‘baptised’ Jewish boy taken from his family, and scandal that weakened power of popeBy Tara Brady
Rebel Moon director Zack Snyder: ‘My obligation is to bring viewers the largest cinematic experience I can muster’Zack Snyder on his move to streaming, the critical panning of the first part of Rebel Moon and why he needs his family on boardBy Tara Brady
In the Land of Saints and Sinners: Liam Neeson is a gruff, gunslinging hero in this Donegal western By Tara Brady
ISS review: Nuclear war breaks out on Earth. Up in space, can the Americans thwart the Russians? By Donald Clarke
Challengers review: Zendaya is at her gimlet-eyed best in this stonking tennis entertainment By Donald Clarke
Sheila Armstrong on RSL Ondaatje Prize shortlistBooks newsletter: a wrap of the latest news and preview of tomorrow’s pagesBy Martin Doyle
‘Somebody told me recently it was like the Coen Brothers directing PG Wodehouse’: Author Jonny Sweet on his new darkly comic thrillerAuthor Jonny Sweet on moving from writing stand-up shows and plays to fiction and his new, darkly comic thriller, The Kellerby CodeBy Martin Doyle
Baby Reindeer: should Netflix have seen all the amateur sleuths coming?Nothing entertaining about doxing women with mental health problems, or accusing celebrities of abuse for funBy Stuart Heritage
Joe Duffy’s snap judgment on Simon Harris’s Stardust apology somehow captures the wider moodRadio review: the Liveline host’s snap judgment on Simon Harris’s State apology somehow captures the wider moodBy Mick Heaney
Dead Boy Detectives review: frantic and ferociously bingeable spooky funTelevision: Neil Gaiman’s haunted odd couple are the Inbetweeners crossed with Clive Barker’s Hellraiser – and it’s wonderfulBy Ed Power
‘I have lived so long. Why am I still here?’ Simon Cowell’s beady little eyes seem to sayPatrick Freyne: Britain’s Got Talent is back, its name now less a triumphalist boast than a pleading sales pitch from a waning superpowerBy Patrick Freyne
Windmill blades on Paris cabaret club Moulin Rouge collapse overnightClub founded in 1889 became global symbol of Parisian culture, its famed can-can dancers depicted in paintings by avant-garde artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and Georges Seurat
L’Olimpiade review: Irish National Opera’s touring coproduction with the Royal Opera House feels surprisingly full-scaleTheatre: Meili Li, Rachel Redmond, Gemma Ní Bhriain, Alexandra Urquiola and Sarah Richmond star in Daisy Evans’s staging of Vivaldi’s operaBy Michael Dungan
Eilís O’Connell and Mona Hatoum at Visual, Carlow: mysterious yet simultaneously unequivocalAbstract art speaks of refuge and evacuation while recalling the engines of war that underpin such thingsBy Gemma Tipton
Deirdre O’Mahony’s The Quickening: the unlikely star of the show is a dung beetleOne of the most striking artists working in Ireland, O’Mahony has spent her career exploring our relationships with landBy Gemma Tipton