MusicBlindboy comes out on his phone at All Together Now 2025: ‘I’m showing my mum this many people actually showed up’Podcaster draws a huge crowd on festival’s final morning, when anticipation is building for pop princess Nelly Furtado’s headline setBy Stephen ConneelySun Aug 03 2025 - 19:42
Subscriber OnlySouth Park isn’t letting go of Donald Trump’s hambone any time soonMatt Stone and Trey Parker’s Comedy Central satire wrongfoots attempts to nail down its politics. That’s as it should beBy Donald ClarkeSun Aug 03 2025 - 05:20
Subscriber OnlySinister experiments and girl-power cults feature in August’s young adult titlesWorks by Kathryn Clark, Lauren Wilson, Mary Watson, Daniel Tawse and Becki Jayne Crossley
MusicKaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson: ‘Ryan Tubridy? I love him’The Leeds indie rockers’ frontman on drawing a blank with Bono, getting over Oasis insults and swapping book recommendations with our Ryan
TV & RadioTV guide: the best new shows to watch this weekAugust 3nd-8th: including North Circular, Cooking with the Stars, Fleadh25, MasterChef and Platonic
It’s hard to resist the sense that, deep down, I’m a loserUnthinkable: Toxic positivity may be exacerbating a sense that we’re losing in lifeBy Joe Humphreys
Blindboy comes out on his phone at All Together Now 2025: ‘I’m showing my mum this many people actually showed up’Podcaster draws a huge crowd on festival’s final morning, when anticipation is building for pop princess Nelly Furtado’s headline setBy Stephen Conneely
Kaiser Chiefs’ Ricky Wilson: ‘Ryan Tubridy? I love him’The Leeds indie rockers’ frontman on drawing a blank with Bono, getting over Oasis insults and swapping book recommendations with our RyanBy Ed Power
London Grammar at All Together Now 2025: A surprise duet and a rapturous ending from Saturday’s headlinersHannah Reid brings her slowly fizzing charisma to bear on a gripping set that the main-stage crowd laps upBy Ed Power
CMAT’s powerhouse set could be the best performance at All Together Now 2025The country-pop sensation’s music glitters with dark depths during a rollercoaster main-stage turnBy Ed Power
Fontaines DC at All Together Now 2025: Biggest Irish group since U2 hit ferocious highs at all-conquering homecoming gigShow could have been just another festival slot, but Fontaines make it clear they want to leave an impressionBy Ed Power
Wet Leg at All Together Now 2025: Rhian Teasdale’s ex must feel his ears burning during this blistering setOn the Waterford festival’s first night, the zinging alternative anthems are by turns biting, bittersweet, loved-up and scathingBy Ed Power
Four new films to see this week: The Naked Gun, Bring Her Back, Late Shift and Oslo Stories: Dreams (Sex Love)A quartet of movies released in the week of August 1st, 2025By Donald Clarke and Tara Brady
Bring Her Back director Danny Philippou: ‘I love the psycho-biddy genre. It allows actors to really play’Grown adults have been covering their eyes and hyperventilating at the RackaRacka brothers’ new film. It also has important things to say about griefBy Donald Clarke
Late Shift review: A nursing meltdown opens us up to unseen and underappreciated lives By Donald Clarke
Bring Her Back review: Sally Hawkins weaponises her Paddington-mom screen persona in this gorily audacious horror By Tara Brady
Sinister experiments and girl-power cults feature in August’s young adult titlesWorks by Kathryn Clark, Lauren Wilson, Mary Watson, Daniel Tawse and Becki Jayne CrossleyBy Claire Hennessy
Why Irish romance fiction deserves its happily ever afterRomance is having a cultural moment - but the genre often gets dismissed as mindless guilty pleasureBy Paige Reynolds
TV guide: the best new shows to watch this weekAugust 3nd-8th: including North Circular, Cooking with the Stars, Fleadh25, MasterChef and PlatonicBy Kevin Courtney
Mrs Brown’s Boys review: It’s surely time for this dreary and unfunny series to fade from our screensTelevision: After 14 years of this iffy humour, is it time for Brendan O’Carroll to pull the plug on his famous Finglas mammy?By Ed Power
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV+: 10 of the best new shows to stream in AugustPlenty of choice, including Hostage, Wednesday, Alien: Earth and Love Is Blind: UKBy Kevin Courtney
Ryan Tubridy still has the Tiggerish verve and breezy name-drops. So why does it feel sour?Radio: An upbeat air on his London-based show contrasts with RTÉ’s continuing struggles By Mick Heaney
Brendan Gleeson: ‘I can’t go into a pub any more. I really miss it’With The Weir, the star returns to the stage after a 10-year absence. It’s a play he loves for its portrayal of the Irish as a peopleBy Nadine O’Regan
Little Shop of Horrors review: Bord Gáis Energy Theatre’s first homegrown show is a sure-footed take on the cult musicalJacqueline Brunton and David O’Reilly star in a production that leans into the campest qualities of Ashman and Menken’s modern fairy taleBy Sara Keating
State of the art: ‘My dream is to be in the studio working solidly. Having a full-time job is a distraction from that’Faigh Amach, at Temple Bar Gallery in Dublin, spotlights work by Ella Bertilsson, Kathy Tynan and Emily WaszakBy Gemma Tipton
TV aerial in Daniel O’Connell stamp is a ‘visual signal’ to the modern age, not AI, says An PostArtist David Rooney says he deliberately included a modern image in the 19th-century Dublin scene By Hugh Linehan
