FilmKneecap: ‘Paul Mescal was flirting with us. He was wearing Adidas shorts, not GAA shorts. It’s all a farce’Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvai are following up their acclaimed debut album with a whip-smart, moving, brilliantly entertaining filmBy Una MullallySat Jul 27 2024 - 06:01
Subscriber OnlyIs a television licence inspector coming for you?Q&A: A crackdown on evasion and nonpayment of the licence fee is planned following announcement of fresh funding for RTÉ this weekBy Colin GleesonSat Jul 27 2024 - 06:00
Subscriber OnlyAutocracy, Inc: The Dictators Who Want to Run the World by Anne Applebaum: Disturbing account of strongmen’s links Anne Applebaum portrays the ongoing international destruction of democracy but neglects to a degree the potential of China and how kleptocracy is now deeply ingrained into every geopolitical system
FilmPeaches: ‘F**k the Pain Away has resonated with people so deeply. It has continued to grow’Gaze film festival 2024: The electropunk pioneer broke through with her album The Teaches of Peaches, now the subject of an absorbing documentary
FilmAidan Gillen: ‘Acting is like you are living 20 lives. It’s a bit of an addiction’The Dubliner’s career has seen him take on roles from Littlefinger in Game of Thrones to Tommy Carcetti in The Wire, but Gillen remains a low-key and likeable presence
For the sake of your mental health, stop trying to have an opinion on everything all the timeUnthinkable: People are panicking, theorising and condemning on social media in every imaginable direction. But it’s all right not to have a view on everything all the time. In fact, it’s healthyBy Laura Kennedy
Subscriber OnlyThe Movie Quiz: Deadpool & Wolverine is the first MCU flick to receive what in the US?
Mercury Music Prize 2024: CMAT and Charli XCX among nomineesOther nominees include Barry Can’t Swim, Last Dinner Party and Corinne Bailey RaeBy Laura Snapes
The Script frontman Danny O’Donoghue reveals struggles with alcohol: ‘By the time I’d got off the plane, I was smashed’Singer says he has a lot in common with many Dubliners ‘and that’s the mad part’
Chrystabell & David Lynch: Cellophane Memories review – A vague, languorous soundtrack of morose, samey ballads By Lauren Murphy
Heaven Sent: The Rise of New Pop 1979-1983 review: Inventiveness and experimentation from start to finish By Tony Clayton-Lea
Eminem: The Death of Slim Shady review – Lyrical dexterity live and kicking on this uneasy funeral for his world-beating alter ego By Siobhán Kane
Kneecap: ‘Paul Mescal was flirting with us. He was wearing Adidas shorts, not GAA shorts. It’s all a farce’Mo Chara, Móglaí Bap and DJ Próvai are following up their acclaimed debut album with a whip-smart, moving, brilliantly entertaining filmBy Una Mullally
Peaches: ‘F**k the Pain Away has resonated with people so deeply. It has continued to grow’Gaze film festival 2024: The electropunk pioneer broke through with her album The Teaches of Peaches, now the subject of an absorbing documentaryBy Tara Brady
Notes from Sheepland review: Please flock to see this delightful and funny study of artist and shepherd Orla Barry By Donald Clarke
I Saw the TV Glow: Jane Schoenbrun’s haunting cult sensation will leave you reeling By Tara Brady
Benjamin Myers: ‘Like most writers I live in fear of having to get a real job’‘Growing up is really overrated. People do lose that zest or zeal. That’s part of Rare Singles’By Edel Coffey
Is a television licence inspector coming for you?Q&A: A crackdown on evasion and nonpayment of the licence fee is planned following announcement of fresh funding for RTÉ this weekBy Colin Gleeson
Who is Colin O’Sullivan, the Irish author behind the big Apple TV show Sunny?Haven’t heard of the Irish writer? He moved to Japan to teach English for a year. That was more than 20 years ago. His life there gives him lots of time for his fiction, he saysBy Patrick Freyne
Radio review: Flustered Eamon Ryan and harried Pearse Doherty grilled by Drivetime’s forbidding interrogatorsRadio: RTÉ Drivetime hosts Sarah McInerney and Cormac Ó hEadhra give their current-affairs magazine zip and snapBy Mick Heaney
TV licence fee ‘extremely difficult’ to collect if evaders not prosecuted, says RTÉ boss Kevin BakhurstDeal with Government not a reward for bad practice, as claimed by Virgin, but a ‘reward for dealing with bad practices’, says RTÉ director generalBy Laura Slattery
Emma O’Halloran: ‘Why do all the women die in opera? I really wanted to do something that’s not that’Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: In Trade/Mary Motorhead, O’Halloran uses music to explore a transactional relationship between two men and also to transcend the confines of a prison cellBy Michael Dervan
Wicked review: The brilliant Laura Pick and Sarah O’Connor shine in this top-quality productionTheatre: Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman’s musical features evenly matched leads who reach impossible notes with vigour and expressionBy Sara Keating
Artist Donald Teskey: ‘When teacher praised my drawing, it was the first time I was aware of myself as a person’The winner of the 2024 Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland Art Award shows how art, nature, medicine and wellbeing intertwineBy Gemma Tipton
Take a Breath: Irish Museum of Modern Art’s moving, intriguing exhibition explores ‘why, how and what we breathe’Imma’s new show has the themes of breath as meditation, as language, in warfare; air in a time of environmental catastrophe; and feminism, race and ecologyBy Gemma Tipton