Radio: The environment editor’s voice dips more than usual as he relays the imminent Armageddon

The Dragon not running for president brings a genial appeal to his Newstalk show

Dublin Theatre Festival: Silke Huysmans and Hannes Dereere bring a light touch to their weighty material

Presenter proves hell hath no fury like an economist scorned, as Volt fails to impress Moncrieff

Review: The long-form US crime podcast has gone back to basics. A little too basic, actually

Dublin Fringe Festival: Transgressive electro artist brings bravura spirit to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical

The home of Nicky Byrne, Jenny Greene and Eoghan McDermott has some unlikely fans

Dublin Fringe Festival: Two-hander is marked by visual flair and dark comedy

The artist and political activist has written his ‘reluctant memoir’ at 75. It’s dominated by one major absence: his wife and arti(...)

It can be easy to forget that Shane Coleman and Paul Williams have formidable news pedigrees

Dublin Fringe: Multimedia drama on traversing Dublin’s municipal space has absorbing elements but eventually wears thin

Dublin Fringe Festival: John Connors lends a charismatic presence to his polemical portrait of urban deprivation

Dublin Fringe Festival: Fionn Foley is irresistible as an anti-establishment politician

D’Arcy doles out the advice while admirably brisk Mary Wilson is baffled by midlife crises

O’Callaghan shows a different kind of class in her inteview with Jastine Valdez’s parents

Radio review: Presenter Gavin Jennings asserts his authority on ‘Morning Ireland’

Radio: 4FM’s Niall Boylan invites Hopkins on to discuss race relations. It’s shock-jock overkill

Mick Heaney: Her impact went far beyond music – she changed the world around her

Presenter brings overlooked strengths to ‘Today’ show, while Liveline has unlikely glow

Radio review:Pat Kenny proves stimulating company while Jordan Peterson interview breathes life into Marian Finucane’s show

Review: Phillip McMahon's story of a returning emigrant offers few innovations but vivid performances and resonant dialogue

Radio Review: Rosenstock’s wit, invention and observation are absent from his radio show

Radio Review: A compelling documentary about the hearing condition; Lyric uses sound to re-create visions

Radio review: “Do people ever stop bitching?” asks Yates. Has he met Mr Pot and Mr Kettle?

Radio review: Joe Duffy listeners share stomach-churning stories of abusive passengers

Kenny describes attending a festival in the 1970s with “a dopehead” who had taken acid

Meanwhile, Muireann O’Connell is unembarrassed on Today FM

Stand-in host brings distinctive spin to adoption and referendum issues, but Gay Byrne remains the old master

Radio Review: Pat Kenny – being Pat Kenny – goes off on a bizarre tangent on Jastine Valdez’ migration status

Radio review: Sean O’Rourke discusses Trump’s America with Maureen Dowd and Ronan Farrow

Radio review: Presenter Matt Cooper has fractious exchanges with anti-abortion campaigner

Joe Duffy, Ray D’Arcy and Mary Wilson highlight different aspects of the controversy

Radio review: Paul Williams and Shane Coleman blend news and jocular slagging

Radio review: Suprisingly, the RTÉ presenter is the ideal person to pay tribute to Big Tom McBride

Radio: The columnist find it strange he is ‘not allowed to say something good about men’

Radio: No papal bull as radio presenters give muted welcome to pontiff’s visit

Radio review: Newstalk host’s insurgent style masks a complex persona

It’s an uneasy experience to hear a big online betting company given so much promotion

Radio review: Varadkar favours snow talk over 2040 publicity campaign while Cormac Ó hEadhra enjoys a Brexit scrap

Giving the irreverent duo this high-profile slot underlines a shift in direction at Today FM

‘Late Debate’ takes a new direction; Joe Duffy hears painful stories of callous bureaucracy

The new Laureate for Irish Fiction on his predecessor, Anne Enright; his neuroses as a young writer; and the book that drove him t(...)

Kenny decries the “hypocrisy” of Nigel Farage taking a European Parliament salary

Radio Review: The former Today FM host sounds jaded on RTÉ Radio 1

Radio: The presenter’s discussion on internet safety stokes deep parental fears

Radio Review: Today FM deftly covers both events, but reminds us that old attitudes linger

Liveline host alarmed by crime experiences, while Kingsmill exercises Sean O’Rourke

Controversial broadcaster’s underwhelming Newstalk comeback takes aim at familiar targets

Radio review: Seán Moncrieff’s choice of subjects is as esoteric as ever

Gleeson reminds book lovers what they’ll be missing when she departs the airwaves

His reticence is revealing in O’Callaghan’s most entertaining interview in a long time

They are ‘caught in a time warp between the Tricolour and Union Jack’, says the Newstalk host

The actor also alleged production was halted on ‘The Usual Suspects’ over Kevin Spacey’s behaviour

Radio Review: Both O’Rourke and Cormac Ó hEadhra find politics difficult to stomach

Vincent grumbles to Ray, while Muireann O’Connell is the new safe pair of hands in Al Porter's former Today FM slot

Radio review: The Newstalk presenter reveals a novel view on property problems

Radio Review: After a slow start, the RTÉ presenter offers a vivid portrait of the Soviet Union

RADIO REVIEW: RTÉ host hears a folksy defence of the US president, while a once-controversial guest sounds conciliatory with Miria(...)

The GP turned broadcaster makes George Hook’s Newstalk slot her own

Storm Ophelia brings out the best from radio’s presenters, as each show gives us their own take on Monday’s hurricane

Donohoe gives off the smug air that has marked many a ministerial radio appearance since Leo Varadkar became Taoiseach

Druid’s production picks away at the tensions of rural life with a savage eye

Radio review: The Las Vegas reports are radio that you wish you didn’t have to hear, but that’s hard to forget

Ciara Kelly is an assured on-air presence, a GP whose radio career is blossoming

A sprawling devised drama from Dublin Youth Theatre uses a large cast and vivid vignettes to illustrate timeless themes

The gruff interrogator seems to enjoy the Ploughing Championships but it doesn’t really suit him

Two plays that are tricky and smart in very different ways

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Radio review: A listener who missed the apology might not even know of the controversy

‘Straight-talking’ Yates helms Newstalk's early-evening The Hard Shoulder. It's a misnomer

Radio Review: Ray D’Arcy gets emotional about HPV vaccine. Kenny defends accidental landlords

Radio review: Tubridy's not bothered about projecting a mainstream image while on 2FM Conor McGregor’s friends and foes get in the(...)

Radio: Today FM’s star host fails to deliver, but Sean Moncrieff thrives

Ray D’Arcy’s interview with former broadcaster shows what Irish radio is missing

Radio review: Ryanair boss hogs the airwaves but meets his match in Sean O’Rourke

Drink driving coverage is illuminating and spirit-crushingly tedious

Review: His wacky voices can be exhausting, but he can also be gut-bustingly funny

Radio Review: It's was less Rumble in the Jungle and more Cakewalk on Newstalk

Radio Review: The RTÉ host’s interview with Orla Brady turns cringeworthy

George Hook, decrying the erosion of civility, fails to practise what he preaches

Radio Review: Pointless conversations are not the wished-for antidote to horrific news

In a gnarled voice, the ever-defiant songwriter explains his music and lyrics

2FM's morning show is a joyless exercise, but the station has more appealing presenters waiting in the wings

Ellen Frey McCourt on the musical version of her late husband’s harrowing childhood memoir

Radio review: RTÉ and Newstalk reports get across the full horror without histrionics

Radio review: Liveline’s apparitions and Healy-Rae’s Last Word on road safety

Radio review: Newstalk host airs pet peeves, while Miriam hears of liaisons in Luggala

Radio review: 2FM duo stick to cheeky banter and Second Captains tog out for RTÉ’s first team

Radio review: ‘Father Ted’ writer Graham Linehan, talking to Newstalk’s Sean Moncrieff, is clear on his opposition to the nuns own(...)

Radio Review: The RTÉ presenter gets fully into character for an Easter special, before showing his strengths on more familiar gro(...)

Radio review: But novelist Howard Jacobson celebrates education with Matt Cooper

Newstalk adds more middle-aged male voices to its roster in the form of Yates and Bobby Kerr, but the formula is wearing thin

Radio Review: The hosts bring real needle to their Odd Couple routine over cyclist issue

Radio Review: Ray D’Arcy shows the odd flash of prickly pedigree in a show that is sleepwalking through the schedules

Radio review: He scorns political correctness like a grumpy old man, but in one respect he is still young at heart

Radio Review: Newstalk host takes Catholic Leaguer Bill Donohue to task over claim of baby mass grave ‘myth’ and ‘hoax’

Moving tale of quiet desperation on ‘Liveline’, while Moby is an antidote to gloom on digital

The radio presenter is never less than lively – especially when she takes a swipe at Pat Kenny

Radio review: Porter’s show sounds footloose and carefree. By comparison, Matt Cooper seems out of touch

Newstalk’s absorbing documentary recounts the rivalry of ‘planters’ from Connemara