David Gray: Dear Life review – Lean into this raw, bumpy album. It’s well worth the effort

Never mind that he’s British. David Gray might be the most consequential Irish songwriter of his generation

The Late Late NYE Show review: Patrick Kielty rises above some mystifying moments with a good line in take-no-prisoner jokes

Television: Despite blink-and-it’s-over conversations with wildly mismatched guests, this New Year’s Eve special is much better than 2023’s

An exclusive extract from Aisling in the City, the new Complete Aisling book

Aisling’s off to a fancy new job in New York, but first she’s flying business class

Til death do us Dart: Train driver says ‘I choo’ after platform proposal

Conor O’Sullivan proposed to his girlfriend as the Dart train pulled into Pearse Street

Hozier releases new single with powerful video. Shame about the song

‘Movement’ is a comedown after the epic and raw comeback EP ‘Nina Cried Power’

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Royal wedding: Celebrities join royalty as Princess Eugenie marries

Kate Moss, Robbie Williams among stars in Windsor for second royal wedding of 2018

Jennifer O'Connell: Creepy, Actually: Romcoms mistake harassment for romance

Is it time we looked with a more critical eye on the stories we tell about falling in love

Ronnie O’Sullivan ‘really not that bothered’ about a sixth Crucible win

The Rocket joined in World Championship last eight by John Higgins and Ding Junhui

In praise of Chris de Burgh, musical genius

The singer’s finest songs demolish the caricature that he’s just a Daniel O’Donnell for Dart users. Indeed, if ever an artist was ripe for rehabilitation it is de Burgh

'I laughed out loud at Mrs Brown's chat show. In The Irish Times. Near where Fintan sits'

All Round to Mrs Brown's is the kind of programme it's possible to love and hate at the same time

Want a single entendre? ‘Mrs Brown’ will give you one

“Who the hell watches Mrs Brown?” About half the audience share, according to the figures on Brendan O’Carroll’s new chat show

James Blunt is back with The Afterlove and resistance is futile

Fateful night: a young woman is dead, her Tinder date charged with murder

Warriena Wright met up with Gable Tostee in Surfers Paradise. A few hours later she plunged 14 storeys to her death

Laura Mvula: ‘I won’t be recognised until I’m dead and gone’

Mvula has grave concerns about modern music and is no longer concerned about coming across as arrogant