Jason Byrne
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Michelle Visage: On My Culture Radar
- Culture
- February 2, 2019, 05:00
Current favourite book? I recently saw the miniseries Roots and I realised I hadn’t read the book it was based on by Alex Haley. So I’ve just bought (...)

Review of 2018: Reality TV becomes preferable to actual reality
- TV, Radio, Web
- December 11, 2018, 05:00
With world leaders taking their cues from the tropes of reality telly this year – from Theresa May creakily dancing around like a dusty cadaver on Bri(...)

Edinburgh festivals: awards and acclaim – and exhaustion – for Irish performers
- Stage
- August 28, 2018, 10:55
Irish productions have won awards and excellent reviews at the month-long Edinburgh International Festival and Edinburgh Festival Fringe, which have j(...)

Body & Soul 2018: stage times revealed
- Music
- June 7, 2018, 08:30
Body & Soul Stage Friday, June 22nd 00:30-01:45 Olof Dreijer DJ Set 23:00-00:15 Fever Ray 21:10-22:10 Fatima Al Qadiri 19:40- 20:40 FAK(...)

IFTA TV awards: ‘Derry Girls’, ‘Young Offenders’ among winners
- TV, Radio, Web
- May 31, 2018, 23:15
Broadcaster Shay Healy received a lifetime achievement award at the IFTA Gala Television Awards on Thursday night. Mr Healy received the award, the h(...)

Gig of the Week: Kilkenny Cat Laughs – new routes to the punchline
- Stage
- May 26, 2018, 05:00
God knows you could do with a good laugh at the moment. That is why, 24 years ago, He created Kilkenny Cat Laughs, Ireland’s premier comedy festival.(...)

Mario Rosenstock: On My Culture Radar
- Culture
- April 14, 2018, 05:00
Current favourite book? I re-read Revolution in the Head by Ian MacDonald all the time. It’s about every Beatles song from the first one ever recorded(...)

Ireland’s Got Talent: RDC dance act from Cork win €50,000 prize
- TV, Radio, Web
- March 24, 2018, 21:30
The curtain has fallen on TV3’s inaugural series of Ireland’s Got Talent and Cork’s RDC, an army of dance school kids who crowded the stage like a moo(...)

RuPaul: The Irish are ‘deadlaí agus maightí’
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 16, 2018, 17:37
Drag queen RuPaul has called “a mhuintir na hÉireann” “deadlaí agus maightí” in a tweet – in Irish – to show her support for Michelle Visage, one of t(...)

Ireland’s Got Talent: 82-year-old Evelyn wows the judges
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 3, 2018
The heat is on. The entire country is waiting with bated breath. We’re under pressure not just to perform in a typically mediocre manner but to (...)