Subscriber OnlyIrish clarinettist Carol McGonnell on the music of Ann Cleare: ‘It’s like pieces of puzzle that can be moved around to create a journey’ Dublin International Chamber Music Festival 2024 opens with a concert featuring McGonnell and US new music specialists the Jack QuartetBy Michael Dervan●Tue May 21 2024 - 09:27
Music‘We got the energy’: Irish children’s rap video filmed in one day goes viralThe Spark was created on a tiny budget by Cork-based youth rap project Rhyme IslandBy Rory Carroll●Tue May 21 2024 - 06:14
FilmCannes 2024: The Apprentice review – Long shadow of Succession hangs over controversial Donald Trump biopicAli Abbasi film starring Sebastian Stan and Jeremy Strong zones in on a twisted early Trump mentor
Subscriber OnlyGate Theatre director Róisín McBrinn: ‘A big part of what I’m trying to do is ensure as many voices as possible are given space and power’After the success of Fun Home, the head of the Dublin venue is staging the Irish premiere of Circle Mirror Transformation
Fighting WordsThe Hungry WhalesA extract from a story by sixth class, Scoil Eoin Phóil, Leixlip, Co Kildare
Are we making ourselves anxious, or is the world making us that way?Unthinkable: Karl Marx and Herbert Marcuse could help treat your anxietyBy Joe Humphreys
Irish clarinettist Carol McGonnell on the music of Ann Cleare: ‘It’s like pieces of puzzle that can be moved around to create a journey’ Dublin International Chamber Music Festival 2024 opens with a concert featuring McGonnell and US new music specialists the Jack QuartetBy Michael Dervan
‘We got the energy’: Irish children’s rap video filmed in one day goes viralThe Spark was created on a tiny budget by Cork-based youth rap project Rhyme IslandBy Rory Carroll
Bruce Springsteen in Croke Park review: Blockbuster performance closes Irish tour on an emotion-filled eveningBruce Springsteen turns the famous stadium into a field of dreams with an outpouring of love and devotion from 80,000 fansBy Ed Power
Girls Aloud review: The last great manufactured pop band make a triumphant return that is tinged with sadnessGirls Aloud was last – and best – of a particular breed of pop group from early naughtiesBy Una Mullally
Eric Clapton in Dublin review: guitar hero rocks the grey-haired faithful with a night of classicsEric Clapton, at 79, made light of his advancing years in delivering a stirring 80-minute setBy Joe Breen
Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft review – Her third album is not quite a genre bender, but this star is growing in sophistication By Lauren Murphy
Cannes 2024: Kevin Costner’s epic sprawl, Julianne Moore’s return and Kermit’s green coatCannes Diary: First three-hour instalment of Costner’s old-school western is confounding; Kinds of Kindness may be Yorgos Lanthimos’s weakest filmBy Tara Brady
‘You mean to say we spent £80 and we don’t even get to see her tits?’: Roger Corman’s Irish studio was from another ageHugh Linehan: Director set up in Galway in the mid-1990s, when he was in his 70s, and churned out his trademark low-budget exploitation movies thereBy Hugh Linehan
Cannes 2024: The Apprentice review – Long shadow of Succession hangs over controversial Donald Trump biopic By Tara Brady
Tiger Stripes review: Female puberty horror is a world away from Pixar’s Turning Red By Tara Brady
Cross Border Story Seeds Project: TeleportationAn extract from stories by three primary schools in Ulster
PJ Gallagher: Changing My Mind review – Comedian’s mental health no laughing matterTelevision: Comedian and broadcaster could have done with a lot more time to air his articulate views on this important subjectBy Ed Power
How Matt Katz discovered his Irish family – and learned about Irish nights out – is a gripping storyPodcast review: Katz is a cracking storyteller, his meticulously researched and affecting journey is propulsive stuffBy Fiona McCann
Roddy Doyle: The hate mail and death threats started in the spring of 1994Some 30 years after Family aired on RTÉ, Ireland has changed in many ways but domestic violence is still an ugly truthBy Roddy Doyle
TV guide: 12 of the best shows to watch this weekIncluding PJ Gallagher: Changing My Mind, Fleishman is in Trouble, The Young Offenders and moreBy Kevin Courtney
Gate Theatre director Róisín McBrinn: ‘A big part of what I’m trying to do is ensure as many voices as possible are given space and power’After the success of Fun Home, the head of the Dublin venue is staging the Irish premiere of Circle Mirror TransformationBy Chris McCormack
The Pillowman review: Martin McDonagh’s early play gets a pin-sharp, meticulously controlled staging from Lyric and Prime CutTheatre: Emma Jordan directs a well-balanced ensemble cast in the playwright’s depiction of a writer suspected of child murder in a totalitarian stateBy Jane Coyle
5,313 works submitted, 515 on show: RHA Annual Exhibition 2024 ready to be unveiledThis year’s show includes plenty of powerful work, as well as prices that range from €50 to €60,000. But younger painters are notable by their absenceBy Gemma Tipton
Fighting mould monsters, running from Garda vans: Ireland’s housing crisis is now a video gameWhat’s Next For?: After Mega Dreoilín, Han Hogan and Donal Fullam plan Tenantgotchi and a Grand Canal Dock demolition derbyBy Una Mullally