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Reviewed this month: The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths, Black Tag by Simon Mayo, The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer a...
01/02/2025

Reviewed this month: The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths, Black Tag by Simon Mayo, The Impossible Thing by Belinda Bauer and The Dark Hours by Amy Jordan

Our thriller and crime critic Myles McWeeney on the best new novels to read this month.

New film Becoming Led Zeppelin celebrates the band’s legend but not the murky detail. Is it missing part of their appeal...
01/02/2025

New film Becoming Led Zeppelin celebrates the band’s legend but not the murky detail. Is it missing part of their appeal to a new generation, as a gritty alternative to sterile modern pop culture?

Becoming Led Zeppelin, released next week, is yet another new documentary on yet another old rock ’n’ roll band. No one’s been allowed to see the film before release — a throwback to the hair-tossing contempt with which Zeppelin treated the media, back when they mattered — so its contents ...

Irish Olympic gold medallist Rhys McClenaghan didn’t wait long after the Paris Olympics to take on another challenge on ...
01/02/2025

Irish Olympic gold medallist Rhys McClenaghan didn’t wait long after the Paris Olympics to take on another challenge on Dancing with the Stars

Irish Olympic gold medallist Rhys McClenaghan didn’t wait long after the Paris Olympics to take on another challenge on Dancing with the Stars.

Irish candidates don’t get much of a look-in in the first episode of The Apprentice as mountain-tours task separates the...
31/01/2025

Irish candidates don’t get much of a look-in in the first episode of The Apprentice as mountain-tours task separates the spoofers from the sellers.

Everyone gets a funny line on The Apprentice. There are a handful of golden nuggets in the opening sequence alone.

Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks.
30/01/2025

Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks.

Planning a night on the couch? Here are today’s top TV and streaming picks:

There’s nothing less fun than seeing people of varying degrees of fame having fun and constantly telling us how much fun...
29/01/2025

There’s nothing less fun than seeing people of varying degrees of fame having fun and constantly telling us how much fun they’re having, especially when licence-paying viewers are the ones picking up the tab for their fun

Not being a particular fan of celebrity travel shows, which tend to be more about the celebrities than the travel, High Road, Low Road (RTÉ1, Tuesday, January 28, 7pm) is not the kind of thing I’d usually go out of my way to watch.

Former ‘This Morning’ presenter hosts the new series featuring the famous TV survivalist
27/01/2025

Former ‘This Morning’ presenter hosts the new series featuring the famous TV survivalist

Holly Willoughby has said TV ­survivalist Bear Grylls taught her that “being brave is about using your fear, harnessing it and doing it anyway”, when they worked together on a Netflix series.

Paradise is the latest series from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman
27/01/2025

Paradise is the latest series from This Is Us creator Dan Fogelman

We live in an age of television plenty. There’s an abundance of streaming thrillers and mysteries, each of them looking for that special ingredient that will make them stand out from the all the others.

‘In this last week just gone, I did six Feathers,’ said one tattoo artist, after the silent supervillian’s rise to viral...
27/01/2025

‘In this last week just gone, I did six Feathers,’ said one tattoo artist, after the silent supervillian’s rise to viral stardom

A month on from Feathers McGraw’s dramatic return as Wallace and Gromit’s silent nemesis, the villainous penguin seems to have become an unlikely hit at tattoo parlours.

Belfast rappers Kneecap will play Dublin’s 3Arena at the end of this year with tickets to go on sale next week
25/01/2025

Belfast rappers Kneecap will play Dublin’s 3Arena at the end of this year with tickets to go on sale next week

Belfast rappers Kneecap will play Dublin’s 3Arena at the end of this year with tickets to go on sale next week.

While researching her film on the author’s life, director Sinead O’Shea was given her personal diaries to read. They rec...
25/01/2025

While researching her film on the author’s life, director Sinead O’Shea was given her personal diaries to read. They recount numerous awful liaisons she had, including one with a British politician that almost ended her literary career — and her life

It amazes me now to think how little I once cared about Edna O’Brien.

Loraine Barry will not appear on Dancing with the Stars tomorrow night following the death of her mother. The head judge...
25/01/2025

Loraine Barry will not appear on Dancing with the Stars tomorrow night following the death of her mother. The head judge announced that her beloved mother Caroline passed away on Thursday morning

Loraine Barry will not appear on Dancing with the Stars tomorrow night following the death of her mother.

Q: I have a fantasy that I always wanted to try, but I’ve always been too afraid, or ashamed. Over Christmas, my wife an...
25/01/2025

Q: I have a fantasy that I always wanted to try, but I’ve always been too afraid, or ashamed. Over Christmas, my wife and I had a really wonderful time, full of intimacy and time to ourselves. We had a few drinks one night and got to talking about fantasies or anything we wanted to tick off our bucket list. I told her that I wanted to try cuckolding with her, and that maybe we could find someone to explore this with. We enjoyed talking about it, but she hasn’t mentioned it since. I want to ask her again, but I worry she doesn’t think it’s a good idea. We are adventurous in many aspects so I do think this would work well with us, but maybe she thinks it’s a step too far. She is usually OK with talking about our s*x life, so I’m worried I have freaked her out by bringing this up. I don’t want to risk upsetting our relationship as I love my wife and would never do anything to jeopardise our marriage. As you can tell, I’m quite an anxious person anyway. How do I approach this with her in a way that feels comfortable?

Q: I have a fantasy that I always wanted to try, but I’ve always been too afraid, or ashamed. Over Christmas, my wife and I had a really wonderful time, full of intimacy and time to ourselves. We had a few drinks one night and got to talking about fantasies or anything we wanted to tick off our bu...

Actor Hilary Rose says The Young Offenders is the “gift that keeps on giving” after it returned to RTÉ for a fourth seri...
25/01/2025

Actor Hilary Rose says The Young Offenders is the “gift that keeps on giving” after it returned to RTÉ for a fourth series.

The award-winning show set in Cork is back as fans tune in to see the latest antics of Jock (Chris Walley) and Conor (Alex Murphy)

Actor Hilary Rose says The Young Offenders is the “gift that keeps on giving” after it returned to RTÉ for a fourth series.

Family recount scary downward spiral of January 6 Capitol rioter and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes
22/01/2025

Family recount scary downward spiral of January 6 Capitol rioter and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes

It’s likely that Daniel Vernon, director of King of the Apocalypse (Sky Documentaries, Wed, Jan 22, 9pm), always knew there was a chance his film might be overtaken by events, which it has been.

When Kayleigh Dray met her husband, their relationship was full of fun and adventure. Seven years and two kids later, th...
22/01/2025

When Kayleigh Dray met her husband, their relationship was full of fun and adventure. Seven years and two kids later, they’d lost that spark. Kayleigh felt like she was losing her best friend – until they discovered ‘It Takes Two’

It’s the oldest cliché in the book, but I always used to think of my husband as my best friend.

But this could be the year when we pin all our hopes on a quirky ­Irish-language film at the Oscars
22/01/2025

But this could be the year when we pin all our hopes on a quirky ­Irish-language film at the Oscars

Despite being a tiny island nation, Ireland has always punched above its weight when it comes to the film industry.

Leo Woodall set hearts fluttering as Dex in Netflix’s smash-hit romantic drama One Day. Dex could be a bit of an ar****l...
21/01/2025

Leo Woodall set hearts fluttering as Dex in Netflix’s smash-hit romantic drama One Day. Dex could be a bit of an ar****le, but at least he redeemed himself in the end. His latest character, on the other hand - Cambridge undergraduate and maths genius Edward Brooks in Prime Target - is just an ar****le, full stop

Mathematics underpins everything. It’s the glue that binds the universe together.

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