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Patrick Freyne: Khloé Kardashian’s bid to help her unemployed rich lady friends is admirable
None of these people is remotely frightened at the thought of flaunting their grotesquely boring wealth before…
Event guide: The Last Days of Dalymount, The Waterboys and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
September 5th-11th, 2026: The best music, art, theatre and more coming your way this week
Choosing the Struggle by Martina Anderson: A fascinating, shocking and frank narrative on her work as a politician
However, the former Sinn Féin MEP and MLA’s autobiography reveals little about the other parts of her life and…
RTÉ100 – Points of View: Anniversary show gets so much right, but falls down on the basics
Documentary celebrating 100 years of public broadcasting at no point mentions the anniversary and leaves it to…
First Look review – Ink: Danny Boyle’s new Murdoch saga is dirty, gripping, enraging stuff
Venice Film Festival 2026: This rambunctious pageant chronicles how the British media lost the last strand of …
Claire Byrne, Ryan Tubridy and Siobhán McSweeney to appear on celebrity Gogglebox
The new season of Gogglebox will return to Virgin Media on September 9th
Thousand-year-old manuscript returns to Ireland for UCC exhibition
The 57 vellum-leaf Annals of Inisfallen chronicles more than 1,000 years of Irish history, including Viking ra…
Kevin Rowland: ‘I wish I’d stuck to my guns more, not be influenced by people who didn’t get it’
The singer on growing older, figuring himself out, and what might be the last Dexy Midnight Runners album – wh…
The Music Quiz: Which English act appears on the soundtrack to The Odyssey?
Plus: Which Irish author has written the foreword for the forthcoming book, The Third Eye by George Harrison?
Castles, conspiracies and communism: thought-provoking back-to-school YA reads
Oran Doyle’s compelling debut Give Me ’Til Midnight is a refreshing take on the now-familiar time-loop plot
Dolly Parton laid to rest in private Nashville funeral
Queen of country music died aged 80 on August 25th ‘after bravely facing a brief battle with cancer’
Netflix, Prime Video, Disney+, Apple TV, Paramount+: 10 of the best new shows to watch in September
Your guide to streaming, including The Grand Tour, Slow Horses, Mobland and Brothers
Life of M by Rachel Cusk: A mesmeric and vampiric relationship with not-Natalie Portman
This strange beast projects Cusk’s tortured authorial persona on to a woman seen everywhere
Fontaines DC: Slane will be a crowning moment for the biggest Irish band since U2
Next June, they will be just the third Irish band to headline the 80,000-capacity venue
Bulldozers sweep across Electric Picnic site as mammoth clean-up operation begins
Local homelessness charity has sorted through the rubbish in search of serviceable sleeping bags that can be w…
Fontaines DC at Electric Picnic: ‘Banger after banger’ as headliners pay tribute to late manager
There’s a sense the Dublin-forged band are navigating new territory with the death of Trevor Dietz and this hi…
Mirandolina review: Marina Carr updates 18th-century comedy as feminist tragedy with keen moral purpose
Theatre: This take on La Locandiera, set mainly in a Dublin Italian restaurant, emphasises the universality of…
Fontaines DC to play Slane Castle in June 2027
Tickets for the open-air concert go on sale at 10am on Thursday, September 3rd, with presale from September 1s…
Electric Picnic 2026: In pictures
Our photo editor’s pick of images from Ireland’s largest music and arts festival in Stradbally, Co Laois
Bon Jovi at Croke Park: Thunderous choruses prove you can’t keep a good song down
The band’s Dublin set list is prone to lulls, and Jon Bon Jovi’s singing is perhaps not as effortless as it wa…
Electric Picnic 2026 highs and lows: CMAT’s home comforts, a scary crush, and the pees and queues debate
Eighty thousand music fans spent the weekend on the Stradbally Hall estate. Here’s what we loved and hated
Saoirse Ronan to make her directorial debut at Venice film festival
New movies from Martin McDonagh, Danny Boyle and Werner Herzog will also take centre stage at Italian event
Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis: Book underscores unresolved difficulty of placement in the literary canon
If endurance is the only true test of literary quality, then the jury is still out
How could God allow human bodily functions?
In a Word ... Body
Electric Picnic 2026: In a jammed Rankins Wood, Geese pause their set. There’s a moment of confusion
Three songs into the New Yorkers’ gig, the crowd lifts to a frenzy and The Irish Times realises that one must …
The Traitors Ireland: An underwhelming start to the new season
It’s hard to judge the second season by its opening episode, but will there be a breakout to rival Paudie?
At Electric Picnic, Florence Road combine old-school rock-star aura with a fresh new voice
The Gen Z band fronted by Lily Aron play a head-banging set to a packed Electric Arena on Sunday afternoon
Electric Picnic 2026: Biblical rain, bopping families, surprise acts and popular covers
Festival director defends handling of crowd control issues, saying one set cancelled as organisers ‘not willin…
Saw Doctors bring out Mayo team at Electric Picnic for performance 75 years in the making
Main arena is a sea of green and red as soaked but high-spirited fans gather in their thousands to see the All…
Van Morrison at Electric Picnic: Not quite an old snuggly blanket, but when he’s this good he’s wonderful
Belfast’s finest acknowledges neither the rain nor the crowd, and barely talks at all. But – joy! – he plays s…
Three sporting events to watch this week: Your handy guide to sport on television
Your guide to sport on television (Monday – Sunday, August 31st – September 5th)
Traitors Ireland returns, and the other best new shows to watch this week
August 30th-September 4th highlights: including The Traitors Ireland, Sandi’s Ireland: A Literary Journey and …
Domhnall Gleeson: ‘My life in Ireland means too much to me. It’s no sacrifice to live here’
The actor has carved out a place at the centre of the Hollywood film industry. But it comes second to his sens…
An unreliable history of Robin Hood, from Errol Flynn to Andrew Garfield
The folk behind new Paul Greengrass film The Uprising cast Andrew Garfield as Robin Hood. But is he?
Inside Ireland’s National Print Museum: ‘Print is more meaningful than looking at a screen’
Celebrating its 30th birthday, Ireland’s National Print Museum passes on knowledge about a highly skilled – an…
Four new films to see this week: Bitter Christmas, The Dog Stars, Guggi and Colony
Bárbara Lennie, Jacob Elordi, Margaret Qualley, Derek Rowen and Jun Ji-hyun feature in a quartet of movies rel…
The Most Normal Woman: Essays on Appearances – sharp, funny and unsettling
The author is a witty, intelligent and perceptive guide to the increasingly grotesque work of having a self in…
CMAT at Electric Picnic: Dunboyne Diana’s Dolly Parton tribute kicks off dazzling homecoming set
This is the ‘most important gig I have ever played at, because it’s magical to know my home understands me the…
Electric Picnic 2026: Saturday in pictures – CMAT, Kyla Cobbler, Lola Young and Violet Grohl
The Messy star plays a surprise set before ‘Dunboyne Diana’ takes to the Main Stage on a day when festivalgoer…
Audrey Hobert’s Electric Picnic set shows she doesn’t need her famous friends to make an impact
Gracie Abrams’s songwriting partner knows how to hold a crowd as she’s bumped up Saturday’s bill