Absolutely epic. You did the right thing, Stephen! #TheTraitors

My column this week: Harry Styles is back with a quietly pulsing new song, 50-date tour and, best of all, a great album title www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

Irishwoman Rachel Duffy has been the standout star of The Traitors UK, but she’s in deep trouble #TheTraitors www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

If Marisa Abela hadn’t already won a Bafta for #Industry, they would have to give her one for this week’s episode. My god, what brilliant television.

I’ve already watched the greatest slice of live television entertainment I’ll see all year — my column today www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

This episode has massively cemented my tendency to be up for the traitors in #TheTraitors

RTÉ’s Laura Fox: ‘The only way I’m ever going to survive in this industry is just by being myself. www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

An advertisement that aged fast, from The Irish Times, April 12th, 1912

My culture column today: As queen of live events, in 2026 I will compel all gigs to specify stage times www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

I’ve seen #ItWasJustAnAccident, #SentimentalValue and #MartySupreme over the past week — all excellent films, I love this time of year when there’s suddenly a glut of great things in the cinema.

My column today is for everyone who definitely isn’t thinking about work… Warning: These 2025 TV shows and films contain scenes of a workplace nature www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

The age of instability: ‘Ireland feels like a small boat caught in a tempestuous storm’ — my distinctly unfestive review of the year www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Tess and Claudia will be missed. But it’s the kicks and swivels that make Strictly Come Dancing www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

The age of instability: ‘Ireland feels like a small boat caught in a tempestuous storm’ — my distinctly unfestive review of the year www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I’m home from my office Christmas party and currently of the opinion that I Did Something Bad by Taylor Swift is the best song ever written. These facts are unrelated.

A very important read: The pain of endometriosis is sometimes a shell, and sometimes it’s the entire beach www.irishtimes.com/health/your-...

Millions will be made by the toiletries brand that eventually realises that at this time of year I just want Shower Gel (and Only Shower Gel) in a Nice Box.

A very fine day. All set up for a pleasant party. Are those suppressed memories returning yet? To mark #JaneAusten250, I’ve written about the moment “Emma could not resist”. www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

My column today: I’m dreaming of a mild and slightly damp Christmas, just like the ones we (used to) know 🎶 www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

I went to see #BlueMoon and absolutely loved it — Ethan Hawke, Andrew Scott, Margaret Qualley and Bobby Cannavale were all great in it, and, well, I tend to adore films about disappointment.

My column today: I’m dreaming of a mild and slightly damp Christmas, just like the ones we (used to) know 🎶 www.irishtimes.com/culture/musi...

Elevation to Six One slot makes Tommy Meskill a big winner in latest RTÉ rejig www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

Ireland, Spain and the Netherlands have all withdrawn from #Eurovision2026. Slovenia likely to drop out too. www.rte.ie/entertainmen...

It’s a pity that Kelly Brook has been voted off #IACGMOOH — she was a great narrator of events in the Bush Telegraph and the show needs someone like that.

The BBC’s decision to broadcast that pointless, nonsensical, agent-devised cash-grab spectacle of a tennis match between Aryna Sabalenka and Nick Kyrgios is farcical and pathetic.

My column today is on the risk of TV shows outstaying their welcome: I love #Pluribus on Apple TV. But will I still love it when it reaches season four? www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

My column today: Parasocial relationships are very 2025 apparently. They’re also perfectly normal www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

It’s happened again. I find a headline in The Irish Times archive from November-December 2019, think “I forgot that happened”, then click on the story and it turns out I wrote it. Anything immediately pre-pandemic just got pushed out of my head months later.

I loved the second season of #Obituary — so many audacious lines and great performances — and I’ll be sad if that’s the end of Elvira, Emerson and co, but it feels like it might be given where they left it.

My column today: You don’t have to understand every word of artists such as Rosalía and Gwenno to love them www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

A beautiful tribute to Observer journalist Rachel Cooke, whose writing I loved. observer.co.uk/news/nationa...

BBC’s near permacrisis is a cautionary tale for RTÉ about what can happen if editorial oversight starts to drift www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

I don’t want to kick the BBC when it’s down, but it broadcast a three-part #GirlbandsForever series that failed to get an interview with any member of Girls Aloud so therefore chose to erase them completely. There should be a parliamentary inquiry.

My column today: Hollywood’s obsession with reissued films makes cinemas feel like museums with popcorn www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

My preview piece on RTÉ’s Radio 1 reboot, which starts on Monday: ‘We weren’t aware that this level of a shake-up was on the cards’ www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

That was absolutely incredible — I feel like I was totally fooled by the edit all along. Brilliant work. #TheCelebrityTraitors

That third season of #BlueLights was great stuff — so much tension. You know something is probably shaping up to be good when Michael Smiley joins the cast, and so it proved.

I loved the “that’s television” line on this week’s #GoggleboxIRL after a hilarious sequence about Hollyoaks. But what I loved even more was the way the episode showed what people sometimes forget: that #Gogglebox isn’t ultimately about television, it’s about us.

Matt Cooper on the Dunnes dynasty: ‘Ben was obsessed with proving himself’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

My interview with Miriam O’Callaghan as she publishes her memoir: ‘Receptiongate was the most stressful moment of my entire career’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

Crying my eyes out at #OnceUponATimeInSpace and they haven’t even used the word Challenger yet.

I loved hearing She’s Not There so prominently at the end of this week’s Slow Horses — just the perfect verse to pre-chorus to chorus transitions wrapped in a classic Sixties sound, everything ambling along right up until it isn’t. youtube.com/watch?v=_2hX...

This week’s column: Art deco is 100 years old. Isn’t it time we gave it some love? www.irishtimes.com/culture/2025...

The presidential election is done and dusted. Move on by reading my interview with David Gillick: ‘I was angry and bitter but I also had fear - if I’m not running, what the hell do I do?’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

The presidential election is done and dusted. Move on by reading my interview with David Gillick: ‘I was angry and bitter but I also had fear - if I’m not running, what the hell do I do?’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

I’m doing pretty well on #UniversityChallenge tonight. I can’t prove it, but I am.

David McCullagh: ‘There’s plenty of people in the long grass hoping I’ll fall flat on my face’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

My column today: RTÉ has plans for sitcoms that are ‘accessible, inclusive, mainstream’ and funny. What could go wrong? www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...

This Rinderknech-Vacherot final in Shanghai is the best thing that’s happened in men’s tennis all year. #BattleOfTheCousins

My column today is on the BBC’s new three-year deal with a source of joy in my life: The Graham Norton Show is 50 minutes of chatshow alchemy delivered with aplomb #TheGNShow www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-r...