Paddy Kehoe

Multimedia Journalist

Paddy Kehoe has been working in journalism for 27 years. A former teacher, he began his career with In Dublin and Magill magazines, and he wrote theatre reviews for the Sunday Tribune and film reviews for Irish Stage & Screen magazine.

Gay Byrne on the radio was essential listening

The Gay Byrne Show began in 1973 as The Gay Byrne Hour and from the start, the only way was up for the programme, which ran for 25 years until its final live edition on Christmas Eve 1998

Gay Byrne • 05 Nov 19

Gay Byrne meets with Terry Wogan for his The Meaning of Life interview in 2014.

Gay Byrne: 'We are searching for a kind of certainty'

In October 2014, Paddy Kehoe spoke to Gay Byrne during a visit to Our Lady's Hospital in Crumlin, Dublin. The second volume of The Meaning of Life interviews, edited from the TV programme, had just appeared in book form.

Gay Byrne • 05 Nov 19

Head to Head: The great German film director Werner Herzog in one of the interviews for Meeting Gorbachev

Herzog's Meeting Gorbachev - the triumph of failure

The German film-maker Werner Herzog met Mikhail Gorbachev on three occasions to speak to him about his life, notably the period when he was General Secretary of the Communist party, attempting to reform Russia and its place in the world

Movies • 06 Nov 19

Drummer Roy Haynes performs in Newport, Rhode Island in 2009

Roy Haynes Quartet - Out of the Afternoon

Multi-instrumentalist Roland Kirk is the inevitable star of this pleasant 1962 outing from drummer Roy Haynes and friends, recently reissued on vinyl.

Music • 01 Nov 19

After the Wedding: Complicated baggage opens on the floor and spills out some painful facts

After the Wedding's taut domestic drama is compelling

Based on a Swedish film from 2006, After the Wedding is a taut domestic drama executed mostly with style and verve, but it cannot resist a rather ill-judged tear-jerker scene, towards the climax.

Movies • 31 Oct 19

Enrico Rava and Joe Lovano: two jazz greats live in Rome

Album review: Roma - Enrico Rava, Joe Lovano

Long, open-ended exercises that spread themselves unbuttoned across the stage of Rome's Auditorium Parco della Musica last November - that's the matter in hand on this delightful album from two veterans and their accomplices.

Music • 31 Oct 19

Pat Boran, co-editor of the compelling anthology Writing Home

Reviewed: Writing Home -The New Irish Poets

50 poets from a long list of different countries around the globe are represented in this compelling anthology of widely disparate voices, edited by poets Pat Boran and Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi.

Books • 31 Oct 19

By the Grace of God: disquieting drama from France

By the Grace of God: a French clerical sex scandal

Disquieting to watch, and based on real events, By the Grace of God recreates the explosive fallout in France in 2015 and 2016 when abusers banded together to confront a French priest and also to question church silence about his crimes

Film Review • 24 Oct 19

Roger Doyle performs Adolf Gebler, in St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, the final sequence in Brian Lally's absorbing film

The Curious Works of Roger Doyle: moving and brilliant

Composer Roger Doyle has always been a maverick of musical sonorities in this country and he is more than content to be doing his own thing, as this fascinating, often moving new documentary reveals.

Movies • 24 Oct 19

No, not a Charlie's Angels remake, it's Terminator: Dark Fate

Terminator: Dark Fate is terminal boredom

Arnie and no one else either can rescue us from the nightmare that is Terminator: Dark Fate

Movies • 24 Oct 19