Alan Corr

Multimedia Journalist

Sinéad O'Connor: beautiful, contradictory, infuriating, defiant and resilient. The new documentary airs on Monday, 9:35pm on RTÉ One and RTÉ Player

SINÉAD is a moving portrait of a remarkable woman

Perhaps Christy Moore says it best. Speaking during SINÉAD, a new hour-long documentary about the late Sinéad O'Connor, he says, "She had a rebel heart, a rebel soul. She wasn't a mainstream girl."

Television • 09 Jan 24

He's baaaaack! The Tommy Tiernan Show, RTÉ One, 9.30pm

What's on: TV highlights for Saturday

The Tommy Tiernan Show is back for its eighth series; Shirley Bassey gives it socks at the BBC; and a double Oscar-winning movie - here's our telly picks for today

Television • 06 Jan 24

Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi in Priscilla

Priscilla explores the dark side of the Elvis myth

Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Tim Post, Lynne Giffin, Dagmara Dominczyk

Movie Review • 02 Jan 24

Grian Chatten, CMAT, Caroline Polachek, Mik Pyro, Damon Albarn of Blur and Róisín Murphy

Listen: our top Irish and international albums of 2023

Irish music's golden age glittered even more and it was a pretty stellar year on the international front - here are our top records of 2023

Music • 28 Dec 23

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, Virgin TV on Demand

What's on: TV highlights for Saturday 23 December

Indiana Jones returns in an old-fashioned caper (and fedora); there's a Weakest Link Christmas special, and Christmas classic Die Hard is worth another watch - here's our top telly for today

Television • 23 Dec 23

Whamageddon for Pogues as Christmas No.1 fairytale ends

The Pogues classic seasonal song Fairytale of New York has missed out on the coveted UK Christmas No.1 as Wham! claimed the festive top spot with their track Last Christmas - nearly forty years after it was first released.

Music • 22 Dec 23

Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip in The Crown

"I cried when Princess Diana died", says The Crown star

Jonathan Pryce, who plays Prince Philip in Netflix drama The Crown, has said he cried when he heard about the death of Princess Diana in September 1997, adding that it was the first time he had ever shed tears for a member of the British royal family.

Television • 14 Dec 23

A fairytale farewell to Shane on his final journey home

As Shane MacGowan once said, "God is Irish." It was hard to disagree with him yesterday as the great and the good gathered to bid a Pogue and a rogue a final fond farewell.

Music • 11 Dec 23

Ae fond Pogue: Shane MacGowan performing with The Pogues in the Netherlands in 1986

Shane MacGowan: Twilight of a Celtic champion

Growing up betwixt the auld triangulation points of Irish rebel songs, the rutted boreens of Tipperary and the din of London, Shane Patrick Lysaght MacGowan always seemed bound for some kind of ragged glory.

Music • 08 Dec 23

Shane MacGowan: A Fairytale of London

Shane MacGowan has died just weeks short of his 66th birthday this Christmas Day. To mark his sad passing, we've republished this archive interview from Christmas 1997, when Alan Corr met Shane in his London local

Music • 30 Nov 23