The 10 best video games of 2025 2025 has been an absolutely outstanding year in gaming... Gaming • 10 hrs
The 10 best video games of 2025 2025 has been an absolutely outstanding year in gaming... Gaming • 10 hrs
Born That Way – the new documentary about an unsung Irish hero In a small wooden house in County Kilkenny, Ireland, Patrick Lydon's life is ebbing away... Documentaries • 18 Dec
Born That Way – the new documentary about an unsung Irish hero In a small wooden house in County Kilkenny, Ireland, Patrick Lydon's life is ebbing away... Documentaries • 18 Dec
The best films of 2025 - laughs, tears and a few small beers I genuinely feared the cinema year had peaked in January when it kicked off with Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold's The Brutalist... Film • 22 Dec
The best films of 2025 - laughs, tears and a few small beers I genuinely feared the cinema year had peaked in January when it kicked off with Brady Corbet and Mona Fastvold's The Brutalist... Film • 22 Dec
Great albums that you might have missed this year It is a fool's errand to argue that West End Girl by Lilly Allen is only the second biggest break-up album of 2025... Listicles • 23 Dec
Great albums that you might have missed this year It is a fool's errand to argue that West End Girl by Lilly Allen is only the second biggest break-up album of 2025... Listicles • 23 Dec
10 recommended Xmas shows for all the family There is no better time of the year for families than Christmas... Listicles • 21 Dec
10 recommended Xmas shows for all the family There is no better time of the year for families than Christmas... Listicles • 21 Dec
Irish artist Anne Madden dies aged 93 The painter Anne Madden has died at her home in Dublin. She was 93 years of age. Ireland • 21 Dec
Irish artist Anne Madden dies aged 93 The painter Anne Madden has died at her home in Dublin. She was 93 years of age. Ireland • 21 Dec
Oh no he didn't!* The formula for panto success revealed Karl Broderick is the writer and co-producer of the Stadium Panto: Cinderella with Sammy and Buffy at the National Stadium, Dublin, which this year sees the return of a Irish panto legend... Theatre • 20 Dec
Oh no he didn't!* The formula for panto success revealed Karl Broderick is the writer and co-producer of the Stadium Panto: Cinderella with Sammy and Buffy at the National Stadium, Dublin, which this year sees the return of a Irish panto legend... Theatre • 20 Dec
Why It's A Wonderful Life is still a winner today Frank Capra's masterpiece remains a Christmas classic because the film still speaks to many to us at this time of year Christmas • 19 Dec
Why It's A Wonderful Life is still a winner today Frank Capra's masterpiece remains a Christmas classic because the film still speaks to many to us at this time of year Christmas • 19 Dec
Jimmy Fay on the art of theatre criticism, and what we've lost The following is an edited version of a speech given by Jimmy Fay, Executive Producer of the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, at Mission Critical: A forum for international conversation about the future of theatre criticism Opinion and Analysis • 18 Dec
Jimmy Fay on the art of theatre criticism, and what we've lost The following is an edited version of a speech given by Jimmy Fay, Executive Producer of the Lyric Theatre in Belfast, at Mission Critical: A forum for international conversation about the future of theatre criticism Opinion and Analysis • 18 Dec
This is Art! 2025: Embrace the great outdoors to create great art The closing date for RTÉ's This Is Art! is midnight Saturday, 31 January 2026. Create, Snap & Upload now at www.rte.ie/thisisart. This is Art! 2025 • 19 Dec
This is Art! 2025: Embrace the great outdoors to create great art The closing date for RTÉ's This Is Art! is midnight Saturday, 31 January 2026. Create, Snap & Upload now at www.rte.ie/thisisart. This is Art! 2025 • 19 Dec
Kabin Crew: Spend Christmas with the young Cork rappers Kabin Crew's Christmas Special is back on RTÉ TV and is streaming now on RTÉ Player! Kabin Crew • 23 Dec
Kabin Crew: Spend Christmas with the young Cork rappers Kabin Crew's Christmas Special is back on RTÉ TV and is streaming now on RTÉ Player! Kabin Crew • 23 Dec
Family strife - why Mark O'Rowe's Reunion strikes a nerve A stormy island off the coast of Ireland plays host to a family gathering in Mark O'Rowe's contemporary drama, Reunion... Opinion and Analysis • 17 Dec
Family strife - why Mark O'Rowe's Reunion strikes a nerve A stormy island off the coast of Ireland plays host to a family gathering in Mark O'Rowe's contemporary drama, Reunion... Opinion and Analysis • 17 Dec
Other Voices Home at the Guinness Storehouse A night at the Guinness Storehouse always carries a certain magic, but this edition of Other Voices: Home at Guinness felt like something rarer still Culture • 17 Dec
Other Voices Home at the Guinness Storehouse A night at the Guinness Storehouse always carries a certain magic, but this edition of Other Voices: Home at Guinness felt like something rarer still Culture • 17 Dec
First Fortnight: Spoiler Alert - He Dies In The End 'Matty's dead, but it's not as bad as it sounds...' This year's First Fortnight Festival includes Liam McCarthy's acclaimed play He Dies in the End, First Fortnight • 16 Dec
First Fortnight: Spoiler Alert - He Dies In The End 'Matty's dead, but it's not as bad as it sounds...' This year's First Fortnight Festival includes Liam McCarthy's acclaimed play He Dies in the End, First Fortnight • 16 Dec
Amazing Grace: Meet Storyland star Fiadhnait Canning Fiadhnait Canning is the lead actor in Grace, a new Storyland drama written and directed by Anna Rodgers storyland • 18 Dec
Amazing Grace: Meet Storyland star Fiadhnait Canning Fiadhnait Canning is the lead actor in Grace, a new Storyland drama written and directed by Anna Rodgers storyland • 18 Dec
What Christmas movies reveal about social change over the decades From Jingle All the Way to Die Hard, Christmas films are perfect record keepers of social change and how we evolve as a society Christmas • 17 Dec
What Christmas movies reveal about social change over the decades From Jingle All the Way to Die Hard, Christmas films are perfect record keepers of social change and how we evolve as a society Christmas • 17 Dec
Meet the characters from a golden age of children's TV in Ireland From Daithi Lacha and Wanderly Wagon to The Den and Bosco, here are the Irish children's shows that have shaped us Children's Television • 16 Dec
Meet the characters from a golden age of children's TV in Ireland From Daithi Lacha and Wanderly Wagon to The Den and Bosco, here are the Irish children's shows that have shaped us Children's Television • 16 Dec
Sunday Miscellany: Hannukah, by the late Judith Mok On miracles, Rembrandt's Star of the Kings, and a battered Menorah Culture • 15 Dec
Sunday Miscellany: Hannukah, by the late Judith Mok On miracles, Rembrandt's Star of the Kings, and a battered Menorah Culture • 15 Dec
Rick O'Shea Book Club launches 2025 Xmas Appeal The Rick O'Shea Book Club is Ireland's largest book club with 40,000 members in over 100 countries - and they've just launched their annual Xmas Appeal. Books • 12 Dec
Rick O'Shea Book Club launches 2025 Xmas Appeal The Rick O'Shea Book Club is Ireland's largest book club with 40,000 members in over 100 countries - and they've just launched their annual Xmas Appeal. Books • 12 Dec
New Irish Writing: Before the Leaves Fall by Clare O'Dea Set in Switzerland, Before the Leaves Fall tells the story of Ruedi, a newly trained facilitator for an assisted dying organisation, and Margrit Brändli, his first client. Books • 14 Dec
New Irish Writing: Before the Leaves Fall by Clare O'Dea Set in Switzerland, Before the Leaves Fall tells the story of Ruedi, a newly trained facilitator for an assisted dying organisation, and Margrit Brändli, his first client. Books • 14 Dec
The French book prize where the winner is selected by prisoners The jury for the Goncourt des détenus literary prize is made up of around 600 prisoners in 45 different French penal institutions France • 15 Dec
The French book prize where the winner is selected by prisoners The jury for the Goncourt des détenus literary prize is made up of around 600 prisoners in 45 different French penal institutions France • 15 Dec
Sunday Miscellany: Skerries Solstice, by Seán O'Gorman Wintertime contemplations in a rocky place Culture • 15 Dec
Sunday Miscellany: Skerries Solstice, by Seán O'Gorman Wintertime contemplations in a rocky place Culture • 15 Dec
A Place in the Choir - The Lyric Feature joins the chorus In the new Lyric Feature documentary A Place in the Choir, chorus member and documentary maker Róisín Power opens the door into the world of the National Symphony Chorus of Ireland... The Lyric Feature • 15 Dec
A Place in the Choir - The Lyric Feature joins the chorus In the new Lyric Feature documentary A Place in the Choir, chorus member and documentary maker Róisín Power opens the door into the world of the National Symphony Chorus of Ireland... The Lyric Feature • 15 Dec
'The Ghosts of Rome' named An Post Irish Book of the Year Irish novelist and screenwriter Joseph O'Connor's 'The Ghosts of Rome' has been named the An Post Irish Book of the Year. Ireland • 12 Dec
'The Ghosts of Rome' named An Post Irish Book of the Year Irish novelist and screenwriter Joseph O'Connor's 'The Ghosts of Rome' has been named the An Post Irish Book of the Year. Ireland • 12 Dec
