Ireland excels at a lot of things. Literature. Preachy rock stars. Potato-based snacks. But in television we have long punched below our weight: compare and contrast our history of underachievement on the small screen with the ambitious, cutting-edge TV produced by nations of a similar size, from Borgen (Denmark) to Wellington Paranormal (New Zealand). Still, … Read more
I grew up in Finglas in Dublin, but I don’t often go back there. We ended up in Phibsborough in my teens, so general northside is home. I don’t go home as much as I would like to, so when I do, I’m back in Phibsborough or I’m hanging around town. I went to university … Read more
A charmer on social media called me an unrepeatable name after I expressed misgivings over the finale of Lisa McGee’s Derry Girls, which, at the very last moment, lost its footing and was swept away in a deluge of saccharine. I suspect I shall have to don a hard hat all over again with the … Read more
In a small, cramped room in Belfast a group of people are huddled in the cold, watching live footage of three women entering the same hotel room again and again. This is not some sort of law-enforcement sting operation but the set of How to Get to Heaven from Belfast, Lisa McGee’s excellent new comedy … Read more
The Lincoln Lawyer From Thursday, February 5th, Netflix Mickey Haller is back in the driving seat – or the back seat if you want to be literal about it – for a new batch of legal cases. In this fourth series based on the bestselling novels by Michael Connelly – in this case it’s on … Read more