Eilis O’Hanlon on RTÉ’s Swindlers: ‘Hungry Celtic Tigers hid in the long grass, ready to devour the unwary’ The Irish Independent Source link
She will play Lily, the long lost mother of feisty barmaid Gwen ‘Coronation Street’ actor Beverley Callard on the Carrigstown set of ‘Fair City’. Image: RTÉ It was a momentous end to the decade. Communism was starting to crumble across eastern Europe; Charlie Haughey was elected taoiseach for the third and last time; and some … Read more
Television reviews Will Smith in Antarctica on his ‘Pole to Pole’ trip. Photo: National Geographic Imagine my joy… er… I mean disappointment. There I was, on the sofa, dutifully waiting for the launch of a new season of Love Island: All Stars, only to discover that it had been cancelled due to wildfires near the … Read more
Broadcaster Iain Dale’s new book on the UK’s first female prime minister offers an intelligent, nuanced take on a woman who has too often been reduced to a caricature State visit: Margaret Thatcher waves to onlookers in Moscow. Her nickname of the Iron Lady was coined by Russian media. Photo: Derek Hudson/Getty Images Social media … Read more
Television reviews RTÉ ‘Nationwide’ presenters Anne Cassin and Bláthnaid Ní Chofaigh Other programmes come and go, but Nationwide (RTÉ One, Monday, 7pm) is forever. One gets the sense that, if the country were ever ravaged by nuclear war, the show would still go out at the same time three nights a week, with Anne Cassin … Read more
Television reviews Bridget Christie as Linda in ‘The Change’. Photo: Channel 4 There was a lot of football on TV this week. Some might even say too much. Or is that just me? Probably the latter. Live sport continues to dominate lists of the most watched programmes on almost every channel – and that’s just … Read more
TV reviews Gráinne Seoige, Síomha Ní Ruairc and James Kavanagh on ‘Grá ar an Trá’ Remember when there used to be other things on TV apart from reality dating shows? No, me neither. From Love Island and Naked Attraction to Married at First Sight and Love is Blind, the airwaves are positively under occupation these days … Read more
TV reviews Carla O’Brien on ‘Crimecall’. Photo: Naoise Culhane Just to be absolutely clear, no one should be breaking into shops in the middle of the night and stealing a couple of bottles of whiskey. That said, is such a crime really worthy of inclusion in Crimecall (RTÉ One, Monday, 9.35pm)? The theft in question … Read more
Television reviews Maura Derrane and Dáithí Ó Sé took a look at the Eurovision contest Dáithí Ó Sé’s reaction on Monday’s Today (RTÉ One, Monday, 3.30pm) to this year’s Irish Eurovision entry, Laika Party, as chosen on The Late Late Show a few days earlier, couldn’t have been more Dáithíesque. “It’s a good old bop, … Read more
‘Fatal Crossing’ was an all-too-predictable Scandinoir Scandinoir thrillers tend to fall into the “seen one, seen ‘em all” category. Fatal Crossing (Channel 4, Monday, 12.05am) was no different in that respect. A disgraced journalist called Nora Sand goes back to her home town on the Danish island of Zealand and begins to investigate the case … Read more