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Friday, December 19, 2025 7:40 AM ET

Independent.ie - Entertainment

TV Reviews - Pat Stacey: My top 10 TV shows of 2025 – a truly fantastic year for television

7 hours ago

Celebrity -- Former husband of singer Kirsty MacColl says wrong man took the blame for her death in Mexican speedboat accident

7 hours ago

Golf -- Not even BBC's reality TV-style can spoil the McIlroy SPOTY party as, in sport, sometimes the good guys come out on top

11 hours ago

Britain -- Rory McIlroy becomes the first golfer since the 1980s to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award after stellar 2025

13 hours ago

Book Reviews -- Jane Birkin, the song banned by the BBC and why that iconic handbag is the least interesting aspect of her life

7 hours ago

TV Reviews -- Born That Way review: A moving portrait of a carer coming to terms with his own disability

7 hours ago

Music -- Johnny Logan on Hold Me Now: 'I was sharing a house with five students in Wandsworth Common. I didn't have any money. I hadn't a bean'

7 hours ago

Radio -- Declan Lynch: 'Our political class insists on drawing our gaze back to the dreary steeples of that weird little election campaign'

12 hours ago

Movie News -- From ABC to YouTube – Oscars to undergo major broadcasting change for first time in 50 years

1 day ago

Celebrity News -- Zooey Deschanel says she wasn't first choice for role in Christmas classic 'Elf'

1 day ago

Music Reviews -- Kneecap at the 3Arena: Fairytale of New York, a rendition of The Auld Triangle, and a tribute to Manchán Magan – Belfast trio round out 2025 on a high

2 days ago

TV Reviews -- Eilis O'Hanlon: Does it really matter if The Salt Path is factually accurate? That's the one question this gripping doc didn't ask

1 day ago

TV Reviews -- 'Inside Legoland at Christmas' review: It turns out playing with Lego is not always fun – like this documentary

1 day ago

Movie Reviews -- Avatar: Fire and Ash review – Did James Cameron write this epic, woozy mess on the back of a beer mat?

2 days ago

Movie Reviews -- Silent Night, Deadly Night review: Festive slasher has plenty of daft mayhem for fright fans

2 days ago

Theatre & Arts -- Cosimo review: Mary Murray is a powerhouse in Rex Ryan-directed one woman show which curiously skips a few vital chapters

1 day ago

Movie Reviews -- Goodbye June review: Kate Winslet's directorial debut is a star-studded hymn to family bonds during times of crisis

2 days ago

Movies -- Christmas film guide: From Scrooges to Santas, saints to elves, and all the Die Hards, our critics have snowploughed through the streamers to plot their festive favourites

3 days ago

TV Reviews -- Forget 'Stranger Things', this 'It: Welcome to Derry' is by far the better series

3 days ago

TV News -- Traitors star, Eurovision singer and Rose of Tralee – here's full list of the Dancing with the Stars celebrity contestants

3 days ago

Television -- What to watch on TV and streaming today: Celebrity MasterChef Final, Ballywalter and Born to be Wild

7 hours ago

Movies -- Rob and Michele Reiner died of 'multiple sharp force injuries', records show

1 day ago

Celebrity News -- Furry doll craze and papal election among most talked-about moments of 2025 on X

1 day ago

Celebrity News -- Alan Cumming 'excited' to be announced as Bafta film awards host

1 day ago

Celebrity News -- Oscars to leave US network ABC for YouTube in 2029

1 day ago

Book Reviews -- Miriam O'Callaghan's best books of the year, and Sophie White's, Dr Marie Cassidy's, and Joseph O'Connor's too

3 days ago

Britain -- Obituary: John Carey, literary scholar and a waspish critic who railed against intellectual snobbery

5 days ago

Books -- 'You cannot eat a better sweet': the story of Lemon's Pure Sweets in Dublin

6 days ago

Books -- Winter Papers 11: An anthology of insight and wit, that is occasionally startling

4 days ago

Book Reviews -- Poet Ciaran Carson's musings on music and his art in The Brimming World strike a chord

6 days ago

Books -- New Irish Writing: You Can Do Hard Things by Sophie Treacy

20 days ago

Books -- New Irish Writing: Poetry by Seán Carlson

20 days ago

New Irish Writing -- Read the New Irish Writing stories and poetry shortlisted for the An Post Irish Book Awards

1 month ago

Books -- New Irish Writing: Poetry by Christina Hennemann

1 month ago

Books -- New Irish Writing: That Little Tent of Blue by Mary Shovelin

1 month ago

Books -- Shortlist revealed for New Irish Writing awards

1 month ago

Music -- 'She had the time of her life' – Co Down busker (12) wows audiences at top European music contest after Toy Show performance

4 days ago

TV News -- 'Amadeus' review: Miniseries remake of Oscar-laden classic is a pale facsimile

4 days ago

Music -- The big Westlife interview: Who Simon didn't like, who was the golden boy, would Brian come back, who Louis says were the 'guinea pigs'

4 days ago

Theatre & Arts -- Obituary: Joanna Trollope, ovelist crowned 'queen of the Aga saga' for her tales of bourgeois angst

5 days ago

Celebrity News -- Twink's beloved bird, Timberlake, killed during Christmas panto rehearsals – 'Timby was on my shoulder for the past 26 years'

6 days ago

Theatre & Arts -- 'Her marriage was unhappy but also unbreakable': The love triangle of Sinéad Cusack, Tom Stoppard and Jeremy Irons

6 days ago

Theatre & Arts -- Shane Lehane: 'The Gloaming were the soundtrack to my book, as I played them throughout the creative process'

6 days ago

Theatre & Arts -- Uncle Vanya review: Brian Friel's take on Chekhov's doom and gloom classic is strangely well suited for Christmas

6 days ago

Octopath Traveler 0 review: The numbers add up for Zero

1 day ago

Lumines Arise review: The wildest nightclub you've ever seen

7 days ago

Metroid Prime 4 Beyond review: The Samus suit never goes out of fashion even after 18 years

12 days ago

Hyrule Warriors – Age of Imprisonment review: Zelda gets herself out of jail

18 days ago

The Séance of Blake Manor review: A hauntingly Irish ghost story

25 days ago

Reach review: Take a leap of faith if you can stomach it

1 month ago