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  • The Irish Times critics' choice

    Steven Isserlis   Irish Times  writers preview future events including the return of My Bloody Valentine, Brian Friel's adapton of Hedda Gabbler and Martin McDonagh's movie debut p
  • A flick through next year's pages

    Book Previews New novels by Sebastian Barry, John Boyne and Hugo Hamilton, and a new take on misery memoirs - the terror memoir - are among the books on offer, selected by Arminta Wallace p
Seen & Heard
  • The time traveller's strife

    TV Review Oh Kylie. You were supposed to be the dazzling centrepiece of the Doctor Who Christmas extravaganza, Voyage of the Damned , seducing everyone from tots to grannies with your winsome smile, high-kicking showgirlship and frisson of A-list celebrity. You looked great: cheeky black dress, plunging neckline, white frills, spiky lace-up boots - the perfect balance between ingénue and dominatrix, just enough to make post-prandially slumped dads perk up, but nothing to give Great Aunt Ruby the vapours. p
  • The last word - and it's goodbye

    Radio Review Friends asked whether there was a tipping point, a moment when the radio was hurled out the window and the letter of resignation dashed off in a temper. Maybe one too many Tubridy shows? Too much bottom talk from Gerry Ryan? Over-exposure to Newstalk's dreary breakfast show? Or even the thought of Nob Nation ? No, no "tipping point" to explain why this is my last radio review, though that is one of those expressions, along with "road map" and "going forward", that infested the airwaves like a plague this year - enough to drive any regular radio listener right round the bend. p
  • 'How do you keep yourself looking so young and beautiful?' What? The woman's so ugly she has to focking sneak up on the mirror

    The old dear's pilchard face is the toast of the viewing nation, and even Miriam is eating out of her hand. But wait - what has she done with her actual name? p
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