A YOUNG woman in crumpled business attire is drunk and alone in a bar.

Raw Force HERE'S a pertinent question for you in these pandemic times.

AN EXTRAORDINARY tale combining Nazi ideals and an English all-girls finishing school, you would be forgiven for thinking Six Minutes To Midnight's premise was entirely fictitious.

LIKE many of us, Kate Winslet is hiding a multitude of sins out of shot of her Zoom camera.

PICASSO had his periods – Blue, Pink, African, Cubist.

LOCKDOWN has enforced a unique period of isolation and reflection for many of us, but for Moby, two decades from the height of his fame, that's not too far from the norm.

FOR even the most balanced of us, the past 15 months has been tough on so many levels, made worse by the fact that the light at the end of the Coronavirus tunnel still seems very dim and very far away.

LAST August Michelle Obama shared a playlist of songs that had inspired her during a recent project.

FICTION Every Vow You Break by Peter Swanson is published in hardback by Faber & Faber, priced £12.

ON MARCH 7 1921, the Protests and Appeals Committee of the Irish Football Association (IFA) met to schedule the replay of an Irish Cup semi-final tie between Dublin-based club Shelbourne and Lurgan-based club Glenavon.

HE'S the TV bushcraft expert who's travelled to some of the wildest regions of the planet, from the tropical lushness of the Amazon rainforest to the chilly wilds of the Arctic – but Ray Mears says his favourite place to ramble is still his home place, Britain.

MICHAEL Rosen looks like a sprightly 74-year-old, wispy curls of grey hair and short beard framing his long friendly face, as he tells me about the exercise regime he has undertaken to get him back to full health after his terrifyingly close brush with death from Covid.

How do you unwind at the weekend? Pre-lockdown, it was all about family and friends, like the people we'd stay with who live near the beach at Portaferry.

SIR Simon Rattle quitting as director of the London Symphony Orchestra to take up a job in Germany is perhaps among the most high profile examples of the pandemic's cultural fallout.

Peter Liversidge at The MAC IT'S very impressive that The MAC has commissioned edgy English artist Peter Liversidge, whose CV includes work at Tate Modern, to produce a comment on our times.

A VISIT to the pantomime is as much a part of Christmas as decorating the tree and giving presents but sadly as the theatre doors remain closed this festive season due to Covid-19 restrictions, the sounds of children's laughter at the on-stage pantomime antics won't be heard this year.

GO mBEANNAÍ DIA daoibh front- and back-street drivers, for a road trip to the Bluffer’s Guide to Irish. Turas bóthair is the Irish for a road trip and also a TV series whose forth...

Má léann tú an colún seo ar bhonn riaita, beidh a fhios agat gur fan mór den scannánóir Adam Curtis mé. Tá stíl ar leith ag bai...

DINNSEANCHAS Ballywalter - Baile Bháltair - Walter’s townland Ballywalter in the Ards peninsula in Co. Down derives from Baile Bháltair ‘Walter’s townland’, an...

April showers may come our way but TG4 is going to provide a televisual umbrella to keep us dry and entertained this month with a great line-up of programmes so get the google calender ready to jot th...