TV reviews - Album reviews

Paul Whitington and Sarina Bellissimo review Nuremberg, The Running Man, Keeper and Park Avenue.

Hidden Assets - A Christmas Carol at The Gate - Ferocity review

Butler, Blake & Grant - Hymn to all the restless girls - Dublin Gothic

2025 Rooney Prize for Irish Literature - The Kiss - Andrew Michael Hurley

TV Reviews - Album Reviews

Film reviews - Bryce Dessner - Útóipe Cheilteach

Live from 1WML's Townhall, Arena celebrates the 100th issue of The Dublin Review. Rick is joined by editor Brendan Barrington, alongside contributors Sara Baume, Patrick Freyne, Doireann Ní Ghríofa, and Mark O’Connell. The evening also featured a musical performance by Seán Mac Erlaine and Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh.

Horslips - Die My Love - Aoife Ní Bhriain

Anemone - Train Dreams - On Friendship by Andrew O’Hagan

Rick embraces the Gothic and the Supernatural across the artistic realms with help from John Connolly, Jess Fahy, John Maguire and Louise Bruton.

Zadie Smith - Film reviews - Down Cemetery Road preview

Martin Parr - Bugonia - Dracula: The Hunt

Rita Ann Higgins - Ruán Magan - The Mirror Stage

Arena celebrated Culture Night 2025 in style with a special programme live from Studio 1 in RTÉ's Radio Centre, featuring Christine Dwyer Hickey, Tolu Makay, Iarla Ó Lionáird and Macdara Yeates. Actors Seamus Moran, Dave Herlihy and Marion Dwyer remembered the late great Seán Rocks.

Live from the Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire, a special event to announce the winner of this year’s RTE Short Story Competition, in honour of Francis MacManus. This special programme also features a live performance by David Kitt.

Film Reviews - Amelia - Lazarus review

Kevin Rowland - Madama Butterfly

Lazarus - The Mastermind - Rebel Without a Causeat 70

Haunted Dancehall - Wexford Opera Festival review - RTÉ Short Story Competition