On Morning Ireland on Monday (27 March) Cathal MacCiolla introduced the presenter of the “What it says in the pape...

Flesh and Blood, and Hide and Seek, two new RTÉ series, one fact, one fiction, both worth trying. Reviewed by Dermot Bolger

Colin Murphy meets Enda Walsh, the man behind Disco Pigs and the latest play by Druid, The Walworth Farce

Conor Kelly's Aerophone show cannot be dismissed as simple video art; his three works dizzy the senses and cross boundaries with what could be called 'artistic synaesthesia'. Billy Leahy reports

The news that the Government is shortly to introduce tough privacy laws which will recognise in Irish law the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights in the Princess Caroline of Monaco case will be welcomed by the vast majority of citizens. By John Waters.

Mike Tyson arrived in Dublin last week to much less controversy than normally surrounds him. A few half-hearted radio de...

Problems are already occuring with private home help in the Dublin area. Scott Millar reports

Derry council has voted to take a High Court case against the FOI Commissioner, who said that the council should disclose a deal it did with Ryanair regarding the council-owned Derry airport. Eamonn McCann reports

Though it sounds cheesy, there'd be much to enjoy in James Stephens's tale of philosophers, shepherd girls, celtic gods and leprechauns – if it wasn't so indulgently long, writes Colin Murphy

As all viewers of Columbo, Inspector Morse and A Touch of Frost are aware, the "hunch" is a crucial element of police detective work. In the fictional world, the investigator forms a view of what has occurred – how the crime was committed; who had means, motive and opportunity; who the murderer might be – and sets about looking for the evidence to back up this hunch. In television land, these hunches are disproved on only the rarest occasions, and then only in the subtlest fashion.