5 For Your Radar: Aisling Bea, Ballydehob jazz, and more...
Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada 2 (left) and some of the colour at the Ballydehob jazz festival parade in 2024.
As Miranda Priestly edges toward retirement, she is drawn back into the fashion fray — and an uneasy reunion with former assistant Andy Sachs. Their alliance is tested when they come up against a powerful new rival: Emily Charlton, once Miranda’s right‑hand woman and now a force in her own right. Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt return for the sequel to the 2006 hit.
Returning for its 20th edition, the West Cork village is transformed into a hub of live music and street spectacle over the bank holiday weekend. Olivier Award-winning composer Benji Bower will premiere a newly commissioned work created especially for the festival, titled Trasnaíocht, at the Village Hall on Friday night. Donal Dineen is among the DJs performing over the weekend. Bring your dancing shoes.
Bafta- and British Comedy Award-winning Irish stand-up Aisling Bea brings her new show to Cork on May 1. There will be tales of travel, home, immigration, history, sex, babies, music, lovers, and enemies as the and star seeks to answer big life questions. As she says, it’s not about the destination babes, it's about the journey — but also the destinations are very important.
The 1926 census archive was opened to the public last month. In this two-part series, six well-known figures — author Joseph O’Connor, actor Eileen Walsh, trade unionist Mick Lynch, broadcaster Gormfhlaith Ní Thuairisg, architect Dermot Bannon, and broadcaster Louise Duffy — are guided by historians and archivists from the National Archives of Ireland, as they uncover the lives of some of those whose details were captured on a night in April 1926.
A musical drama written by Mick Flannery and based on his debut album , is directed by Julie Kelleher and stars Tommy Tiernan, making his musical theatre debut in the role of Ray. Set on the western edge of Ireland in the 1970s, it follows two brothers living with the odds stacked against them.
