Television: As the mystery unfolds, the Irish language component of Crá fades into the background, and a gripping thriller plays out

Nerina Pallot had to negotiate blokey media and music worlds early in her career. Now, with a lot more creative control, the singer-songwriter sets her own course

Television: Patrick Stewart brought dignity to science fiction as Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Us geeks owe him an enormous debt

Traitors Maya Jama and King Kenny are finally exposed in tense, close-run ending, while James Blunt becomes collateral damage

The actor’s Star Trek role made her globally famous. Now she brings her no-nonsense attitude to The Galway Bay Murders, a new RTÉ crime drama

Television: The former State Pathologist presents in a sober style and uses her expertise well to convey the severe punishment suffered by the accused

Julian Casablancas and co serve up the sort of nostalgia that their overwhelmingly Gen Z audience craves

Television: Despite being hopeless on Celebrity Traitors, scientist Hannah Fry is on much firmer ground with a deep dive into the subject of machine learning

In Dublin, Flowers exudes rock-star magnetism, his new country-rock-themed material topped off with a murderously enjoyable Killers hits set

Television: What really comes across in this well-intentioned documentary is the Friends star’s loneliness

Singer wanted The Hounds of Love album to draw on her Irish heritage, which led her to Dublin and a lifelong friendship with Lunny

The band’s operatic rock is made for our era of reduced attention spans, pivoting from punk to prog and back with such feral joy that you can’t not pay attention

Review: The avant-garde R&B singer embodies the genre-blurring ethos of a line-up that also features Nashpaints, Shampain, Voice Actor and Proc Fiskal

Television: This third season bobs along in a pleasant middlebrow haze, with no sense that anything is ever at stake

Television: No punches pulled as connection is drawn between Nazi dehumanisation of disability and modern day demonisation of disabled people as ‘benefits scroungers’