Today's top TV and streaming picks: The Sunday Game Live, Paddington and The Four Seasons
Snooker: The World Championship BBC1, 1pm & BBC2, 7pm
The final begins at the Crucible Theatre in Sheffield. Reigning champion Kyren Wilson won't be defending his title — he lost in the first round — so who will lift the famous trophy this time around? The concluding frames are on Monday.
The Sunday Game Live RTÉ2, 1.15pm
Kerry take on Clare in the Munster Senior Football Championship final at Fitzgerald Stadium before the equivalent Connacht match takes place — Mayo and Galway are the teams locking horns.
The concluding episode charts the course of one year, taking in the changing of the seasons and their impact on the county's inhabitants, including badgers, red deer, hen harriers and puffins.
Gradam Ceoil TG4 2025 TG4, 9.30pm
Coverage of the awards ceremony, which takes place at the University Concert Hall, Limerick. Among those receiving trophies are Singer of the Year Cathy Jordan, Lifetime Achievement winner Matt Cranitch and Colm Broderick, who has been named Young Traditional Musician of the Year.
Paddington BBC One, 4.25pm
Michael Bond's bear from darkest Peru is brought brilliantly to life in this hugely entertaining family film. Voiced by Ben Whishaw, Paddington arrives in London, where he is targeted by a taxidermist (Nicole Kidman) after being taken in by the Brown clan.
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Life's a Breeze RTÉ One, 9.30pm
An elderly woman's relatives throw out an old mattress while cleaning her house. However, they then embark on a frantic search for the item after its owner reveals she had been storing her savings in it. Comedy starring Kelly Thornton and Fionnula Flanagan.
Star Wars: Tales Of The Underworld Disney+, streaming now
Where else would you be getting yet more unsolicited Star Wars-related viewing? This time it's animated and features the tribulations of bounty hunter Asajj Ventress and outlaw Cad Bane over six episodes.
The Handmaid's Tale Prime Video, streaming now
While I still can't bring myself to watch it, for those of you fully immersed in the 'fictional' realm of Gilead, the sixth and final season is now available. The Four Seasons Netflix, streaming now
Three couples — Kate (Tina Fey) and Jack (Will Forte), Nick (Steve Carell) and Anne (Kerri Kenney-Silver), plus Danny (Colman Domingo) and Claude (Marco Calvani) — face serious introspection when one of the couples announces their split. For more saccharine aspirational viewing, Prime Video has released Another Simple Favour, starring Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively.
A Complete Unknown Disney+, streaming now
Arriving in 1960s New York armed with his guitar, 19-year-old Bob Dylan (portrayed by Timothée Chalamet's impressive jawline) is set to revolutionise American music. Angi: Fake Life, True Crime Netflix, streaming now
In 2008, the remains of 35-year-old designer Ana Páez were discovered in Barcelona. Dubbed 'The Almost Perfect Crime', this documentary revisits the case and explores the dark past of María Ángeles Molina ('Angi') and her late husband. In other European offerings, the final instalment of Lost Bullet arrives Wednesday, while AppleTV+ is now offering pastry, espionage, and Bridgerton levels of fornication in Carême.
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RTÉ News
an hour ago
- RTÉ News
Whistling past the graveyard as Mayo-Donegal head for the Hyde
Mayo and Donegal decamp to the 'neutral' venue of Dr Hyde Park for what is likely to be a do-or-die game for Stephen Rochford's team at any rate. Personally, I could understand how Donegal supporters might be a bit miffed at the choice of venue. But then other options were probably thin on the ground. The Markievicz pitch is closed for maintenance until the new year and Carrick-on-Shannon might struggle to accommodate the two sets of supporters. Notwithstanding the backdrop behind one of the goals, the Hyde has been anything but a graveyard for Mayo in my time. We haven't lost there in championship since the 2001 Connacht final, close to a quarter of a century ago. Given our record in MacHale Park in the last decade or so, I've thought about petitioning the county board to nominate Roscommon as our home pitch in future. The game inevitably sparks memories of the MacHale Park Super 8s game in 2019, which was a very similar scenario. Donegal were Ulster champions and unbeaten that summer. Our backs were to the wall. We had lost to Roscommon earlier that summer and took a pasting off Kerry in Killarney in the opening Super 8s game. It was one of the best atmospheres I've played in at Castlebar. It was a damp Saturday evening but the place was electric. We turned them over for a famous victory. All four teams have two points entering into the final round, which is an unusual situation in itself. But due to the sequence of results, Mayo are in much more urgent need of a result than Donegal. You can probably tell from that that I don't much fancy Cavan's chances against Tyrone, a team who they've lost against relentlessly over the years. The size of Donegal's win in Kingspan Breffni underlined again - if we needed reminding - how awful Mayo were in the first group game. It was a perennial Mayo problem. Deep down, failing to respect the teams we should beat. It could well prove costly. We saw how transformed they were with a completely different attitude in Omagh, where we devoured them at midfield and on breaking ball. It has to be a similar high-octane vibe this Sunday and the context surrounding the game should feed into that. There's no safety net now. But let's not get carried away either. A defeat here and they're likely out of the championship. Meaning that the past three years will have seen a quarter-final exit, a preliminary quarter-final exit and a group stage exit. Not a good trajectory to be on. They also beat a flat Tyrone team, who were without their strongest ball winner in Brian Kennedy. They're facing a different proposition this week. The Ulster champions have a multitude of aerial options. Michael Langan is an imposing presence and a major scoring outlet. Ciaran Thompson is there, Michael Murphy will be drifting into the middle to fetch kickouts. They've Jason McGee waiting on the bench. Then, they'll have the runners shooting in to seize breaking ball and their wide players will be running off the shoulder and then they're pouring forward. On top of that, Shaun Patton's booming kickouts are a ferocious weapon, which can set them off on attacks in a heartbeat. They've an abundance of two-point shooters, from Langan to Paddy McBrearty to Oisín Gallen, an area of the game where Mayo's threat, as has been documented, is almost non-existent. Mayo have a strong record against Donegal - since the 2012 final, we've knocked them out in big championship games in 2013, 2015 and the aforementioned 2019. But looking at it dispassionately, it's hard to conclude that Donegal aren't three to four points the better team currently. Though Mayo being Mayo, I expect them to go down swinging. Who knows? If the game is close in the Hyde and word filters through that Tyrone are winning well in Enniskillen, we might gravitate towards a draw - similar to that league finale in Ballybofey when Kevin McLoughlin scored the equaliser after taking about 86 steps or whatever it was. There will be similar levels of anxiety in Group 4, where supporters will be scrolling their phones to check the other score constantly. Armagh supporters needn't worry about any of that. But I don't see them easing off the throttle this Saturday evening. If anything, I reckon Kieran McGeeney could spy a chance to eliminate one of their chief rivals. Even if he does ring the changes, Armagh have so much depth currently they won't be substantially weakened. We spoke about Donegal's two-point threat earlier. But Galway's two-point obsession was nearly the ruin of them in Celtic Park. Padraic Joyce was understandably happy to have survived at all but if you watch back the closing stages, they had more than enough time and chances to overhaul Derry had they taken more prudent options in attack. Paul Conroy, Cillian McDaid and Dylan McHugh, three of their biggest players last year, were massively subdued and taken off before the end. You could say their depth did save them in the end, with Céin Darcy and, to a lesser extent, Peter Cooke coming good in the closing stages. It's a huge game in Páirc Esler and a nervy one for the Hill. Imagine Dublin tumbling out of the championship this early? Their performance against Armagh was borderline surreal at times. The wild shooting was bad enough. Being guilty of three 'three-up' infractions at this stage of the season was almost beyond belief. Have Derry the tools and the men in form to take them down? They played with staggering intensity at home to Galway and Conor Glass is almost in Footballer of the Year territory (can you win it if your team can't win a match?) Niall Loughlin had a super game the last day but I fear they're over-reliant on the midfield pairing of Glass and Brendan Rogers. Shane McGuigan is still not hitting the heights of 2022-23. And they're still conceding too many goals. Five against Kerry in the league, four against Armagh in the league, four again against Galway the last day... and some of them have been plain chaotic. A lot will depend on whether Con O'Callaghan is back in the saddle this week, but I don't expect as wasteful a shooting display again. My hunch is a Dublin win in Newry, with possibly another drawn game in Cavan. Meaning the Connacht champions will sneak through without needing a win in the Group of Death. Follow a live blog on the All-Ireland Football Championship on Saturday on and the RTÉ News app. Listen to updates on Saturday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1. Watch highlights on The Saturday Game at 9.30pm. Watch an All-Ireland Football Championship double-header, Monaghan v Down and Donegal v Mayo, on Sunday from 1.30pm. Follow a live blog on and the RTÉ News app. Listen to updates on Sunday Sport on RTÉ Radio 1. Watch highlights on The Sunday Game at 9.30pm.
Irish Daily Mirror
2 hours ago
- Irish Daily Mirror
Sky Glass Air is a new way to watch TV and its super low price may surprise you
Good news for anyone looking for an inexpensive 4K TV as the new Sky Glass Air television has just arrived in Ireland and the price might surprise you. This latest screen was first announced way back in February when the firm unveiled its highly-rated Sky Glass Gen 2 flagship TV. The new Sky Glass Air is slimmer and more affordable. So how much is it going to cost you and what do you get for your money? We've got all the info you need to know… On contract, Sky Glass Air prices will start from just €8 per month for the 43in model and it's also available in 55in and 65in sizes for €12.50 and €15.50 respectively. You pay that on an interest-free deal over 48 months. For that money, you get a pixel-packed 4K HDR Quantum Dot display, a slim and sleek design with barely-there bezels and top notch Dolby audio to help improve the sound of those nightly box set binges. To help it blend into your home, Sky Glass Air comes in three colours, which are dubbed Sea Green, Carbon Grey and Cotton White. One huge bonus of switching to a Sky Glass TV is that you don't need a satellite dish stuck to your home's exterior walls. Instead, all your content is beamed to your big Glass screen using an internet connection. Along with full live channels plus and on-demand content, Sky Glass Air also has full access to all the most popular streaming apps such as Netflix, Disney+, Prime Video and Apple TV+. Thanks to the firm's impressive in-built Sky OS operating system, you also get personalised recommendations for each member of the family and a Playlists option where you can store things to watch at a later date. The user interface on Sky's platform is superb, fast and fluid in everyday use. And with hands-free voice control, simply say 'Hello Sky…' to turn on the TV, search for shows or genres from Sky and apps, adjust volume, add to Playlist and much more. You might be thinking that €8 sounds too good to be true. Of course, that low Sky Glass Air price doesn't include any premium channels such as Sky Sports or Sky Cinema and the more you add on, the bigger your bill will obviously get. But Sky's top value Essential TV option costs just €18, bringing your total monthly bill to €26. You can also upgrade to Sky Ultimate TV for an extra €7 per month, unlocking even more channels including Sky Max, Sky Comedy, Sky Documentaries, Sky Crime, Sky History and Sky Showcase. And if you don't fancy a contract, the good news is you can also opt to pay for Sky Glass Air upfront, all in one go. Upfront pricing starts from just €419 for the 43in screen with things rising to €779 for the 65in model. Speaking about the launch, Caroline Donnellan, Marketing and Brand Director of Sky TV & NOW, said: 'With the launch of Sky Glass Air, we're bringing the Sky TV experience to even more households in Ireland. Combining an elegant design, superb picture quality and rich sound from just €8 a month, Sky Glass Air is our smarter TV for a smarter price. 'It's about giving our customers their favourite content with greater flexibility, without compromising on the quality our customers expect from Sky." Sky Glass Air is available to buy at Sky stores and using Sky's call centres. It will also be on sale in Currys stores later this month.
Irish Independent
5 hours ago
- Irish Independent
Disney and Universal sue commercial AI firm over using their copyrighted images to generate pictures
©Associated Press Today at 21:30 Disney and Universal have filed a copyright lawsuit against a popular AI image-generator – marking the first time major Hollywood companies have entered the legal battle over generative AI's use of existing content which is already owned by a commercial entity. Filed in federal district court in LA, the complaint claims Midjourney pirated the libraries of the two Hollywood studios to generate and distribute 'endless unauthorised copies' of their famed characters, such as Darth Vader from Star Wars and the Minions from Despicable Me.
