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RTÉ News
4 hours ago
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Fair City on Friday: 'I'm begging you'
James pleads with Ger for help in Friday's Fair City on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player. In debt to a loan shark and reeling from a recent beating, James thinks Ger is his only hope. "What if they come after my family?" he asks her. "Like you care about anyone other than yourself?" Ger replies. "Please... please help me. I'm begging you," says James. Watch what happens next on Friday on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player at 7:30pm.
Irish Examiner
14 hours ago
- Entertainment
- Irish Examiner
TV review: Mrs Robinson is a good social document — but falls short as a biopic
It can be hard to warm to Mary Robinson. It's easy to admire her conviction, her fearlessness in facing down her sneering political rivals, her genuine compassion for weak and vulnerable people and her energy in taking on a new role as a grown-up Greta Thunberg to remind us that we don't get to negotiate with nature. But there is a veil there, an over-earnest sternness that makes parts of Mrs Robinson (RTÉ One and RTÉ Player) an awkward watch. Richard Branson pops up early on in this documentary film to point out that our former President likes to party and is full of fun. There isn't enough of this on view. I'd much rather watch Mary do Rock The Boat than reel off another worthy speech to a conference full of well-heeled people who have flown half way around the world to hear that they shouldn't be flying half way around the world. It's engaging in parts. She felt she wasn't as good looking as her four brothers, so she decided to 'be as smart as I can be.' The story of how she met her husband Nick while studying law in Trinity is nice without being interesting. She talks about her time in late 60s Harvard without a single anecdote that could have brought it all to life. One bolt from blue was that her parents didn't attend her wedding to Nick Robinson because he wasn't suitable. (Apparently a Protestant cartoonist wasn't what they had in mind.) The show picks up when the focus moves to her campaign to improve reproductive rights for women, followed by her legal role in the David Norris case that eventually decriminalised homosexuality in Ireland. But it's more a social document about 1970s Ireland than a personal biopic. Her almost accidental election as President, when Brian Lenihan's campaign imploded, is a good story if you haven't heard it before. But you probably have. (Although it's almost worth it for the man on the street who said it's hard enough living with a woman without having one as president, a decent reminder of the journey we've made here in the last 30 years.) Every now and again, the veil lifts. Her tears remembering the community spirit she felt during a visit to West Belfast, her anger in a speech about hunger in Somalia, these gave us a glimpse of Mary Robinson the person. I actually believe Richard Branson. I bet Mary Robinson is great craic in private. There just isn't enough of her in Mrs Robinson. Read More Mary Robinson's accomplishments and controversies chronicled in new documentary
Irish Independent
14 hours ago
- Politics
- Irish Independent
‘Mrs Robinson' review: Ireland's first female president shows her emotional side in admiring, if uncritical, documentary
There's a deeply satisfying moment in Aoife Kelleher's documentary Mrs Robinson (RTÉ Player) when the late Bride Rosney, Mary Robinson's formidable special adviser during her triumphant presidential campaign in 1990, recalls what she did after the final result came through.
Irish Independent
19 hours ago
- Politics
- Irish Independent
‘Mr Robinson' review: Ireland's first female president shows her emotional side in admiring, if uncritical, documentary
There's a deeply satisfying moment in Aoife Kelleher's documentary Mrs Robinson (RTÉ Player) when the late Bride Rosney, Mary Robinson's formidable special adviser during her triumphant presidential campaign in 1990, recalls what she did after the final result came through.
RTÉ News
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Fair City on Thursday: 'You know what I'm saying...'
Mairéad and Dean decide on their next move in Thursday's Fair City on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player. Mairéad is scared of ending her marriage to Damien, but she still wants to be with Dean after the passion of recent months. "Dean, I think about you all the time," she says. "If you're not going to leave him, then what are you saying?" asks Dean. "You know what I'm saying," Mairéad replies. Fans can find out what happens next on Thursday on RTÉ One and the RTÉ Player at 8:30pm.
