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U2’s ‘iNnocence + eXperience’ tour arrived home to Dublin last night and on today’s show we get the critical verdict. It’s been almost five years since people last saw them in concert so has it been worth the wait?  U2 wanted iNnocence + eXperience to be not just a rock concert, it was to be an ‘experience’ in the full sense of the word – does it fulfill their concept

“City On Fire” by Garth Risk Hallberg is an incredible debut novel.  900 pages long and Dickensian in scope it chronicles a period of history in 1970’s  New York with which readers will be very familiar, a city laid bare in all it’s graffiti-riddled, drug-addicted, poverty-stricken-while-money-obsessed squalor.  The review on today’s show might indicate whether “City On Fire” will one day rank alongside ‘Bonfire Of The Vanities’ or “American Psycho” as a searingly accurate reflection of an America at a certain point in time.

RTÉ Radio, Tuesday 24 November, 7pm