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A more fibrous, chewier piece of work than Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s previous
Why are there so few Irish women cast in films that are made here?
Irish actresses are missing out on commercial opportunities, writes Anna Doyle
The Crown, season 4: Gillian Anderson takes up the Margaret Thatcher challenge
She is the latest of many actors to wrestle with the blue suit and tortured vowels
Fifty Shades, Kanye, Love/Hate: The films, TV, books and music that defined the decade
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Keepers of the Flame: An education in revolutionary Ireland
With tricky commemorations ahead, Nuala O’Connor’s documentary is nicely measured
Oliver Callan: I was a gay Boo Radley in 1980s Monaghan
Finally admitting I was different was my epiphany, freeing me from a life of sameness
Narcos review: What happens when the Cali cartel goes straight?
The drugs drama returns with true stories that beggar belief
Charlie Hunnam: The geezer who would be king
The King Arthur actor discusses why he won't be making a claim to be king of the Geordies any time soon, and how his bromance with Guy Ritchie set the pace for the ‘Lads of the Round Table’
Why one of Ireland’s most famous schools is going Gaelscoil
Synge Street in Dublin 8 is turning to the Irish language to restore pupil numbers
Audi Dublin International Film Festival launches its programme for 2017
Festival guests this year include Vanessa Redgrave, Kerry Fox, Anna Friel, Jack Reynor, Cillian Murphy and Aiden Gillen
Frank Murray was ‘a hugely proud Irishman full of culture’
‘I can’t grasp how someone so full of love and such massive zest for life can be gone’
Television: Cry me a River and pay tribute to the Don – the small-screen year
Year in review: From ‘Red Rock’ to Aidan Turner’s biceps in ‘Poldark’ and Don Draper’s final ad campaign in ‘Mad Men’, TV delivered the goods in 2015
Star Wars: Battlefront and Quantum Break shine at Gamescom
Quantum Break TV series to star Shawn Ashmore and ‘Love-Hate’ actor Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen: chasing character at the top of his game
The ‘Game of Thrones’ star has had an extraordinary career but still likes to do low-budget Irish films
Television: Wolf Hall is not your usual bodice ripper
The BBC’s Tudor drama is literate and atmospheric; an Irish documentary on being gay is quietly powerful when it stays on home ground; and the last word on RTÉ’s ‘Charlie’
Did ‘Charlie’ give us the real man? Yes, but he was more intelligent and more dangerous
Haughey expended huge energy achieving power and then did not know what to do with it
Charlie review: A bored contempt for everyone - truly Haughey
Episode two of RTÉ’s Haughey drama mirrors mad pace of Irish political life in 1982
All I want for Christmas: Oliver Callan
Nob Nation's Oliver Callan answers questions on his yuletide joys and woes
The sorcerer’s apprentice goes galactic
In this version of the future we have gained mastery over matter and can summon planets at will
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