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The likes of Ronaldo and Messi will likely lead a generation of talent taking its final bow on football’s greatest stage in Qatar
The War of Independence on film: Irish Destiny to Michael Collins
How filmmakers have attempted to balance the demands of entertainment against the sensitivities of politics
Steven Spurrier obituary: Connoisseur who upended the wine world
Spurrier hosted the Judgment of Paris, a blind tasting of Californian and French wines
John Wayne: Mattie McGrath references an emblematic, problematic American
A limited actor and probable racist, he is still the go-to icon for frontier bravado
Keanu Reeves: ‘When we would go to dinner together, people were, like, Whoa! Dudes!’
Reeves and Alex Winter on their excellent adventure through 30 years of Bill and Ted
To work on TV, Normal People had to differ from the book
Inevitably and rightly, the TV series is softer in tone than Sally Rooney’s novel
Four Weddings at 25: The film that gave us ‘That Dress’, that poem and Hugh Grant the star
Four Weddings and a Funeral was, for a while, the highest grossing British film of all time
Cotton Fingers has its Irish debut: ‘Here is a young woman and her circumstances’
Amy Molloy stars in the Welsh play about an unwanted pregnancy in Northern Ireland
What if ‘Love Actually’ is actually not that bad?
The uneven comedy has become as much a Christmas tradition as the ire it provokes
Die Hard at 30: how Bruce Willis led to Quentin Tarantino, George Clooney and Jennifer Aniston
Donald Clarke on the film’s enduring legacy, literary roots and Willis’s breakout role
Why John Mahoney is an inspiration to late bloomers everywhere
Changing lanes in later life and following your muse isn’t easy, but it can be done
Too many cracks in this eggsistential detective story
An absurd comedy offers a worthwhile study in isolation, but the plotting is haphazard
Grand old feminist potboiler from the murky streets of London
The Limehouse Golem review: Wonderful cast make themselves at home in the streets of 1880s London
Love Actually: a film so awful, it might be a masterpiece
As Comic Relief gets set to air the Love Actually sequel, we assess the merits of the original
David Bowie remembered: What we’ve learned since his death
Some astounding new Bowie facts have come to light over the last year
One image pays tribute to celebrity deaths of 2016
David Bowie, George Michael, Terry Wogan and Frank Kelly feature among those in the montage tribute
Search trends unveil inner Ireland
Weblog: Ireland’s 2016 obsessions revealed in our year of Google search
Trump, Bowie and the Euros top the list of Ireland’s most Googled
Search engine reveals most popular topics among its Irish users in 2016
Donald Clarke: Is it too early for a review of this terrible year?
Trump, Marine Le Pen, Syria: nothing makes sense as Utopian ambition crumbles into atavistic nationalism
Galway school brings 1916 Rising to life with full-size cutouts
Scoil Sailearna has drawn up its own proclamation as part of celebrations
Neil Jordan: ‘Michael Collins was conventional – apart from the guerrilla warfare’
Ahead of the 20th-anniversary re-release of Neil Jordan’s hugely successful film Michael Collins, the director reflects on the ‘unique opportunity’ he got to make it
Diarmaid Ferriter: New efforts to dramatise and document 1916 disappoint
Older programmes on 1916 may have been better at bringing Irish history to life
David Greig: ‘I had to somehow become Strindberg’
The Scottish playwright has tackled topics as troubling as Anders Behring Breivik. So how did he get on in the strange world of Strindberg?
Issues & Questions: Are we wrong to mourn Bowie on social media?
The outpouring of grief on Twitter and Facebook generates a good deal of cynicism
Alan Rickman: acclaimed performer who became a hero with a villain’s manner
Donald Clarke on the late actor, a funny, warm man in person, who could never quite shake the whiff of brimstone on screen
J.K. Rowling pays tribute to ‘magnificent’ Alan Rickman
Stephen Fry said late actor was ‘a man of such talent, wicked charm’
Acclaimed British actor Alan Rickman dies aged 69
Hollywood star who shot to global acclaim as Hans Gruber in Die Hard was suffering from cancer
Simon Fitzmaurice film premieres at Toronto festival
Canada trip is first out of Ireland for director, who has Motor Neuron Disease, since 2008
Simon Fitzmaurice: ‘I’m a bit of a stubborn bastard’
We’ll say. Stricken with MND and given four years to live, Simon Fitzmaurice has bounced back with a crowdfunded Film Fleadh world premiere starring Harry Potter fave Evanna Lynch
Designer start at Savoy to Dublin film festival
13th festival is last to have Jameson, which has supported event since its inception in 2003, as title sponsor
Jack Reynor back on home turf for Dublin film festival launch
Kenneth Branagh, Julie Andrews and Russell Crowe lined up as part of festival bill
We have lift-off: Irish cultural calendar 2015
A year of Yeats. The return of the Gathering. The zaniness of TedFest. The muckiness of the National Ploughing Championships. The musical magic of Electric Picnic. The spectacular scenery of Earagail Arts Festival. And much more. Consider yourself told
Events to mark 100 years since start of first World War
Ireland will be among those remembering the ‘war to end all wars’
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