There is a long history of actors deriding poorly received work, with Cats star Rebel Wilson being the latest

Patrick Freyne on some noteworthy names that made news this year

With his first tour in 15 years starting tonight in Dublin, the trailblazing comedian has some scores to settle

Sheikh Mohammed and Princess Haya resume legal dispute over ‘welfare of children’

Stud farm of Andrew Lloyd Webber says treatment of thoroughbred it once owned ‘terribly sad’

Seven-year-old mare War Celeste found nearly starved to death on farm

Ireland now has 17 billionaires with overall wealth of the top 300 put at €87 billion

To celebrate 30 years in New York, the company is staging the playwright’s ‘Dublin’ trilogy

Ireland rugby hero Peter O’Mahony and Boyzone on the Late Late, Nicole Kidman joins Graham Norton and Michael Parkinson chats to Ray D’Arcy

Dublin Fringe Festival: Transgressive electro artist brings bravura spirit to Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s musical

Gillian Lynne obituary: Dancer who breathed new life into musical theatre including ‘Phantom of the Opera’

U2 rank 3rd richest. Ed Sheeran is second-wealthiest young musician, Niall Horan 4th

Following on from her work on the stage and TV, Jessie Buckley now makes her big-screen debut in ‘Beast’ – a bow that is cause for great excitement in her native Co Kerry

Harry and Meghan Markle’s wedding will be a fight to a choral version of the Benny Hill theme

Captivating from the get-go, this unique podcast is an ideal alternative to documentaries

Story of Sir Henry Browne Hayes is tale of spectacular fall from grace, says musical director

Cork actor Molly Lynch and her ‘Sunset Boulevard’ co-star Ria Jones on life for women in musical theatre

London Letter: New ‘Front Row’ hosts have outraged actors and directors

Local resident Andrew Lloyd Webber opens €1.6m attraction in Co Tipperary walled town

And all change at the Abbey and Gate – our rigid cultural venues are, at last, mixing it up

Even to a jaded Berliner, there’s much more to Hamburg than its notorious Reeperbahn

Never mind the political quality in this West End production, feel the mega musical width

Jackie Chan and Nick Faldo also linked with Mossack Fonseca documents

He wowed Sundance and impressed at Audi Dublin International Film Festival – the teenage musician and actor is perfectly cast as director John Carney’s movie alter-ego

Guest list includes Bob Geldof, Michael Caine, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Bill Wyman

Crowds at St Mary’s Church in Woolten for funeral of much-loved entertainer

Sunday Times Rich List claims Ireland is home to 13 billionaires, worth €38bn in total

HSBC was at times willing to accommodate unsavoury clients, some of whom were not housewives but felons and arms traffickers

Mandy Rice-Davies: October 21st, 1944 - December 18th, 2014

Tiger jewellery once owned by the Duchess of Windsor to be auctioned by soprano Sarah Brightman with a top estimate of $2.5 million

New movie Pride celebrates the unlikely meeting of Britain’s striking miners and gay rights campaigners in the 1980s. Poverty, homophobia, Aids and the defeat of the miners provide an unlikely backdrop. Donald Clarke takes pride in a cultural rebellion

The Take That singer is facing claims he invested in a tax avoidance scheme

On the comedian’s mind are anti-Semitism and how it is not really considered racism, his experience of fame as ‘a constant puncturing of the moment’, and doing stand-up again

The Wet Wet Wet singer, currently playing Che Guevara in the musical Evita, recalls the the summer of 1994, when love (and then loathing) was all around the charts

The Lloyd Webber musical is best embraced with a child’s willingness to accept the stunning weirdness of this feline underworld

One Direction member worth an estimated €6m as band rack up €30m