Barry Keoghan

Ireland’s Eurovision entrant gets top marks for using ancient alphabet correctly

Donald Clarke: Nobody likes a postcolonial moaner, but it’s odd that casually ridiculing the Irish can be regarded as only the most minor social misdemeanour

The glitterati have sparkled their way through awards season this year in diamond-dripping, gem-studded brooches, chokers and cocktail rings

Lies We Tell claims most awards of the night, including best actress for Agnes O’Casey, as Paul Mescal wins best supporting actor for All of Us Strangers

Three Element Pictures productions will feature in official selection, with Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness competing for the Palme d’Or

Forget national heroes, martyrs and rank celebs. These are the certifiable emblems of our small but great nation

Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Barry Ward and Andrew Scott nominated in best actor category

Plus: Jack Crowley’s financial conversion, architect Tom de Paor’s Wicklow woes, Siún Ní Raghallaigh’s Galway house sale, and Dublin jarveys say neigh to Harry Crosbie

Donald Clarke: The musical biopic is among the most benighted of cinematic genres, but there is perhaps more chance of innovation with Sam Mendes’s planned set

Plus Michael Lynn and the missing penthouse, is James Dyson moving to Waterford, and the value of Artist Hughie O’Donoghue’s Original Sin paintings

The song and its album were twin juggernauts whose success ‘hipster geeks’ Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser never tried to follow

Donald Clarke: Being talked about matters. And this is us talking about him

Paul Mescal, Andrew Scott Murphy and Barry Keoghan all did strong work in flying the fashion flag for Ireland

The Age of Cillian has firmly arrived, but past history tells us anything can happen between now and next month

Oppenheimer takes top Baftas as Irish-produced film Poor Things and Zone of Interest also triumph

From Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough in new romantic drama Alice & Jack to Michael Sheen creation The Way

Her work on Star Wars, Mission: Impossible and Dune, among others, has earned her a stellar reputation. But it almost didn’t turn out that way

Plus: Libel lawyer Paul Tweed’s mystery High Court action and sports agent Conor Ridge’s bid for solace

From cinema and theatre to television, folk music and literature, Ireland is enjoying unprecedented creative boom

Television: The Dublin actor fits comfortably into the vast canvas of the show helping to keep airborne what will surely go down as one of the most epic projects to soar across the small screen this year

Were Barry Keoghan and Andrew Scott ever in the race?

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things scores a huge 11 nominations, a record for an Irish-produced film

Poor Things puts in a strong showing with 11 nods as Oppenheimer leads race with 13, but there’s no luck for other Irish acting talent

Bafta nomination system has rendered connections between the US and British academies less robust than was the case

Did Barry Keoghan edge out Andrew Scott? And might Paul Mescal’s chances at the Oscars be revived?

Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan and Paul Mescal recieve nods as Andrew Scott and Lily Gladstone miss out

Andrew Scott and Lily Gladstone, who were both hotly tipped for nominations, miss out in major upset

Over in the puritanical United States, there has been much bloviating about how ‘unnecessary’ some scenes in Emerald Fennell's film are

Donald Clarke: Didn’t realise the Bear and Bottoms star is from the Emerald Isle? Sure she’s from Inisherin

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Emer McLysaght: Keoghan carries himself like a man who’ll say no to nothing, and that’s exciting in Hollywood

Mixed news for Irish talent at the guild awards that have fast become one of the more significant pointers to Oscar success

It was business as usual on the red carpet with ball gowns, sequins and lots of red. Here are some of the best looks

All the winners from the 81st annual ceremony in Beverly Hills, California

Cillian Murphy triumphed over Barry Keoghan, nominated for Emerald Fennell’s Saltburn

Stars of Barbie and Oppenheimer to compete for top prizes alongside Flowers of The Killer Moon, Maestro and Poor Things

Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things, produced by Dublin’s Element Pictures, receives a whopping seven nominations

Cork actor, now starring alongside Barry Keoghan in Saltburn, on why she’s attracted to radical women

Jacob Elordi and Rosamund Pike shine but film never properly escapes its guilty passion for the surface attractions of the posh Saltburn life

Oscar winner’s new film stars Keoghan as a rough-hewn Oxford scholarship student who becomes an unlikely guest of a blue-blooded family