Frank Grimes obituary: Versatile film and stage actor who found mainstream recognition in Coronation Street
Dubliner was recognised with a Tony nomination for his work in Brendan Behan’s Borstal Boy on Broadway in 1970
Brendan O’Carroll
Actor, writer and director
Mrs Brown’s Boys review: It’s surely time for this dreary and unfunny series to fade from our screens
Television: After 14 years of this iffy humour, is it time for Brendan O’Carroll to pull the plug on his famous Finglas mammy?
TV guide: the best new shows to watch in the coming week
Shows to watch this week including Impact: The Anatomy of a Crash; Inside the Cult of the Jesus Army; and Jason Mamoa’s Chief of War
Ardal O’Hanlon on Father Ted at 30: ‘I thought it was a sh*t idea. Who was going to want to watch a sitcom about priests?’
It’s one of the funniest TV sitcoms of all time, but success wasn’t preordained. Some of the key players look back at making its three classic series
Comedian Enya Martin: ‘I was named after the singer. Thank God my parents didn’t like Meatloaf’
The Clondalkin comedian on accents, ambitions and the inspiration provided by Brendan O’Carroll
Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas Special review: Unkillable comedy’s wit is as sharp as a mouthful of Brussels sprouts
Television: Brendan O’Carroll’s slapstick purgatory remains a Bacchanalia of single entendres and fnarr-fnarr gags
Christmas TV and movie guide: the best shows and films to watch
December 24th-27th: including new Christmas specials of Doctor Who, Outnumbered, Gavin & Stacey, and Wallace & Gromit
The Guide: The Coronas, Damien Dempsey and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
December 21st- 27th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
‘When these women left home there were rumours that they were sent to Europe to be concubines for black soldiers’
The Six Triple Eight director Tyler Perry on the true story behind his new film, about the only US army unit of black women sent to Europe during the second World War
Brendan O’Carroll apologises over ‘clumsy’ racial joke during Mrs Brown’s Boys rehearsals
BBC paused rehearsals of Christmas special over joke where ‘racial term was implied’
Mrs Brown and Madea: A meeting of culturally reviled phenomena
Donald Clarke: Maybe this is the future. Locate discrete fanbases and double your appeal
Mná 100: Maureen O’Carroll among women celebrated on historical website
Mother of entertainer Brendan O’Carroll was elected as Labour TD in 1954
Modern Ireland is unimaginable without Jack Charlton
Finding Jack Charlton lays bare his remarkable connection with the Irish psyche
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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