Glen Hansard funeral: A wicker coffin, a grieving widow and a son too young to be there
The service for the Ballymun musician felt more like a party where he was the only one missing from the celebrations
Chris O’Dowd
The Brightening Air review: Kate Gilmore gives a standout performance in Conor McPherson’s play
The supernatural lurks during a strained family reunion, but never coalesces into a haunting spectacle
Event guide: Dermot Kennedy, Galway arts festival and other top things to see in Ireland this week
July 11th-17th, 2026: The best music, art and more coming your way in the week ahead
Playwright Conor McPherson: ‘You’re better off getting hammered than a three-star review’
The playwright on his new production of The Brightening Air, developing ‘scar tissue’ from criticism, and the thing great actors have
Séamas O’Reilly: ‘As I’ve grown older I’ve realised how formative the Troubles were’
Author’s debut novel, Prestige Drama, channels humour, anger and sadness in story about a TV show set during the Troubles
Chris O’Dowd and Jane Fonda to play Niall O’Dowd and Jean Kennedy Smith in peace process drama
Ciarán Hinds and John C Reilly also to star in Ceasefire, from In the Name of the Father writer Terry George
The Sheep Detectives review: The farmyard hasn’t been this disarming since Babe
Hugh Jackman, Nicholas Braun and Chris O’Dowd star in an affecting children’s film that’s unafraid to confront mortality
Early Edition podcast: Drug deaths in Dublin; the case against Daniel Kinahan; and Chris O’Dowd’s GAA career
Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan
‘We were gutted’: Pain of Connacht final loss never quite left Hollywood actor Chris O’Dowd
Former Roscommon minor goalkeeper says he went into the 1997 decider against Mayo ‘feeling invincible’
The Brightening Air at the Old Vic review: Conor McPherson’s outstanding new play turns convention on its head
Theatre: Chris O’Dowd, Brian Gleeson, Seán McGinley and Derbhle Crotty star in the Irish writer’s new drama
Black Mirror review: Two standout episodes in a largely dreary and predictable new season
Television: Charlie Brooker’s future-shock science fiction may be surplus to requirements. Could any future be any more shocking than our present reality?
10 of the best new shows to watch in April: including Netflix medical drama and two AppleTV+ releases
Including Black Mirror, Andor, You, Dying for Sex and The Bondsman
Christina Hendricks is great in Chris O’Dowd’s Small Town, Big Story but it still disappoints
Theatrical Paddy-isms doubtless went down well with Sky executives in London as they bankrolled the project
Christina Hendricks on Small Town, Big Story: ‘It was just my weird cup of tea’
The former Mad Men star plays a Hollywood producer returning to Ireland in Chris O’Dowd’s new comedy
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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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