Colin Farrell and Bill Nighy to join Paul Rudd at Dublin film festival
This year’s line up will 83 feature films, including 17 world premieres and 53 short films
Colin Farrell
Iftas 2026: Top two films scoop 26 nominations as Steve Coogan goes up against Daniel Day-Lewis
Irish Film & Television Academy Awards nominations recognise Christy and Saipan as Blue Lights and The Walsh Sisters get drama nods
Pete Briquette: ‘My DNA test said I’m 99% from a particular part of Ireland’
The bass player of The Boomtown Rats on the band’s creative process in Ibiza, his annoyance at political leaders, and his biggest personal regret
Colin Farrell recalls being so drunk on set he needed 46 takes to deliver a line: ‘Tom Cruise was not happy’
Colin Farrell describes one of his 'worst days’ on set, both hungover and freshly intoxicated on Steven Spielberg’s 2002 sci-fi drama Minority Report
Colin Farrell: ‘I’m finding the 40s to be the most meaningful and beautiful chapter in my life’
You don’t so much interview Farrell as curate his conversation. A professional down to his neat fingertips, he gives you, in 20 minutes or so, enough material for a smallish book. It is 25 years since Farrell made the jump from Ireland to Los Angeles with Tigerland. His early roguish demeanour has matured into a more complex charisma.
Four new films to see this week: After the Hunt, Ballad of a Small Player, Gerry Adams: A Ballymurphy Man, and Souleymane’s Story
Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield and Colin Farrell feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of October 17th, 2025
Tesco Ireland boss Geoff Byrne: ‘We need houses, and houses need shops. I’m very positive’
Tesco Ireland boss has plans to spend €100m a year building new stores here
Colin Farrell happily embraces his inner loser like no other leading man ever
Ballad of a Small Player review: The Irish actor plays the most doomed addict since Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas
Four new films to see this week: The Swallow, Steve, Girls & Boys, A Big Bold Beautiful Journey
Brenda Fricker, Cillian Murphy, Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of September 19th, 2025
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey review: Margot Robbie and Colin Farrell go nowhere slowly
Kogonada’s messy phantasmagoria is a hinterland for no one: a musical without musical numbers, a romcom without comedy
Emmys 2025: Colin Farrell, Sharon Horgan, Ruth Negga and more show off red carpet looks
Farrell wore a Tricolour pin with his suit while his son Henry opted for an all-black look
CMAT, Liam Neeson, David McCullagh: Eight people who would make a great president of Ireland
Forget eligibility and nomination rules and open your mind to these potential candidates
Brendan Gleeson: ‘I can’t go into a pub any more. I really miss it’
With The Weir, the star returns to the stage after a 10-year absence. It’s a play he loves for its portrayal of the Irish as a people
Author Joseph Birchall: ‘Crime fiction can bring us something we don’t often see in reality - justice’
With one novel published and two more on the way, the author discusses the investigating duo he created, his brush with cinema success and the best writing advice he’s heard
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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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