Channel 4: where did it all go wrong?
Once acclaimed for its creativity and originality, the broadcaster is now a purveyor of cheap reality TV and manufactured sensationalism
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Oscars 2026: Jessie Buckley finishes a job started by three other Irish stars
The Hamnet star, winner of the Academy Award for best actress, had seemed unstoppable for months
Oscar winner Jessie Buckley to her husband: ‘You, Fred, I love you. I want to have 20,000 more babies with you’
The Irish star, picking up the Academy Award for best actress for her heart-rending turn in Hamnet, is one of two Irish winners
Oscars 2026: All of Ireland’s Academy Award wins, including two doubles and a triple
If Jessie Buckley wins the leading-actress award for Hamnet this weekend, she’ll join an illustrious group of Irish winners
‘You took the money’: Tarantino responds to Rosanna Arquette over Pulp Fiction racial slur criticism
Director has received criticism on multiple occasions during his career over use of word in his films
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
Goodbye June review: Kate Winslet’s directorial debut is shamelessly sentimental – but it could run and run
The bar for ‘Christmas classic’ has fallen so low that this could be a contender. It’s not the worst example actually
John C Reilly: ‘I worked with this older Irish actor one time. He was bummed out if I said anything that wasn’t the lines’
John C Reilly is bringing Mister Romantic, his performance of love songs by Nat King Cole, Tom Waits and others, to Dublin
Four new films to see this week: Anemone, Abode, Die My Love and Train Dreams
Daniel Day-Lewis, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Joel Edgerton and Kerry Condon feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of November 7th
Pauline Collins: The actor whose most celebrated roles held a sense of sly intelligence
Collins was part of Killarney’s New Irish Players in the 1960s before going on to earn her Oscar nomination
Anemone review: This grandiose, inventively operatic project starring Daniel Day-Lewis is no ordinary film
Exhaustingly morose debut feature from Ronan Day-Lewis has unquestionable evidence of talent
Brenda Fricker’s She Died Young: Oscar winner looks back on her public success and private trauma
Brenda Fricker has written an unsentimental, brilliant and often shocking memoir
Brenda Fricker: ‘It was real violence, and I needed protection. Where was my father? There was blood all over me’
Parental abuse, sexual violence and mental health struggles: the Oscar-winner has endured more than most. She explains why she decided to write a memoir
Rhasidat Adeleke can take heart from Keely Hodgkinson’s superb comeback after injury
Even away from the track, Daniel Day-Lewis’s forthcoming film proves how time spent recuperating is never wasted
‘I always had an affinity with Wolfe Tone. Maybe because I was told I wasn’t Irish’
Kwaku Fortune’s new play, The Black Wolfe Tone, has just opened in New York. It’s a very personal story for the actor and writer
Aisling Bea on Who Do You Think You Are? – Likeable comedian gets emotional at tales of family role in Irish freedom
Television: Bea sees the funny side of a British crew helping her to learn of her family’s involvement in the Easter Rising
Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist has architects up in arms – but they’re missing the point
Ignore all the whingers. Go to see the excellent The Brutalist. Take along an architect you hate. The film is 3½ hours long. They might actually explode with fury
‘I want to be alone’: Greta Garbo, sure. Daniel Day-Lewis, maybe not so much after all
The unconvincing retirement has history as a promotional tool in show business. Nobody believes that’s what’s going on with Day-Lewis
Daniel Day-Lewis ends retirement from acting to star in son’s film
Three-time Oscar winner Daniel Day-Lewis returns to film to star in his son Ronan’s directorial debut, Anemone, which he also cowrote
In My Own Words: Hanif Kureishi review – Author revisits hedonistic life after entering a zone of death
Television: The author and playwright, who suffered life-changing injuries after a fall in 2022, revisits his life and career
Ranked: The 15 greatest Irish moments at the Oscars
From Daniel Day-Lewis and Brenda Fricker winning acting awards for My Left Foot to the Academy singing Happy Birthday to James Martin in 2023
Ranked: the 25 greatest films to lose out on best picture Oscar
The films that were nominated for best picture but never won, losing out more often than not to a lesser work
Oscars 2024: Cillian Murphy leads sky-high Irish hopes as nominees fly out
Irish-made Poor Things is also up for several awards
Fionnuala Ward: So long autographs, selfies are taking over
Getting a photo with a celebrity is the done thing these days, but a few scribbled words can also tell a tale
Anglo-Irish poet Cecil Day-Lewis was third-choice UK poet laureate in 1968, archives show
Father of Oscar-winning Irish actor Daniel Day-Lewis was put forward for prestigious position after two other frontrunners were dismissed as ineligible
Milan Kundera obituary: Communist Party outcast whose sexually charged novels turned him into a literary star
Influential Czech-born author of the bestselling novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being captured the suffocating absurdity of life
Oscars: the 25 best winning lead acting performances of all time
From Bergman, Bogart and Brando to De Niro, Portman and Taylor, the competition is stellar - and Streep doesn’t make the cut
An Oscar ceremony dominated by Ireland... but will anybody be watching?
Back when host David Niven dealt with a male streaker, the Oscars were essential viewing. Now audiences have lost interest (unless a star assaults the host)
British actor Julian Sands missing in California mountains after hike
The 65-year-old A Room with a View actor was first reported missing on January 13th
Vicky Krieps: ‘Wearing these dresses is actually torture. It cuts off the emotions’
Vicky Krieps’s award-winning performance in Corsage as an iconic Mitteleuropean monarch strips away the myth and the glamour
Oscars 2022: 11 great Irish moments at the Academy Awards
Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker and many others have taken home an Oscar to Ireland
Adam McKay: ‘An Oscar? How the f**k did that happen?’
Oscar-winning filmaker Adam McKay has a new film about the end of the world
Bob Dylan at 80: The master musician’s 39 albums, ranked
To mark Dylan’s 80th birthday, superfan Ian O’Riordan rates his studio albums
Forget Harry, Ronnie the Potter’s wizardry still capable of casting a magic spell
The ageless 90s kid has come through it all with his undimmed brilliance intact
Ian O’Riordan: Following JM Synge’s footsteps over his beloved native terrain
Foothills of Dublin and Wicklow mountains evoke spirit of famed Irish playwright/poet
Fintan O’Toole: Why we should welcome the new tribe of Anglo-Irish people
Up to half a million British people are becoming Irish citizens. They help us to recognise our own past
‘My waitressing job was paying the bills so I could afford to work at the theatre’
Wild Geese: Pauline Turley is the vice-chair of the Irish Arts Center in New York
Ian O’Riordan: The myth and truth of the barefoot runner
The Infinite Race is the latest instalment of ESPN’s 30 for 30 documentary series
Matthew McConaughey: ‘I wouldn’t give back one ass-whupping for the values that are ingrained in me’
The actor on his life philosophies, securing roles, and his new memoir Greenlights
HSE told a Dublin hospice provider to ‘cut services’ to break even
HSE has avoided publicly stating providers should cut or close services to stay in budget
Christopher Eccleston: ‘I was ashamed about my depression and eating disorder’
The actor talks about how he found his way back from a breakdown and anorexia
Uncut Gems: How Adam Sandler and the Safdie brothers made a jewel of a film
Directors Joshua and Benjamin Safdie and their 10-year journey to making Uncut Gems
Tyrone v Donegal is about giving nothing and relinquishing nothing
Suddenly, the Ulster championship finds itself at the height of fashion and celebrated
My Left Foot at 30: Its Oscar success was due to Weinstein
Released in April 1989, it changed everything for Daniel Day-Lewis and Jim Sheridan
Amy Adams: ‘I have this internal voice that is just not a cheerleader for myself’
In the new TV series ‘Sharp Objects’, Adams plays a hard-drinking, self-cutting journalist
Oscars 2018: Who’ll win, who won’t and 10 other questions
Who is in the running to win the Oscars in every category?
Bafta awards 2018: full list of winners
Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ triumphs as Saoirse Ronan left empty handed
Phantom Thread: Daniel Day-Lewis is pained and brilliant in his final film
Review: The actor plays a perfectionist artist who makes life a nightmare for those around him
Directing Daniel Day-Lewis: ‘I know. I’ve killed off the world’s greatest actor’
Paul Thomas Anderson on directing Daniel Day-Lewis in his final film, Phantom Thread
Oscars 2018: full list of nominations
Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ and Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon nominated
Saoirse Ronan, ‘Three Billboards’, Cartoon Saloon and Daniel Day-Lewis nominated for Oscars
Martin McDonagh’s ‘Three Billboards’ is named in seven nomination categories
Golden Globes: Saoirse Ronan, Daniel Day-Lewis, Martin McDonagh and Caitriona Balfe up for awards
‘The Breadwinner’, by Kilkenny’s Cartoon Saloon, nominated for best animated feature
Mark Hamill: ‘If I had to climb a Skellig, I was staying at the top’
The Luke Skywalker actor on fame, Carrie Fisher and making Star Wars in Ireland
Can Michael Fassbender rescue his terrible year?
The Irish actor has had 12 months of terrible films, in an otherwise sparkling career
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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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