Dominic West

Dominic West on his natural swimming pool: ‘When I’m in the mood I do a spot of underwater gardening’

The Crown star built a naturally filtered pool at his English base and now wants to bring a similar project to Limerick’s Glin Castle

Sun Apr 14 2024 - 05:00

‘I flattered him, knowing he’d try to kiss me’: Alan Partridge interviews Steve Coogan

‘It’s the oldest journalistic trick in the book. Coogan has fallen for it hook, line and sinker’

Mon May 16 2022 - 13:55

Downton Abbey: A New Era review – Both aristocrats and servants sound too middle class

Dominic West is superb in a strong cast battling valiantly with an overstuffed script

Tue Apr 26 2022 - 13:30

Surge in demand for Erasmus places among Irish students is welcome news

Covid badly disrupted the student experience. Many are keen to make up for it abroad

Tue Feb 15 2022 - 00:00

The Crown: Elizabeth Debicki channels Diana in first peek into fifth season

Production begins on next instalment of the Netflix hit, with Dominic West as Charles

Thu Aug 19 2021 - 10:10

First image revealed of Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth in The Crown

Vera Drake actor takes over from Olivia Colman for fifth series about the UK royal family

Tue Aug 03 2021 - 09:12

Remember the Dominic West-Lily James kiss shock? The show they were making is a shocker too

BBC’s The Pursuit of Love features a histrionic Andrew Scott and ladlefuls of whimsy

Mon May 10 2021 - 09:24

Ralph Fiennes: ‘English society is built on hierarchies’

The actor on playing a high-achieving, under-recognised archeologist, and English society

Sat Jan 23 2021 - 05:00

Looking at a republic falling apart from the inside

Corn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s Ireland

Sat Feb 22 2020 - 06:00

‘Too many sex scenes’: Why Ruth Wilson left The Affair

Allegedly ‘toxic environment’ of hit TV show also contributed to actor’s abrupt exit

Fri Dec 20 2019 - 10:00

Out to lunch . . .

Here’s a taste of some seasonal and not so seasonal dining options

Wed Dec 11 2019 - 00:00

I’ve travelled the world but Ballybunion is my favourite place to holiday

I’ve spent every summer on the Kerry beach since 1973. Now I’m bringing my son back, to teach him how to swim

Sat Jul 27 2019 - 06:02

The marriage seems okay. But ‘The Affair’ needs spicing up

We thought it was over between us, but Sky Atlantic has rekindled its infidelity drama

Tue Jun 26 2018 - 22:10

Eight of the best TV shows this week

Ruth Negga returns in Preacher. UK grime sensation Big Narstie gets his own show

Sun Jun 24 2018 - 06:00

Irish actor Denise Gough nominated for Tony Award for ‘Angels in America’

Actor from Ennis almost gave up after 10 years struggling to make it in London, before landing her big break

Tue May 01 2018 - 17:37

The Square: impeccably acted, consistently witty

Review: But anyone who can make a coherent whole of all these elements deserves a prize

Fri Mar 16 2018 - 05:00

Tomb Raider: Stand upwind. It’s the first stinker of 2018

Review: Delicate, non-English-sounding Alicia Vikander is wildly miscast as Lara Croft

Wed Mar 14 2018 - 17:00

The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We showed the American dream was dead’

Writers and stars of ‘anti-cop show’ look back at a series that changed TV for ever

Wed Mar 07 2018 - 08:21

WB Yeats ‘showed Ireland wasn’t just about the Famine’

DVD of Bob Geldof’s documentary on poet has been released

Tue Feb 06 2018 - 13:25

I sent the first of my four pigs to the abattoir. Now I feel a pang of guilt

As well as being ‘little land managers’, pigs raised among the trees taste better

Sat Jun 24 2017 - 06:00

Palme D’Or winner The Square: a funny, eccentric and baggy piece of work

Ideas hang off the central story like poisonous fruit in Ruben Östlund’s surprise Cannes favourite

Mon May 29 2017 - 11:10

Glin Castle taken off market as family considers luxury rental

Fitzgeralds decide to hold onto home that has been in the family for 700 years

Wed Mar 01 2017 - 12:30

The Affair review: dissecting the anatomy of desire, adultery and self-delusion

Dominic West and Ruth Wilson continue their dangerous liaisons the third series in Sky Atlantic’s drama

Thu Dec 15 2016 - 05:00

Alexander Skarsgård: The most popular Swedish export since Abba

Alexander Skarsgård has followed in his father’s acting footsteps, and with ‘Generation Kill’ and ‘True Blood’ behind him, he’s finding new worlds to conquer in film

Sat Oct 01 2016 - 03:00

Money Monster Cannes review: Jack O'Connell seethes around George Clooney's vulgarity

Jodie Foster delivers her best directorial effort yet in this starry financial thriller

Thu May 12 2016 - 12:00

Pat Kenny’s well-hyped return to TV makes for low-key Monday viewing

Television review: Pat Kenny in the Round, Claire Byrne Live and The Affair

Fri May 15 2015 - 13:00

Television: Killing them softly? That’s not policy at Seattle Grace Hospital

Review: ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘The Good Wife’, ‘No Offence’ and ‘The C Word’

Fri May 08 2015 - 13:00

Night falls on Glin Castle in Limerick after 700 years

Glin Castle – ancestral home of the FitzGerald clan – is one of the last great Irish castles

Thu Apr 23 2015 - 01:00

Testament of Youth review: Cinematic flair in love and war

Thu Jan 15 2015 - 16:50

An affair to misremember – but where is the truth in a world of unreliable narrators?

‘The Affair’, starring Dominic West, is the classic scenario of he said she said

Mon Oct 20 2014 - 01:01

Pride review: Social history doesn’t get more fun than this

Fri Sept 12 2014 - 00:00

Tom Hiddleston: "Becoming an actor was a very unconventional thing in my peer group"

As the one and only Loki returns to the big screen in Thor: The Dark World, actor Tom Hiddleston explains to Donald Clarke that you don’t have to go to Eton to be a good baddie

Fri Nov 01 2013 - 00:00

TV review: Reliving the time when Burton and Taylor put their private lives onstage

Dominic West and Helena Bonham Carter are superb as Hollywood’s fiery couple in BBC Four’s drama, but there was more real-life drama in a new RTÉ series about struggling businesses

Sat Jul 27 2013 - 13:00