Planning permission granted for new library to serve Crumlin and Drimnagh
Councillor criticises ‘nonsense’ online claims over adjoining site earmarked for social housing
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Four Letters of Love review: Every interior in this preposterous film suggests an Irish theme pub in 1990s Basingstoke
Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne team up with antique spinning-wheels, nuns and vowels from all 32 counties
Rev Philip McKinley: ‘My children call me silly, old and rusty. I’m only 44′
The Church of Ireland cleric talks about faith, his favourite place in Ireland, and the rugby playing brother who has ‘overshadowed’ him
25 films to check out in summer 2025: From Liam Neeson in Naked Gun to Scarlett Johansson in Jurassic World: Rebirth
Amid a summer of remakes and sequels, there are some smaller gems to seek out
Peter Sarsgaard: ‘I was around all these professional actors – Jeremy Irons, Gabriel Byrne... They all acted pretty crazy’
The September 5 star broke through with films such as Boys Don’t Cry. His new movie is a taut account of the attack on the 1972 Munich Olympics
Blue Road - The Edna O’Brien Story review: Was Ireland this dire? It really was
Sinéad O’Shea’s documentary is remarkable, though, for its consideration of an extraordinary life
Edna O’Brien: ‘She could be so queenly and dominating, but then totally wounded by criticism’
With the release of her Edna O’Brien documentary imminent, documentary maker Sinéad O’Shea talks about the late writer’s remarkable and often difficult life
Niall Williams: ‘I am here to write the books I’m supposed to write, not the books an Irish Times reviewer would like’
A critical savaging for his first play scarred the author of Time of the Child. You can’t try to please people, he says. You have to do your own thing
Teri Hayden obituary: trailblazing agent who guided the careers of some of Ireland’s most successful actors
She intuited that Irish theatre, TV and film was about to expand - though there was little evidence for this at the time
National Lottery plans to move its HQ to new location
Funeral for legendary actors’ agent; CRH chief’s home renovations troubles; Phil Hogan joins Irish lobbying register; a financial blow for the IRFU, and a tough job at RTÉ
Landmark’s Anne Clarke: ‘Every producer, if they’re honest, is a control freak’
From giving modern classics their first Irish productions to nurturing new work from key Irish names, Landmark has had an outsize impact over the past 20 years
Dance First: Finely acted Samuel Beckett biopic undermined by lit-flick cliches
Film review: Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O’Shea play the writer to great effect but the pedestrian writing bogs proceedings
Fionn O’Shea on being cast as Samuel Beckett: ‘There was a moment of elation followed by crippling anxiety’
In the film Dance First, the young Irish actor joins Gabriel Byrne as the older Beckett and Aidan Gillen as James Joyce
The actor’s mews: Former home of Gabriel Byrne on Herbert Lane for €1.65m
With four bedrooms and two lovely outside spaces, this is a very special city-centre home
Claire Byrne gives Leo Varadkar the upper hand
Radio review: Things get tetchy when she raises his alleged leak of documents
Driving home for Christmas is a trip through time
Journey home can be painful for emigrants but also for those who never left
Breda O’Brien: This is no time to let Irish cinemas die
Is the tentative recovery of movie theatres thanks to blockbusters or a more nuanced audience desire?
Galway Film Fleadh 2021: Stacey Gregg’s thriller Here Before wins best Irish film
From best first film to short film winners, here’s everything you need to know
War of the Worlds: Grouchy Gabriel Byrne and creepy Daisy Edgar Jones get under your skin
TV review: This interpretation of HG Wells’s work is dour and slow, but full of mystery
Iftas 2021: Posthumous award for ‘searing’ Nika McGuigan is the moment of the night
The hit TV adaptation Normal People converts nine of its 15 nominations into Iftas
Iftas 2021: Normal People, Smother and Dating Amber top nominations
Sally Rooney adaption scoops 15 nominations. Nika McGuigan up for posthumous award
Photographic record of Covid-dominated year to be prepared by press photographers
Annual awards ceremony on live stream from Dublin city centre on Friday evening
Nicola Sturgeon: ‘Brexit makes a united Ireland more likely’
‘I firmly believe Scottish independence will happen,’ Scotland’s first minister has said
Mairead McGuinness: They don’t call me ‘Elbows McGuinness’ to my face
‘I’ve always had the view that if I was able to do a job, I should put my name forward’
The Irish Times Winter Nights festival day 5: Dara McAnulty, Gabriel Byrne and John King
Series of online talks featuring Irish Times journalists and guests concludes on Friday
Blindboy Boatclub: ‘I had the choice of being a psychotherapist or a mad bastard’
Mask-wearing podcaster and author is first guest at the Irish Times Winter Nights Festival
The Irish Times Winter Nights festival: Everything you need to know
Gabriel Byrne, Nicola Sturgeon, Emma Dabiri and more to appear at the online festival
‘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
Civil servants opposed Mowlam wish to write Famine article, files show
Northern Ireland secretary could detract from Blair statement of regret, officials feared
Irish Times Winter Nights Festival: Nicola Sturgeon, Gabriel Byrne, Dara Ó Briain and Edith Eger
Join us online for five nights of unforgettable debate, discussion, distraction and everything in between
Joe Duffy’s rapping is as shocking as anything on the airwaves this year
Duffy’s unfunny rhymes make Dustin the Turkey sound like Wu-Tang Clan
Gabriel Byrne: ‘Dublin prepared me for Hollywood. I was ready for the bulls**t’
The actor on his struggle with fame, the sexual abuse he endured, and the new Ireland
Rerun of the Gathering might just be the tonic for Irish tourism post-Covid
Timing would be very important for a second diaspora-focused tourism jamboree
Saoirse Ronan: ‘I can go anywhere. I have a lovely place to come back to’
The 24-year-old Irish actor on Little Women, awards season and her sense of home
Vikings spin-off Valhalla to be filmed for Netflix in Wicklow
On-demand giant commissions new version of TV saga made in Ashford Studios
Mia Wasikowska: I got in trouble for an Irish accent before
Alice in Wonderland made her a star but she prefers to stay out of the limelight
Blindboy: ‘Being recognisable is absolute hell’
The Rubberbandit talks politics, podcasts, his new book, and angry men with Patrick Freyne
Make a move to Walkinstown, where estate living hits the right note
Some of the most sought-after addresses are roads named after singers and composers
Saoirse Ronan in Little Women: What’s all the fuss about?
Greta Gerwig’s upcoming film is the book’s eighth screen adaptation. So why the excitement?
Ruth Negga urges State to ‘nourish and care’ for Irish artists
Actor named as cultural ambassador for Ireland says ‘we can’t take art for granted’
Actor Gabriel Byrne helps break ground for new Irish Arts Centre in New York
State-of-the-art building on 11th Avenue could be ready by 2020
Brian Gleeson: ‘For an actor the worst thing is to have a plan’
The actor on working with family and his portrait of masculinity in The Bisexual
Hereditary: A nerve-shredding art-horror masterpiece
Review: Gabriel Byrne, Toni Collette and Milly Shapiro shine in a genuinely horrifying film
Forty-two films to catch in the cinema this summer
Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again
‘He’d lean over looking for a kiss from his gypsy girl while having a grope’
'The fact that he spent much of his working life around disabled children made him less suspicious or accountable'
Gabriel Byrne on Weinstein: ‘He was a violent bully. He had such power’
The Dublin actor on sex harrassent, and why fame is like being trapped in a drum
On TV this weekend: Mary Lou McDonald, Margot Robbie, Sharon Stone
And Dermot Bannon gives Daniel and Majella O’Donnell house’s a makeover
Iftas 2018: ‘I’m a Traveller, I can’t get an agent, but this is still a huge moment for me’
John Connors’ best actor acceptance speech got a noisy standing ovation at the Iftas
Ivan Yates dislikes all ‘Nordies’ equally
They are ‘caught in a time warp between the Tricolour and Union Jack’, says the Newstalk host
Inappropriate conduct will not be tolerated, Forbes tells RTÉ staff
Director-general says employees should feel they work in ‘safe and supportive’ environment
What does Gabriel Byrne see in George Bernard Shaw?
In ‘My Astonishing Self’, the actor follows shyly in Shaw’s footsteps. But what draws GB to GBS?
Gabriel Byrne: ‘Sex pests’ and ‘abject sexism’ rife in RTÉ in 1970s
The actor also alleged production was halted on ‘The Usual Suspects’ over Kevin Spacey’s behaviour
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Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
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