Film classification moves with the times as we’re cool with sex, careful with mental health
It is hard to deny that Ireland’s unhappy addiction to pinch-mouthed censorship is largely a thing of the past
Irish Film Classification Office
Warnings about self-harm and bullying proposed for film screenings in Ireland
Irish Film Classification Office (IFCO) puts new draft guidelines out to public consultation
Ireland used to ban films. Now it’s more relaxed than Britain or the US about what’s on screen. Why?
Such shockers as Brief Encounter and The Big Sleep were once prohibited here. Ciarán Kissane of the Irish Film Classification Office explains his more modern approach
American puritanism still reigns at the movies
Donald Clarke: It wasn’t the bombs, it was the nudity that got Oppenheimer a restrictive R rating
Violence, discrimination and suicide of concern to parents when deciding films for children to watch
IFCO says box office revenues recovered last year, rising to €92m, some 75 per cent of their pre-pandemic peak
In a sunset industry, Cineworld’s woes are a plot twist many saw coming
Cinema chain’s financial difficulties make for a ‘tiresome disaster movie’. The problem is it might not have the genre to itself
‘Pent-up demand’ in courts for debt cases as Covid protections end, Minister told
Official briefing notes impact of pandemic across justice sector from the courts to crime
It’s time for Ireland to stop compulsory film classification
Hugh Linehan: Why should we classify DVDs and cinema releases but not Netflix?
‘Vile material’: Film watchdog reveals public complaints
Issues include ‘Satanistic’ symbolism in superhero film and cannibalism ‘sub-context’
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