Kin star Sam Keeley: ‘I failed my Leaving. I don’t know if acting was a good idea, but it worked for me’
Already known to audiences for his roles in What Richard Did and RTÉ hit drama Kin, Irish actor Sam Keeley is making waves internationally
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Including the series finale of The Tourist, Chinook: Zulu Delta 576 and Selling Ireland’s Dream Homes
Olwen Fouéré: ‘I didn’t feel Irish. There’s a great advantage to being an outsider’
The distinctive actor and performer, currently on television in The Tourist, resists convention in both her work and personal life
The Tourist: Jamie Dornan in another British drama ‘does’ Ireland? Yes, our hearts are sinking
Jamie Dornan’s glare of Herculean confusion dominates a cooked up Tarantino Does the Quiet Man
Conor MacNeill: ‘The coolest moment was running around a pub shooting at Liam Neeson. It was badass’
The Belfast actor is already a familiar face. With the new series of The Tourist coming up, among other roles, he’s about to be on our screens a lot more
Jamie Dornan: ‘I get all kinds of mad stuff on Instagram, which I’m quite fearful of if I’m honest’
The Irish actor on the shocking return of BBC drama The Tourist and terrifying 50 Shades fans
Jamie Dornan to receive honorary degree from Queen’s University
Co Down actor, who starred in Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast and in TV series The Tourist, joins F1 pundit Bernadette Collins and former SDLP leader Mark Durkan in receiving doctorate
Hugh Callaghan: ‘The night terrors have become less frequent’
Man wrongfully convicted of Birmingham bombings sees Belfast film with sharper eye
Oscars 2022: Irish contingent among pre-ceremony Covid outbreaks
Belfast’s Kenneth Branagh and Ciarán Hinds have been isolating in New York after testing positive
Belfast’s waning Oscar prospects: The film could go home with not a single award
In ‘the curse of the early favourite’, Kenneth Branagh’s film has lots of nominations but few wins
Do you make the best crisp sandwich in Ireland? Tell us about it
If your Irish stew is legendary, or your coddle the food of champions, let us know
Belfast and An Cailín Ciúin lead nominations for Irish film and television awards
Winners to be announced at virtual and in-person events in March and April
Belfast film review: Kenneth Branagh’s memoir is black-and-white and rose-tinted all over
The film is aggresively apolitical but as romanticised reverie it could hardly be bettered
Catriona Balfe: ‘Monaghan in the ’80s, a guard’s daughter … you’re not particularly welcomed’
The Monaghan star on modelling, motherhood – and becoming Kenneth Branagh’s ma
Patrick Freyne: The pandemic can’t end until Sally Rooney’s Conversations With Friends airs
The big shows I’m anticipating in 2022, featuring Baby Yoda and my wife’s other husband
Runny pudding and a megalomaniac Garth Brooks lead my 2022 predictions
Emer McLysaght dares to look at the year ahead
Jamie Dornan: ‘Since my dad died, it’s lit this extra fire within me’
With Belfast, the Fifty Shades of Grey star has planted himself firmly in prestige filmmaking
Belfast review: Already an Oscars favourite, Kenneth Branagh’s film is irresistible
The gorgeous movie features Jamie Dornan, Caitríona Balfe, Judi Dench and Ciarán Hinds
Get you, wee man: There’s nothing wrong with my accent – and you shouldn’t need subtitles
The Belfast ‘brogue’ in Kenneth Branagh’s new film is stumping some US reviewers
Only one Jadotville siege Army veteran to get medal
Commanding officer of A Company, Col Pat Quinlan, should receive DSM – review group
Finding You: Months after Wild Mountain Thyme, Sky gives us more crock-of-gold baloney
Review: Twinkly ballads aside, it at least portrays Ireland as a modern place
Why are there so few Irish women cast in films that are made here?
Irish actresses are missing out on commercial opportunities, writes Anna Doyle
Wild Mountain Thyme will now be released in Ireland on April 30th. Brace yourself
About-turn means we can watch Jamie Dornan’s ironic paddywhackery over the bank holiday
It’s as if censorship were back: Why Ireland can’t watch Wild Mountain Thyme this month
The Jamie Dornan movie is out for rent in the UK on April 30th. But it won’t be available on TVs here
Leading Northern Ireland obstetrician prof Jim Dornan dies
Tributes to doctor who left a ‘lasting legacy’ in obstetrics and foetomaternal medicine
Wild Mountain Thyme reviews are in: ‘Accents are the least of this movie’s problems’
Review of reviews for the stage-Irish film whose trailer was eviscerated last month
Wild Mountain Thyme director says Irish accents are hard to understand
John Patrick Shanley defends accents of Emily Blunt, Christopher Walken and Jamie Dornan
Fund Irish culture to lessen impact of donkeys like Wild Mountain Thyme
State support for film industry will make it easier to dismiss Hollywood paddywhackery
Patrick Freyne: Wild Mountain Thyme and my all-time favourite Oirish films
Here’s seven of the best Oirish films including a soulful hunky IRA man, and a corned beef and cabbage plot
Wild Mountain Thyme trailer: What in the name of holy bejaysus is this cowpat?
Film with Emily Blunt, Jamie Dornan, Christopher Walken is laden with patronising Paddywhackery
Army veterans describe their pride serving on first peacekeeping mission to Congo
Ambush of Irish patrol in Niemba in November 1960 killed eight soldiers and shocked the nation
Let me introduce my dining soulmate: Trish Deseine on Jay Rayner
My Last Supper, the food writer and critic’s new book, is everything you’d want it to be
‘I wrote a part for my husband. By the time filming was over, so was our marriage’
British writer Emma Forrest on her marriage break up and making her directorial debut with her film Untogether, which stars her ex husband
Sex in the movies: Why there’s no ‘sick filth’ left to ban
Pornography – even hard-core – was once big box office. The internet changed everything
A Private War: Marie Colvin lived the war correspondent cliche
Review: The honkingly unsubtle dialogue is not worthy of Rosamund Pike’s steely focus
What’s that stench? It’s the 10 worst films of 2018
From Fifty Shades Freed to sleazy Muppets in The Happytime Murders, the cinematic lowlights of the year
Inside the Belfast college that moulded peace-makers and Brexiteers
New illustrated book celebrates 150th anniversary of Methody in Northern capital
North Down on Brexit: ‘The DUP threatens the union more than Sinn Féin’
On NI’s ‘gold coast’, liberal unionists grapple with a Brexit-induced redrawing of identities
Jamie Dornan and ungodly thoughts in 1885 Fermanagh
Dripping with breathless desire, ‘Death and Nightingales’ offers a tense vision of Ireland
From the Late Late Toy Show to Tina Turner: seven of the best TV shows this week
You know Christmas is coming when Ryan Tubridy dons the jumper – and resistance is futile
‘The Border counties are etched in Eugene McCabe’s soul’
Allan Cubitt on adapting, ‘Death and Nightingales’, the writer’s 1992 novel, for TV
Robin Hood: Idiotic film can’t even get its absurdities right
Review: The clothes are bizarre, the accents are all over the place, and the hero’s a bit odd
Ryder Cup Different Strokes: Will Lefty get left behind if envelope rule is required?
Brian O’Driscoll and Niall Horan are part of the Europe team in the celebrity match
RTÉ seeks €400,000 sponsor for new season of drama
‘Resistance’ and ‘Taken Down’ on broadcaster’s slate, alongside four BBC titles
Jamie Dornan speaks of impact of mother’s death from cancer
‘It has an ever evolving effect on me,’ says actor, launching pancreatic cancer support group
Fifty Shades Freed: About as sexy as a 1990s ice-cream ad
Review: Cinema’s dullest couple adjust to married life in this tedious instalment
‘We literally would all have died in Jadotville but for him’
Tribute paid to Col Pat Quinlan who led 155 Defence Members safely back to Ireland in 1961
Tara Lee: a raw talent cooking up a music and acting career
She’s been in ‘Raw’, ‘The Fall’, ‘A Date for Mad Mary’ and stars in newfilm ‘Moon Dogs’, but the 22-year-old singer-songwriter from Donard didn’t always see herself as an actor
‘My gym is decorated with equipment from Jamie Dornan’s Red Room of Pain’
I’d like to be able to hold down a grown-up, long-term relationship with a gym. Instead, I have short-term, meaningless flings
Charlie Hunnam: The geezer who would be king
The King Arthur actor discusses why he won't be making a claim to be king of the Geordies any time soon, and how his bromance with Guy Ritchie set the pace for the ‘Lads of the Round Table’
Iftas 2017: ‘The Young Offenders’ leads film nominations
‘The Siege of Jadotville’ also secures seven nods, while TG4 series ‘Klondike’ scores 10
Fifty Shades Darker review: dreadful sex saga with no plot and awful dialogue
Film Review: Part two of EL James’s recreational sadism story is even worse than the first
Shane Lowry: I’ll make sure I make the next Ryder Cup
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