Jessie Buckley

‘Jessie has already finished in glory,’ father says as Kerry holds its breath

Irish Academy Award nominees Jessie Buckley, Richard Baneham, John Kelly and Andrew Freedman will all be at Sunday night’s ceremony

March 14th-20th highlights: including Turbulence: The Story of Ryanair, The Other Bennet Sister and the Oscars

Unless Los Angeles slides into the sea, the Hamnet star will become the first Irish winner of the best actress Academy Award

This year’s awards come at a moment of flux and uncertainty for the gilm industry

If Jessie Buckley wins the leading-actress award for Hamnet this weekend, she’ll join an illustrious group of Irish winners

Several other Irish and international artists, including surviving Pogues, will contribute to 20th Century Paddy album

I did what I could to connect the playwright with Ireland, but it was a stretch

Streaming services, digital rentals and catch-up cinema screenings mean you can see all of this year’s key contenders

New film starring Jessie Buckley, a giant riff on Whale’s horror, might send audiences back to 1935 classic

Actor from Killarney makes the comments to Lauren Laverne during an episode of BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs

Felines have been the signal beneficiaries of modern internet culture over the past decade

Irish Oscar-nominee Jessie Buckley says it is a ‘misconception’ that she hates cats

Early Edition with Aideen Finnegan

Let’s hope a re-emergence of the actor’s bold declaration that she doesn’t like cats won’t mean she faces kitty karma on Oscar night

Maggie Gyllenhaal’s sincerely intended but slightly rickety The Bride! just about gets by on suave style and committed performances

Sinners and Michael B Jordan are big winners at the former SAG (Screen Actors Guild) awards; Paul Mescal loses out to Sean Penn for best supporting actor

Kara Owen: The British ambassador to Ireland on her strongest childhood memory, her favourite Irish restaurant, and the actor she would like to play her in a biopic of her life

Linguistic detectives believe Shakespeare would have said ‘divil’ instead of ‘devil’ and would have drunk a cup of ‘tay’

From backless gowns to daring men's wear, here are some of the standout looks from this year’s Bafta red carpet

Irish actor takes home one of award ceremony’s leading prizes, continuing her run towards the Oscars

Charli XCX, Rose Byrne, Amanda Seyfried and Wagner Moura feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of February 20th, 2026

The star on the ‘incendiary’ If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, her Australian identity and women in comedy

Hamnet star pays tribute ‘to Kerry for reminding me of my wildness’ as she collects best actress award

Here’s everything you need to know about the upcoming ceremony and the Irish talent nominated

Change coming at Department of Justice, Hamnet hits home with grief charity, wedding group hopes to turn Ireland in next Lake Como

Versatile actor is back on RTÉ for the first time in over a decade, portraying a priest in ‘These Sacred Vows’

Jessie Buckley’s Bafta nomination confirms her as strong favourite for the best-actress award

The film, directed by Chloe Zhao, has broken the record for the most nominations for a female-directed film in Bafta history

I expected Chloé Zhao’s film to be daring and brilliant and moving. I think I fell prey to the hype around it

Irish talent ranked high in this year’s Oscar nominations, but Hamnet film-makers will be disappointed Paul Mescal didn’t make the final list

Sinners smashes nominations record with 16 nods, Element Pictures picks up four for Bugonia

Watch out for One Battle After Another or Sinners shattering the record for most Academy Award nominations

Irish Film & Television Academy Awards nominations recognise Christy and Saipan as Blue Lights and The Walsh Sisters get drama nods

With cinema-goers flocking to Hamnet, about the life of Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway, Stratford-upon-Avon is bracing itself for an influx of visitors

Separating refugee parents and their children betrays the family values of the film and of our constitution

Key grip Tomasz Sternicki is a veteran of soup preparation for the stars

Actor’s father Tim Buckley describes ‘lovely sense of shared joy’ in the aftermath of Kerry star’s award

If Hamnet’s recent success has inspired you to delve deeper into Maggie O’Farrell’s bibliography, then here’s a good guide

From Teyana Taylor and Mia Goth, to Maura Higgins and Ariana Grande, classic black was the standout shade on the red carpet