EU law complicates any Irish move to ban sending of thoroughbred horses to abattoirs
British Horseracing Authority announced that racehorses are to be taken out of human food chain
Irish racing consider ‘horse purse’ concept to ensure proper end of life care
Disturbing evidence revealed in Panorama programme: The Dark Side of Horse Racing
Albert Finney, who helped change face of British film, dies aged 82
The five-time Oscar nominee, who played the definitive Poirot, died after a short illness
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
Mending the Gate: ‘Michael Colgan’s style was very different to mine’
The Gate Theatre turned 90 this year. Nobody noticed. Selina Cartmell on a challenging first year in charge
HRI and council in row over levy on €79m land at Leopardstown
Racing body says it plans to develop land, and is appealing its entry into vacant sites register
‘Just another Dublin dope trying to find ways to say, I love you, woman’
Late at the Gate review: gifted writer and performer Emmet Kirwan responds to John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’
‘Art’ at the Gaiety, ‘Late at the Gate’: the best theatre this week
Yasmina Reza’s celebrity warhorse returns, while Emmet Kirwan gives a dissenting, rhyming response to ‘Look Back in Anger’
We Don’t Know What’s Buried Here – The best theatre shows this week
Stacey Gregg’s award-winning play about a teenager’s fraught search for identity and Grace Dyas’s new play about digging for truth in the shadow of a Magdalene Laundry
Look Back In Anger review: Deconstructing a nasty piece of work
New production of Osborne’s drama pulls down curtain on angry young man
Bullying, demeaning and harassing women: Look Back in Anger at The Gate
John Osborne’s aggressive scourge Jimmy Porter is about to appear in the Gate
The best theatre shows this week
Osborne’s ‘Look back in Anger’ returns to the Gate, and a new work from Mark O’Rowe
Miriam Lord: Whiff of pampered bluebloods? That’s the horses
Camilla at National Stud declares: ‘I’m coming back here every year until I drop!’
London Letter: David Hockney a rare Brexiteer among British cultural giants
Most British writers today are Remainers. Which side would past literary giants take?
The Birthday Party review: All talk, low action
Dread that shaped Pinter’s play never materialises in this new production
David Cameron finds favour with rhetorical defence of finances
British prime minister’s words had a sympathetic audience in fellow Conservatives
‘People might be cross that some English bloke has desecrated a classic’
Director Seán Holmes had never seen The Plough and the Stars staged – until his current version went up at the Abbey Theatre
‘Theatre is a horrible business’: the wisdom of Beckett’s chosen one
The genial German director Walter Asmus was initially scared of Samuel Beckett before gradually becoming the playwright’s personally anointed representative on Earth
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