Derry Girls did more to explain human stakes behind Brexit fallout than anything else
It is important to understand the people affected by policies. Lisa McGee showed that comedy can help us do that
Lisa McGee
Róisín Gallagher: I grew up in a world where I heard people say, ‘he’s a Protestant but he’s very nice’
West Belfast actor talks about her lead role in The Lovers playing a loyalist from east Belfast and how it brought her to parts of her home city she had never visited
‘Joke’s on you, Mam!’ Siobhán McSweeney raises the roof with her Bafta acceptance speech
At the Bafta TV awards 2023, Siobhán McSweeney joins Lisa McGee, Anne-Marie Duff and Sharon Horgan as Derry Girls and Bad Sisters scoop prizes
Baftas 2023: Derry Girls, Sharon Horgan’s Bad Sisters and Cillian Murphy among nominations
Irish talent prominent across several categories in acting, writing and directing
Róisín Ingle: I sincerely hope no Protestants were harmed in the writing of this column
It’s not that I’ve never annoyed a Protestant before – I have. But I mostly annoy Catholics
The Irish Times view on the world of Derry Girls: a holiday from history
Lisa McGee’s show paid homage to a time when the music was better, the politics were more hopeful and the clothes were, well, different
Minister quotes Derry Girls in appeal over political stalemate in North
Humphreys tells Shared Island event final words of TV comedy ‘appropriate’ for today
Derry Girls is comedy gold, but its last episode was no grand finale
Derry Girls finale review: Alas, the last episode overdoes it with a one hour special
Derry Girls season 3: We’re Taken by surprise when a certain Irish actor puts in a cameo
Contains spoilers: On the evidence of this gags-galore first show, the final season will be a blast
Lisa McGee: ‘If I was a different writer, Derry Girls could be quite a bleak show’
The sitcom writer on her childhood, becoming Jessica Fletcher and her big break
Maeve Higgins: ‘Irish people are treated as some kind of miracle when they do well abroad’
The comedian on making it in the US and Ireland’s ‘overlooked, undervalued’ women
Screw: Derry Girl Jamie-Lee O’Donnell goes to prison
TV review: Her first big post-Derry Girls project is as prisoner to a so far poor script
Jamie-Lee O’Donnell of Derry Girls: ‘It’s just nice to show the Derry we know’
With a new starring role in Screw, the actor is waving goodbye to Derry Girls’ Michelle
Derry Girls: Filming finally begins on third series, Lisa McGee confirms
Nicola Coughlan, Saoirse-Monica Jackson and the rest of the cast return for a final season
Patrick Kielty is back to psychoanalyse Northern Ireland
TV review: The comedian explores the North’s centenary in One Hundred Years of Union
Alix O’Neill: ‘It’s a lovely thing to be just very Northern Irish’
Author says Derry Girls gave her and others ‘license to tell the other side of the Troubles’
Iftas 2021: Normal People, Smother and Dating Amber top nominations
Sally Rooney adaption scoops 15 nominations. Nika McGuigan up for posthumous award
Bridgerton’s Nicola Coughlan: Now women can be obnoxious eejits too – thank God
My Derry Girls and Bridgerton roles show women our complex, stupid selves on screen
Angela Scanlon on life in London: ‘I am Irish through and through’
The presenter on Irishness, the excitement of live TV and the upside of lockdown
Virgin Media backs 10 short films in €150,000 festival scheme
Competition run with Screen Ireland aims to support Irish industry at development stage
Derry Girls’ Nicola Coughlan: ‘I was, like, Are you serious? I’m not this gigantic sumo wrestler’
The actor, who’s about to star in Bridgerton, on body image, activism and doing chores for her mum
Virgin Media film competition judges include Abrahamson and McGee
Irish industry ‘very conscious’ of need for more development funding, says Bill Malone
‘We were glued to it’: John King’s Irish cousin on CNN’s magic election wall
TV anchor says Irish interest in his election coverage is ‘very kind and flattering’
‘It begins in Doonloughan’: CNN’s John King maps his Irish ancestry
US TV anchor says a visit to Connemara home of his forefathers is ‘long overdue’
US Election: CNN’s John King wins Irish viewers’ votes
Derry Girls screenwriter Lisa McGee tweeted ‘is@JohnKingCNN Irish yet?’
How nuns schooled today’s torch-bearers of feminism
A generation of female superheroes in tartan skirts and gabardines
Normal People’s Paul Mescal stars in Virgin Media One drama
The Deceived is part of TV station’s new season with Charlton and other documentaries
Virgin Media Television expects to lose a quarter of ad revenue in 2020
Broadcaster eyes return of sport, new Paul Mescal drama and push into podcasts
Graham Norton, Aisling Bea, Catastrophe and Derry Girls nominated for Baftas
Sharon Horgan and Lisa McGee’s comedies join chatshow host in running for TV awards
Virgin Media’s Generation Dating set to travel to Australia after Cannes interest
Laura Dowling pitched idea for ‘uplifting’ show at annual staff workshop
Blood, rugby and two trips to Love Island for Virgin Media Television in 2020
Broadcaster previews spring schedule amid ‘challenging’ environment for media industry
Patrick Freyne: The best of TV in 2019 and what to watch this year
Funniest programmes are of the hand-drawn variety like Rick and Morty
TV in 2019: A year of big and unhappy endings
Fleabag, Game of Thrones and Catastrophe all ended – and somehow brought us all together
Bronagh Gallagher: ‘I never felt I was with the right man. But that’s how the dice rolled’
The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin Tarantino
Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’
Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions
If film studios boycott Georgia over abortion, why not the North?
Donald Clarke: Women in Northern Ireland could conclude industry cares less for them
Elizabeth Day: 'As an English child in Belfast, I thought I was seen as the occupier'
Author and journalist on growing up in Northern Ireland, and learning from her 'failures'
Derry Girls review: A moving and significant piece of nostalgia
In the season finale, Lisa McGee’s girls once again turn their backs on history
Bafta TV awards 2019: Derry Girls and Fiona Shaw among Irish nominations
Lisa McGee gets nod for scripted comedy, Fiona Shaw on best supporting actress shortlist but Graham Norton snubbed
Derry Girls guide to Derry: Murals, cream horns and Sr Michael stout
Channel 4’s smash-hit comedy has made the city a must-visit destination
Derry Girls’ blackboard scene is the TV moment of 2019
LIsa McGee brilliantly selected her slurs and generalisations about Northern religions
Derry Girls series 2: ‘Catholics really buzz off statues. Protestants don’t so much’
Review: The Channel 4 comedy gives its characters a normal life in difficult times
Success of Channel 4’s Derry Girls is no flash in the pan
Lisa McGee’s comedy has been a hit both for linear TV and on-demand
Derry Girls: ‘We’re doing it for peace. A piece of fine Protestant ass’
As the comedy smash hit returns, the cast and creator look ahead to what's in store
The new RTÉ Player: How does it measure up in the Netflix era?
Relaunched for the streaming age, it carries new Player-only shows, but the pre-roll ads remain
Vicky Phelan named among BBC’s 100 most inspiring women for 2018
100 Women list also names Lisa McGee, writer of Channel 4 comedy ‘Derry Girls’
Derry Girls’ Lisa McGee named among most powerful people in British TV
TV 100 2018 power list topped by Broadchurch star Olivia Colman
Derry Girls’ Lisa McGee: ‘A lot of stuff about Northern Ireland is very male’
With her play ‘Girls and Dolls’ set to be revived, the writer explains what makes for good storytelling
‘Derry Girls’ creator Lisa McGee honoured at television industry event in London
Embassy dinner attended by executives from RTÉ, TV3, BBC, Sky and Channel 4
Humour as black as a black taxi: joking about the Troubles
Humorous reflections on the Troubles appear to be experiencing a renaissance in the North
Can RTÉ respond to the challenge of Netflix and Amazon?
RTÉ director-general Dee Forbes talks about TV in the streaming age, funding and cultural relevance
Derry Girls: ‘I’m not enjoying this bomb. I’ve an appointment at Tropicana at 12’
Creator, writer and producer Lisa McGee explains what’s made ‘Derry Girls’ a success, the influence of Dolores O’Riordan, and what she has in store for series two
‘Derry Girls’ is hot; ‘Friends’ is definitely not
The People’s Republic features prominently in the good end of this week’s index
1990s Derry seen through the eyes of a 16-year-old girl
‘Derry Girls’ is a zippy comedy whose teen stars have bigger troubles than the Troubles
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