Pubs in Ireland stuck in a loop while Irish pubs abroad forge ahead
Agenda: Publicans abroad believe State authorities ‘over cautious’ with Covid-19 restrictions
Twist: Lena Headey is ruthless. Michael Caine is barely awake
Film review: Sky makes a complete pig’s ear of a street-hustler take on Oliver Twist
Sex, swearing and flushing the loo: How these films broke big-screen taboos
The new indie comedy Saint Frances features period sex – cinema has travelled a long way
Daniel Craig is doing 12-hour workouts. Ian Fleming’s James Bond drank half a bottle a day
At 51, Craig needs to work hard to convince as the UK’s greatest killing machine
The Johnny Depp you once loved wasn’t the real Johnny Depp
Discrediting of movie stars we admire can be hard to process. But we never really knew them
Ilie Nastase – the kind of ‘character’ sport doesn’t need
The oafish behaviour of Higgins and Nastase was once celebrated. Those days are gone
Bitter Harvest review: an epic monstrosity that’s so bad it’s almost unmissable
Noble intentions may be behind the production of this privately financed Ukrainian history lesson, but that’s really no excuse
John Hurt: A brilliant actor who ‘never lost his sense of adolescent mischief’
Honorary Irishman was among the cleverest actors of his (or any other) generation
John Hurt obituary: Open-hearted and hysterically funny
In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett
50 Irish graves to visit before you die
If you like to commune with the ghosts of the famous in haunting surroundings, Ireland has enough burial places to last you a lifetime
Oliver Reed: separating the man from the wild man myth
When Rob Crouch and Mike Davis began developing a play about Oliver Reed, they had no idea who would end up pitching in to help the show: Reed’s son Mark
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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