The Irish Times

Graham Norton’s Holding is a satisfying murder mystery – but it’s a crime against Cork accents

TV review: Did Charlene McKenna base her accent on Roy Keane’s Mick McCarthy tirade?

Mon Mar 14 2022 - 22:00

Last Night in Soho: New horror ends in uncertain, muddy territory

Review: Edgar Wright’s time-travel diversion explores the seedier side of the 1960s

Fri Oct 29 2021 - 05:00

Deadly Cuts: A blast from Irish cinema’s past

Film review: Don’t expect subtlety from this broad Dublin comedy

Fri Oct 08 2021 - 05:00

Riverdance the movie: Pierce Brosnan and Brendan Gleeson hoof it up on a screen near you

Michael Flatley becomes an impressively antlered elk in a new animated film based on the hit show

Mon May 24 2021 - 06:00

I’m entitled to my stupid opinion, and I say pigs should wear shoes

Patrick Freyne: Eating with the Enemy is a televisual response to our endless opinionising

Fri Mar 12 2021 - 05:00

Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth, Steve McQueen and Nina Hoss to appear at Dublin film festival

Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival unveils line-up for 2021 virtual event

Wed Feb 03 2021 - 13:13

Oh the places we’ll go: My first trip after Covid

This pandemic will pass and we will travel again. But where will we go?

Sat Jan 30 2021 - 00:00

‘Test live performances’ to take place in National Concert Hall and Abbey

Events to take place later in December, says Minister for Arts and Culture

Sun Dec 13 2020 - 15:08

A Girl from Mogadishu: Ifrah Ahmed is very impressive. This film about her life is not

Review: Ahmed is a credit to her nation. It’s a shame Mary McGuckian’s biopic is so pallid

Fri Dec 04 2020 - 05:00

Third attempt begins in Dáil to ban hare coursing

Legislation introduced as pressure increases on Green Party to back Bill

Wed Sept 16 2020 - 18:56

The Young Offenders: ‘A Cork accent is a bizarre noise to come out of a mouth’

With a new series about to hit screens, thanks to streaming services – and subtitles – the show’s cult following has spread globally

Thu Jul 23 2020 - 06:00

Protesters urge end to State support over ‘horrors’ of greyhound racing

Actor Pauline McLynn calls for sport to be outlawed at Dublin demonstration

Sun Jul 28 2019 - 11:17

Fair City actor lived his life ‘to the full’, funeral Mass told

Actor Karl Shiels, who died on Monday aged 47, played shady Robbie Quinn in the soap

Thu Jul 18 2019 - 20:28

GameFace: Roisin Conaty serves up sexual frankness and women-behaving-badly comedy

Review: The Irish actor’s flailing adventures continue in this edgy Channel 4 sitcom

Thu Jul 18 2019 - 09:56

Roisin Conaty: ‘I feel more Irish than British’

The writer/star of hit show GameFace is proud of her Irish roots. Just don’t call her Roy-sin

Sun Jul 14 2019 - 06:02

Prisoners of the Moon: The ‘100% Nazi’ behind the Moon landing

Review: V2 rocket scientist Arthur Rudolph was spirited to the US to work on the space programme

Thu Jun 27 2019 - 06:00

The Small Things: Blood and violence and love, but no chemistry

Review: Pauline McLynn and Peter Gowan work from an extraordinary script by Enda Walsh, but the setting leaves things out in the cold

Thu Jun 20 2019 - 06:12

Cork Midsummer Festival 2019: Daring work and delicious food

Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme

Wed Jun 19 2019 - 15:00

It's a kind of magic: electric midsummer night's dreams in Kilkenny Castle

Rough Magic is recharging itself with a new young company and an electrifying take on Shakespeare

Sat Aug 04 2018 - 05:00

Artist group Subset calls on council to change street art regulations

Subset collective calls for new public art framework to allow licensing of murals

Fri Jun 15 2018 - 15:15

President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy

Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service

Sat May 19 2018 - 18:41

Poll results show no room for complacency, says Harris

Yes side retains clear - but narrowing - advantage in abortion referendum campaign

Thu May 17 2018 - 13:40

‘Dave Allen at Peace’: An overly simplistic portrayal of one of Ireland’s most complex jokers

Review: The intentions of this biopic are honourable, but Allen, you feel, would have told it so much better.

Mon Apr 02 2018 - 22:00

Fr Ted fans flock to ‘Craggy Island’ on 20th anniversary of Dermot Morgan’s death

Events include Priest’s Dance Off, The Lovely Girls competition and Ted’s Got Talent

Thu Feb 22 2018 - 14:25

‘Among men, there’s certain aspects that are supposed to stay suppressed’

Harris Dickinson, the rising British actor, has been praised for his performance in the Sundance prizewinner Beach Rats

Thu Nov 23 2017 - 05:00

Drop dead quite funny: an Irish zombie comedy for teenagers

TV review: RTÉ’s new comedy features Pauline McLynn, fart jokes and undead parents

Mon Sept 25 2017 - 19:06

RTÉ’s new TV season focuses on Irish obsessions

Live weather event and sporting moment vote will feature alongside familiar formats

Thu Aug 24 2017 - 01:00

Far Away review: Spike Island becomes a dystopia once again

Caryl Churchill’s short, brutal play is brilliantly realised

Wed Jun 21 2017 - 14:06

Former envoys call for recognition of Palestinian state

Letter to Taoiseach signed by academics and artists urges Government to act ‘without delay’

Tue Apr 25 2017 - 10:45

'Marriage was a licence for sex': Ireland and women in 100 quotes

The Women’s Podcast celebrates its 100th episode with 100 quotes by and about women in Ireland

Thu Mar 30 2017 - 10:10

‘Can’t Cope, Won’t Cope’: the making of RTÉ’s dark new comedy drama

2016 Revisited: Too much TV glamorises ‘going out for the night, having sex with people, then dissecting it the next day over avocados’. Stefanie Preissner set out to be more realistic

Sat Sept 17 2016 - 04:00

RTÉ plays up Irishness in strong-looking television line-up

TV schedule launch mixes razzmatazz with stern assertions of public service values

Tue Aug 23 2016 - 01:00

The Women’s Podcast does Christmas: Anne Enright, Maeve Higgins, Louise O’Neill and more

From the frenzied seasonal supermarket shop to spending the season away from home to the challenges of a menopausal Christmas, the women’s podcast brings you festive reflections from seven Irish writers

Mon Dec 21 2015 - 06:00

Pauline McLynn: Why I stopped eating meat a year ago

Broadside: ‘I loved the taste of meat but I have always known that I couldn’t kill a creature myself and eat it, so I left the slaughter to others. Now, I can no longer do that’

Mon Nov 09 2015 - 07:16

Television: Hotel du lack – ‘The Gleneagle’ is in desperate need of a star

Review: ‘The Gleneagle’ is every bit as dull and colourless as its fly-on-the-wall predecessor ‘The Shelbourne’

Fri Jul 24 2015 - 14:09

Memorial tributes paid to late advertising copywriter Catherine Donnelly

Writer and arts champion responsible for some of the best-known ads of past 40 years

Mon Jan 26 2015 - 19:51

‘Wild thing’ and lobsters kick off Galway festival

Galway celebrates two arts festivals in one fortnight

Tue Jul 15 2014 - 01:00

Irish actor Pauline McLynn joins Eastenders

Father Ted’s Mrs Doyle to play Charlie Cotton’s mother in a move to Albert Square

Fri Apr 25 2014 - 10:07

Television: From panache to ganache, with not a soggy bottom in sight

‘Cutting Edge’ was on to a winner with its fabulous fashionistas – as is TV3 with ‘The Great Irish Bake Off’

Sat Sept 21 2013 - 01:00

Television: Razor-edge acting from Cillian Murphy in ‘Peaky Blinders’, and razor-sharp sports chat from the Second Captains

The Irish actor shines as a 1920s gangster in a complex British cousin of Boardwalk Empire, but it’s surprisingly easy to follow the blokey banter in Second Captains Live

Thu Sept 12 2013 - 18:21

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