Pierce Brosnan says he could ‘entertain’ returning to James Bond as retired agent
Pierce Brosnan, who played James Bond in four films, says he is now enjoying playing older characters
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Colin Farrell: ‘I’m finding the 40s to be the most meaningful and beautiful chapter in my life’
You don’t so much interview Farrell as curate his conversation. A professional down to his neat fingertips, he gives you, in 20 minutes or so, enough material for a smallish book. It is 25 years since Farrell made the jump from Ireland to Los Angeles with Tigerland. His early roguish demeanour has matured into a more complex charisma.
‘They’re like a hug in a book’: Why cosy crime is on the rise
Faced with a turbulent news cycle, readers and authors are turning back to quainter pleasures in fiction
Dr No Gun: Is this what they mean by woke gone mad?
Prime Video took James Bond’s pistol out of the hands of Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan and Sean Connery
Richard Osman: ‘Having a hit in Ireland is one of my great joys’
Fifth novel in the best-selling Thursday Murder Club series explores wealth and greed – but in a fun way, the author says
Thursday Murder Club review: The weak link here, sadly, is the greatest James Bond of all
Television: A hollow page-turner adapted for film with all the zing of a lesser season of Inspector Morse
Pierce Brosnan interview: ‘John Huston said I was too handsome. It can get in the way’
The Irish actor, star of The Thursday Murder Club, on losing a John Huston role because of his face, the James Bond years and the state of the US
Four Letters of Love review: Every interior in this preposterous film suggests an Irish theme pub in 1990s Basingstoke
Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne team up with antique spinning-wheels, nuns and vowels from all 32 counties
Pierce Brosnan’s 11 most memorable movie roles – in reverse order
The common reduction of Brosnan to ‘Bond actor’ distracts from a busier and better CV than the casual observer might guess
Radio review: ‘It sounded like a big mosquito’ - anger over drones fills the airwaves
Radio: RTÉ presenter is a likable substitute for Joe Duffy, while Newstalk’s Kieran Cuddihy launches an unusual free-speech crusade
Pierce Brosnan: ‘I had no qualifications. I was really behind the eight ball – without a mother, without a father’
A long-time painter and art enthusiast, at 71, Brosnan doesn’t often show the whole of himself. He refers to it all as ‘the Celtic alchemy’
MobLand review: Pierce Brosnan’s Irish accent is a horror for the ages. Forget licence to kill, this is more Darby O’Gill
Television: Helen Mirren’s Irish accent is another phonetic fumble, but Brosnan seems determined to scupper his national treasure status
Black Bag review: Soderbergh’s spy flick starring Blanchett and Fassbender beats streaming rivals hands down
Those going in expectation of action will meet disappointment, while the rest of us will be clamouring for a sequel
What next for James Bond under Amazon? Marvel-style TV spinoffs on Prime or Miss Moneypenny specials?
Jeff Bezos-controlled Amazon has taken creative control of the James Bond franchise under a deal with Barbara Broccoli and Michael G Wilson
James Bond is mad about the Boyne: campaign against abbatoir effluent plan benefits from Pierce Brosnan’s support
An Bord Pleanála has overturned council decision to grant permission for Dawn Meats abbatoir to offload 400,000 litres of treated wastewater into the river every day
Niall Williams: ‘I am here to write the books I’m supposed to write, not the books an Irish Times reviewer would like’
A critical savaging for his first play scarred the author of Time of the Child. You can’t try to please people, he says. You have to do your own thing
Richard Osman on the Thursday Murder Club film: ‘I got to see how handsome Pierce Brosnan is up close’
Author Richard Osman on taking his words to the big screen, his new crime novel We Solve Murders and creating characters with heart
The name’s Bond ... Jamie Bond: What’s happened to 007 – and will the films ever return?
It’s already three years since No Time to Die came out. And we may not see the next film in the franchise until 2026
Pierce Brosnan to play Irish boxing trainer Brendan Ingle in new film
Actor will star in Giant, an upcoming biopic of British fighter Prince Naseem Hamed
‘I made an impulsive mistake’: Pierce Brosnan apologises after court fines him for Yellowstone trail trespass
The James Bond actor pleaded guilty to walking in a thermal area in the US park
Council criticised for not buying Pierce Brosnan’s home in Navan
The house was razed to make way for a new two-storey dwelling
Pierce Brosnan charged over ‘trespass’ at Yellowstone National Park
Getting caught can bring legal peril, with jail time, hefty fines and bans from the park regularly handed down to trespassers
The Out-Laws: Pierce Brosnan grapples with a comedy role not quite dumb enough for Robert De Niro
Pierce Brosnan and Ellen Barkin are the future parents-in-law who turn out to have unexpected jobs
Much-loved Dublin city shop Pen Corner to close its doors
Famous for pens, pencils and stationery, it has been a family business since 1927
Paul Rudd is the world’s sexiest not-very-Irish man
People Magazine named him ‘Sexiest Man Alive’. An Irish connection was swiftly unearthed
Beautiful and compelling story of Jack B Yeats - one of Ireland's greatest painters
The Man Who Painted Ireland examines the life of ‘underappreciated’ artist
It’s no time to die for Daniel Craig the actor. How to have a post-Bond career
There has long been a myth that the role of James Bond swallows careers whole
James Bond: Can 007 and No Time to Die save cinema?
Latest Bond film No Time to Die arrives in the hope rescuing the entire medium
James Bond: Hint at gay experience in 007’s past almost cut from Skyfall, says producer
Barbara Broccoli had to fight studio over scene between Daniel Craig and Javier Bardem
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
Gorillas in the Mist director Michael Apted dies aged 79
Film-maker was also known for Up documentaries and for directing Bond film
Gabriel Byrne: ‘Dublin prepared me for Hollywood. I was ready for the bulls**t’
The actor on his struggle with fame, the sexual abuse he endured, and the new Ireland
Iftas 2020: Martin Scorsese, Daisy Ridley, Michael D Higgins to appear at virtual ceremony
The Irish Film and Television Academy’s awards will be broadcast on Sunday night
James Bond fans name their favourite 007 (he’s not from Navan)
Daniel Craig, George Lazenby and Irish actor Pierce Brosnan sidelined in Radio Times poll
Four new films to stream this weekend
Irresistible, Eurovision Song Contest, Fanny Lye Deliver’d, Just Don’t Think I’ll Scream
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in June
Including Queer Eye, Dating Around, The Politician, Athlete A, and a Eurovision spoof
Pieta House preparing for further surge in calls as lockdown measures are eased
Darkness into Light marked across the country as donations needed to raise funds
Sporting Controversies: Wonderful devilment of Gay Future stroke still resonates
August Bank Holiday in 1974 - one of racing’s most daring scams was almost pulled off
Netflix: The best 101 films to watch right now
Half our favourite movies have vanished. But there’s still plenty of great stuff to search for
Golden Globes: Once Upon a Time in... Hollywood wins big
Saoirse Ronan, nominated for Little Women performance, loses out to Renée Zellweger
Ashford Castle: Eighty years old and more gorgeous than ever
Tollman family have spent €68m since 2015 restoring historic castle to its former glory
Keanu Reeves: Everyone is talking about his new girlfriend, and it’s not why you think
The long-single actor turned heads after appearing in public with Alexandra Grant
James Bond: Pierce Brosnan says next 007 should be played by a woman
Irish actor also backs Roman Polanski and Woody Allen at Deauville Film Festival
A touch of Hollywood in the west of Ireland
Some movie magic has added sparkle to an overhauled home and a new bookshop in Co Mayo
Why Irish film-makers and actors can’t do proper sex scenes
Film sex is fine. But sex featuring Irish actors, in films set in Ireland? That never really works
Brad Pitt on Once Upon a Time in Hollywood: ‘There’s no set like a Tarantino set’
Director Quentin Tarantino as enthusiastic as ever but can’t avoid criticism of his past
Tom Stade: On My Culture Radar
The comedian on The Band, ‘funny’ Pierce Brosnan and why he loves Trump’s tweets
Pierce Brosnan: ‘It was a great irony playing a British cultural icon as an Irishman’
Irish actor recalls his James Bond debut in GoldenEye: crazy stunts and thigh-crushings from Xenia Onatopp
Petition calls to save wall featured in Pierce Brosnan Instagram post
Proposed cycle scheme in Navan would involve knocking down structure beside Athlumney Castle
Matt Williams: New Zealand are in Dublin to crush a Celtic uprising
Kiwis want to wipe the memory of Ireland’s win in Chicago from the face of the earth
Meet the Irish author who is reinventing Doctor Who
The sci-fi series’s labyrinthine mythology is no problem for Irish author Dave Rudden
Sky Cinema eyes piece of the action with movies of its own
Risky move comes as streaming TV services chase the holy grail of original content
Pierce Brosnan: Our New VBF
If you are having a low day, Brosnan’s Instagram account is a surefire way to lift that dark cloud
Henry Cavill: ‘Ireland taught me how to love the rain’
The Mission: Impossible star on Tom Cruise, #MeToo and taking over as James Bond
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
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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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