Multiple award-winning Scottish actor had career which spanned decades

He was always a little out of his time, combining charm, menace and old-fashioned masculinity

Thrones, cannons and fairies feature in Co Laois sale of props from acclaimed TV series

She drew fame at age 20, painted in gold, in the Bond film’s opening credits, and appeared in A Hard Day’s Night with the Beatles

Photo shows King Willem-Alexander, Queen Maxima and restaurateur side-by-side

The Scottish actor, voted ‘sexiest man alive’ for decades, started as a milkman and became ‘the greatest’ James Bond

Daniel Craig, George Lazenby and Irish actor Pierce Brosnan sidelined in Radio Times poll

‘I never considered myself a sex symbol’, James Bond, The Avengers actor once said

Radio review: In a sad week, RTÉ presenters pull together to remember broadcasting legends

From Brexit to Brolly, here is an alphabetical guide to the sports year that was

Keith Duggan: Ireland continues to exceed expectation across a variety of sports

We rummage through the first trailer for clues to the 25th Bond movie

Walt Disney aimed the film at Americans with ‘shamrocks in their eyes’. He missed

With the new film’s title and cast due on Thursday, here’s the good – and bad – of Bond on screen

At 51, Craig needs to work hard to convince as the UK’s greatest killing machine

Celebrity supersedes criminality. How can you see clearly when you’re looking into the sun?

Irish actor recalls his James Bond debut in GoldenEye: crazy stunts and thigh-crushings from Xenia Onatopp

Elba is already too old, but a black, Asian or female actor could succeed Daniel Craig

‘If you always wanted a convertible and you get one then why should we demean that?’

Eunice Gayson starred as Sylvia Trench alongside Sean Connery in ‘ Dr No’ and ‘From Russia With Love’

The 1965 musical was ‘a sugar-coated lie’ with little in common with the real Von Trapps

Daniel Craig will play the shaken-not-stirred imperial thug for perhaps the last time

Tributes paid to the Oscar-nominated maker of three James Bond films

From acknowledged reality to hidden taboo, the representation of sexuality in art and culture has a long and difficult history

There is something unsettling about a video, compiled in the wake of the #MeToo movement, detailing Bond’s repeated, casual mistreatment of women

The British PM has been criticised in Russia for holding her glass incorrectly

Doug Liman on his guerilla filmmaking techniques in American Made

Padraig O’Morain: Being yourself is tricky when you don’t know which ‘self’ to be

Sean Connery, Daniel Day-Lewis and Jack Nicholson have all graced Old Conna Village

Boorman’s new book recounts coming to Ireland, motorbiking and Sean Connery

Long established restaurant has a loyal clientele and has had many famous diners

Beatles, Mick Jagger and Michael Jackson among famous guests who stayed at Luggala

Modernist houses have long been favoured backdrops for Hollywood baddies

Town’s tradition of seasonal workers lured by a summer of work and fun is under threat

Umberto Eco: January 5th, 1932 – February 19th, 2016

Trio of fillies may present a challenge to odds-on shot at Leopardstown on Saturday

Tens of thousands of readers voted on topics ranging from abortion to James Bond

William McIlvanney: November 25th, 1936 - December 5th, 2015

Flawless diamond renamed by Hong Kong buyer ‘The Blue Moon of Josephine’