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Extraordinary review: Cork actor Máiréad Tyers excels as an Irish transplant in London navigating the trials of 20-something life
Television: Disney’s superhero hero comedy just about works. The question the series poses is: does Tyers deserve better?
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‘Joke’s on you, Mam!’ Siobhán McSweeney raises the roof with her Bafta acceptance speech
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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
The contemporary Irish are a simple people, content to be shown pictures of nice houses
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St Brigid the ‘kick-ass warrior poet and goddess’: Siobhán McSweeney finds a very Irish superhero
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Television: Emma Moran’s London-set Disney+ comedy needs to work on its gags, but the young Irish actor’s performance makes it worth your time
Derry Girls is comedy gold, but its last episode was no grand finale
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Derry Girls: Episode two isn’t as spicy as Ryan Tubridy’s interview with the cast
TV review: Nor is it as funny as last week, but even in cruise control this show is a hoot
Derry Girls season 3: We’re Taken by surprise when a certain Irish actor puts in a cameo
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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
Graham Norton novel adaptation set for Virgin spring schedule
Criminal Assets Bureau series, crime thriller Redemption and Lucy’s Tribes also airing
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
Charlene McKenna: ‘I spent lockdown in an Irish Rugby fleece covered in paint and dust’
The actor converted outbuilding on parent’s farm into a home and had a tiny 6-person wedding
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
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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
‘Bad Bridgets’ from Ireland were a big part of prison populations in US and Canada
Many thousands of Irish women who emigrated to north America from 1838 to 1918 ended up in prison
Galway 2020 opening ceremony cancelled due to weather warnings
Year as European Capital of Culture had been due to start with fire spectacle
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In the season finale, Lisa McGee’s girls once again turn their backs on history
People’s Vote march: ‘Brexit is the single most cowardly thing this country has done’
Patrick Freyne reports on the signs, speeches and spacemen at the landmark protest
Derry Girls: ‘We’re doing it for peace. A piece of fine Protestant ass’
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