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RTÉ’s commercial arm increases pretax profits to €8.89m
Sales of Operation Transformation and Hardy Bucks contribute to 22% rise
Druid theatre company says it will produce only new plays in 2019
New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry Hynes
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Taken Down: Everybody here had blood on their hands
Series finale review: RTÉ’s drama opened our eyes to an ugly Ireland we ordinarily never see
Taken Down: A major step forward for Irish television drama
Review: A sombre tale of desperate lives from Jo Spain and ‘Love/Hate’ creator Stuart Carolan
On Irish TV screens, there will be ‘Blood’
New dramas are in production, but a crowded market makes it hard to score a hit
Drumm too dull to understand what he was part of and too thick to feel pain of others’ suffering
The Anglo Irish Bank boss was inflated by people’s need to believe in his magic money
‘Love/Hate’ makers to produce new crime drama for RTÉ
Six-part series ‘Taken Down’ by novelist Jo Spain has been awarded BAI funding
Eamon Dunphy: ‘I’m not part of official Ireland’
Interview: The pundit and podcaster talks Celtic Tiger, family and his ‘Buddhist’ outlook
Aidan Gillen: ‘My ambition is to not have to chase money’
HBO has been the actor’s main employer for years, which enables him to do smaller projects, such as a reading of Joyce’s story The Dead in Dublin this week
IFTA: Frank, Patrick’s Day and Love/Hate the big winners
Tomm Moore’s animation called ‘Song of the Sea’ is the surprise Best Film winner
Ifta 2015 film and drama nominees announced
‘Frank’ with Michael Fassbender and ‘Patrick’s Day’ with Moe Dunford top nominations
Culture Shock: Awestruck by Krystian Lupa, a grand master of theatre
Polish director is not so much respected as revered
Review: Defender of the Faith
Decadent Theatre’s canny revival of Stuart Carolan’s play carries echoes of his TV show Love/Hate
‘True appeal’ of television a tricky calculation
Head of RTÉ TV Glen Killane talks ‘Love/Hate’, budget squeezes and digital viewing
What’s coola boola in French? Love/Hate goes international
Love/Hate to be streamed in France, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium
Love/Hate will return for a sixth series, but not for 2015
RTÉ’s head of TV drama confirms Stuart Carolan is working on the next instalment
Television: Nidge is dead. And ‘Downton Abbey’ is on life support
Review: Whatever the future of RTÉ’s hit drama, we’ll sure miss Tom Vaughan-Lawlor’s superbly nasty Nidge
Can RTÉ ever kill off ‘Love/Hate’?
Final episode breaks 1 million barrier even before playback views are counted
Filming Love/Hate sexual violence ‘tough’, says Peter Coonan
‘There’s no way to dress up a rape,’ says Dublin Rape Crisis Centre chief executive
Taxing plot comes together in one scene
The connection between Jean-Claude Juncker and Love/Hate’s Nidge
Spoiler alert: Is Nidge dead? Tom Vaughan Lawlor hints the answer
Actor ‘hugely grateful’ to Love/Hate and its fans but ‘ looking forward to new challenges’
Nidge under pressure as enemies circle in return of Love/Hate
Opening episode shows group of Travellers attempt to kill Dublin gangland boss
Fran the man becomes Behan the borstal boy
A varied theatre career – including his new role as Brendan Behan – should save Peter Coonan from being typecast as a crook
‘Calvary’ takes best actor and writer awards at IFTAs
Story of rural priest is star of annual film and television event in Dublin
Father and son go head -to-head in IFTAs
Brendan and Domhnall Gleeson nominated in the best actor category
Word for Word: Poetry’s inspirational ubiquity
Whether in a book or on ‘Mad Men’, ‘Breaking Bad’ or ‘The Simpsons’, poems change people’s understanding of what’s going on in the world
Television: All filler, no killer as ‘Love/Hate’ runs out of ammunition
It started off with a bang and a cat killing, but it looks as if RTÉ’s biggest drama has used up its nine lives. At least ‘Downton Abbey’ has given up all pretence of making any sense
The ‘Love/Hate’ portrayal of ‘scumbags’ fails to read causes of violent behaviour
Opinion: It is through gangland culture that many men find a status otherwise denied to them
Love/Hate ending provokes love and hate as last episode gains 1,007,500 viewers
Not all viewers were satisfied with the ending but they all tuned in anyway
After a promising start, Love/Hate loses it
RTÉ says finale of fourth season had average audience of more than 1 million people
Love/Hate’s central character is not Nidge – it’s Death
The superb crime drama has never been afraid to kill off its characters, but has it become too trigger-happy?
Stuart Carolan launches Dunphy’s Rocky Road
Love/Hate writer leads event to celebrate football pundit’s autobiography
Television: Drop the dead cat. Nidge’s nine lives keep us watching ‘Love/Hate’
The fourth series of Stuart Carolan’s drama is darker, grimmer and even more addictive, but ‘Homeland’ has lost the plot
Love/Hate review: A taut, emotionally draining hour that lived up to the hype
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