Read this before you vote: Patrick Freyne’s vibes-based guide to Election 2024
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Aidan Gillen
Aidan Gillen: ‘Acting is like you are living 20 lives. It’s a bit of an addiction’
The Dubliner’s career has seen him take on roles from Littlefinger in Game of Thrones to Tommy Carcetti in The Wire, but Gillen remains a low-key and likeable presence
Galway Film Fleadh 2024: Kneecap scoops three main prizes
Belfast hip-hop posse’s rambunctious farce is first film in event’s history to take audience award, best Irish-language feature and best Irish film
Dance First: Finely acted Samuel Beckett biopic undermined by lit-flick cliches
Film review: Gabriel Byrne and Fionn O’Shea play the writer to great effect but the pedestrian writing bogs proceedings
Fionn O’Shea on being cast as Samuel Beckett: ‘There was a moment of elation followed by crippling anxiety’
In the film Dance First, the young Irish actor joins Gabriel Byrne as the older Beckett and Aidan Gillen as James Joyce
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
Including Million Dollar Pigeons, Dial M for Middlesbrough, David Harewood on Blackface and the return of Good Omens
Aidan Gillen: ‘It was liberating to get out a little early on Game of Thrones’
Always keen on a new challenge, the unassuming Kin, Wire and Queer as Folk star gets on his gumshoes for Barber, his new film
‘Are you really a hit man?’ the Kinsellas would ask, and I’d admit I haven’t killed even one measly person
Patrick Freyne: It’s always crime with the Kin family. If they’re not in the process of criming, they’re talking about crimes of the past and future
Kin review: Dublin city is just a moody backdrop as gangsters bumble in the gloom
It looks great but style only goes so far and, two seasons in, Kin’s lack of substance is impossible to ignore
Peaky Blinders, never a great drama, returns without the electrifying Helen McCrory
TV review: The BBC show is still a triumph of style over plot but it hasn’t lost its swagger
Aidan Gillen: ‘I am trying my best to be as unhealthy as I can’
The actor on filling Donal McCann's shoes in Faith Healer and staying off social media
Kin ends with a shameless rip-off of The Godfather
Clare Dunne is utterly convincing as a grieving mother turned avenging angel
Kin finale: Eight questions the last episode must resolve
After seven sometimes thrilling, sometimes plodding weeks, season one concludes tonight
Kin review: Let’s hope the finale is better than the uneventful penultimate episode
It’s hard not to feel that episode 7 could have been efficiently compacted into episode 8
Kin episode 6 review: The Michael Corleone of the Kinsellas emerges
Clare Dunne is the black sheep who rejects a life of crime, then becomes the brains of the outfit
Kin episode 5 review: Family bonds crack as an explosive finale beckons
Ciarán Hinds’s thuggish godfather targets the Kinsella children Anthony and Anna
Kin episode 3 review: The slow-burner finally roars to life
Contains spoilers ... Part 3 of the crime drama delivers dark secrets and explosive set-pieces
Kin episode 2 review: It’s the Plodfather, Part II
The brooding drama so far lacks the cranked-up energy viewers might have expected
Kin starts like a gloomier Love/Hate – then goes off like a powder keg
Aidan Gillen, Ciarán Hinds and cast excel in this tale of a blood feud between Dublin gangs
RTÉ eyes ‘sense of normality’ as it promises drama and ‘fun’ in season ahead
Crime series Kin and game show Last Singer Standing among the schedule highlights
Michael Fry: ‘I’ve never done live stuff ever. It absolutely terrifies me’
The online comedian on stage fright, indie bands and why Navan isn’t a funny town
Dublin International Film Festival 2020 to celebrate women film-makers
Women Make Film, Rose Plays Julie, and Charlie Kaufman unveiled as highlights
Níall Tóibín funeral told of ‘great actor, great comedian and great man’
Late star knew his demons and knew his gifts, says Mass celebrant Fr Brian D’Arcy
‘I thought the end of the music industry would be amazing’
Barry McCormack looks beyond Dublin for his brilliant, almost-concept album Mean Time
Peaky Blinders: Is it all getting a bit ridiculous?
Series five, episode four recap: does all the sound and fury add up to much of anything?
Ireland United: The dream of an all-island soccer team
Is there any healing the century-long fracture in Irish soccer? asks an RTÉ documentary
Game of Thrones series 8 debate: Perfectly pitched or creative flop?
Séamas O’Reilly and Ed Power argue the merits and demerits of the drama that has divided fans
Game of Thrones: The Irish actors, ranked
Irish actors play some of the best characters: earthy Ser Davos, tough Catelyn Stark, vile Joffrey
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Appetite for Irish film in London continues to grow
Irish Film Festival London returns next week for eighth year
‘In Freddie Mercury I saw a very shy and at times lonely figure’
Actor Rami Malek on portraying the late Queen frontman in the new biopic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’
The torpedoes and the ‘Leinster’: Ireland’s worst maritime disaster
A century ago this week 569 passengers perished aboard the ill-fated mailboat
‘Game of Thrones’ leads Emmy nominations
Filmed largely in Northern Ireland, the HBO series received 22 nominations
President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy
Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service
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