Cancelled pantomime: ‘We gave it our best shot and it just wasn’t to be ’
Aladdin among productions cancelled due to rising Covid-19 cases
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Minister’s ‘mixed messaging’ is ‘putting the whole industry at risk’ – panto producer
Alan Hughes says tickets bought by schools, companies cancelled ‘costing us thousands’
Eighteen Irish panto productions for all the family to watch this season
Pantomimes and family shows have gone online – or even switched to a drive-in format
Drivetime duo emerge as winners from divisive election
Sarah McInerney and Cormac Ó hEadhra gel as US poll unfolds, Joe Duffy gets populist about panto
‘If I get coronavirus I’ll last two or three days at most,’ accused tells judge
Impact of Covid-19 crisis evident in almost every case before Dublin District Courts
Pantomime: Two snowy leading ladies to kick off the new year
The Tivoli’s Snow White, and Gaeity’s Snow Queen are fabulously reworked classics
A book of brainteasers to help keep kids away from screens
Are We There Yet? ‘Fun Unplugged’ is a book full of diverting puzzles to get kids off screens
Snow White panto review: Gleefully naughty, infectious entertainment
Alan Hughes’s long-running pantomime uses raucous humour to winning effect
Patrick Freyne: Be afraid, be very afraid of these Christmas ads
Psycho carrots, a reverse-ageing Elton John and Melania Trump as a Stepford wife
ESB unveils treasure throve of previously unseen films from the past
Footage released to celebrate the 90th anniversary of ESB
Christmas ads: Instilling the festive spirit (greed, avariciousness, gluttony)
Donald Clarke: There’s a reason advertising executives have second homes in Tuscany
Aladdin review: a panto that puts parents through the wringer
Fathers beware: in the Tivoli panto there is nowhere to hide from Buffy Twanky
In the Brand New Retro exhibit, everything old is naff again
‘Most of the ads are so terrible, it’s like Don Draper was never born’
TV3 presenter Alan Hughes secretly weds partner Karl Broderick
Pair tie knot in wake of gay marriage vote after being in civil partnership for nearly a decade
Writing panto is no joke – I swear on my hair
Karl Broderick is Ireland’s longest-serving panto writer, but can he teach this novice how to write a funny script?
Pantos, grottos and great places to see Santa
Things to do and shows to see with children over the Christmas holidays
The real mad men: how adverts get off the drawing board
The advertising industry produces some cutting-edge art. Two of the creatives who’ll be at the Offset conference explain how their ideas take shape
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