‘With MND you are trapped in your own body. You can reach the stage where you have no quality of life’

Liam Carney, one of Ireland’s most deservedly unavoidable actors, on playing a man with motor neuron disease in Claire Dix’s film Sunlight

Best film of 2013 - vote for the top ten films of the year

It was a spectacular year for cinema – but once again, many of 2013’s best offerings made little or no impact on the mainstream. Plus ça change . . .

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Broken Song

Yo! Northside raps – Broken Song’s tale of hip-hop redemption

Urban rhymes, beats and truth are not just a US west coast vs east coast thing – hip-hop is changing lives in north Dublin too, say the stars of a new documentary, Broken Song, about the scene

Women winning

It was a good year for female directors at this year's Jameson Dublin International Film Festival