First Look: Barry Keoghan’s new film, the sometimes sickeningly extreme Bring Them Down, is a hard movie to like
Christopher Andrews’s gory new rural revenge drama features scenes of animal mutilation that quickly outstay their welcome
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Patrick Freyne: 12 reasons why it hasn’t always been cool to be Irish - including Murder, She Wrote and Batman
Young Irish people are growing up with an unreasonable sense of confidence. St Patrick’s weekend is an ideal chance to correct the record
Landmark’s Anne Clarke: ‘Every producer, if they’re honest, is a control freak’
From giving modern classics their first Irish productions to nurturing new work from key Irish names, Landmark has had an outsize impact over the past 20 years
Venice film festival 2023: Few Hollywood stars but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion
Hollywood stars may be missing but competition will be fierce for the Golden Lion
Bedbound: Colm and Brenda Meaney shine as Father and Daughter in Enda Walsh’s most Beckettian play
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: The acting is excellent, but this early play has moments that now strike a crude, adolescent note
Colm Meaney: ‘We’ve got to get these f**kers out – Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael’
Colm Meaney discovered politics as a teenager, up against the forces of John Charles McQuaid. Since then, he has relished combining activism with acting
‘This will be Colm Meaney’s first time on stage in Ireland in 40 years’: Galway arts festival unveils 2023 line-up
Galway International Arts Festival 2023, which takes over the city in July, also includes DruidO’Casey and the edge-of-the-seat acrobatics of The Pulse
No laughing matter: The Snapper asks troubling questions that weren’t noticed at the time
Hugh Linehan: Both book and film offer an insight into how unconscious misogyny and ambiguity about sexual violence are deeply embedded in Irish society
The most violent show on TV returns, with more roaring geezers and geysers of gore
Television: Gangs of London, with its roaring geezers and geysers of gore, has everything fans will want as it returns for a second season
Colm Meaney reveals ‘angry’ teenage daughter’s climate anxiety
‘What is really making younger people angry is the talk, the talk, the talk and no action’
My dad is gone. There will be no last-minute All-Ireland tickets this year
Memories of matches are precious to me, they were how I got to know my dad
Iftas 2021: Normal People, Smother and Dating Amber top nominations
Sally Rooney adaption scoops 15 nominations. Nika McGuigan up for posthumous award
An Irish playwright in New York: Lines remain unlearned, curtains unraised, seats unfilled
I’ll write to make the actors cry again – laugh, too. We’ll need a laugh after this
‘Hot market’ sees Sky ramp up film and TV investment in bid to ‘own its future’
Media company ‘heartened’ by bigger slice of pie as pandemic boosts viewing
Emily in Paris: If it was Dublin, she’d be shifting Colm Meaney in the Leprechaun Museum
Patrick Freyne: Frenchies are depicted as smelly, sex-obsessed, work-shy and nude
Olivia Cooke: ‘Colm Meaney does everything with a wink and it’s so delicious’
The Manchester actor on making the leap to Hollywood, and starring in new Irish-set film Pixie
Colm Meaney on shooting in the pandemic: ‘I’ve been tested up the kazoo’
The actor has fronted a video highlighting the plight of backstage workers in theatre
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
Gangs of London: They bump off Colm Meaney in minutes. It’s a national disgrace
Enjoyably choreographed ultraviolence almost makes up for Colm Meaney’s demise
Paddy Power’s latest ad indulges in low-temperature Anglophobia
Rather than generating any serious hoo-ha, Paddy Power has pushed a door that was ajar
Colm Meaney: ‘My missus doesn’t like Los Angeles. She’s French’
The actor on working with female directors, hating social media, and Thatcher’s legacy
The Last Right: a very Irish ‘Irish film’
Review: A likeable salute to a Magic Ireland we don’t see much anymore
Stars line up for Dublin club’s fundraiser in Chicago
Scoil Uí Chonaill gala dinner to be addressed by former taoiseach Enda Kenny
An Irish comedy about a Muslim abattoir? Pull the other one
Halal Daddy review: This Sligo-set comedy sometimes displays a fearful contrivance
Culture clash comedy ‘Halal Daddy’ premieres in Sligo
Film about the opening of a halal meat factory stars Colm Meaney and Art Malik
Colm Meaney brings a touch of Roddy Doyle to the ‘Star Trek’ universe
Viral images boldly puts some Barrytown phrases where they have not gone before
Colm Meaney: ‘In this business, anybody who keeps their word for 7 minutes is pretty f**king rare’
The Irish actor discusses Hollywood values, playing Martin McGuinness and what it taught him about 'Dr No' Paisley
The Journey review: ludicrous retelling of McGuinness and Paisley paths to peace
There is a great movie to be made about the peace process - sadly, The Journey is not that film
2017 Ifta Awards: ‘A Date for Mad Mary’ claims best picture
Statuettes also handed out for ‘The Siege of Jadotville’ and ‘The Young Offenders’
Something for everyone in first Assembly leaders’ debate
Participants asked which actor they would wish to portray them
Mary Minihan: It’s time to ditch ‘peace process speak’ for real answers
A decade after decommissioning, there are dead bodies on Belfast’s streets again
Imelda May, Glen Hansard and Colm Meaney in town for MusicTown
Festival celebrates the capital’s music scene including choruses from Handel’s ‘Messiah’
Select: food and fuel in a dirty old town
Two festivals this week celebrate all things Dublin – it’ll be hungry work
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