Dominic West on his natural swimming pool: ‘When I’m in the mood I do a spot of underwater gardening’
The Crown star built a naturally filtered pool at his English base and now wants to bring a similar project to Limerick’s Glin Castle
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‘I flattered him, knowing he’d try to kiss me’: Alan Partridge interviews Steve Coogan
‘It’s the oldest journalistic trick in the book. Coogan has fallen for it hook, line and sinker’
Downton Abbey: A New Era review – Both aristocrats and servants sound too middle class
Dominic West is superb in a strong cast battling valiantly with an overstuffed script
Surge in demand for Erasmus places among Irish students is welcome news
Covid badly disrupted the student experience. Many are keen to make up for it abroad
The Crown: Elizabeth Debicki channels Diana in first peek into fifth season
Production begins on next instalment of the Netflix hit, with Dominic West as Charles
First image revealed of Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth in The Crown
Vera Drake actor takes over from Olivia Colman for fifth series about the UK royal family
Remember the Dominic West-Lily James kiss shock? The show they were making is a shocker too
BBC’s The Pursuit of Love features a histrionic Andrew Scott and ladlefuls of whimsy
Ralph Fiennes: ‘English society is built on hierarchies’
The actor on playing a high-achieving, under-recognised archeologist, and English society
Looking at a republic falling apart from the inside
Corn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s Ireland
‘Too many sex scenes’: Why Ruth Wilson left The Affair
Allegedly ‘toxic environment’ of hit TV show also contributed to actor’s abrupt exit
I’ve travelled the world but Ballybunion is my favourite place to holiday
I’ve spent every summer on the Kerry beach since 1973. Now I’m bringing my son back, to teach him how to swim
The marriage seems okay. But ‘The Affair’ needs spicing up
We thought it was over between us, but Sky Atlantic has rekindled its infidelity drama
Eight of the best TV shows this week
Ruth Negga returns in Preacher. UK grime sensation Big Narstie gets his own show
Irish actor Denise Gough nominated for Tony Award for ‘Angels in America’
Actor from Ennis almost gave up after 10 years struggling to make it in London, before landing her big break
The Square: impeccably acted, consistently witty
Review: But anyone who can make a coherent whole of all these elements deserves a prize
Tomb Raider: Stand upwind. It’s the first stinker of 2018
Review: Delicate, non-English-sounding Alicia Vikander is wildly miscast as Lara Croft
The Wire, 10 years on: ‘We showed the American dream was dead’
Writers and stars of ‘anti-cop show’ look back at a series that changed TV for ever
WB Yeats ‘showed Ireland wasn’t just about the Famine’
DVD of Bob Geldof’s documentary on poet has been released
I sent the first of my four pigs to the abattoir. Now I feel a pang of guilt
As well as being ‘little land managers’, pigs raised among the trees taste better
Palme D’Or winner The Square: a funny, eccentric and baggy piece of work
Ideas hang off the central story like poisonous fruit in Ruben Östlund’s surprise Cannes favourite
Glin Castle taken off market as family considers luxury rental
Fitzgeralds decide to hold onto home that has been in the family for 700 years
The Affair review: dissecting the anatomy of desire, adultery and self-delusion
Dominic West and Ruth Wilson continue their dangerous liaisons the third series in Sky Atlantic’s drama
Alexander Skarsgård: The most popular Swedish export since Abba
Alexander Skarsgård has followed in his father’s acting footsteps, and with ‘Generation Kill’ and ‘True Blood’ behind him, he’s finding new worlds to conquer in film
Money Monster Cannes review: Jack O'Connell seethes around George Clooney's vulgarity
Jodie Foster delivers her best directorial effort yet in this starry financial thriller
Pat Kenny’s well-hyped return to TV makes for low-key Monday viewing
Television review: Pat Kenny in the Round, Claire Byrne Live and The Affair
Television: Killing them softly? That’s not policy at Seattle Grace Hospital
Review: ‘Grey’s Anatomy’, ‘The Good Wife’, ‘No Offence’ and ‘The C Word’
Night falls on Glin Castle in Limerick after 700 years
Glin Castle – ancestral home of the FitzGerald clan – is one of the last great Irish castles
An affair to misremember – but where is the truth in a world of unreliable narrators?
‘The Affair’, starring Dominic West, is the classic scenario of he said she said
Tom Hiddleston: "Becoming an actor was a very unconventional thing in my peer group"
As the one and only Loki returns to the big screen in Thor: The Dark World, actor Tom Hiddleston explains to Donald Clarke that you don’t have to go to Eton to be a good baddie
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