Welcome to my place . . . Casablanca

‘Enjoy a stroll through the market, negotiate a bargain, or relax in one of the traditional cafes with a pot of fresh mint tea’

Of all the gin joints ... Rick’s Cafe recreated in Casablanca

Rick’s Café Américain never existed, so a US ex-diplomat decided to build it in Casablanca

‘U2 thought they were getting Grease. I gave them Apocalypse Now’

Aoife McArdle has made her name with videos for Bryan Ferry and U2. Her debut feature, ‘Kissing Candice’, was made for a much lower budget, and yet is far more challenging

Maureen Dowd: Bill Clinton finally faces a #MeToo moment

Former US president’s threadbare routine of maudlin self-pity does not work any more

Gabrielle Union: ‘We are underrepresented compared to white men’

‘Breaking In’ star and producer talks about her new film, and the long road ahead to achieve fair representation

Liam Neeson to play Philip Marlowe. ‘It’s about bloody time’

At 64, is the Ballymena actor too old to play Ramond Chandler’s much acted detective?

French actor Michèle Morgan dies at the age of 96

Film star remembered as a ‘legend who marked numerous generations’

Irish actress and producer Roma Downey gets Hollywood star

‘This star is dedicated to the people of Derry... dreams do come true’ she says

Keith Duggan: French hoping team can lift air of weary forbearance

Football festival ongoing against a backdrop of terrorism concerns, flooding and strikes

Quality field looks assured for lucrative Irish Derby

Officials hoping first five in Epsom Derby could be reunited to clash at the Curragh

The unlikely triumvirate that brought Ali to Croke Park

The fascinating story behind Muhammad Ali’s fight against Al ‘Blue’ Lewis in Dublin

Aidan O’Brien amasses strong team for Epsom Derby bid

Joint-4/1 favourite US Army Ranger one of champion trainer’s seven possible starters

Aidan O’Brien has seven of 18-strong field left for Epsom Derby

Market leader Wings of Desire among four horses supplemented for Saturday’s classic

Madeleine Lebeau: The face of La Marseillaise in Casablanca

Obituary: ‘She was a free woman who lived by her own rules’

Jim Bolger’s Moonlight Magic takes Leopardstown Derby Trial

Aidain O’Brien’s Shogun and Idaho follow 6-1 shot home but Derby picture remains fuzzy

Meg Ryan, Graham Norton, cancer and me: Michael Parkinson at 80

The journalist and TV host talks about a life spent asking questions, his recovery from serious illness and how he fears he will be remembered for an errant emu

Ten great movie bromances

Butch and Sundance, Spock and Kirk, Woodward and Bernstein . . . Movie bromance has been around for a lot longer than the word that has come to describe the genre

Born on December 25th, and upstaged by ‘that twerp in the crib’

When your birthday falls on Christmas Day, you may be shortchanged on presents or denied a party, and you definitely won’t be the centre of attention

PJ Lynch and the man who fell to water

Illustrator PJ Lynch was never interested in writing – until he stumbled across the story of a servant who fell from the Mayflower and survived

Fintan O’Toole: Here’s something else you may not know about The Gleneagle

‘Killarney hotel was at the centre of some classic Celtic Tiger rezoning shenanigans’

Vinny the would-be Bogart fluffs his lines on racecourse rendezvous

A romantic overture swiftly becomes an embarrassing scene for our leading man

The Counter Ruck

The Counter Ruck

Sign up to the Irish Times weekly rugby digest for the view from the press box with Gerry Thornley

YOU MAY ALSO LIKE...

Common Ground

How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands