You know you are getting old when... Alison Healy on life’s reminders of age
Some of us prefer to ignore those little signposts that we are hurtling along the highway of life
Mick Lally
Druid Theatre: Fifty Years by Patrick Lonergan – a thorough and persuasive account of Druid’s first half century
The book’s main shortcoming is its hyper focus on the founders of Druid at the expense of a broader theatrical framework
Ireland in the 1980s was bloody awful, but there was at least one good reason not to emigrate
Galway’s Druid theatre company had a superb, stubborn belief that a basket case of a nation could also be a Moses basket
Garry Hynes: ‘My wife was taken from me in the blink of an eye. My whole life’s changed’
The Druid founder has a reputation as a demanding director. But she has mellowed – and theatre is a consolation after her wife was ‘taken from me in the blink of an eye’
Druid at 50: Joe O’Shaughnessy’s photographic history of the Galway theatre company
An exhibition in Galway charts the company’s remarkable evolution since being founded by Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen and Mick Lally in 1975
A Druid show and a sandwich for 50p: How Mick Lally, Marie Mullen and Garry Hynes began their theatre company 50 years ago
‘We were chancing our arm,’ Garry Hynes says of the company that brought superlative, expansive, intimate, skilled theatre to Galway and then the world stage
Druid Theatre to mark 50th anniversary with Synge-Shakespeare double bill
Presentation in Galway this summer will feature Riders to the Sea and Macbeth
John Sayles: ‘For the last 25 years it’s been hard for me to get screenwriting work, much less actually get a movie made’
The one-time darling of independent cinema is keeping busy, most recently with Save the Man, a novel about exploitation of Native Americans
Sam Bennett ‘super happy’ with Paris-Nice opening stage as opportunity knocks
Bennett and team-mate Ryan Mullen will relish Monday’s sprint finish
Juliet Stevenson: ‘My agent said: Go to Hollywood. I thought: I just can’t do this sh*t’
She comes to Galway next month (kind of) in an adaptation of José Saramago’s Blindness
The 50 best Irish films ever made, in order
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
Trad and Tintown: the best of this week’s theatre
Emmet Kirwan stars in the revival of Mark Doherty’s 2004 play; Tintown explores how idealism can be corrupted by thirst for blood and illiberalism
Give it a lash: 100 questions to test your Irishness
Win a €250 Kenny’s hamper, delivered anywhere in the world. Ah, go on, go on, go on ....
Equity release group Seniors Money eyes return to mortgage market
Provider seeks funding to re-enter market with equity-release home loans to elderly
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