Fran the Man review: Irish TV comedy’s big-screen upgrade floods the zone with classy comic actors
It wouldn’t do to overanalyse this film set in and about the characterful suburbs of Dublin, but the script never lets up on worthwhile one-liners
Risteárd Cooper
Actor and comedian
Government has no message for people who have no more to give
An ad campaign promises ‘better days to come’, but little is done to help us believe it
‘We were reared on knockout rugby’: Johnny Sexton eyes All Blacks clash
Outhalf bullish but calm ahead of his first start in a Rugby World Cup quarter-final
Acceptable Risk review: A show that plays its cards close to its chest
Acceptable Risk lays little on the line in this opening episode, but the plot could yet thicken
Après Match TV review: acidic nostalgia and dark observations
The best jokes are in the 1970s-style ad breaks. ‘Don’t have that fifth pint before driving’
Brian Cox: ‘The Irish have been so subjugated’
The actor, who was born in Dundee to an Irish family, stars in Conor McPherson’s ‘The Weir’ in London. He talks Irishness, displacement, drink and his support for Scottish independence
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