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TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch, beginning tonight
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Young people might own a house now if they hadn’t watched so many Star Wars spin-offs
Patrick Freyne: A year doesn’t pass without a Star War being beamed to our eyeballs. This week, with Ahsoka, it’s Rosario Dawson’s turn
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Television: For Star Wars fans and Disney executives alike, this series is a new hope worth cheering on
TV guide: 13 of the best new shows to watch this week
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R2D2 alarm clock: Awaken to an array of familiar bleeps, whistles and clicks
One for the Star Wars fan in your life
Miriam Lord visits Comic Con: Ireland’s cosplaying public don garb of fourth-dimension fantasy characters
Miriam Lord: Tenth year of Ireland’s biggest fandom event fills the Convention Centre with fantastic outfits
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The 6th century monastic settlement has achieved worldwide fame due to the Star Wars franchise
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Television: Jon Favreau’s ‘well-made pulp’ became a phenomenon. But season three has been a letdown. Can its finale arrest the decline?
Disney opens new front in streaming wars
Star on Disney Plus boasts familiar classics inherited through 21st Century Fox deal
Disney Plus ‘superbrand’ Star for adults who want ‘me time’
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Disney+ and Netflix will come bearing gifts for subscribers on December 25th
Robert Eggers on bringing Robert Pattinson to The Lighthouse
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Battle for TV streaming service subscribers set to intensify
With new offers from Apple and Disney, it’s worth shopping around for the best deal
Solo: A Star Wars Story. First trailer for prequel unveiled
The Star Wars spin-off sees Alden Ehrenreich take role made famous by Harrison Ford
The children who will spend Christmas Day in hospital
‘The staff have been absolutely amazing and are so thoughtful and caring to her'
The Question: Can prequels be as good as original films?
Underwhelming Star Wars film Rogue One exposes the limitations of the prequel
Junior Cert music covers U2, Ella Fitzgerald and John Lennon
Teachers say both the higher- and ordinary-level papers were ‘very fair’
Space junk or Ewok essentials? The best and worst Star Wars products
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From the archive: How Star Wars tightened its cultural grip on the world
On the eve of the release of The Phantom Menace in May 1999, author Mark Lawson looked back at the Star Wars phenomenon and its growing influence on popular cultural. True believers are warned that they may find some of what follows offensive . . .
Young, gifted and black: the new acting force behind The Force Awakens
Reboot king JJ Abrams is diversifying the Star Wars universe... Gwendoline Christie, Daisy Ridley and John Boyega on finding new hope in a galaxy far, far away
Star Wars given free use of Defence Forces resources
Disney Lucasfilm utilised Naval Service and Air Corps during Skellig Michael filming
Star Wars filming may return to Skellig Michael
Irish Film Board refuses to deny discussions on use of Unesco world heritage site in film
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