3+ hour, 11+ min ago  (1672+ words) I am in a hotel room in London, watching Cillian Murphy and Antony Genn nerding out over music. Genn will recall some shared musical moment and Murphy's eyes will widen and he'll go, "Oh yeah!" At one point Murphy turns…...

21+ hour, 32+ min ago  (920+ words) I grew up in Finglas in Dublin, but I don't often go back there. We ended up in Phibsborough in my teens, so general northside is home. I don't go home as much as I would like to, so when…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (98+ words) Well, what to make of this? Rex Ryan, founder of Glass Mask Theatre, brings his one-hander about Gerry "The Monk" Hutch, veteran criminal and aspirant politician, to the imposing Ambassador Theatre at the base of O'Connell Street. The show premiered…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1256+ words) As Pat Kenny (Newstalk, weekdays) finishes in the weekday midmorning slot that he's occupied, in various iterations and on different stations, for nearly four decades, the arrival of Storm Chandra ensures that, whatever about dry eyes in the house, everything…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (843+ words) The first run of Se'n O'Casey's The Plough and the Stars, with its accompanying riots, was a little bit like the 1916 Easter Rising. The comparisons started on stage, where the play irreverently marked the Rising's 10th anniversary. Just like the Rising,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (509+ words) I had hoped to avoid addressing the absurd notion of performative reading, but it won't seem to go away. If the internet is to be believed, you can't move on the 14A bus for men in purple corduroy reading David Foster…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago  (472+ words) There are few outright belly laughs in Dawn French's Can You Keep A Secret? (BBC One, 9.30pm) " but this dry comedy about an older couple who commit insurance fraud has a quiet charm that compensates for the lack of riotous gags....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (446+ words) The Christmas special of Amandaland lands slap bang in the middle of the most challenging broadcasting slot of the year " 9.15pm on Christmas night, when we are all full of mince pies, trifle and sherry, and much too dazed to concentrate…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (207+ words) Dublin-born, London-based Rachel Galvo dreamed of starring in Les Mis, but then her career in comedy took off "Shite Feminist" Rachel Galvo: "I"ve big dreams. I just need Sharon Horgan to answer my emails" Dublin-born, London-based Rachel Galvo dreamed…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago  (979+ words) Middle-aged women are killing it, sometimes literally, on the streamers R'is'n Ingle: I'm enjoying fantastic TV that features middle-aged women. It feels a bit revolutionary Middle-aged women who have very few fecks left to give are killing it, sometimes literally,…...