Why Gaelic games bring out my patriotism anxietyI played a single football match as a teen. It ended with me being ambushed by a punch in the face as I walked to the changing room
Next week you need to know about . . . the Irish Film and Television AwardsJohn Michael McDonagh’s comedy The Guard , already the most successful independently released Irish film at the domestic box office, could be in for further acclaim at the ninth annual Irish Film and Television Awards (Iftas), next Saturday.
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Great drama grounded on uncomfortable political realityIts interrogation scenes, which are illuminating and taut, confirm ‘Homeland’ as being firmly of the Obama era, writes SHANE HEGARTY
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- Moscow plotter's silence the real coup
RADIO REVIEW: JUST AS IT IS SAID that if you can remember the 1960s, you weren’t really there, so it appears that if you were a foreign reporter covering the botched 1991 coup in Moscow, you weren’t there when it began. That was the impression given by the third episode of Death of an Empire ( RTÉ Radio 1, Saturday), a five-part documentary series on recent Russian history presented by Séamus Martin, former Moscow correspondent for The Irish Times.
'And you think, Well, we've had an excellent life . . .'TV REVIEW: TURNING AROUND AN ocean liner is a famously slow business, but turning around a documentary about one, well, that’s no bother – to Channel 4, at least, which made the very human and balanced documentary Terror at Sea: The Sinking of the Concordia (Tuesday).
