Review: Ahmed is a credit to her nation. It’s a shame Mary McGuckian’s biopic is so pallid

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

Actor on his favourite New Zealand city, his appreciation of Niall Buggy and dancing at ‘Dreamgirls’

The performers in Kelly’s new comedy about people and things, say their lines with wit and only occasionally bump into the furniture

Fishamble stages ‘On Blueberry Hill’ in ‘mansion by the Royal Canal’

And Sebastian Barry delivers a superb prison drama at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival

Hundreds gather at Mansion House on Saturday morning for humanist ceremony

Gathering in Dublin includes Paddy Moloney, Michael Longley and Olivia O’Leary

The troubling aspects of Bernard Shaw’s dusty play are here hammered at with forced jollity – the result is not weightless fun

600 artists are boycotting Israel; Sean Scully is showing in China - is art ever apolitical?

The rebranded Galway International Arts Festival is pointedly here, there and everywhere

Broad in scope and well presented, the exhibitions of Galway International Arts Festival reward visitors of all stripes

Frank McGuinness’s new play, The Hanging Gardens, and Arimathea, the novel he thought he should write as research for it, draw deeply on his experience of growing up in a threatening, oppressive Ireland