Aidan Gillen

The online comedian on stage fright, indie bands and why Navan isn’t a funny town

Women Make Film, Rose Plays Julie, and Charlie Kaufman unveiled as highlights

Late star knew his demons and knew his gifts, says Mass celebrant Fr Brian D’Arcy

Barry McCormack looks beyond Dublin for his brilliant, almost-concept album Mean Time

Series five, episode four recap: does all the sound and fury add up to much of anything?

Is there any healing the century-long fracture in Irish soccer? asks an RTÉ documentary

Séamas O’Reilly and Ed Power argue the merits and demerits of the drama that has divided fans

Irish actors play some of the best characters: earthy Ser Davos, tough Catelyn Stark, vile Joffrey

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

Irish Film Festival London returns next week for eighth year

Actor Rami Malek on portraying the late Queen frontman in the new biopic ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’

A century ago this week 569 passengers perished aboard the ill-fated mailboat

Filmed largely in Northern Ireland, the HBO series received 22 nominations

Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service

Review: The intentions of this biopic are honourable, but Allen, you feel, would have told it so much better.

Camille O'Sullivan talks to Róisín Ingle about Shakespeare, her daughter Lila and her boyfriend Aidan Gillen

The Ray D’Arcy show will discuss consent in wake of Belfast trial while Aidan Gillen plays Dave Allen

Writers and stars of ‘anti-cop show’ look back at a series that changed TV for ever

Ring out (or recommission) the old; ring in the new: here’s what to stay tuned for in the new year

Latest season of the 1920s gangster drama sees the arrival of Irish director David Caffrey and other Love/Hate stars in Charlie Murphy and Aidan Gillen

The director has reinvented ‘King Arthur’ as an East End geezer. Watch it, mate

Opener failed to live up to hype but was busy laying foundations for season to come

James Joyce’s peerless short story is given a reading by Aidan Gillen in which his Gabriel Conroy is given a cruel and familiar form

HBO has been the actor’s main employer for years, which enables him to do smaller projects, such as a reading of Joyce’s story The Dead in Dublin this week

Mammal, Land of the Enlightened, The Lobster, Viva, Love & Friendship and Sing Street feature

Summer is gone and the evenings are drawing in – fear not, there's a lot of great TV out there to get you through the coming months

Mark Noonan’s debut Irish drama is problematic but impressive, backed up by the stars’ winning two-step

The ‘Game of Thrones’ star has had an extraordinary career but still likes to do low-budget Irish films

Film notables such as John C Reilly, Pete Docter and Jonas Rivera set to attend

Major characters die (or seem to). In George RR Martin’s world you wouldn’t expect any less

‘Frank’ with Michael Fassbender and ‘Patrick’s Day’ with Moe Dunford top nominations

Festival celebrates the capital’s music scene including choruses from Handel’s ‘Messiah’

Two festivals this week celebrate all things Dublin – it’ll be hungry work

Philip King’s raison d’etre after 13 years running his hit televised concert series is still the same: ‘We provide a safe house for rambling troubadours from around the world. They find it inspiring and uplifting here’

Drama may overstate the power of the former press secretary, but PJ Mara has survived many of his political masters – and thrives still

Review: David Tennant and Olivia Colman’s police drama is still a must-see – unlike RTÉ’s Charles Haughey drama

RTÉ says 724,000 viewed first episode of political drama about Charlie Haughey

For those who lived through those years, ‘Charlie’ is unmissable

While being true to much of the Haughey story, there were some things RTÉ couldn’t stretch to