Aisling Bea on Who Do You Think You Are? – Likeable comedian gets emotional at tales of family role in Irish freedom
Television: Bea sees the funny side of a British crew helping her to learn of her family’s involvement in the Easter Rising
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You don’t have to have a hide like an especially thick rhinoceros to be a screenwriter, but it helps
They might be ‘daggers in the screen’ to some writers, but notes from producers are also a marker of success
From Baby Reindeer and The Traitors to Bodkin and The 2 Johnnies Late Night Lock In: The best and worst television of 2024
The glory days of streaming are over, but TV has never been more unpredictable
Dish: With Aisling Bea, Florence Pugh and Marian Keyes, this dinner-party podcast has the perfect guests
Podcast review: Hosted by Angela Hartnett and Nick Grimshaw, Dish is more than a good idea
Big Mood review: Nicola Coughlan is fantastic but the same can’t be said for the rest of this unfunny, jarring show
Television: Switcheroo between sitcom humour and serious drama when lead’s bipolar diagnosis emerges lands as cheap stunt
TV guide: 12 of the best shows to watch this week
February 24th-Mar 1st: CMAT wows Dingle in Other Voices, and Channel 4 puts juries on trial
Alice & Jack review: romcom with Domhnall Gleeson and Aisling Bea has chemistry in all the wrong places
Television review: With Domhnall Gleeson, Aisling Bea and 2023 Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough in lead roles, the Channel 4 series has much going for it, but it is simply not likeable
Last One Laughing Ireland: Behind the scenes with Graham Norton and Aisling Bea on the new Irish comedy show
How do you stop yourself from laughing, or even smiling, and what does it do to your psyche if you do? A new Prime Video series sees 10 Irish comics strive to keep a straight face
Kae Tempest among highlights at this year’s Other Voices festival
Dingle event featured performances from BC Camplight, ØXN, CMAT and many more
Electric Picnic 2023: the sun comes out from dawn to dusk for a glorious end to summer
Temperatures hit the mid-20s over weekend as this year’s festivalgoers are spared the annual mudfest
Electric Picnic 2023: Saturday stage times for all the top areas, weather forecast and more
When and where to catch Fred Again, Paolo Nutini, The Coronas and more
Electric Picnic 2023: Some of the best podcasts, poetry and people to catch at Mindfield
Including The Rodfather, Three Castles Burning, Miriam O’Callaghan’s Sunday Brunch and Aisling Bea
Electric Picnic 2023: Stage times for all areas and weather forecast for festival weekend
Full line-up of performers including Billie Eilish, Niall Horan, Fred Again, The Killers and more
Aisling Bea: I want to be ‘easy and nice’ but sometimes it is not possible
The Kildare comedian, actor and writer comes clean on multitasking, wanting a role in a Marvel movie, what she would tell her younger self, and how being an ‘easy and nice’ woman isn’t all that simple
Amy Huberman, Aisling Bea among cast for Graham Norton’s Prime series LOL: Last One Laughing Ireland
Prime Video has announced the line-up of Irish comedic talent competing in the Graham Norton-hosted format
Nish Kumar: ‘The Conservative government in Britain are cultural vandals’
The comedian on dealing with hate and why Britain’s public broadcasting is under siege
TV Baftas 2022: Social issues take spotlight at inclusive ceremony
Pleas to save Channel 4 took centre stage on Sunday night amid uncertainty over future
Irish EastEnders actor Melanie Clark Pullen dies aged 46
Bray native best known for role in the soap in the 1990s had been diagnosed with cancer
Maeve Higgins: ‘Irish people are treated as some kind of miracle when they do well abroad’
The comedian on making it in the US and Ireland’s ‘overlooked, undervalued’ women
Partition, armchair epidemiology and Joe Duffy: 2021’s top conversation killers
A guide to surviving the inevitable rows and getting one up on your loved ones this Christmas
Aisling Bea: Irish people tried to connect my posh English accent to some form of oppression
‘I’m doing a Manchester accent next year,’ says the actor, ‘so hold on to your Twitter knickers’
We need to calm down about Irish people and their accents
Emer McLysaght: We have an odd national obsession with how our celebrities speak
Going to college? Head to the open days in universities around the country
When are they on and what’s on offer? Key facts about 2021-2022 open days
Irish brands leading the circular fashion revolution
A community-focused movement is turning discarded materials into covetable products
Londoners will love Aisling Bea’s This Way Up. We might roll our eyes a little
TV review: The Kildare comedian explores the irritations and melancholy of modern life
Riverdance the movie: Pierce Brosnan and Brendan Gleeson hoof it up on a screen near you
Michael Flatley becomes an impressively antlered elk in a new animated film based on the hit show
Angela Scanlon on life in London: ‘I am Irish through and through’
The presenter on Irishness, the excitement of live TV and the upside of lockdown
How nuns schooled today’s torch-bearers of feminism
A generation of female superheroes in tartan skirts and gabardines
Aisling Bea and Michael Harte win British television craft awards
Bea took the breakthrough talent award while Harte claimed the editing: factual prize
Love Wedding Repeat: You should avoid this ‘Four Weddings’ rip-off
But you probably won’t, since it’s on Netflix and these days the audience is captive
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in April
After Life’s second season and a new Mindy Kaling sitcom are among the latest arrivals
Quizzes, karaoke, meditation: The best online resources for self-isolation
From fitness to MoMa, there are countless resources online to keep you occupied
Patrick Freyne: The best of TV in 2019 and what to watch this year
Funniest programmes are of the hand-drawn variety like Rick and Morty
TV in 2019: A year of big and unhappy endings
Fleabag, Game of Thrones and Catastrophe all ended – and somehow brought us all together
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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