Mrs Brown’s Boys review: It’s surely time for this dreary and unfunny series to fade from our screens
Television: After 14 years of this iffy humour, is it time for Brendan O’Carroll to pull the plug on his famous Finglas mammy?
Brendan O’Carroll
Actor, writer and director
TV guide: the best new shows to watch in the coming week
Shows to watch this week including Impact: The Anatomy of a Crash; Inside the Cult of the Jesus Army; and Jason Mamoa’s Chief of War
Ardal O’Hanlon on Father Ted at 30: ‘I thought it was a sh*t idea. Who was going to want to watch a sitcom about priests?’
It’s one of the funniest TV sitcoms of all time, but success wasn’t preordained. Some of the key players look back at making its three classic series
Comedian Enya Martin: ‘I was named after the singer. Thank God my parents didn’t like Meatloaf’
The Clondalkin comedian on accents, ambitions and the inspiration provided by Brendan O’Carroll
Mrs Brown’s Boys Christmas Special review: Unkillable comedy’s wit is as sharp as a mouthful of Brussels sprouts
Television: Brendan O’Carroll’s slapstick purgatory remains a Bacchanalia of single entendres and fnarr-fnarr gags
Christmas TV and movie guide: the best shows and films to watch
December 24th-27th: including new Christmas specials of Doctor Who, Outnumbered, Gavin & Stacey, and Wallace & Gromit
The Guide: The Coronas, Damien Dempsey and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
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‘When these women left home there were rumours that they were sent to Europe to be concubines for black soldiers’
The Six Triple Eight director Tyler Perry on the true story behind his new film, about the only US army unit of black women sent to Europe during the second World War
Brendan O’Carroll apologises over ‘clumsy’ racial joke during Mrs Brown’s Boys rehearsals
BBC paused rehearsals of Christmas special over joke where ‘racial term was implied’
Mrs Brown and Madea: A meeting of culturally reviled phenomena
Donald Clarke: Maybe this is the future. Locate discrete fanbases and double your appeal
Mná 100: Maureen O’Carroll among women celebrated on historical website
Mother of entertainer Brendan O’Carroll was elected as Labour TD in 1954
Modern Ireland is unimaginable without Jack Charlton
Finding Jack Charlton lays bare his remarkable connection with the Irish psyche
Late Late Show with Miriam O’Callaghan: The most surreal primetime TV I’ve ever watched
Scraggly Hozier gave a preview of what everyone’s hair will look like post-shutdown
Miriam O’Callaghan to present Late Late Show as Tubridy has ‘persistent cough’
Programme will pay tribute to men and women of Ireland’s front-line services
Mrs Brown’s Boys most watched TV show on RTÉ on Christmas Day
The most popular movie over the Christmas period was Home Alone 2 – Lost in New York
The Young Offenders contains more Cork accents than in past decade on RTÉ
Review: It’s almost as if metropolitan life exists beyond Dublin. What dark alchemy is this?
Ready for their Cannes close-up? Irish film-makers in the spotlight
Cinema is an increasingly puzzling market. So what counts as success for an Irish release?
Brendan O’Carroll in the money as profits double for Mrs Brown’s boy
The entertainer and his wife have received almost €2m in dividends from the company over the past two years
Mrs Brown’s Boys actor on latest tax defaulters’ list
Latest list also includes TV presenter Mark Cagney and trainer Alan Fleming
Dancing with the Stars: ‘Nah nah’ from judges leaves 18-year-old Demi Isaac Oviawe in tears
Cliona Hagan channels Garth Brooks with a line-dancing cha cha to take top spot
Late Late Show London special: A glorified town-hall shindig
Review: The move to London made Friday’s Late Late Show even more parochial than usual
RTÉ new season: Bertie Ahern, Amy Huberman and Brendan O’Carroll
Broadcaster’s television line-up promises to show ‘all sides of Irish life’
Molly Malone statue comes ‘alive, alive, oh’ in new project
The landmark will be given a voice as part of talking statues initiative for Dublin
Seán Moncrieff: Harry and Meghan are still a royal pain
Royalty-love has flourished to the extent that criticism of the Windsors is now impossible
Six TV shows to watch this weekend
Marvel’s Luke Cage second series kicks off on Netflix, Cher and Christine Baranski talk Mamma Mia!
Ocean’s 8 talk with Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett and Rihanna: The weekend’s best TV
Also the Blue Planet team chart the story of life on Earth over the course of a single day
The weekend's best TV: Poldark and Aidan Turner return
A new documentary on Germaine Greer is among the TV highlights
On TV this weekend: Ethan Hawke, Gino D’Acampo and Tracey Ullman
Frankie Boyle goes to Russia ahead of the World Cup, plus the final of Britain’s Got Talent
IFTA TV awards: ‘Derry Girls’, ‘Young Offenders’ among winners
Broadcaster Shay Healy also received a lifetime achievement award at the ceremony
On TV this weekend: Jurassic Park meets Graham Norton and Mrs Brown chats up hard man Danny Dyer
Late Late Show referendum exit poll expected on Friday at about 11pm
Room to improve? Dermot Bannon and others on their renovation wishlist
An extra bedroom, a new kitchen and clever storage are among the most wanted
Careful now: Will we ever stop talking about Father Ted?
Twenty years and thousands of repeats later, Ireland still lives in Craggy Island’s shadow
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