Joe Lawlor

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor on his new IRA heist film: ‘If it was fictitious you’d say it was too much’

It retells the story of Rose Dugdale, the debutante who led a 1974 art robbery at Russborough House

Sat Mar 23 2024 - 05:15

Rose Plays Julie: Highbrow quasi-thriller frustrates and rewards

A more fibrous, chewier piece of work than Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor’s previous

Fri Sept 17 2021 - 05:00

Orla Brady: ‘I felt Ireland was a very repressive place to be a woman’

The actor on new thriller Rose plays Julie, and how her native country has changed for the better since leaving in the 1980s

Wed Sept 15 2021 - 00:00

Fresh face for Scouting Ireland after years of turbulence, but divisions remain

New chief scout says organisation has key role to play for children in post-Covid world

Sat May 29 2021 - 01:00

Dublin International Film Festival 2020: Memorable matriarchal themes

Writer, actor and activist John Connors has two directorial efforts in the festival

Mon Mar 02 2020 - 00:00

Dublin International Film Festival: A guide to the best movies

Women filmmakers are the thematic plank of this year’s DIFF programme

Wed Jan 22 2020 - 05:00

Dublin International Film Festival 2020 to celebrate women film-makers

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

Wed Dec 18 2019 - 11:20

Dún Laoghaire Fine Gael to vote on changes to election ticket

Meeting on October 31st seen as putting pressure on local party TD Maria Bailey

Tue Oct 29 2019 - 16:40

Tom and Vera

A debt-ridden middle-aged Irish couple plot to rob a bank in Desperate Optimists’ financial crisis revenge fantasy

Fri Sept 27 2013 - 13:28

Mister John

Fri Sept 27 2013 - 11:51

Galway Film Fleadh: reeling in a quarter century

Miriam Allen reflects on 25 years of the Fleadh and we check out this year’s programme

Mon Jul 08 2013 - 01:00