Belfast’s future TV stars: ‘If Lola Petticrew or Kneecap can do it, I can’
At Brassneck Youth Theatre Company, the goal is not for the kids to become professional actors; that’s just a ‘brilliant byproduct’
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Trespasses review: This is far more fun than a Troubles drama should be
Television: Adaptation of Louise Kennedy’s novel starring Lola Petticrew and Gillian Anderson isn’t perfect with moments of unintentional hilarity
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Say Nothing breakout star Lola Petticrew: ‘New York is beautiful. But it’s not quite Belfast’
The plainspoken west Belfast actor on their love of Ballymurphy, ongoing intergenerational trauma in the North, and why they refuse to just ‘shut up, smile, wave and wear pretty clothes’
Northern police drama Blue Lights wins best drama series at Baftas
Irish actors Lola Petticrew and Nicola Coughlan miss out on awards, having both been nominated for the first time
Bafta TV awards 2025: Lola Petticrew, Graham Norton, Nicola Coughlan among Irish nominated
Netflix stalking saga Baby Reindeer leads 2025 TV Bafta nominations
Unpaid or poorly paid entry-level creative jobs are subsidised by wealthy parents
The main reason working-class often people find themselves locked out of entertainment industry roles is poor or no pay for early-career creatives
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
Iftas 2021: Normal People, Smother and Dating Amber top nominations
Sally Rooney adaption scoops 15 nominations. Nika McGuigan up for posthumous award
Bloodlands: A thriller set in the so-called ‘new Northern Ireland’
Chris Brandon is the writer of a new series featuring James Nesbitt as a hard-bitten detective
Dating Amber: Agreeable comedy about a fake romance in 1990s Ireland
Review: Perfectly aligned performances from the young leads hold the film aloft
Dating Amber: A story about two gay teenagers, being each other's beards
David Freyne's film is set two years after being gay was decriminalised in Ireland
Bronagh Gallagher: ‘I never felt I was with the right man. But that’s how the dice rolled’
The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin Tarantino
IndieCork: There’s no festival quite like it
Films about middle-aged pregnancy, road bowls and power-lifting ... and a few tunes
Galway Film Fleadh: ‘My spare liver is in my suitcase’
There was lots of comedy and a little Celtic misery at the famously bibulous festival
The Country Girls review: Subversion reimagined as sentimentality
The Abbey’s new take makes Edna O’Brien’s novel safe for any syllabus
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