Michael Gambon

A breathless show that fast-tracks every plot and character and goes all the way to the top

Statuettes also handed out for ‘The Siege of Jadotville’ and ‘The Young Offenders’

The starry line-up features work by Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Harold Pinter

Colgan has had towering successes but he leaves as subsidies and attendance dwindle

Kate Sweetman and her family have tried many ways to pay for the upkeep of a house rich in architectural heritage

Hollywood star who shot to global acclaim as Hans Gruber in Die Hard was suffering from cancer

Writer the guest of honour at Nobel dinner, at start of Yeats festival in Sligo to mark 150 years since his birth

He stole the show in Sherlock and is about to break into Bond – but it’s Sea Wall that has had the biggest impact on his work

Review: ‘Fortitude’, starring Sophie Grabol, Stanley Tucci and Christopher Ecclestone; Room to Improve; Phil Spencer: Secret Agent; Touched By Auschwitz; and How to Get Way With Murder

The BBC’s Tudor drama is literate and atmospheric; an Irish documentary on being gay is quietly powerful when it stays on home ground; and the last word on RTÉ’s ‘Charlie’

Australia is a cultural mix, it’s the wearing of the green and gold that makes them Wallabies

Memory is unreliable, but the theatre relies on that

Audiences at the Ruhrfestspiele festival identify with Michael Gambon and Barry McGovern’s takes on absurdity

Jeremy Irons, Brendan Gleeson and Michael Gambon among those taking part in public event

Movers and shakers had been entertained at Merrion Row venue since 1938

John Hurt reels in the years in Beckett’s haunting play.

The veteran actor returns to Dublin to perform ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’, in a role he has been developing for more than a decade

The Phibsborough boy who became a Londoner, then an actor – is back in his native city for a production of Krapp’s Last Tape, the perfect play for a former engineer

The mischievous Michael Gambon has been known to spin the odd tall tale. Peter Crawley treads with caution

The actor, Michael Gambom, who lived in Dublin until he was six, has been made a knight in the Honours List