Peter Coonan

‘I can be very narrow-minded. I’m constantly fighting with myself to be a decent person’

In Conversation: actors Peter Coonan and Marie Mullen

The Drummer and the Keeper review: airy, funny, optimistic and honest

Nick Kelly’s deft film details the friendship between a bipolar rock musician and a teenager with Asperger syndrome

Ryan Tubridy and Anton Savage – masters of silly-season banter

Radio review: ‘The Ryan Tubridy Show’, ‘The Anton Savage Show’, ‘Second Captains’

Yorkshire ripper to be moved out of psychiatric hospital

Mental health tribunal rules Peter Sutcliffe ready to rejoin general prison population

Forecast for the future not too bright on ‘Morning Ireland’

Review: ‘The Anton Savage Show’, ‘Morning Ireland’, ‘Liveline’

Television: Getting away with murder

Review: ‘Just Names of Shows’, ‘In Single Marks’, ‘Like This, Please’, 'The Secret'

Wrecking the Rising: TG4’s Quantum Leap-style take on 1916 is a delight

TG4's three-part time-travel comedy depicted an era when mustachioed men were less likely to own yoga mats or live to old age - but just as likely to live with their parents

Television: How do you like your heroes – from history books or comic books?

Review: ‘A Terrible Beauty’, ‘Inside the GPO’, ‘Baring Arms’, ‘Inside Obama’s White House’, ‘Daredevil’

Juno and the Paycock review: The jagged charm of an interrupted song

Mark O’Rowe’s stark production treats the the play almost as a documentary and cleverly casts against type

A View from the Bridge review: A moderate rendering of Miller

A dutiful, illustrative staging of Arthur Miller’s 1956 drama rather than a freshly invigorating one

Select: food and fuel in a dirty old town

Two festivals this week celebrate all things Dublin – it’ll be hungry work

Calling the shots: A life in the day of a stage manager

It’s not actors whose way you need to stay out of behind the scenes at a theatre but stage managers, the key crew who subtly crack the whip from the wings

Exhibition shows prison art loosens shackles on creativity

National Prisoner Art Exhibition has 100 works by recent and not so recent inmates

Irish Film Board shines spotlight on new productions

Chairman Bill O’Herlihy says sector ‘can do better’ if it secures higher Government funding

Raw and raunchy Hozier serves up full-throated display at Olympia

Rapturous reception for songwriter capping off sensational year with short Irish tour

Filming Love/Hate sexual violence ‘tough’, says Peter Coonan

‘There’s no way to dress up a rape,’ says Dublin Rape Crisis Centre chief executive