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Róisín Ingle: I worried about Pierce Brosnan playing my uncle in new film about him and Prince Naseem
I am delighted to report that the new movie about my brilliant uncle Brendan and Prince Naseem – starring Pierce Brosnan as Brendan – is fantastic
Four new films to see this week: Hamnet, Giant, Oh, Canada and People We Meet on Vacation
Jessie Buckley, Paul Mescal, Pierce Brosnan, Richard Gere and Jacob Elordi feature in a quartet of movies released in the week of January 9th, 2026
Giant review: Pierce Brosnan shines as Irish hero behind a prince of the boxing ring
Prince Naseem Hamed’s Dublin-born coach Brendan Ingle became a Sheffield legend
2025 in TV: Rogue brogues, the drunken Irish and a prestige streamer’s hidden jewels
The biggest show of the year, Adolescence, became so huge that it fuelled a moral panic, but the best stuff was on the little-watched Apple TV
Percy Jackson and the Olympians on Disney+: Harry Potter for bored Marvel fans
Television: Zeitgeist has moved from young adult fiction to Romantasy, making this feel behind the times
Pierce Brosnan says he could ‘entertain’ returning to James Bond as retired agent
Pierce Brosnan, who played James Bond in four films, says he is now enjoying playing older characters
Colin Farrell: ‘I’m finding the 40s to be the most meaningful and beautiful chapter in my life’
You don’t so much interview Farrell as curate his conversation. A professional down to his neat fingertips, he gives you, in 20 minutes or so, enough material for a smallish book. It is 25 years since Farrell made the jump from Ireland to Los Angeles with Tigerland. His early roguish demeanour has matured into a more complex charisma.
‘They’re like a hug in a book’: Why cosy crime is on the rise
Faced with a turbulent news cycle, readers and authors are turning back to quainter pleasures in fiction
Dr No Gun: Is this what they mean by woke gone mad?
Prime Video took James Bond’s pistol out of the hands of Daniel Craig, Pierce Brosnan and Sean Connery
Richard Osman: ‘Having a hit in Ireland is one of my great joys’
Fifth novel in the best-selling Thursday Murder Club series explores wealth and greed – but in a fun way, the author says
Thursday Murder Club review: The weak link here, sadly, is the greatest James Bond of all
Television: A hollow page-turner adapted for film with all the zing of a lesser season of Inspector Morse
Pierce Brosnan interview: ‘John Huston said I was too handsome. It can get in the way’
The Irish actor, star of The Thursday Murder Club, on losing a John Huston role because of his face, the James Bond years and the state of the US
Four Letters of Love review: Every interior in this preposterous film suggests an Irish theme pub in 1990s Basingstoke
Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne team up with antique spinning-wheels, nuns and vowels from all 32 counties
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