Rivals season two: Irish duo Aidan Turner and Victoria Smurfit seem appropriately embarrassed
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Victoria Smurfit
Aidan Turner: ‘I’d be sitting in the trailer going, ‘God Almighty. Can you just give me a cop drama?’’
The Dublin actor says the main trick to being a professional is doing the work and learning the lines. ‘And then just staying as healthy and as fit as you can. There’s no excuse’
St Patrick’s Day parade in Dublin: ‘I don’t fancy being around people when they are too drunk’
Revellers from across the world pack the city centre to see 4,000 performers, floats and marching bands on parade
Rivals actor Victoria Smurfit named grand marshal of Dublin St Patrick’s Day parade
‘Legendary adventurous spirit’ of the Irish to be celebrated
Culchiecore, bonkbusters, murder, more murder and Nationwide: What I’ve seen on TV in 2024
Patrick Freyne on the 2 Johnnies, Rivals, Say Nothing, Baby Reindeer and television trends of the past 12 months
Victoria Smurfit: ‘Postpartum depression had me manically sobbing in the middle of Ranelagh’
Conversations with Parents podcast with Jen Hogan: In this episode Hollywood actor Victoria Smurfit talks about how her children are coping with their mother’s steamy role in Rivals
Rivals: The thrusting bum is intercut with spurting soap and overflowing champagne. We are in safe, if filthy, hands
Patrick Freyne: If I was in Disney+’s Jilly Cooper adaptation, someone would surely compliment my ‘magnificent column’
Rivals: This Jilly Cooper bonkfest has too many pants around the ankles, not enough plot
Television: Why is sex meant to be so funny? Perhaps we should ask the British
‘As a result of climate change and equality fast fashion does not have the same appeal it once had’
Wild Geese: Claire O’Connor, London
Deadly Cuts: A blast from Irish cinema’s past
Film review: Don’t expect subtlety from this broad Dublin comedy
95 things to look forward to: Matches, movies, plays, pints, pals
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Pandemic movie wins top award at Dublin International Film Festival
Best film winner Apples will be presented as an artefact of the Covid era in years to come
Stanley Tucci, Colin Firth, Steve McQueen and Nina Hoss to appear at Dublin film festival
Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival unveils line-up for 2021 virtual event
Victoria Smurfit: ‘Postnatal depression is very real. You feel crazy’
Parenting in my Shoes: ‘You’re in survival mode because it’s wrong to be told you can’t fix something for somebody’
Iftas 2018: ‘I’m a Traveller, I can’t get an agent, but this is still a huge moment for me’
John Connors’ best actor acceptance speech got a noisy standing ovation at the Iftas
Iftas 2018: full list of award winners
Wins for ‘Michael Inside’, Saoirse Ronan, John Connors, Aisling Walsh, Cillian Murphy
Ireland’s biggest talent agency sees profits rise
Lisa Richards agency clients include Pierce Brosnan, Keith Duffy and Amy Huberman
Gothic Revival mansion: Dublin’s latest ‘most expensive home’
Asking €10.5m, Inniscorrig is one of the most striking properties in south Dublin
Father and son go head -to-head in IFTAs
Brendan and Domhnall Gleeson nominated in the best actor category
Radio: The longest fortnight finally ends with Miriam O’Callaghan’s return to the RTÉ airwaves
For fans of the presenter’s soft-focus style, two weeks away seemed like a lifetime, but now she’s back in the cosy seat in ‘Sunday with Miriam’
Television: The bloodsucker, the barrister and the boil-encrusted bodies
There’s good reason to revamp the vampire story, and a barrister has plenty of bloodcurdling moments
The Tunnel: Scandi noir takes on an Anglo-French aspect
‘The Tunnel’, a remake of Danish-Swedish murder drama ‘The Bridge’, begins with a dead body being found half in England, half in France
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