Lies We Tell claims most awards of the night, including best actress for Agnes O’Casey, as Paul Mescal wins best supporting actor for All of Us Strangers
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What’s Next For?: Pair’s new 22-hour course features Kneecap, Liam Ó Maonlaí, Úna-Minh Kavanagh, Ola Majekodunmi and Louis de Paor, among others
A dozen Irish acts, including Kneecap, Soda Blonde and NewDad, will not perform due to festival’s links with US military
Musicians drop put of South by Southwest line-up as a result of US army’s sponsorship of arts festival in Austin, Texas
Kneecap claim decision to veto funding is attempt to ‘silence’ them
Belfast punk-rap band at centre of a controversy around freedom of artistic expression and arts funding
Donald Clarke: As with other Americanisms, the single-digit salute has taken over from the good old V – even in west Belfast. Is nothing sacred?
Radio: Despite occasional barbs, the impressionist turned presenter plays it safe as he begins his new programme in Ryan Tubridy’s old slot
Colin Coyle on housing for Westlife member, former Web Summit CEO tilling the fields, Kneecap’s film, the IRFU, Isaac Allen and possible encore for Wolfe Tones man
Fictionalised autobiography of eponymous Belfast rap outfit, directed by Rich Peppiatt, is first Irish fiction feature win at festival since Once in 2007
Major coup for Belfast punk-rap trio’s film with Michael Fassbender as Sony Pictures buys distribution rights
A landmark moment for the Irish language in pop culture is coming. Just you wait
Kneecap are teetering on the precipice of something they probably could only have dreamed of
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