Brendan Gleeson
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Mary McAleese and Fontaines D.C. among beneficiaries of artists’ tax exemption
- Personal Finance
- November 30, 2020, 13:03
Former Irish president Mary McAleese, rock band Fontaines D.C. and actor Domhnall Gleeson were among the writers, musicians and artists awarded tax ex(...)

Saoirse Ronan and Daniel Day-Lewis on ‘greatest 21st-century actors’ list
- Film
- November 26, 2020, 14:30
The nation can relax. Saoirse Ronan has made it into the New York Times list of “the 25 greatest actors of the 21st century (so far)”. She is the(...)

Sean Moran: Bloody Sunday centenary weekend will live long in the sporting memory
- Gaelic Games
- November 25, 2020, 06:00
It’s a regular occurrence within the GAA that history chimes in on important anniversaries or repeats itself at apposite intervals but there’s hardly (...)

Kevin McStay: Maybe a knockout All-Ireland Championship is the long-term solution?
- Gaelic Football
- November 24, 2020, 06:00
The day of the underdog is the best day that the GAA can give the country. And on a special weekend, when the teams and events of a hundred years ago (...)

The revisionists might say otherwise, but the GAA? A class apart
- Gaelic Games
- November 22, 2020, 19:49
Ah here, as Joanne Cantwell put it, “what a weekend”, among the highlights Tipperary winning the Munster football title for the first time in 85 years(...)

One hundred years after Bloody Sunday, Croke Park remembers those who died
- Irish News
- November 21, 2020, 20:52
The 14 civilians killed or fatally injured at Croke Park on Bloody Sunday were remembered at a ceremony at the stadium on Saturday, 100 years after th(...)

Great White Fail – Frank McNally on typos, confusing homophones, and the real-life horror that inspired Moby-Dick
- Opinion
- November 20, 2020, 00:01
One of the more entertaining typos I have seen recently was in a press release about a man who was said to be available for interview although “based (...)

The Crown, season 4: Gillian Anderson takes up the Margaret Thatcher challenge
- Culture
- November 14, 2020, 05:00
In one respect at least, Margaret Thatcher has caught up with her political hero. Like Winston Churchill (always “Winston” to the eventual Baroness), (...)

US pop culture has struggled to come to terms with Trumpism
- Culture
- October 31, 2020, 05:00
Any analysis of Donald Trump’s effect on US pop culture should begin with the story of how a Korean pop band disrupted the president’s now notorious r(...)

Iftas 2020: Martin Scorsese, Daisy Ridley, Michael D Higgins to appear at virtual ceremony
- Film
- October 16, 2020, 06:00
The Irish Film and Television Academy (Ifta) is about to become the latest body to move its awards ceremony onto the virtual space during the era of C(...)