Charlene McKenna

Television: Charlene McKenna plays an ‘average’ Irish mother whose secrets come rushing back in the bloodiest fashion

Contains spoilers: The soggy farewell season has unspooled like a series of baroque pop videos

TV review: Did Charlene McKenna base her accent on Roy Keane’s Mick McCarthy tirade?

The actor converted outbuilding on parent’s farm into a home and had a tiny 6-person wedding

Chris Brandon is the writer of a new series featuring James Nesbitt as a hard-bitten detective

Creator, writer and producer Lisa McGee explains what’s made ‘Derry Girls’ a success, the influence of Dolores O’Riordan, and what she has in store for series two

The Gate: Twenty-one-year-old acting newcomer Paul Mescal has been cast in some of the country’s biggest theatrical productions

The audience joins in the decadence in the Gate Theatre’s thrillingly immersive production

Designed to include members of the audience, the Gate Theatre’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel begins at the door

If the nation does not come to the theatre, the theatre must go out to the nation

As the Dubliner returns for a second series, he reflects on his career and the audition that went so badly he thought ‘I need to take advantage of these looks before they fade’

A pornographer’s obsession in ‘SLR’ and facts of life in ‘Boogaloo and Graham’ make the cut

Drama has contributed €20 million to local economy over two series

Actor Charlene McKenna has come a long way from working in her family’s Co Monaghan pub to roles in new Irish movie Jump and the BBC series Ripper Street