Dara Devaney
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Iftas: Normal People arrives too late for ‘virtual’ awards
- Film
- July 14, 2020, 12:13
The Irish Film and Television Academy (Ifta) has announced its nominations for the Irish Academy Awards. There was no ceremony in 2019 and, as a resul(...)

Galway Film Fleadh: ‘My spare liver is in my suitcase’
- Film
- July 15, 2019, 10:10
Jack Reynor is returning to the Galway Film Fleadh. “Yes, I am bringing down my spare liver in my suitcase,” he says. The Fleadh does have that reput(...)

Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week rated
- Film
- June 14, 2019, 06:00
ALADDIN ★★☆☆☆ Directed by Guy Ritchie. Starring Mena Massoud, Will Smith, Naomi Scott, Marwan Kenzari, Navid Negahban, Nasim Pedrad The ongoing campai(...)

Float Like a Butterfly: An Irish boxing movie that stirs the blood
- Film
- May 9, 2019, 06:00
Carmel Winters attacks important social issues with a mainstream energy that stirs the blood in her award-winning follow-up to the mysterious Snap. Sy(...)

McQueen’s ‘Widows’ so consistently funny that flaws hardly matter
- Film
- September 15, 2018, 11:00
It is interesting to note that barely a single US review of Steve McQueen’s indecently entertaining Widows has mentioned Lynda La Plante. For older To(...)

Decadent Theatre company to stage excerpts from hostage drama in Cork Prison
- Irish News
- February 18, 2018, 14:11
“A kind of eerie sadness” is how theatre director Andrew Flynn recalls the last time he was involved putting on a production of Frank McGuinness’s “So(...)

Reconstruction of Galway murder hangings for TG4
- Irish News
- May 2, 2017, 20:00
Grubby white hood over each head, noose around each neck, three men stood shivering on a Galway city gallows. No longer able to shade their eyes und(...)

Iftas 2016: Full list of winners
- Film
- April 10, 2016, 07:02
The 2016 Irish Film and Television Awards took place at The Mansion House on Dublin’s Dawson Street on Saturday night, turning stars purple with cold(...)

Irish language film An Bronntanas scoops Boston award
- Consumer
- March 3, 2015, 01:00
The feature film An Bronntanas, or The Gift, has received the jury’s special award at the 2015 Boston Irish Film Festival. The contemporary thriller i(...)

Television: The thin blue line between plods and plodding
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 25, 2014, 01:00
Halfway through the first episode of An Bronntanas (TG4, Thursday) there’s a gripping scene, out at sea, that hauls what had been an amiable enough dr(...)