Dara Devaney

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Jack Reynor’s horror short ‘Bainne’. Photograph: Madeline Mulqueen
Galway Film Fleadh: ‘My spare liver is in my suitcase’

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(...)

New this week: Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth in Men in Black: International
Latest movies reviewed: All films in cinemas this week rated

ALADDIN ★★☆☆☆ Directed by Guy Ritchie. Starring Mena Massoud, Will Smith, Naomi Scott, Marwan Kenzari, Navid Negahban, Nasim Pedrad The ongoing campai(...)

Hazel Doupe is funny, awkward and inspirational in Float Like a Butterfly
Float Like a Butterfly: An Irish boxing movie that stirs the blood

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(...)

Steve McQueen’s indecently entertaining Widows: The film is so beautifully made, so energetically acted and – a new one for McQueen – so consistently funny that its flaws hardly matter. Photograph: Tiff
McQueen’s ‘Widows’ so consistently funny that flaws hardly matter

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(...)

Frank McGuinness: Excerpts from his play ‘Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me’ will be performed in Cork Prison. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons/The Irish Times
Decadent Theatre company to stage excerpts from hostage drama in Cork Prison

“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(...)

Strapped and bound: filming at Dún Uí Mhaoilíosa Army barracks of the Murdair Mhám Trasna hangings. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy
Reconstruction of Galway murder hangings for TG4

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(...)

Liam Neeson signs autographs for fans as he arrives for the 2016 Irish Film and Drama awards at the Mansion House in Dublin. Photograph: Michael Chester/PA
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

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(...)

Tense: An Bronntanas
Television: The thin blue line between plods and plodding

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(...)