David Caffrey
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Taken Down: Everybody here had blood on their hands
- TV, Radio, Web
- December 10, 2018, 13:01
Good TV drama takes us to places we ordinarily never see. The best kind makes it feel vividly real. Despite the suggestion of its title, Taken Down (R(...)

Here’s an arresting idea for a police procedural: a murder mystery where the suspects are already in prison. At least, that’s the forcible impression(...)

John Connors: ‘Acting ... killed my depression on the spot’
- Stage
- September 1, 2018, 05:00
When John Connors was a seriously depressed young man he ended up in an acting class. He had recently admitted that he was suicidal to his brother who(...)

On Irish TV screens, there will be ‘Blood’
- Media & Marketing
- July 24, 2018, 03:58
It’s that time of year when there’s nothing on except repeats and Love Island. And Sharp Objects and The Affair, if you have Sky. And Picnic at Hangin(...)

‘Love/Hate’ makers to produce new crime drama for RTÉ
- Media & Marketing
- April 13, 2018, 12:35
RTÉ has commissioned a new six-part contemporary drama from the makers of Love/Hate and Irish crime novelist Jo Spain. The series, called Taken Down(...)

David Caffrey: ‘My dad had an eight-track in his car and he liked pipe bands’
- Culture
- February 10, 2018, 05:00
Album As a kid, when other people’s parents were listening to the Rolling Stones and the Kinks, my dad had an eight-track in his car and he liked pip(...)

Do you know about all the Irish connections in Peaky Blinders?
- TV, Radio, Web
- November 25, 2017, 05:00
The new season of Peaky Blinders has lived up to expectations. The fourth season’s opener was a quintessentially Peaky episode, with meat hook attacks(...)

Ifta 2015 film and drama nominees announced
- Film
- April 29, 2015, 10:46
Two very different films concerning troubled men have topped the nominations for this year’s Irish Film and Television Awards (Ifta). Lenny Abr(...)

Father and son go head -to-head in IFTAs
- Film
- February 27, 2014, 10:22
John Butler’s comedy The Stag and John Michael McDonagh’s state-of-the-nation piece Calvary have topped the charts in the nominations for the upcom(...)

Foy Vance and Bell X1 dazzle as Other Voices returns to Derry
- Music
- February 8, 2014, 13:59
Outside on Great James Street in Derry, the rain is lashing. Inside The Glassworks venue last night Foy Vance is pouring his heart out with equivalent(...)