Johnny Ward
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Eighteen Irish panto productions for all the family to watch this season
- Stage
- December 3, 2020, 10:00
Panto season is a bit different this year, with productions either moving online or, in a few innovative cases, switching to a drive-in format. All th(...)

Dancing With The Stars backstage: ‘I’d love to see Danny Healy Rae out there’
- TV, Radio, Web
- February 22, 2020, 05:00
Dancing wih the Stars has been a ratings juggernaut for RTE since it first aired four years ago. But what's it like to put an episode together(...)

Dancing With The Stars 2019: Jennifer Zamparelli and Nicky Byrne’s zero chemistry a turn-off
- TV, Radio, Web
- March 25, 2019
So Dancing With The Stars has foxtrotted into the sunset for another year. It has been a season of highs, lows and in-betweens (you can debate among y(...)

After 12 weeks, one blackout, and enough Nicky Byrne one-liners to keep us ticking over for the rest of our lives, Mairéad Ronan has been crowned winn(...)

Why is Copper Face Jacks so popular? ‘A one-eyed hunchback could score in this pub’
- Stage
- July 10, 2018
If there was ever a Dublin club whose reputation precedes it, it’s Harcourt Street’s Copper Face Jacks. Even the Lonely Planet got wind of that i(...)

Copper Face Jacks: The Musical – It’s West Side Story with the Irish national anthem at the end
- Stage
- July 3, 2018
In the Olympia Theatre on a set designed to look like Harcourt Street, dancing, drinking, staggering and flirting young people are singing, “Whoo(...)

Bringing my foreign-raised daughters to their first Irish panto
- Abroad
- December 26, 2017, 09:00
“Ya eejit!”. So says my eight-year-old to anyone she can, whenever she can, since she heard it at the Rapunzel pantomime last week at the Gaiety theat(...)

My laptop has allowed me to work in 45 countries in 7 years
- Abroad
- November 20, 2017, 10:47
A few weeks ago, a video I made about quitting my job went viral on Facebook, amassing more than 10,000 views in three days. The video clearly struck (...)

Ey up chuck, has Coronation Street finally gone too far? The complaints have been flowing after a violent and gruesome mid-evening double episode last(...)

Television: Carrie is back with a bang, but for Nidge it’s something of a whimper
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 11, 2014, 01:00
Few jobs are so interesting that a camera crew can knock two hours of relatively consecutive, engaging television out of them. Even actors describe(...)