Lenny Abrahamson
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Virgin Media backs 10 short films in €150,000 festival scheme
- Media & Marketing
- January 13, 2021, 05:00
Virgin Media Ireland has awarded €9,000 to 10 filmmakers to invest in the development of their scripts in a short film competition run in partnership (...)

Patrick Freyne’s TV of 2021: More Sally Rooney ridey stuff and a return to Middle Earth
- Culture
- January 8, 2021, 05:00
Here are the big telly events of the coming year (as far as I can tell from my holiday bunker): The Lord of the Rings (Amazon) Amazon’s upcoming Lor(...)

Patrick Freyne’s TV moments of 2020: I've replaced my college memories with Normal People
- Culture
- December 18, 2020, 05:00
For a lot of us TV had to do a lot of heavy lifting to replace family, friends and outdoor activities. I initially feel obliged to add “this year” to (...)

Virgin Media film competition judges include Abrahamson and McGee
- Media & Marketing
- November 13, 2020, 04:41
Director Lenny Abrahamson and screenwriter Lisa McGee are among the judges on this year’s Virgin Media Discovers short film competition, the broadcast(...)

BBC delivers a cliché of British TV drama: Sarah Greene’s alcoholic Irish woman
- TV, Radio, Web
- October 18, 2020, 23:41
Hugh Laurie has a great villain’s face in that he projects not menace or pure evil but a chilling implacability. It’s often the quiet ones who need wa(...)

Netflix: The best 50 films to watch right now
- Film
- October 10, 2020, 06:00
Savour canny acquisitions and ambitious original productions. And catch the classics while you can. They may not be there next month. There h(...)

Miriam Lord: Taoiseach and Tánaiste see red over ‘Level 5 leak’
- Politics
- October 10, 2020, 02:54
Their approach to business may have been different but there was no doubt this week that the Taoiseach and Tánaiste were fuming over Sunday night’s le(...)

Paul Mescal’s GAA shorts sell for €850 at charity auction
- Fashion
- August 29, 2020, 17:26
They might have been the fashion item of the summer but Connell’s GAA shorts from Normal People couldn’t compete with the attraction of sports gear wo(...)

Normal People benefited from the pandemic, says Lenny Abrahamson
- Culture
- July 14, 2020, 21:35
“The first few days after Normal People was broadcast, it felt like the quality of the tweets I was reading sounded like they might have been drafted (...)

David McWilliams: ‘Ireland is three decisions away from being a perfect country’
- Culture
- July 13, 2020, 20:00
Ireland is just “three decisions away from becoming a perfect country – Scandinavia, but more fun”, economist and Irish Times columnist David McWillia(...)