Nicola Coughlan

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David Benioff and DB Weiss attend the ‘Game Of Thrones’ season 8 premiere in New York City. Imagine what they could have earned if they wrote a decent final season. Photograph: Mike Coppola/FilmMagic
Netflix secures Game of Thrones creators in talent arms race

Joining a roster already home to star name writer-producers Shonda Rhimes, Ryan Murphy and Jenji Kohan, Game of Thrones creators DB Weiss and David Be(...)

Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner says she’s happy to be moving on from Game of Thrones now. Photograph: Getty Images
If film studios boycott Georgia over abortion, why not the North?

The campaign for reproductive rights in Northern Ireland is confronted with an awkward dilemma. In recent weeks, there have been calls for studios to (...)

Maria Bailey appeared on Sean O’Rourke’s show on Monday to discuss the withdrawn ‘swing’ case.
Sean O’Rourke gave Maria Bailey a generous length of rope, then yanked it sharply

The moment the interview begins, Sean O’Rourke gets into the swing of things. As his guest tries to explain away the political controversy enveloping (...)

Nicola Coughlan: ‘I thought I was free-spirited in San Francisco with flowers in my hair and no shoes on, but my boss told me to cop on because there were syringes on the ground’
Nicola Coughlan: On My Culture Radar

Current favourite book I enjoy biographies. I’ve read Judi Dench’s and Helen Mirren’s, and most recently I read Abbi Jacobson’s book, I Might Regret (...)

Derry Girls: Louise Harland, Nicola Coughlan, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Dylan Llewellyn and Jamie-Lee O’Donnell
Derry Girls: ‘We’re doing it for peace. A piece of fine Protestant ass’

By any measure the first series of Derry Girls, the whip-smart sitcom about four girls and a transplanted English boy grappling with teenage frustrati(...)

A local artist spray paints a new mural of the Derry Girls television show. Photograph: Clodagh Kilcoyne
Derry Girls mural painted in city ahead of second series

A huge mural of the cast of comedy show Derry Girls is being painted in the city centre. The artwork is being installed as a tribute to the “incredib(...)

Derry Girls. When you’re a teenager living in the shadow of the Troubles, life still goes on. Photograph: Channel 4
1990s Derry seen through the eyes of a 16-year-old girl

When Derry Girls (Channel 4 , Thursday, 10pm) began last week, Lisa McGee’s zippy new comedy series featured a terrorist act in its opening moments. S(...)