Robin Hood
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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(...)

Breakfast in Ballsbridge: When Audrey Hepburn met her dad in Dublin
- Film
- November 26, 2020, 05:00
The good people of Dublin 4 may need smelling salts on hand before sitting down to Helena Coan’s new documentary on Audrey Hepburn. Discussing the act(...)

There are plenty of sombre films about. Should we be surprised?
- Culture
- October 24, 2020, 05:00
There has been some debate in the Irish Times letters pages about the miserableness of films reviewed last week. It is true that the movies covered mi(...)

Apple countersues Fortnite maker in bitter legal dispute
- Technology
- September 9, 2020, 19:05
Apple has countersued Epic Games and accused it of masquerading as a “modern corporate Robin Hood”, marking a new escalation in the tech giant’s bitte(...)

Sean Connery turns 90: An avatar of old-fashioned masculinity
- Film
- August 25, 2020, 15:35
It is 44 years since Sean Connery appeared as an aging Robin Hood in Richard Lester’s under-estimated Robin and Marian. There was a great deal of wear(...)

Hollywood’s a cruel place. But not as cruel as it used to be. Here’s why
- Culture
- July 31, 2020, 05:00
Anyone who gives a heck about Hollywood was moved by the death of Olivia de Havilland at the weekend. The last surviving star of Hollywood’s golden er(...)

Phibsboro Philharmonic – Frank McNally on a famous Dublin musical family
- Opinion
- January 31, 2020, 18:30
Apart from the road in Ballyfermot and the townland in Swords, as mentioned yesterday, it seems that the Battle of Cremona (1702) may also once have b(...)

An Irishman walks into a cinema – Frank McNally on watching Scorsese’s latest epic
- Opinion
- November 12, 2019, 18:15
As you can imagine, it’s a bit weird watching Martin Scorsese’s latest masterpiece when your name is Frank and “Irishman” is part of your job descript(...)

Kosovo bars Serbian officials as tariff row deepens deadlock
- Europe
- July 4, 2019, 18:17
Kosovo barred all Belgrade officials from its territory on Thursday, as the country’s prime minister, Ramush Haradinaj, said the only way to improve r(...)

Hugh O’Conor: ‘I had to go to Irish college rather than be in Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’
- Film
- June 15, 2019, 05:00
Hugh O’Conor is pondering the years after his breakthrough role in My Left Foot. “I didn’t do some jobs I was offered,” he says. “My parents said I h(...)