Sean Connery
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Margaret Nolan, Goldfinger title sequence star, dies at 76
- Film
- October 13, 2020, 10:46
Margaret Nolan, a stage and screen actress whose gold-painted body was used as a canvas to project the opening credits of the James Bond film Goldfing(...)

Dutch royals apologise for social distancing breach on Greek holiday
- Europe
- August 25, 2020, 17:34
The Dutch royal couple, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima, have apologised after a breach of social distancing was captured by a photographer dur(...)

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(...)

James Bond fans name their favourite 007 (he’s not from Navan)
- Film
- August 10, 2020, 15:38
Sean Connery has swept to victory in a new survey seeking to find the best ever James Bond, with actors assumed to be strong contenders sidelined in f(...)

Mention of Honor Blackman’s name will bring smiles to faces of movie enthusiasts
- Film
- April 6, 2020, 19:04
Some may be surprised to learn that Honor Blackman, who has died in Sussex, attained the great age of 94. A key avatar of the glamorous 1960s, she was(...)

Deaths of Larry Gogan and Marian Finucane leave Montrose reeling
- TV, Radio, Web
- January 11, 2020, 06:00
On Tuesday morning, despite the sorrow of the previous days, the kids carried on playing, as kids do. While a doleful air hung over RTÉ Radio 1 in adv(...)

Mary Hannigan’s (completely random) A to Z guide to the 2019 sporting year
- Sport
- December 28, 2019, 06:16
A – Asking for trouble Headline on the The42.ie ahead of Ireland’s Six Nations meeting with England back in February: “England adds experienced Josep(...)

Glittering Irish day in muddled murky sporting year of 2019
- Sport
- December 27, 2019, 07:30
Two athletes and one shining day. It’s October 5th, 2019, a date that they’ll both remember long after the peak of their sporting lives has faded. The(...)

James Bond: No Time to Die – What we learned from first full trailer
- Film
- December 4, 2019
Help, help! The world is in chaos. The United Kingdom is in a more advanced status of chaos than anywhere else. Some violent comfort food will help ge(...)

The making of Darby O’Gill and the Little People
- Film
- June 22, 2019, 05:00
As the vast majority of the action and the most famous scenes from John Ford’s Oscar-winning 1952 classic The Quiet Man take place in an idyllic, unsp(...)