Stephen Wright

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From left: Martin Doyle, Ronan McGreevy, David Smith, Joe Crilly (at back) and Michéal Coughlan (wearing sunglasses).
‘A penny candle in the darkness’

In April last year, I was working in London when I thought about calling in on my old buddy Joe Crilly. Joe and I knew each other for nearly 20 years.(...)

Ah. You wait years for one RTÉ show starring Amy Huberman and then two come along at once.
Ten new homegrown TV shows coming to our screens

It’s the age of “peak TV”, and there’s seemingly no end to the sheer volume of new television shows clogging up our DVRs and lengthening our Netflix (...)

‘A lack of food has the same effect that gamma rays had on mild-mannered Dr Bruce Banner. Hulk angry, Hulk smash, Hulk start pointless arguments’

According to whoever writes the internet, the term “hangry” – hungry and angry – was coined in 2005. Well, whoever writes the internet didn’t grow (...)

Coleraine-born actor Bronagh Waugh as Sally Ann Spector, unwitting wife of serial killer Paul Spector, in series two of The Fall. Photograph: BBC/Helen Sloan
‘The Fall’ returns in ‘drama super-Sunday’

Serial killer drama The Fall returns to RTÉ for a second series this weekend, with the first episode going out on RTÉ One after the finale of a succes(...)

Ian McDiarmid stars as Sir Edward Grey in ‘37 Days: How the World Went to War’, a three-part factual drama in which Belfast’s Methodist College doubled as London’s Foreign Office.
BBC Northern Ireland has ‘sense of velocity’, says Steve Carson

Two very different milestones will rank among the programme themes at BBC Northern Ireland this year: the 20th anniversary of the 1994 IRA ceasefir(...)

Actor Brendan Gleeson signs autographs at the ‘Calvary’ premiere during 64th Berlinale International Film Festival earlier this month. Photograph: Getty
Father and son go head -to-head in IFTAs

John Butler’s comedy The Stag and John Michael McDonagh’s state-of-the-nation piece Calvary have topped the charts in the nominations for the upcom(...)