Stuart Carolan
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‘There’s this magical performance that’s nothing to do with drugs’
- Culture
- September 2, 2020, 05:00
One day in the 1990s, the beat poet Allen Ginsberg gave the actor and playwright Mick Egan the title for a play. Egan had introduced Ginsberg to the r(...)

Fifty Shades, Kanye, Love/Hate: The films, TV, books and music that defined the decade
- Culture
- December 20, 2019, 06:00
THE BOOKS, BY JOHN SELF Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy By EL James, 2012 The “dirty books” about a sadomasochistic relationship that spawned a million (...)

RTÉ’s commercial arm increases pretax profits to €8.89m
- Media & Marketing
- October 14, 2019, 18:41
Sales of RTÉ shows Taken Down, Hardy Bucks and Operation Transformation last year contributed to RTÉ’s commercial arm increasing its pretax profits by(...)

Druid theatre company says it will produce only new plays in 2019
- Stage
- May 14, 2019, 11:00
Druid, the theatre company with an international reputation for its innovative stagings of classics, from Shakespeare to Beckett to Tom Murphy, is ded(...)

The 2018 Irish Times Christmas Prize Quiz
- Life & Style
- December 24, 2018, 06:00
Answer all 100 questions in our special Christmas Quiz to be in with a chance of winning one of the following prizes: 1st prize: One night (...)

Taken Down: Everybody here had blood on their hands
- TV, Radio, Web
- December 10, 2018, 13:01
Good TV drama takes us to places we ordinarily never see. The best kind makes it feel vividly real. Despite the suggestion of its title, Taken Down (R(...)

Here’s an arresting idea for a police procedural: a murder mystery where the suspects are already in prison. At least, that’s the forcible impression(...)

Drumm too dull to understand what he was part of and too thick to feel pain of others’ suffering
- Opinion
- June 23, 2018, 06:00
Literary reputations are fragile things, but David Drumm’s place in the annals of Irish fiction seems secure. The €7.2 billion in phoney deposits with(...)

‘Love/Hate’ makers to produce new crime drama for RTÉ
- Media & Marketing
- April 13, 2018, 12:35
RTÉ has commissioned a new six-part contemporary drama from the makers of Love/Hate and Irish crime novelist Jo Spain. The series, called Taken Down(...)

Eamon Dunphy: ‘I’m not part of official Ireland’
- People
- September 2, 2017, 06:00
“That was a cakewalk for Liverpool last night,” says the photographer. “It was, but they’re still dodgy at the back,” says Eamon Dunphy. “And Klopp’(...)