When two superpowers collide
Actor Ronan Raftery tells David Hennessy about his new play about a high stakes chess match played between a Soviet and an American set...
RTE selling four paintings in London
RTÉ are putting four paintings up for auction at Sotheby’s in London today as the national broadcaster seeks to raise funds.
Two of the artworks...
Death of one of Ireland’s greatest ever raconteurs, Niall Tóibín, at 89
President Michael D Higgins is leading tributes to one of Ireland's greatest raconteurs, Niall Tóibín, who has died after a long illness, aged 89.
In...
Nadine Coyle and Andrew Maxwell for I’m A Celebrity
Girls Aloud star Nadine Coyle and Dublin comedian Andrew Maxwell are to brave the jungle in this year's I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out...
Family affair
Aoife Hinds tells David Hennessy about playing a character with abandonment issues, encountering casual racism in Ireland and following her father Ciarán Hinds into...
Irish father’s charity works with couples like Corrie’s Sinead and Dan
By David Hennessy
A charity set up by an Irish father has had their cause drawn attention to by a harrowing recent Coronation Street storyline.
Mummy’s...
If you go down to the woods tonight…
David Hennessy talks to actor Moe Dunford about his current crime drama Dublin Murders and the upcoming London Irish Film Festival that he is...
Keep it Country defend decision to leave Freeview
Keep It Country TV founder Phil McLaughlin (aka Phil Mack) this week defended his decision to take his channel – newly renamed as Spotlight...
Remembering a controversial 1916 Rising drama shown on the BBC
Lance Pettitt, Associate Research Fellow, Birkbeck College, London, explores the impact of a TV drama about the Easter Rising on viewers in England in...
Cinematic TV has film playing catch up, says Sheehan
Irish actor Robert Sheehan has said that the film industry is resorting to “spectacle-laden and large” productions to try and keep up with the...